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Let us just imagine for one moment, if the Vikings, who left Scandinavia during the Dark Ages and travelled to a number of countries, pillaging and conquering wherever they went, had never integrated into the societies that they conquered. Where would we be, 1,400 years on, if they had
Graham Adams Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Graham Adams is a journalist, columnist and reviewer who has written for many of the country’s media outlets including Metro, North & South, Noted, The Spinoff and Newsroom The controversial report He Puapua has been seized upon by
Parliamentary debates on race Jane Patterson (RNZ): Policies can be called racist but not MPs, Speaker rules Richard Harman: Behind Parliament’s “racist” row (paywalled) Meriana Johnsen (RNZ): Maori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi ejected from Parliament Anna Whyte (1News): Maori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi performs haka in Parliament,
The co-leaders of the Maori Party and Greens co-leader Marama Davidson have shown us all that the real racists we see are actually members of parliament: Maori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi was kicked out of the House after protesting the National Party’s rhetoric on race issues
Of the 231 shovel-ready projects Infrastructure Minister Grant Robertson announced to much fanfare last year, only one project has been completed, National’s Infrastructure spokesperson Andrew Bayly says. “It has been has been 12 months since the shovel-ready infrastructure projects were announced. By most normal definitions of the
Collins is still calling for Speaker Trevor Mallard’s head […] […] Collins was scathing of Mallard, and of Ardern for her continued support of him as Speaker. “The debate on the evening of 4 May was unedifying because of the behaviour and statements of Mr Mallard and his reaction to being
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
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Ahron Shapiro Judy Maynard aijac.org.au On Monday May 10, more than 160 rockets were fired into Israel from Gaza, in a major escalation of the violence that has been centred on Jerusalem over recent weeks. Hamas, the terror group which rules Gaza, openly claimed the barrage – which included
We at The BFD have been reporting it for over a year, now – and finally, the mainstream media are beginning, ever so slowly, to catch on. What I’m talking about is the now-undeniable evidence that lockdowns do not work. New Zealand’s ‘COVID Queen’ might like to boast
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government needs to start looking at evidence and data before it rushes out a policy that is nothing more than a marketing campaign. The Waikato Times has revealed that up to 1500 lunches from Labour’s free school lunches programme are going to waste each
David Seymour ACT Leader Business. I just wanted to get in early. Grant Robertson almost completely forgot to mention business in both his pre-Budget speeches. I didn’t want to risk the same mistake. Welcome thank you to Price Waterhouse Cooper and the Wellington Chamber of Commerce for hosting
Since 2017 the Government has wasted $35 million of taxpayer money on light rail and has nothing to show for it, National’s Transport spokesperson Michael Woodhouse says. “The Government has spent millions of dollars on a project that can’t even get off the drawing board. But that’s
The Government that said it would be the most open and transparent ever has once again done the exact opposite, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. After the debacle of last month’s Health Select Committee hearing which saw it filled with endless explanations about the end-
Harry S Truman famously had a sign on his desk: “The Buck Stops Here”. Daniel Andrews, on the other hand, is obviously determined that the buck will stop anywhere and everywhere but his own desk. The roster of heads that have rolled over Victoria’s hotel quarantine disaster is beginning
