GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Doctors call for vaccine development in New Zealand
On 10 June the Democracy Project published online an article by me on why New Zealand should seriously consider developing its…
New Zealand Politics
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A Conversation That Never Happened.
WELLINGTON HARBOUR was always worth looking at. Sipping thoughtfully at his cup of Earl Grey, Adam Freeman took in the…
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Afghanistan and the collective shame of the West
All we learned from our 20 years in Afghanistan was how far the NZDF were prepared to go to mislead us.
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China vs America – The true cost of an Independent NZ Foreign Policy
We can’t pull away from America and China and pretend there is no cost to being Independent.
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The Pegasus Proclivity – On Recent Revelations Of Israeli International Espionage
By now, news of the Pegasus spying scandal has made its way across the world. And I think that, rather than the Western-oriented outcry which is currently also sweeping the media-sphere, taking a look at India’s situation is quite instructive here in order to garner a more true picture of what’s actually been going on.
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I wish we could care about housing the mentally ill the way we do about an orca calf
There’s no point shoveling billions into policy when the bureaucracy fiefdoms rule!
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On The Manufactured Outrage Against The Government’s Covid-19 Communications Budget
I must confess myself slightly perplexed at the “outrage” that the Government put $250,000 into working out how to do comms for its Covid-19 strategy. I mean, think about what was involved at every step – what New Zealanders were being asked to do.
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MEDIAWATCH: Martin Devlin, woke snuff activism & Stuff’s cancel culture journalism
The woke lynch mob on Twitter have been salivating over cancelling Martin Devlin for some time and the cancel culture journalism at Stuff has you openly wondering if their intense and never flinching gaze on every tiny detail of Devlin’s latest troubles is driven by Devlin holding Alison Mau’s pets hostage or something.
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Well, well, well – ACT show their true fascism against beneficiaries
As Leader, David Seymour has fastidiously avoided the racism, white supremacist bigotry and sheer cruelty of the far right by charting debate that used civil rights as it’s starting point.
That purity has been despoiled.
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Open letter blueprint to Megan Woods to solve housing crisis
An industrial scale state-house building programme is the only solution to the housing crisis for low-income New Zealanders