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Alexander Gillespie University of Waikato Alexander Gillespie works primarily in international law, with specialties in international environmental; and the laws of war/international humanitarian law. Today’s multi-country condemnation of cyber-attacks by Chinese state-sponsored agencies was a sign of increasing frustration at recent behaviour. But it also
Labour was elected in 2017 and returned to power in 2020 off the back of a massive set of promises that they would solve the housing crisis that they claimed had beset the country under National. They tinkered and clucked their tongues disapprovingly and their solutions involved piling on costs
David Seymour ACT Leader Labour MP Tamati Coffey has told media a second motel is being purchased for emergency accommodation in Rotorua. $8.1 million was spent on the Boulevard Motel. That’s about double the CV, real estate agents have said it’s far more than market value. Tamati
David Seymour ACT Leader It is entirely inappropriate that the people who set the policy for our schools are undertaking courses that teach them “guilt and shame” are natural responses to so-called “white privilege.” After ACT revealed school kids were being taught about “white privilege”, we can now reveal
David Seymour ACT Leader Jacinda Ardern owes New Zealanders an apology for the slow vaccine rollout that has New Zealand at the bottom of the OECD. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison yesterday stood in front of media and apologised for the slow rollout saying “I’m sorry that we haven’
A Record label CEO has blasted critics who called for this artist to be cancelled over what they claim is a controversial song. Supporters see it as a conservative, patriotic song and that the “Message is speaking to millions of people” Scott Borchetta, Big Machine Label Group founder and president-
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Chris Hattingh fee.org Chris Hattingh is Project Manager at the Free Market Foundation. He has an MPhil in Business Ethics from Stellenbosch University. He is the author of published articles on consumer rights, economic freedom, inequality and individual freedom. After more than a year of enterprise-killing lockdowns, and
The luvvy left set just love to congratulate themselves for their “dangerous ideas”. They even have a “festival” for it: you know, those tiresome wine-and-cheese beanos where bien pensant lefties trouser five-figure “appearance fees” just to tell a marquee full of bien pensant lefties exactly what they
The late Douglas Adams coined the term, “Agglethorpe” in his satirical dictionary, The Meaning of Liff. An agglethorpe is “a dispute between two pooves in a boutique”. As the “alphabet people” steadily exhaust the 26 character limit in their quest for ever more obscure “identities”, we are witnessing an agglethorpe
July 20th, 2021. In 1966 6% of young people went to university but by 2018 this had reached 50.2%. Tony Blair achieved this as one of his policies. With the long march of socialism through the universities and higher education, this means that the young are now being trained
National has analysed the DHB vaccination numbers against their populations and it turns out the ‘targets’ DHBs are using to track their progress are essentially meaningless, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “Of the nine DHBs below the national average for the first vaccine dose administered, seven
Claire Trevett (NZ Herald) says, “the Ute is just the vehicle for a bigger message.” Has our Dear Leader (Ardern) got the message yet? The Farmers’ Parade was not a Santa’s Parade this year as unfortunately the Grinch was not giving out presents, but rather taking them. A howl
July 20th, 2021. Dominic Cummings has just been interviewed on BBC by Laura Kuenssberg, the political editor of BBC News. He is doing a first-rate hit job on Boris Johnson and disclosed the massive influence on him by Carrie Johnson, his wife. He also disclosed that the team behind
