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Reforming
Auckland Local Government, a submission
30 April 08
Dr Michael
Bassett
The 1989 structure was the
best that was politically achievable at the time (29
territorial authorities into 7, with a regional body) but
weaknesses have shown up with the structure and especially
at the regional level where the voice is weaker than
intended at the time. More
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Action
Group, Gangs & Welfare
4 May 08
Muriel Newman
The Child Poverty Action Group believes paying
beneficiaries more will solve poverty in New Zealand. It
won't. It will entrench dependency...
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Investing
in Children
4 May 08
Dr
Karen Hartshorn
Thirty
years ago, Phil Silva (the founding director of the
Dunedin Study) wrote that New Zealanders invested more
time and care in maintaining their cars than they did
their children.
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Crime
in Perspective
26 April
08
Muriel Newman
It
was just three week’s ago that we heard the sort of news
that sends a chill down the spine of every parent – a
fifteen year old schoolgirl reported missing. Tragically
Marie Davis was buried on Thursday. Her killer remains on
the loose... More >>>
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Wanted-
A Law and Order System that works for us
26 April 08
Dr
Lech Beltowski
Law and
order is the foundation of a properly functioning society.
History shows that for any nation, where law and order
goes, there too eventually goes their society. More
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Food for
Thought
23 April 08
Mike Moore
What has been the most
successful 50 years of alleviating poverty in human
history is threatened. What’s
happening, what’s new? Nothing
is more important than food... More
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The
Promise of the Treaty
20 April
08
Muriel Newman
The Maori
Party is calling for Maori seats to be established in
Auckland local authority areas. They believe ... More >>>
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The
Waitangi Industry
19 April 08
Michael Bassett
There are
few futuristic ideas that have lost their sheen as quickly
as the notion that settlements of Maori grievances would
improve New Zealand’s race relations. More
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The Good;
the Excellent; and the Bad
16 April 08
Mike Moore
China has only become integrated into the global economy
over the past 20 years, the results for China, stunning,
hundreds of millions of people lifted out of extreme
poverty. ... More
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Political Agendas
Put Economy at Risk
13 April 08
Muriel Newman
Prime
Minister Helen Clark is right when she says blocking the
sale of a 40 percent interest in Auckland International
Airport is a defining issue. Such political intervention
is arrogant, damaging and reckless. It defines New Zealand
as a state controlled economy.
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Five
Ideas to Super-Size NZ's Economy
12 April 08
Phil Rennie
For
the last 30 years the Aussies have been flogging us at
something far more important than sport – economic
performance. The average wage in
Australia
is now a third higher than in New Zealand... More
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Exposing
the Climate Change Agenda
6 April 08
Muriel Newman
The
climate change debate is forever shifting as science casts
long shadows of doubt on the predictions of global
catastrophe...
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The
IPCC – On the Run at Last
5 April 08
Professor Dr Bob Carter
The
IPCC’s 2007 final Summary for Policymakers shows that
the climate alarmists are at last on the run. Their
evidence... now lies exposed in tatters for all to see. More
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The
Middle East - Work in Progress
1
April 08
Mike Moore
The Middle East conjures up dark pictures in Westerners’
minds, the agonies of Palestine and Iraq.
That’s like judging all of Africa because of
Dufar, or all of Asia because of North Korea.
There’s more to the region and the Muslim world
than that... More
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Motivating
a Nation
30 March
08
Muriel Newman
There
is such a notable lack of debate about crucial public
policy issues that you could be excused for not realising
that we are already a quarter of the way through to the
latest possible date for the 2008 election. ...
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Grief,
Pain & Division of our People... Maori Land &
Tribal Politics
15 March 08
Kelly
Te Heuheu
Since early childhood, I remember the punch-ups and
arguments between our people over land and tribal
politics. The worse issue with Maori Land is most of it is
in multiple ownership which is disastrous. More
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From
Climate Alarmism to Climate Realism
8 March 08
Hon Václav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic
This week Muriel Newman met with
the President of Czech Republic at an International Conference on Climate Change in New York. The
President delivered a powerful speech; pointing to realities
that many governments, including our own, choose to ignore. Speech
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Prof David Bellamy:
The global warming myth
Am I
worried about carbon induced global warming? No because there
has been no sign of global warming in NZ since 1955. Yes because
it has become a political football that has lost its foundations
in real science...
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Bev Adair:
Child abuse, my story
I
know how it feels to have a life of apparently no value to
anyone. From my earliest years I lived with violence. I remember
knives, blood on walls, being beaten, being locked up in
cupboards, being molested by my Dad, being used by my mother's
men friends - she put me on show for them. I remember sitting in
the gutter outside the hotel waiting for my mother...
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Dr
Daniel Shayesteh: Islamisation
of the West
A
brief introduction of my background may help the reader to
better understand my comments concerning the plans of Islam for
non-Muslim nations. From early childhood, we learned that
Christians and Jews were unclean and Islam must take over the
world.
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Alan
Duff: Maori
under-performance
The law
of consequence – in other words, taking responsibility for our
own actions – has left the lexicon. Well, where Maori are
concerned it has. There’s always some professional
excuse-monger who leaps up and blames “the system” or
“government” or “Child, Youth & Family” or
“Western culture” on our every failing. More
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Lindsay
Perigo:Nanny State
Nanny State is vicious,
anti-human … and, as we speak, relentlessly advancing. Who is she, this hybrid of
gargoyle and dominatrix? She is the strident,
scolding, snooping socialist, the control-freak who seeks to
regulate every aspect of our existence. More
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