The current Global Warming Debate is not about temperature or CO2 levels. It is an ideological ...
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Politics – Time for a Referendum on the Foreshore & Seabed (19 April 2010)
The government’s discussion document outlining their proposed foreshore and seabed legislation was launched at the beginning ...
Politics – An Open Letter to the Minister of Climate Change Issues (12 October 2009)
Hon Nick Smith, Minister for Climate Change Issues - I can assure you that the government has investigated the evidence on the science of climate change from a number of different sources and I can appreciate that there are many different perspectives on
Politics – Zombie Science, Zombie Politics (27 April 2009)
Zombie science, defn: Science that is dead but will not lie down. It keeps twitching and ...
Politics – Halting the Economic Decline (19 October 2009)
After decades of making jam as a fundraiser for the local hospice, a Good Samaritan from ...
Politics – Social Policy: Evaluating Success or Failure (17 May 2010)
Last Monday, a teacher at Te Puke High School was stabbed in the neck and back ...
Politics – Is Maori Disparity a Myth? (15 June 2009)
“Mäori continue to experience relatively poorer outcomes than other New Zealanders, indicating that Mäori social potential ...
Politics – The Great Quango Hunt (26 October 2009)
In 1985, New Zealand’s Attorney General, Sir Geoffrey Palmer, launched the ‘great quango hunt’. He threatened ...
Politics – Rating the Budget (24 May 2010)
In Thursday’s budget speech the Minister of Finance, Bill English announced that this budget had four ...
Beatlemania Part Two
The Beatles in Australia June 1964 - concert and historical footage of the reaction to Beatlemania.





