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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Lindsay Mitchell: Council of Trade Unions economist wrong on many counts

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Council of Trade Unions economist had this piece published in the DomPost, December 27 (not on-line):
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Saturday, December 20, 2014

Mike Butler: Where not to drop your aitches

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“H” or no “H”, what is the problem? The councillors of Wanganui/Whanganui all good and true on Friday voted 10 to 2 to support the name o...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Mike Butler: Separatist drivel from Delahunty

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Green Party MP Catherine Delahunty tried to stick up for Maori seats on local authorities in the New Zealand Herald today after withering...
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Monday, December 15, 2014

Brian Gaynor: Petrol price still too high

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The sharp decline in oil and dairy prices could have a huge impact on the domestic economy as the former is our largest import item and ...
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Mike Butler: A new look at the old pioneers

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The word “pioneer” describes a person who is among the first to explore or settle a new country or area. The term was widely used in 19th...
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Saturday, December 13, 2014

Frank Newman: Amalgamation agendas

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Local government amalgamation is back in the news. Earlier this month the Local Government Commission (LGC) released its draft recommend...
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Matt Ridley: Pilotless planes and driverless cars

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The Civil Aviation Authority is concerned that pilots are becoming too reliant on automation and are increasingly out of practice in wha...
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Friday, December 12, 2014

Richard Epstein from the US: The Way Forward On Police Reform

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For the past two years, I have taught a course in criminal procedure at the University of Chicago Law School. A key component of that co...

Karl du Fresne: Stop bullshitting us, prime minister

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The day after winning re-election, prime minister John Key warned that one of the biggest risks his government faced in its third term wa...
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Mike McVicker: Maori Appointments to Council

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The issue of Maori Wards on Councils has certainly been rearing its head around the Country recently.  Here in Rotorua this political d...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Reynold Macpherson: Nonsense reasoning behind council rebrand

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On 27 November the Mayor and her Deputy announced that the Rotorua District Council was considering a name change to Rotorua Lakes Counc...
Thursday, December 4, 2014

Barend Vlaardingerbroek: Saving Black Pete from the New Puritans

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It shouldn’t surprise anyone who knows anything about names to learn that I’m Dutch. My parents took advantage in 1961 of the assisted p...
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Richard Epstein from the US: Ferguson and the Rule of Law

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As most people by now know, on August 9 of this year, 18 year-old Michael Brown, a black man, was shot and killed by Darren Wilson, a 28 ...
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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Fiona Mackenzie: Need Public Healthcare? A name change may help.

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At a recent speaking engagement, Sir Bob Jones said he had known Sir Tipene O’Regan before he was a Maori. Bob had apparently grown up w...
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Sunday, November 30, 2014

Matt Ridley from the UK: The EU versus the UN - who makes the rules?

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In today’s  speech on the European Union,  previewed in this morning’s  Times , Owen Paterson, the former environment secretary, will m...
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Mike Butler: Landlords and smoke sensors

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Four deaths in two house fires two weeks ago got tongues wagging about smoke sensors, landlords, and property warrants of fitness, but th...
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Saturday, November 29, 2014

Karl du Fresne: Labour picked the right leader

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Initial reaction to Andrew Little’s election as Labour Party leader was mostly dismissive.  Critics pointed out that he couldn’t ...
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Friday, November 28, 2014

Richard Epstein from the US: Obama's Amnesty Problem

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On Thursday November 20, President Obama delivered a controversial address to the nation on the contentious subject of immigration. In ...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

Kevin Donnelly from Australia: ‘Chalk and talk’ teaching might be the best way after all

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Seventy teachers from the UK were sent to Shanghai to study classroom methods to investigate why Chinese students perform so well. Upon t...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Bruce Moon: What really happened at Waitangi on that day

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It is time to set out what really happened at some critical moments on New Zealand's history. From Hobson's brief from the...
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