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Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under
Grant Robertson must surely believe in fairies, pixies and unicorns. His ‘BludgeIt’ makes some astonishing assumptions in order to magic up results. Steven Joyce outlines just how magical the thinking in the ‘BludgeIt’ is: First, our economy is apparently going to grow faster than Australia’s in three of the
Good morning, delegates. It’s an absolute privilege to be speaking to you all here today as your leader. I’d like to acknowledge National Party President Peter Goodfellow, regional chairperson Andrew von Dadelszen, my fellow board members, my Central North Island colleagues, and all of you, the members of
The Joe Pags Show is a nationally syndicated talk radio show broadcast on stations all over the USA with an audience of around 5 million. Here in New Zealand you can listen on iHeart radio or as I prefer to do, view it on Twitch TV. The show is on
Daren A. Wiseley mises.org Daren Wiseley has a J.D. from Indiana University. More of his work can be found at choosewiseley.org. Over a year ago, the covid panic shook the world. We were told it would only be “15 days to flatten the curve” as businesses were
Despite the common perception of Joe Biden as a somnolent dotard, no one could accuse his administration of sleeping on the job. Since manipulating their way to power, the Democrats have gone full speed ahead at turning America into a textbook socialist utopia. Hugo Chavez is weeping with envy in
Dear Editor Buoyed by some pretty dodgy opinion polls, the muppets currently running the country are helter-skelter galloping us down the path to their brave new (old) world where the fairies play and we are benevolently governed under a feudal system by a handful of hereditary iwi elite. As
A recent BFD “Daily Roundup” post contrasted the laundry list of Maori-only benefits in New Zealand with the supposed “white privilege” of non-Maori. Like most jokes, it contained a not-so-subtle barb of truth. As Orwell wrote, “A thing is funny when…it upsets the established order.
David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party is calling for higher standards for our teachers when renewing their practicing certificates. Across all of the standardised international measures, PISA, PIRLS, and TIMSS, New Zealand students are in a sustained decline. Students today are learning less than they were 10 years ago.
Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news Secretary of the “Reason Party”, Emma Sinclair, has presented a poor-performing video claiming to debunk George Christensen’s Children Born Alive Protection Bill. For context, the “Reason Party” was formerly called the “Australian Sex Party”, and was established in 2009 by Fiona Patten, the then
Parents and teachers will be disappointed that in a Budget with about $15 billion worth of new spending, so little was devoted to pressing challenges in education, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “While a little bit of help was promised for Alternative Education and intensive support for children
Geoffrey Miller Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Geoffrey Miller is an international analyst at the Democracy Project. He has lived and travelled extensively in the Middle East and is a fluent Arabic speaker. There are some new clues to be found in the Budget that illustrate
22nd May 2021 I have been commenting that this rebellion is unlike previous ones in Myanmar in that if it spread to the cities then the regime, even though it won’t lose, will be in trouble. Well, it is happening. Sanchaung township is a relatively well-off district and
A clear example of the astonishing and dangerous economic stupidity of Grant Robertson is his concern that accommodation supplements end up in the pockets of landlords and not the pockets of the bludgers who receive them. I’m not kidding! Grant Robertson says the Government is reviewing how it helps
