Wednesday, December 3, 2025
David Farrar: Another school lunch beauty
Labels: David Farrar, Mouldy free school lunches, Unfrigerated stored mealsReaders will no doubt have seen the numerous stories about mouldy lunches served at Haeata Community Campus. There were multiple stories on all media platforms reporting that these mouldy meals were the result of Compass, the meal provider.
Radio NZ, and other media, failed to ask any questions at all, as it fit the narrative that the revised school lunch programme was bad that the left love. They didn’t ask:
Breaking Views Update: Week of 30.11.25
Labels: Breaking Views Update: monitoring race relations in the mediaWednesday December 3, 2025
News:
'Please walk on me' NZ flag exhibition shocks Hastings councillor
The Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga Hastings Art Gallery is backing a controversial exhibition that encourages people to walk over a New Zealand flag, despite a councillor saying it "feels so wrong".
Māori artist Diane Prince's installation Flagging the Future was hastily removed from the Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatū in Nelson earlier this year for what the gallery described as staff safety reasons following abuse and complaints.
Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: The Government should not fund Ozempic
Labels: Health New Zealand, Heather du Plessis-Allan, Weight loss drugs, World Health OrganisationSo basically, make it not just for the rich, but for the poor as well.
Ryan Bridge: Rate caps are happening, but will they work?
Labels: Local council, Rates caps, Ryan BridgeBut does a 2-4% band simply mean we're going to pay more in other fees?
Rates aren't the only way these guys make money off us, we also pay for specific things like resource and building consents, LIM requests, dog registrations, and campgrounds.
Ani O'Brien: Dirty Politics 2.0 - Labour’s covert influencer says what Chris Hipkins can’t
Labels: Ani O'Brien, Attack dog, Jordan Rivers, Labour PartyJordan Rivers has failed to disclose his employment in the Labour leader's office
When Nicky Hager published Dirty Politics a decade ago, he exposed a political ecosystem in which government insiders supposedly used independent bloggers to wage smear campaigns, break stories, and launder political attacks through channels that looked organic. Hager argued that politicians fed attack lines to bloggers like Cameron Slater. Slater published the hit jobs and ministers kept their hands clean.
Chris Morrison: New Scientific Findings Expose the Hoax Behind Meat Eating Climate Alarm
Labels: Chris Morrison, Climate change, Methane emissions, Net ZeroSensational new scientific findings have blown holes in the climate hoax opinion that humans need to give up eating meat to save the planet. The effect of methane (CH4), a minor ‘greenhouse’ gas, have been grossly exaggerated to suggest that animal farming poses a significant threat to the global climate. But the invented threat relies on multiplying by around ten the length of time that CH4 stays in the atmosphere – an invention under Global Warming Potential 100 know as GWP100 that is in widespread use in activist circles, including the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. At current emission levels, five Italian scientists predict 54% less warming than under GWP100, while small decreasing emissions, possible with some changes in animal diets, produce only tiny amounts of claimed warming.
Chris Lynch: Government moves to cap rates and curb cost pressures on ratepayers
Labels: Chris Lynch, Rates cappingThe Government has announced plans to introduce a national rates cap, saying the move has been designed to help councils control rates increases and reduce pressure on household budgets.
Local Government Minister Simon Watts said rising rates were becoming unsustainable for many residents, with some communities facing repeated double digit increases.
Dave Patterson: What to Do About Venezuela?
Labels: Dave Patterson, Drugs, Nicolas Maduro, VenezuelaThe war on drugs wasn’t a real war until President Trump made it one.
President Trump has made Venezuela a special project, presenting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as the face of the evil visited on America by drug and human traffickers. Maduro does not personally run the cartel’s transnational criminal operations, of course, but he facilitates. In some cases, he may actively support and protect them. Trump has taken a multi-pronged approach to stopping this.
Trump’s Venezuela Strategy Is Three-fold
David Farrar: The maths results show why people hate the media
Labels: David Farrar, Education reforms, Maths acceleration trial resultsHow many stories have you seen in the Media where some group is complaining about there being less of a focus on the Treaty of Waitangi in the education system? I’ve lost count, but it is scores and scores.
How many have you seen about the results of the maths acceleration trial?
Kerre Woodham: Labour makes big promises, but can they deliver?
Labels: Government expections and obligations, GP general practice loans, GP shortage, Kerre Woodham, Labour PartyHundreds of the Labour Party faithful gathered over the weekend in Auckland to begin the march back to Parliament's government benches. Council of Trade Unions head Sandra Gray was preaching to the converted when she told the crowd that New Zealand's Pavlova paradise has been eaten up by the rich. She said Labour needed to give workers a reason to vote for them and to deliver fundamental and systemic change. Yay! Cue loud rapturous applause.
Bob Edlin: Minister is admonished for not mentioning the muting of Maori media.....
Labels: Bob Edlin, Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Hate Speech, Human rights, Lady Tureiti MoxonMinister is admonished for not mentioning the muting of Maori media – but budget cuts have been bruising for ALL media
Remember what Budget 2025 did for the news media?
The government provided $6.4 million over four years to hire journalists in heartland New Zealand for reporting on councils and courts.
JC: Will Winston Go Right or Left?
Labels: Election 2026, JC, Winston PetersAn article in the Weekend Herald by political reporter Jamie Ensor discussed the growing ties between NZ First and Labour. Factually, I could not fault it but I also sensed that it was written with a modicum of hope that Winston would go with Labour. I think Jamie might be disappointed. The possibility Winston will is, however, forever present and I suspect Jamie’s article is a vehicle to get people to think this might be a good idea. Jamie is trying to sow the seed that it realistically could work.
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Judy Gill: What “Giving Effect To Te Tiriti” Means in Schools
Labels: Commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and to Māori as a Te Tiriti partner, Judy Gill, NZ education systemAcross New Zealand, schools are declaring that they will “give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi.”
Many parents assume this means teaching New Zealand history or acknowledging Māori culture. In reality, in modern policy language, it means something far more structural.
Caleb Anderson: The American Founders and the lessons we refuse to learn
Labels: American history, Caleb Anderson, NZ education systemHumanity, irrespective of time, place, beliefs, or any other point of difference, seems incomprehensibly blind to the experiences of those who have gone before us, even (and sometimes especially) where these are amply documented, as well as somewhat indifferent toward those who will come after us, and who have to deal with the messes we make.
Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Are local councils competent enough to meet rate caps?
Labels: Heather du Plessis-Allan, Local council, Rates capsRyan Bridge: Labour should pay attention to the housing market
Labels: Housing Market, Ryan BridgeYes, a recovery is underway.
But the brutal truth of 2025 was summed up rather well, I thought, by Sir Bill English in an interview about the current state of play.
Eliora: This Conservative Man Has the Experience
Labels: Election 2026, Eliora, Winston PetersThink strategically folks! Which leader will conservative Kiwis vote for next year? Luxon, Seymour or Peters or...waste a vote on a very minor party? Conservative Kiwis are smart. Labour, the party that folded and became very unpopular at the last election, has astonishingly, overtaken National in recent polls. Voters are unpredictable and have gone all over the place in the last eight years with their votes. Labour won in a landslide with Ardern as leader and then quickly took a massive hit under her disastrous leadership.
David Farrar: KiwiSaver moving to 6%
Labels: David Farrar, KiwiSaver, NZ SuperannuationNational announced that if re-elected they will increase the default KiwiSaver contribution rates from 3% to 4% (already announced as government policy) and then to 6%. The rates will be:
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