The dragon in the room: Cooks v NZ v China
Later today the Cook Islands Prime Minister, Mark Brown, will be back in Rarotonga and will reveal the hitherto secret…
Author: Tim Selwyn
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Waitangi 2025 – Sovereignty and Settlements
Every rohe seems to have a Waitangi. There’s one at the end of town here in Opotiki. There’s a Waitangi…
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2024 review + 2025 predictions
Before my review of the year a few predictions for 2025: TV in 2025: Freeview as a platform for free-to-air…
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The Podcast awards and the magic of television rubbing off
The editor of The Daily Blog very casually suggested to me that a review of the podcast awards would be…
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HMNZS Manawanui: As stupid as it sounds it just ploughed straight into the reef
My last post on the continuing saga of the ill-fated HMNZSLGBTQ Manawanui included the shock realisation: As stupid as it…
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Treaty Principles Bill – Sometimes it is just racism.
The first time I experienced racism that I can remember of any description was at primary school – from the…
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20 years on from the Foreshore and Seabed confiscation: Treaty itself at risk of being taken.
Twenty years ago I, unwittingly, left a portion of my fingerprint on a corner of one of the fliers condemning…
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Trump win means woke fever broken?
Humility – they hadn’t displayed any before the election, but now their candidate had lost, heavily, they were recommending it…
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American Election Predictions: It’s Apocalypse in the USA
A week out from the US General Election (Wednesday 06/11/2024 NZ time) the opinion polls in the swing states are…
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How mad is that doggy in the Waitangi Tribunal? Selling Prebble.
Judith Collins, in the previous National Government, appointed Dame Susan Devoy as Race Relations Commissioner purely to upset the Lefties…