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When bureaucrats start playing around with OIA requests you know there is something stinky going on. Yet that is exactly what is happening at the Tauranga City Council. The Ombudsman has been asked to rule on whether the guest list for a $40,000 private cocktail party co-hosted by Tauranga
Last week, Senator JD Vance was in the Senate, voting against Joe Biden nominees, one to become a judge on the US Court of Federal Claims and another to become a member of the Federal Labour Relations Authority. [Yesterday, he delivered] a prime-time speech as Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick,
Dave Patterson Liberty Nation News Mismanagement has put the US nuclear response capability in jeopardy. The replacement for the 1970s-era Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) system currently deployed is Sentinel, but the program is struggling. In the meantime, Russia, China, North Korea, and potentially Iran are rapidly modernizing or
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards As the Minister for Resources, Shanes Jones is happy to declare that he’s on the side of the mining companies, proclaiming that no one “should doubt that I am the megaphone of industry in this government.” While many will appreciate his dogged championing
Parlermaid The Settlement Centre Waikato (SCW) in Hamilton, New Zealand, is a place of unity and one which welcomes all people, regardless of their religious or political beliefs, ethnicity or country of origin. A key feature of the newly redeveloped SCW are the ethnic panels that externally wrap the building
Bryce Edwards I am Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington, where I run the Democracy Project, and am a full-time researcher in the School of Government. The assassination attempt on US presidential candidate Donald Trump is a reflection on how toxic and polarised politics has become in
Evil forces are at work and have been for decades. These forces are largely led by the political left. They take the form of so-called progressive policies that are aimed at destroying society as we know it. Their aim is to cause divisiveness and unrest among the population at large.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards Apologies for the Substack newsletter colours today - there seems to be an error making the links green, which we will fix for tomorrow. GREENS Jack Tame (Newstalk ZB): The Greens can own the hypocrisy and push Tana out Ben Thomas (Post): Time for
NZCPR Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. There are many lessons for New Zealand in last
Just as the Greens release a summary of their inquiry’s findings on Darleen Tana, her husband’s bike shop in Newmarket goes into receivership. Ex-Green MP Darleen Tana’s husband’s bike business has been temporarily closed and may be in insolvency, following allegations of worker exploitation. People inside
Jeffrey Tucker Jeffrey Tucker is founder, author and president at Brownstone Institute. There is only one major social media platform that is relatively free of censorship. That is X, once known as Twitter, and owned by Elon Musk, who has preached free speech for years and sacrificed billions in advertising
Joanne Crawford, Victoria University of Wellington; Chris Peace, Victoria University of Wellington and Danaë Anderson, Victoria University of Wellington The government’s recently announced review of New Zealand’s health and safety system puts the spotlight back on the 2015 Health and Safety at Work Act – and why it has
Viv Forbes Degree in Applied Science Geology, Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and executive director at the Saltbush Club. Wind and solar energy have a fatal flaw – intermittency. Solar generators won’t run on moon-beams – they fade out as the sun goes down and stop whenever
Kineta Knight Kineta Knight Booker is a highly experienced journalist based in North Canterbury. She has worked as a reporter for radio, TV, digital and print, as well as an editor of lifestyle magazines in NZ and the UK. Kineta is the Head of Content Development at Chris Lynch Media.
