Ani O'Brien: Open Letter to the Helen Clark Foundation

Regarding Professor Peter Davis' public comments justifying antisemitism

I will send the below letter to the Helen Clark Foundation. It is not intended to be aggressive or an attack. It is a good faith attempt at reaching out and asking them to live up to their values and demonstrate their commitment to social cohesion.

Dr James Kierstead: How to work well with others

Worries about social cohesion are on the rise. Initiative Chair Roger Partridge aired his concerns in the Herald last month, and this month saw the launch of a report on the subject by the Helen Clark Foundation.

One aspect of social cohesion is cooperation. Studies have repeatedly shown that ethnically diverse societies are worse at some types of cooperation, especially when it comes to providing public goods.

Lindsay Mitchell: RNZ showcases why nobody trusts mainstream media

A brief post to set the record straight.

Today RNZ is running an article entitled, Do you know what people on benefits actually get?

Kerre Woodham: We need to do something about preventing obesity

The health system, well, we're not really talking about the health system, but how not to get into the health system because every time we talk about the health system, we talk about the need to stop people getting into the health system in the first place, the need to focus on prevention rather than cure.

And the Helen Clark Foundation has come up with a new report calling on politicians to take a new direction when it comes to problems with obesity and the health problems related to obesity.

Professor Robert MacCulloch: Why does the Helen Clark Foundation say it is "non-partisan" when it is not non-partisan?

Why does the Helen Clark Foundation say it is "non-partisan" when it is not non-partisan? Why does it quietly appear to be taking Taxpayer Subsidies when it is really a Labour think tank?

The Helen Clark Foundation is a Charitable Trust, registered by the Charities Commission. It proudly proclaims, "We are an independent, non-partisan public policy think tank based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland". If you believe it is independent & non-partisan, you'd believe anything.

idbkiwi: About as Non-partisan as You Can Get

I listened to a Mediawatch bulletin from RNZ and heard the authors of the Trust in Media report exhorting news outlets to carry less opinion, emphasising that the issue of opinion, and the slant of such, was a major, very major, concern to news-consumers and a huge factor in the decline in trust we place in those outlets.

Dane Giraud: Have we finally reached peak Jew-derangement syndrome?

As if the current storm of mistruths and distortions wasn’t enough, the New Zealand Jewish community is having to fight off the mangling of the “chosen people” concept, yet another front that’s opened up against us on social media since the atrocity of Oct 7th.

Sadly, yet unsurprisingly, an effort of self-defense to eradicate the fascist death cult that carried out these unspeakable horrors has been spun into an example of unbridled privilege.