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Showing posts with label Peter Winsley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peter Winsley. Show all posts
Friday, February 9, 2024

Peter Winsley: Russian economic history, including a folk song lens

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The new coalition government in New Zealand gives some hope that democracy, universalism, and Enlightenment values can win out over identity...
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Thursday, December 28, 2023

Peter Winsley: Te Tiriti o Waitangi cedes sovereignty to the Crown, and can be unifying rather than divisive

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Repeated claims are made that Māori never ceded sovereignty to the Crown. These claims come from sources such as the Waitangi Tribunal, acti...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Peter Winsley: Te Tiriti o Waitangi cedes sovereignty to the Crown, and can be unifying rather than divisive

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Repeated claims are made that Māori never ceded sovereignty to the Crown. These claims come from sources such as the Waitangi Tribunal, acti...
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Monday, October 30, 2023

Peter Winsley: The great soul of the Russian people will always outlive those who seek to destroy it

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The Russian symbolist poet Osip Mandelstam once said that Russia is the only country that takes poetry seriously – it gets people killed. I...
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Friday, October 6, 2023

Peter Winsley: How to defend New Zealand without killing anyone (if possible)

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War is older than all human cultures. It pervades human history in all regions and epochs. When the first oral histories were composed war...
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Thursday, August 31, 2023

Peter Winsley: Will New Zealand’s liberal democracy survive?

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New Zealand’s democracy based on equal voting rights is changing with different rights assigned at birth, based on whether you have Māori bl...
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Thursday, August 17, 2023

Peter Winsley: Resolving arguments about opening meetings with karakia - A modest proposal

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Debate continues on whether meetings should open with a karakia, and if so what rules might apply. Some oppose their purported religious co...
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Sunday, August 13, 2023

Peter Winsley: The Green Party’s plans for public and private lands

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The Green Party wants to facilitate the transfer of more public (or “Crown”) and private land to iwi, hapū, and whānau. The intent is to ad...
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Monday, July 17, 2023

Peter Winsley: The legality of New Zealand’s government, and what should we do about the Doctrine of Discovery?

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Claire Charters makes some remarkable assertions in her 14 July Opinion piece Matariki is a mark of how far we have come and how far we have...
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Saturday, July 8, 2023

Peter Winsley: Education as Master, not Servant of Artificial Intelligence

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Knowledge accumulated over Generations When past social or technological advances are discussed young people sometimes disclaim all knowledg...
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Sunday, June 25, 2023

Peter Winsley: While people focus on the election radical change is happening without voter awareness

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It is election year. Political parties are building candidate visibility – they are testing each other in the House before they clash on th...
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Saturday, June 10, 2023

Peter Winsley: How do we prevent an “accident” at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant?

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In our 20 May post we argued there was a low risk of nuclear weapon use in Ukraine, however we noted that “what is more likely than a Russia...
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Saturday, June 3, 2023

Peter Winsley: How sustainable is New Zealand Superannuation and what are the alternative policy options?

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Debate on superannuation focuses on the eligibility age and long-term fiscal sustainability. Only rarely is the connection made between sup...
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Sunday, May 21, 2023

Peter Winsley: Russia has two ways out of the Ukraine war that avoids economic ruination....

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.....Neither or them involve nuclear weapons Vladimir Putin’s Russia cannot afford to lose its war with Ukraine because of the economic loss...
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Friday, May 5, 2023

Peter Winsley: The Human Rights Commission needs to do its job and stay out of politics

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The Human Rights Commission (HRC) is charged with upholding all New Zealanders’ human rights. Fundamental rights include free speech, non-d...
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Sunday, April 9, 2023

Peter Winsley: He Puapua is being implemented, however all is not lost

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The Prime Minister is committed to “bread and butter” issues and has dropped or put on hold some government work programmes. However, Tirit...
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Thursday, March 16, 2023

Peter Winsley: Racialism, advocacy of violence in poetry and mātauranga Māori

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It was a pleasure to read a recent opinion piece by Giselle Byrnes and Meihana Durie on research funding for Māori. It responded to a piece...
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Sunday, March 5, 2023

Peter 'Winsley: Can we turn forest slash from waste and risk into a valuable resource?

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Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain, as in revenge, have sucked up from the sea contagious fogs; which falling in the land have every ...
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Saturday, February 25, 2023

Peter Winsley: Defending New Zealand’s democracy, and why Shakespeare is Kryptonite to tribalists and ethno-nationalists

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Economic history tells us that the best outcomes come from inclusive democracy, secular institutions based on science and reasoning, a marke...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Peter Winsley: Submission on the Natural and Built Environment Bill

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Thank you for the opportunity to make a submission on the Natural and Built Environment Bill. In my view the strongest part of the Bill is t...
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