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Politics – A Threat to Freedom and Prosperity (5 October 2009)
The current Global Warming Debate is not about temperature or CO2 levels. It is an ideological ...
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 ...