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Lewis Andrew sojournal.co.nz In previous articles, we have investigated the brand new app that The Human Rights Commission and The Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand have put together. The first module was an introductory one and contained the usual fallacy of assuming disparities in ethnic outcomes are
Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 Stuff’s National Correspondent Tony Wall takes a swing at Tauranga: it “seems to have been taken over by an army of white, privileged rednecks who have no
I’m grateful to my former North Shore MP, Hon Wayne Mapp, whose electorate chairman I was for most of his time in Parliament, for reminding me that the remit I suggested in last week’s column here at The BFD was over-complicated by trying to cover too many
You’ve got to hand it to Judith Collins, who yesterday forced Jacinda Ardern to die in a ditch defending the silly bike bridge that her hapless Transport Minister, Michael Wood, dreamed up in a rush. It is smart politics to force the Prime Minister to continually defend the bike
Jonathan Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
Recently I received an email from the Antique Arms National President, Andrew Edgecombe. In the email, he has a crack at me (Note to Andrew: I don’t use minions) and my messages about the failures of COLFO. I will address his email in this article on the points that
David Seymour ACT Leader Nurses will be better off under ACT’s Alternative Budget than they would under the pay increases proposed by the Government. A nurse on the middle pay band would get an additional $2200 from ACT’s proposed tax cuts. That’s a 3.36 per cent
The plot twists in the Wuhan lab-leak theory continue. Now we find that then-president Trump pushed hard for a US presidential commission into the shenanigans at Wuhan. Trump also wanted to hit China with a bill for damages from the pandemic. If ever you wondered why the media-
Nicole McKee ACT’s Justice spokesperson Thank goodness the FBI is cracking down on New Zealand gangs since our Government has gone soft on them. It took a major international operation to lead to 25 arrests and 900 charges. Operation Trojan Shield was led by the FBI and co-ordinated
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust A parliamentary petition has been started gaining support to stop courts from using home detention or sentence discounts for serious and violent offences against children. “New Zealand’s justice system has completely lost its compass now seeing regular cases of serious child
ACT Party Free Press The Haps The CCP’s outlook is deteriorating. The Wuhan lab leak investigation seems pointless, but it will cast them as a global pariah. Sinovac has failed. Chinese fertility is 1.3 but the CCP is pointlessly allowing a third child. Our government has hosed money
Ro Edge NZ Spokesperson Save Women’s Sport Australasia A petition is asking MPs to make Sport New Zealand consult with sporting associations, clubs and stakeholders on its draft guidelines that would see biological men play in women’s sport. Save Women’s Sport New Zealand spokeswoman Ro Edge says
Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news Professor Doug Allen has examined over 80 Covid-19 academic studies and data sites to discover that many of the models and cost/benefit studies which governments and their ‘experts’ relied on to arrive at their restricted freedom & lockdown policies were deeply flawed. That’s
7th June 2021 Finally, some good news, in a way. I have heard that one of my friends and sources who I hadn’t heard from for a couple of weeks has managed to get out of Myanmar and is safe and well. They were a well-connected person in
The fact that Donald J Trump is such a polarising figure speaks volumes for several very important human psychological conditions, the most recent of which has been affectionately named Trump Derangement Syndrome. Can anybody recall ever in history, anybody having such a huge effect on people flung far and wide
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Ruth Dyson recieves a gong for her services to disabled people. Good Lord. The minister who forced the minimum wage on sheltered workshops in 2005. She was warned about the effect but bullocked on. Here’s a report from my local paper (when it was
