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Monday, January 31, 2011

Frank Newman: The State of the Universe Address

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For politicians there is never a bad time to make promises about the future, after all making promises about the future is much more palatab...
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Mike Butler: Coastal bill two votes from oblivion

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Attorney General Chris Finlayson claims that the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Bill would provide a good outcome for all, but pola...
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Friday, January 28, 2011

David Round: Multiculturalism and Diversity - part 2

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Part 1 of this series can be found on the NZCPR website here . Let us begin by asking a couple of elementary questions. First, what is s...
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Karl du Fresne: Perhaps we'll all be too drunk to notice

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We are a nation in denial. In every glossy magazine I open – and in newspapers, to a lesser extent – page after page is devoted to the pur...
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Roger Kerr: Tax-Free Threshold Awful Policy

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The Labour Party’s proposal to introduce a zero rate of income tax on the first $5,000 of taxable income may have populist appeal but it is ...
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Monday, January 24, 2011

Lord Nigel Lawson: Five Myths and a Menace

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This is the inaugural Adam Smith Lecture given by Lord Nigel Lawson, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, at Pembroke College, Cambridge,...
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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Mike Butler: Sharples’ separatist dream

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Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharples put his spin on history, the Treaty of Waitangi and progress towards his goal of “Maori control of all t...
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Mike Butler: 'The First Colonist' and Colonist Day

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January 22 is just another day whereas February 6 is the Waitangi Day holiday that features protesters behaving badly. But January 22 could ...
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Saturday, January 15, 2011

Mike Butler: WINZ and food bank queues

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Work and Income Christmas-New Year rent payment policy may be partly blamed for queues at food banks and WINZ offices around the country in ...
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Monday, January 10, 2011

Ron Smith: Slow steaming and perishable trade

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Weekend stories concerning a progressive slow-down in the effective operating speed of container ships from New Zealand suggest a growing pr...
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Saturday, January 8, 2011

Karl du Fresne: Scandal seems a mild word in this context

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The wretched saga of New Zealand’s Skyhawk and Aermacchi air force jets is limping toward its inevitable, shameful conclusion. Not only ar...
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Monday, January 3, 2011

Ron Smith: Who fired on the ambulance?

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Accounts of the recent shooting incident in Kabul, involving the New Zealand SAS, showed a quite familiar pattern. In one account (largely s...
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Mike Butler: Mohaka settlement generous, but who sold the land and killed the ancestors?

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A $20-million Treaty of Waitangi settlement of Mohaka tribe Ngati Pahauwera, signed on December 18, 2010, shows that the government is getti...
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Friday, December 31, 2010

Frank Newman: Do councils do what they say they will do?

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The Local Government Amendment Act 2002 brought sweeping changes to local authorities. Most significantly councils were given the powers of...
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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Frank Newman: News flash! Foreshore and seabed protest march

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TVNZ reports; “Anger over Maori claims on the seabed and foreshore has brought hundreds of people onto the streets of Nelson. The march was...
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Sunday, December 12, 2010

Karl du Fresne: Thanks for setting it out so clearly, Tuku

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In Friday’s Dominion Post, Tainui iwi chairman Tukoiroirangi "Underpants" Morgan obligingly provides all the reason anyone needs t...
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The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley: The Abdication of the West

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From Cancun, Mexico, Dec 10, 2010: I usually add some gentle humor to these reports. Not today. Read this and weep. Notwithstanding the care...
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Frank Newman: Foreshore and seabed hearings a farce - outcome predetermined

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Saturday’s Dominion Post reports, “While some changes would be recommended to the [Coastal Area Bill] the bill reported back from the commit...
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Thursday, December 9, 2010

Ron Smith: Korea: the war that never left

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Seoul is a bustling modern city of 12 million people, with a veritable forest of sky scrapers and a sleek modern transportation system. It i...
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Monday, December 6, 2010

Allan Peachey: You be the judge!

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I am going to do something a little bit different for this edition of “Breaking Views”. I am going to report on two things I came across whi...
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