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Dr Muriel Newman 
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Articles & Research of Interest

Articles and items of research that may be of interest to readers.
Letter of Transmittal
P.J. Savage
 
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Taranaki Whânui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika
Deed of Settlement 
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Port Nicholson Block Claims Settlement Bill
Select Committee Report
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Settlements of Major Claims in the 1940s
Richard Hill
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Progress of Claims
Office of Treaty Settlements
 
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Greens draw up their own Anti-Smacking Bill
Sue Bradford
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Supplementaty Material on Crimes Amendment Bill
Maxim Institute
 
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Key backs election smacking referendum
Herald
 
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Briefing: Conducting CIRs
Chief Electoral Officer
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CIR Act
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2008 Briefing Incoming Minister
Te Puni Kokiri
 
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Report of Review of Measurement of Ethnicity
Statistics NZ
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Maori Socio-Economic Disparity 
Simon Chapple
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2009 BEFU 
Treasury
 
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Benefit Factsheets 2009
MSD
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Working for Families 
IRD
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Altruism: The Moral Root of the Financial Crisis 
Richard M. Salsman
 
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Projected Families by Family Type 
Statistics NZ

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Effect of Insulating Existing Houses on Health Inequality 
British Medical Journal
 
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Government defers promised tax cuts in Budget 
Radio NZ
 
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Budget Low-Lights 
Roger Douglas
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Estimates of Appropriations 
Treasury
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Budget Debate 2008  
John Key
 
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Core Crown Expense Tables 
Treasury 
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National's 2008 Election Tax Policy 
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Will Media Expose Global Warming Con Job 
Jerry Carlson
 
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Global Lower Troposphere Temperatures and CO2 
Friends of Science
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Thank God for Carbon 
Ray Evans
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Seeking to Save the Planet with a Thesaurus 
New York Times
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Winning Words  
Katy Butler
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Emissions Trading Scheme Review Submissions 
Parliament
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National's 2008 Election Tax Policy 
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Briefing to the Incoming Minister 
Treasury
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The Optimum Government 
Richard Rahn
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Presidential Anecdotes 
P F Boller
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John Key on Tax Cuts: The National Leader's Speech 
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Looking to and through Budget 2009 
John Whitehead
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Study of the effects on employment of public aid to renewable energy sources
Gabriel Calzada
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NZ Energy Quarterly, Dec ‘08 
MED
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Real Energy Prices for Households, Industry
MED
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$13m paid in RMA agreements by power companies 
RadioNZ
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Swedish parents enjoy school choice
BBC
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How Members of the 111th Congress Practice Private School Choice
Heritage Foundation
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Briefing to the Incoming Government
Ministry Education
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President Obama's Speech to Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
White House
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Education Matters
Muriel Newman
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Men of Vice or Virtue?
NZ History Online
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History of NZ Vol I-III
NZ Electronic Text Centre
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Climate Alarmism to Realism
Hon Vaclav Klaus
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Zombie Science
Dr Bruce Charlton
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UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
United Nations
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No Progress in the Climate Change Debate
Hon Vaclav Klaus
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New Zealand Competitiveness Report
World Economic Survey
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The PC Clobbering Machine 
Michael Bassett
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Frequently Asked Questions
UNDRIP
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Explanation of Vote by New Zealand 
Rosemary Banks
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Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - Government Position 
Hansard PQ5
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Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - Government Position 
Hansard PQ12
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A depressing new agenda for Aboriginal politics
Keith Windschuttle
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UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 
UN
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Post-Election Brief 
MFAT
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Low Expectations for Municipal Amalgamation In Ontario 
David Barber
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The Burdens of Local Government 
Muriel Newman
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Reassessing Local Government Amalgamation 
Wendell Cox
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Planning for Auckland 
Royal Commission Report
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Housing Affordability Submission 
Reserve Bank
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The Toronto Mega-city 10 Years Later 
Wendell Cox
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Are You Happy Where You Live 
UMR
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Like throwing petrol on fire 
Roger Kerr
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Our History 
Crimestoppers UK
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Our History 
Crime Stoppers International
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Housing NZ details revealed to Mongrel Mob 
RadioNZ
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Police leave secret files with the Mongrel Mob  
ODT
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Core Crown Expense Tables 
Treasury
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10-Year Benefit Tables 
MSD
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The Kiwi Way: a fair go for all 
John Key
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The Emissions Trading Scheme 
Roger Helmer
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Spain's New Economy: Boom and Bust of the Spanish Renewable Miracle 
Dr Gabriel Calzada
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The Politics of Global Warming 
Hon John H. Sununu
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Heartland Institute Climate Change Conference Proceedings 
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The Green Energy Fantasy 
Keith Lockitch
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Emissions Trading Threatens Jobs, Economy 
Epoch Times
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Impact of the Proposed Emissions Trading Scheme 
NZIER
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Jobs at risk with Emissions Trading Scheme 
Greenhouse Policy Coalition Click>>>
Otago DHB facing over $1m in increased energy costs 
Greenhouse Policy Coalition Click>>>
Like throwing petrol on fire 
Roger Kerr
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Domestic Violence Campaigners Accused of Bias
Herald 
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Gender Analysis 
Ministry of Women's Affairs Click>>>
NZ Economic Cost of Family Violence 
Suzanne Snively 
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Legal experts criticise "boot camps" bill
Radio NZ 
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The Velvet Underground
Ian Wishart 
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The Value of Family
NZIER 
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NZ Maori Rugby Tour 
Morning Report
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Maori Socio-economic Disparity
Simon Chapple 
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Letter to SARU Board 
Joris de Bres 

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NZ Maori not race-based team
Minister Maori Affairs
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International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 
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Media Release 180209 
SARU 

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The Internet in NZ 
AUT
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Govt should can copyright law, says Dunne 
Herald 

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Germany says "nein" to three-strikes infringement plan
Jacqui Cheng 

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The Creative Freedom Foundation 
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Draft ISP Copyright Code
TCF 

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Ministers: Why we changed the Copyright Act
Colin Jackson 

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ISPs: New copyright law puts businesses in the gun; scrap it 
NBR 
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UK backs down on three strikes - will sanity prevail here?
Herald 

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Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act 2008 
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Review of the Emissions Trading Scheme
Parliament 
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Kyoto Protocol
United Nations 

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Global crisis shows need for revision of economics
Bryan Gould
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They gave your mortgage to a less qualified minority
Ann Coulter

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Further responses to the RMA Reforms
Owen McShane
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The Global Financial Crisis
Kevin Rudd
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Minimum Wage Review 2007
Department of Labour
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Key announces employment summit
Otago Daily Times
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Cold hard facts debunk global warming alarmism 
Prof Bob Carter
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The IPCC Can't Count
John McLean
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Global Warming Petition Project 
Dr Arthur B Robinson
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Economy May Delay Work on Obama's Election Pledges 
New York Times 
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Qualmark's Dark Green Agenda 
Stewart Haynes 
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Tutin in Honey 
NZ Food Safety Authority
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The Current Situation 
Sir Roger Douglas MP 
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Cross party push to fight child abuse 
The Press 
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An Interview with Theodore Dalrymple 
Muriel Newman 
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The Kiwi Way: a fair go for all
John Key 
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Priority for Change 
Muriel Newman 
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After 17 months of unimaginable cruelty, Baby P finally succumbed 
The Times 
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Speech from the Throne
John Key 
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SMEs in NZ 2008
Ministry Economic Development 
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Committed employees have nothing to fear
David Lowe 
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Small & Medium Businesses in NZ
Small Business Advisory Group 
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Pirates & the Politically Correct
Hal G.P. Colebatch 
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The Gillard revolution
Janet Albrechtsen 
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Financial Stability Report
Reserve Bank 
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Subdued Economic Outlook for NZ
Herald 
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Economic Survey of NZ, 2007
OECD 
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The Street of Shame
Sunday Star Times 
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Doctor's 4-point scheme to halve child abuse deaths
Herald 
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Lawnmower versus Sheep: the Kyoto folly
Robin Grieve 
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President Bush Discusses Financial Markets and World Economy
White House 
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National-ACT Confidence and Supply Agreement
National Party 
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Protecting Our Future
Muriel Newman 

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Job market holds up but future gloomy
Herald 
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Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Update 2008 
Treasury
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The Greens Banned List 
David Farrar 
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Inherent Flaws of NZ’s MMP 
Mike Moore 
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Electoral Act 1973  
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Report of Royal Commission on Electora System 
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New Maori Structure Top Priority for Maori Party
TVNZ Agenda 
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Inquiry into the Review of MMP 
MMP Review Committee
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OECD ladder too steep for NZ to climb 
National Business Review
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International Travel and Migration - Sept 2008 
Statistics NZ
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NZ's place on the OECD ladder 
Treasury 
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Shower pressure cut 'just won't wash' 
Herald
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Editor's Insight 
Nevil Gibson
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No public servants up 5% 
Herald
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Bureaucracy base expanding by the hectare 
Domion Post
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Maori Party faces hurdles to entrenchment Maori seats
Andy Nicholls 
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The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
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US example puts paid to free market idea
Matt McCarten
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Crossing the Line
Muriel Newman
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Speech to Maori Party AGM
Whatarangi Winiata 
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Gay Wrongs?
Listener 
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Declaration of Human Rights
United Nations
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Global Initiative to end all Corporal Punishment of Children
UN 
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Reasonable Force in Schools
Muriel Newman 
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Rainbow Room formally dedicated at Parliament 
Speaker 
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When will New Zealand catch up with Australia? 
NZIER 
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Killing Jobs to Save the Climate 
Speigel 
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Climate change heroes’ sham case
Bjorn Lomborg
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Prime Minister’s Statement to Parliament 2007
Helen Clark 
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EU’s CO2 Plans A Cost Disaster: German Industry
Reuters 
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Record number of Kiwis head to Aust  
Business Day
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Kiwi billionaire sends hurry-up message 
Herald 
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Horomia defends dictionary party 
Dominion Post 
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Optical Dating ... 
Dr Richard Holdaway et al
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Pacific Peoples in NZ 
Race Relations Commissioner
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Growing Pains... 
Dr Greg Clydesdale
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Statement on Race Relations 
Human Rights Commission
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Dating Human Arrival in New Zealand 
Landcare Research
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International Corporate Tax Rates 
OECD
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What Owen Glenn said: text of letter 
Dominion Post
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Corruption in Parliament Muriel Newman
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Election Manifesto 2008
NZ Chambers of Commerce
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Evidence will clear Peters today: QC 
Herald
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Where Others Fear to Tread 
Muriel Newman
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NZ Election Study 
Jack Vowles
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Why Labour thinks it can win again 
Therese Arseneau
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Colmar Brunton Poll Results 
TVNZ
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Votes by Electorate 
Chief Electoral Office
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Fair Go for All Children 
Children's Commissioner
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Babies and Bosses 
OECD
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Benefits and Wages 
OECD
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National's Benefit Policy 
John Key
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Benefit Factsheet DPB Ministry Social Development
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PMs stance on smacking questioned 
TVNZ News
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The Great Experiment 
The Economist 
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Scoring Our Schools: what makes for a good education?
Roger Kerr 
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How Our Schools Fail
Helen Simpson 
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The NZ Curriculum
Ministry of Education 
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Understanding Climate Change
Ministry of Environment 
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Bulk funding is dead: long live bulk funding
Norman LaRocque 
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Politics in School on Trial
Dr Muriel Newman 
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A Green Miscalculation
Benny Peiser 
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Emissions Trading Bill
Select Committee Report 
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Climate Statement "An Orchestrated Litany Of Lies"
Dr Vincent Gray 
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Coalition Challenges Royal Society 'Climate Report' 
NZ Climate Science Coalition 
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Ofcom Ruling
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Watch The Great Global Warming Swindle - view>>>
Climate Change Statement 
Royal Society of NZ 
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P makes addicts human crime waves 
Christchurch Press 
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Hundreds to get taxpayer-funded stomach stapling 
Dominion Post 
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Selling Our Kids Short 
Muriel Newman 
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As you like it: a sexy census 
Dominion Post 
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The benefit and the doubt 
Waikato Times 
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Police close email investigation 
NZ Police 
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Earth calling Hager - get a grip please 
Fran O'Sullivan, Herald 
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Securing Our Nation's Safety 
Dept Prime Minister & Cabinet 
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Fat chance of balanced view on obesity issue 
John Roughan, Herald 
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The money pit that is the Mission-On website Bernard Hickey 
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Unsolicited Electronic Message Bill: Second Reading
Rodney Hide 
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Defending the Front Line 
Cameron Bagrie, ANZ Bank 
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Maori badges childish 
Herald 
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Alarming figures on teenage crime 
Herald 
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Is There Really a Fatherhood Crisis 
Prof Stephen Baskerville 
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Parliamentary Question
Gordon Copeland 
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Balance 
Robin Grieve 
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Emissions Trading 
Charlie Pedersen 
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Emissions Trading Bill 
NZ Government 
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NZ Emissions Profile 
Ministry of the Environment Press 
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GDP: March 2008 Quarter 
Statistics NZ 
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The Maori Seats in Parliament 
Professor Philip A. Joseph 
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Rocky Ride & 
Pounamu Stone flies first class to satisfy protocol

Christchurch Press 
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Inflation Calculator
Reserve Bank 
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NZ's Spending Binge
Phil Rennie 
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2007 Annual Report
Tertiary Education Commission 
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Polling Trends Good News for National
Dr Therese Arseneau  
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Green Party Conference Co-Leader Speeches
Russell Norman - click>>>
Jeanette Fitzsimmons -
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Neglect May Cost Labour
Herald 
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June Monetary Policy Statement 
Reserve Bank 
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NIWA Scientists have become propagandists 
NZ Climate Science Coalition 
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Environmentalism as Religion
Michael Crichton 
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Petition Project 
OISM 
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Brr! The climate cools for reality-deniers 
Melanie Phillips 
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35 Inconvenient Truths 
Lord Christopher Monckton 
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400 Prominent Scientists Dispute Man-Made Global Warming Consensus 
US Senate Report 
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UN Global Warming Forecast Violates Accepted Principles 
NCPA 
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Global Warming: Experts’ Opinions versus Scientific Forecasts 
Dr K Green, Prof S Armstong 
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Climate Panel on the Hot Seat 
Dr Sterling Burnett 
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Committee Report on the ‘Hockey Stick’ Global Climate Reconstruction 
Dr Edward Wegman 
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Testimony to Senate Committee 
Dr Michael Crichton 
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Climate Change Effects and Impacts Assessment
Ministry for Environment 
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Briefing to Incoming Government 2005 
Treasury
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Budget 2008 
Key Facts for Taxpayers

Treasury 
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How UN structures were designed to prove human CO2 was causing global warming 
Dr Tim Ball 
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Senate Testimony>>>
Global Warming alarmists intimidate dissenting scientists into silence
Dr Richard Lindzen 
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NIPCC Report 
Dr Frederick Seitz 
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35 Inconvenient Truths 
Lord Christopher Monckton 
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Gore Financially Invested in Climate Change 
CNS News 
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IPCC Wins Nobel Prize 
Dr Vincent Gray 
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Emissions Trading Scheme Must Proceed 
Parliamentary Commissioner for Environment 
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Kiwi Climatology 
Wall St Journal 
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Politics in School on Trial 
Dr Muriel Newman 
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Problems of Wind Power: Killing Birds 
NCPA  
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Green v Green 
The Guardian - the rejection of wind farms 
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The Biofuels Backlash
Wall Street Journal 
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Impact Proposed Emissions Trading Scheme 
NZIER 
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The Clean Energy Scam 
Time Magazine 
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Global Warming Rage Lets Global Hunger Grow 
Telegraph 
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Children in Poor Families: Does Source of Family Income Matter? 
Ministry Social Development 
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Tribal Trouble 
Time Magazine 
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Gangs in New Zealand 
Ross Kemp 
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How Social Inequalities Damage NZ Children
Child Poverty Action Group 
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Women's Participation in the Labour Force 
NZ Treasury 
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Prevalence & Persistence of Low Income Among NZ Children  
Ministry Social Development  
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2007 Crime Statistics 
NZ Police & Statistics NZ 
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NZ Crime Statistics 
NATION MASTER Website
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International Crime Victim Survey 
Dutch Government 
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Local Government Repeal of Race Based Representation Bill Debate
Hansard 
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Office of Treaty Settlements Website 
Progress of claims Click>>>  
Waikato River details Click>>>  
OTS Website 
Details landbanked properties 
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Seats "would ensure Maori role" 
Herald 
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Consultation with Maori 
Royal Commission Auckland Governance
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Royal Commission of Inquiry into Auckland Governance - SUBMISSIONS  
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Why Airport Decision is an Unaffordable Luxury 
Bernard Hickey 
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Quarterly Business Confidence Survey 
NZIER 
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Big, Not Better 
CPS 
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Overseas Investment Act  
NZ Legislation 
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Balance of Payment & International Investment Position 
Statistics NZ 
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Germany Scraps Plan to Raise Ethanol Content For Cars 
Bloomberg 
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Gore Raises $5 billion  for Investment Fund
New York Times 
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How Should We Pay For Our Kyoto Liability? 
Business NZ 
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Tax Calculator 
NZIER 
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The Impact of Taxes on Economic Behaviour 
Fraser Institute 
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Why is Australia So Much Richer than New Zealand?
Phil Rennie CIS 
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Dismal Productivity Figures 
Roger Kerr 
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The Struggle for a Free Economy & Society in Russia 
Dr Yegor Gaidar 
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Emissions Trading Bill 
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An Inconvenient Price 
George Will NEWSWEEK 
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Cullen's Insult Cause for Disquiet 
Karl Du Fresne  
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Maori in Australia 
Te Puni Kokiri 
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All Bets Are Off On Monaco
Fran O'Sullivan HERALD  
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Who is Fascist? 
Thomas Sowell  
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Do Affordable Housing Mandates Work? 
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Climate Change Bill
Castalia  
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Fact Sheet re Ngati Porou Heads of Agreement  
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Summary of Ngati Porou Foreshore Agreement 
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Foreshore & Seabed Ministry of Justice Website  
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Submission on Housing Affordability Inquiry
Registered Master Builders Federation 
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Submission on Housing Affordability Inquiry
NZ Reserve Bank 
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2008 Demographia Survey
Hugh Pavletich & Wendell Cox 
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The drug addled road to a child's abandonment
Stephen Cook 
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Inter-Agency Plan for Conduct Disorder & Severe Antisocial Behaviour
Ministry Social Development 
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Show Me The Child
Listener 
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CO2: Greatest Scientific Scandal Of Our Time
Dr Zbigniew Jaworowski 
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Is Climate Change Bad News & Should NZ Bother To Fight It?
Richard Mead ISCR 
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Great Global Warming Debate - a bunch of hot air
Garth George, Herald 
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Open Letter to Secretary General of the UN
100 Scientists 
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100 Scientists
Full List 
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Jobs at Risk
Greenhouse Policy Coalition 
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Housing for the Future
Prime Minister 
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NZ Emissions Trading Scheme
Castalia Strategic Advisors
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Rich has become a four-letter word
John Roughan NZ Herald
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Affordable Housing Bill Introduced
Minister of Housing 
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NZ Stuck as other Nations Prosper
Dominion Post 
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Special Report: 24 hours in violent, angry NZ
Sunday Star Times 
Matching Family and Work Commitments
OECD Report 
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Appropriations Bill
Second Reading Debate 
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Electoral Finance Bill
NZ Law Society 
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Electoral Finance Bill
Report from Justice & Electoral Select Committee 
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Electoral Bill Still An Outrage
NZ Herald Editorial 
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Changes to Electoral Finance Bill in Detail
NZ Herald 
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Fire and Ice
Business and Media Institute 
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Environmentalism as Religion
Michael Crichton 
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I Was On The Global Warming Gravy Train
David Evans 
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New School Curriculum
Ministry of Education 
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Why Our Schools Are Failing - available on-line
Dr Kevin Domnnelly 
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Talking Tough 
TVNZ Sunday Documentary 
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NZIER Australia: Lucky Country for Kiwi Migrants 
(& on-line wage calculator)
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Flat World, Flat Taxes Daniel Mitchell
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Tackling the Tax Myths
Stephen Hickson
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United Nations  Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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British High Court Judgement Stuart Dimmock vs the Secretary for Education
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Heartland Institute Deplores Nobel Award for Albert Gore and IPCC
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MMP and Public Policy
Graeme Hunt
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Maori Indpenedence Website
Curriculum Resource
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Curriculum change shifts emphasis from 'what' to 'how'
Sunday Star Times
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Interview with Al Gore
Grist Magazine
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High Court Ruling: Inaccuracies in An Inconvenient Truth
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Failures in Retail Investment Markets
Aust-NZ Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee 
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IPCC 4th Report 2007 Summary and Analysis
Viscount Christopher Monckton
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Kyoto Protocol Loophole costs $6 billion
New Scientist
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All Cost, No Benefit
Competitive Enterprise Institute
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Prime of Helen Clark
Colin Espiner, CC Press
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What's Next? Yellow Stars?
Matthew Hooton 

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Sickness & Invalid Benefit Information
MSD Website Click >>>
What Price Carbon?
The Economist 
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To cancel out the CO2 of a return flight to India, it will take one poor villager 3 years of pumping water by foot
Times-on-line
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Nuclear Dawn
The Economist 
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Heat Treatment
By Simon Terry, Listener
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Kyoto Protocol 
United Nations 
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Independent Inquiry into Local Government Rates 
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Widows Fury
NZ Herald 
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Speech to the National Press Club
John Key 
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English strategy a win-win
John Armstrong NZ Herald 
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Liberalism v Islamism
Melanie Phillips 
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Sharia-Compliant Investing 
Tariq Ashraf 
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Youth Justice Statistics in New Zealand: 1992 to 2006
Ministry of Justice Report 
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Boy's 111 'parent assault' call unfounded 
Eastern Courier Click >>>
Inquiry into the Future Monetary Policy Framework 
by NZ Business Roundtable 
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Sandy Springs Incorporates, Inspires New Wave of 'Private' Cities in Georgia
by Leonard Gilroy Click >>>
Hardship Report 
by Ministry of Social Development Click >>>
The Impact of Welfare Reform 
by Robert Rector, Heritage Foundation Click >>>
Breakthrough Britain 
by Conservative Party Social Justice Commission Click >>>
From Happiness to Hell 
NZ Herald Click >>>
Doctor Decries Staggering Level Child Abuse 
Herald On Sunday Click >>>
To Stabilise & Protect 
by John Howard
Australian Prime Minister Click >>>
Vale hope in outback hellhole 
by Noel Pearson Click >>>
From Hand Out to 
Hand Up
 
by Noel Pearson Click >>>
Inquiry into Protection of Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse 
by Anderson & Wild Click >>>
Cultural Conceptualisation of Child Abuse and Responses to It: An Aboriginal Perspective 
by Dr Sue Gordon Click >>>
Children at increased death from maltreatment and strategies for prevention 
by Child, Youth & Family Click >>>
Reserve Bank needs sharper focus 
Brent Oliver, DomPost Click >>>
Where the Flat Tax Goes from Here 
by Hoover Institute Click >>>
Housing Costs in 
the CPI
 
Reserve Bank Click >>>
The Czech Republic 
by Economist Click >>>
Cabinet Paper on Budget 2007 Click >>> 2005 Budget Speech
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The Great Global Warming Swindle by WagTV, UK Click >>>
Global Warming as Religion and not Science 
by John Brignell. Click >>>
Freedom, Not Climate, is at Risk 
by Vaclav Klaus
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Death by Disconnection, NBR Insight. Click >>>
Tracking the Obesity Epidemic. New Zealand 1977 - 2003. Click >>> NZ Food NZ Children. Key results of the 2002 National Children's Nuitrition Survey. Click >>> "Trial by Trickery" 
Book Review by Steven Price
NZ Law Society "Law Talk"
 
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  Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Conviction of Authur Allen Thomas 
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Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science
US Dept of Justice
 
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A Broken System: Error Rates in Capital Cases, 1973-1995
Columbia University
 
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  The NZ Draft Curriculum 
Ministry of Education 2006
 
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System fatally Flawed  
By Peter Joyce 
Christchurch Press
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Britain's Cultural Revolution
By Melanie Phillips
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Deaths in NZ Attributable to Second Hand Smoke
Ministry of Health 2000
 
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Public verdict firms on Budget measures 
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 IMF Report May 2007 
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The great trans-Tasman tax debate 
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Human Resource Capability Survey 2006 
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 Briefing to Incoming Government 2005 
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 Budget Economic and Fiscal Update 2000 
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Budget Economic and Fiscal Update 2007 
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OECD Tax Burden
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The Real Root Causes of Violent Crime: The Breakdown of Marriage, Family, and Community, by Patrick Fagan. Click >>> Getting Backup: Twenty-one Steps Public Officials Can Take to Support Their Local Police, by Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D. and Edwin Meese. Click >>> The Academy of Respect, by Melanie Phillips Click >>>

How to control adults by means of 'children's rights'. By Lynette Burrows. Spring 1999. Click >>>

Bradford bill could provoke calls for review of MMP voting system, by Iain Gillies, 3 April, 2007. Click >>>   More rare snails to be released, NZ Herald, 8 January 07. Click >>>
Bill 'attacks freedom of speech' by COLIN PATTERSON - The Dominion Post, 17 April 2007. Click >>> Labour's grubby spending ploy by Fran O'Sullivan, April 14, 2007, click >>> New law allows UK teachers to use 'reasonable force'. NZ Herald, 2 April 2007. Click >>>
The Lever of Riches by Roger Kerr. Click >>> Minimum Wage - Maximum Nonsense by Benjamin Powell, The Independent Institute, Click >>> Raising the Minimum Wage is Still a Bad Idea by George Will. Townhall.com. Click >>>
A Smack Can Keep Children From Crime Says Police Leader  Telegraph Click >>>  Smacking Laws in Other Countries BBC News Online
Click >>> 
When Parents Become Victims by Ruby Harrold-Claesson Click >>> 

Smacking Children by Dr Tana Dineen. Click >>> 

Smacking and Discretion by Greg O'Connor President of the Police Association. Police News, March 2007. See PDF >>> Past Wisdom Future Prospects, speech by Dr Muriel Newman to the ACT New Zealand, Christchurch, 17 Mar 2007. Click >>>
New Zealand's Spending Binge, Phil Rennie, CIS Herald, 15 March 07. Click >>> Battle over blame in leaky homes, NZ Herald, 4 June 05. Click >>>   Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth”, TCPR, 26 Feb 07. Click >>>
What have the past 10 years of Blair been for? by Simon Heffer, 21 February 2007. Click >>> Blame the parents, The Timaru Herald editorial, 19 February 2007. Click >>>

The life-script schism by Cheryl Wetzstein, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 22 February 2007  Click >>>

Green Answer Blowing in the Wind. The Australian. Green scams cash in on carbon credits. To read click >>>

Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis Summary for Policymakers by Dr Vincent Gray a NZ "expert reviewer" to the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC). Dr Gray discusses To read click >>>

The Real Climate Change Catastrophe by Paul Driessen - how misguided energy policies will affect the world's poor. To read click >>>

The Way Ahead - final chapter yet to be written
by Catherine Masters 2004. Just what the Treaty of Waitangi means in the 21st century depends on who you talk to. 
To read click here >>>
The End of the Golden Gravy Train, Investigate Magazine, Jan 04. It’s over - in a stunning blow to the hopes of some in Maoridom, a draft of the Treaty of Waitangi has emerged from the mists of time -been confirmed as authentic. To read click here >>> Tough talker on tribal issues, November 4, 2006, Carroll du Chateau interviews Dr Elisabeth Rata of Auckland University who believes that biculturalism is subverting democracy, leading to separatism, and promoting a cultural elite amongst Maoridom. 
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The Eclipse of Opportunity
by Melanie Phillips. 5 Feb 07. As the siege of fortress Blair continues, the purpose of the intended regicide is subtly shifting. Calls are now being heard for the Labour party to junk not just the Prime Minister but the political philosophy that he represents.
To read click here >>>

The Rise of Big Government Conservatism, Andre Norton in CIS Summer 06/07 argues that the centre-right's policy agenda is killing off hopes of a smaller government in Australia. Is it the same here? Click here to view>>>

Dealing to the Gangs
Editorial Timaru Herald 31 Jan 2007
This opinion piece reminds us of how successful police can be in dealing to the gangs and ridding a community of gang violence. Well worth a read. 
To read click here>>>
If people are paid to do nothing, that's exactly what they'll do
A hard-hitting article by Jeff Randall UK Telegraph, 22 Dec 2006 
To read click here>>>
A Report Full Of Excuses, But No Confidence by Dr Muriel Newman, 21 Feb 03.Last week, the Government released a report on youth justice and social service delivery to the children and young people convicted in relation to the 2001 murder of Michael Choy. The review was undertaken in order to examine how police, CYF, health and education services dealt with the offenders, in order to ascertain what needs to be done to improve service delivery to such young people. Read >>> Stalling tactics by Geoff Cumming, NZ Herald, 6 Jan 07. The double garage behind a tidy suburban house looked like any other, but the roller doors masked a hive of illegal endeavour. When police following a tipoff called, they found more than they bargained for... NZ Herald link >>>
Global warming is BUNK! by Professor Bob Carter.
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Local Government: 
KEY ISSUES REPORT. 
October 2006.
  View report >>>
Investigation of the Circumstances Surrounding the Death at Auckland Public Hospital of Prisoner Liam John Ashley. View report >>>
9 December 2006
Tony Blair's
multiculturalism speech.  
Read full speech >>>
The Real Root Causes of Violent Crime: The Breakdown of Marriage, Family, and Community by Patrick F. Fagan. 
Click to view >>>
Why tax cuts are good for growth - full report by Phil Rennie.  
Click to veiw >>
9 December 2006
Highlights from the 2006 Census about New Zealand's people and their lives, with simple graphs and tables. 
View census highlights >>>
Education Answers by Joseph Driessen. In New Zealand, a persistent disparity between boys’ and girls’ educational achievement has emerged over the last 20 years. 
Click to view >>>
Work and Marriage: The Way to End Poverty and Welfare
28 November 2006
Who Really Cares by Thomas Sowell. One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.  Yet, people who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals". Click to view >>>
September 3, 2006
Europe, East and West, wrestles with falling birthrates By Elisabeth Rosenthal International Herald Tribune. Click to view >>>


September 4, 2006
Empty playgrounds in an aging Italy by Elisabeth Rosenthal International Herald Tribune. Click to view >>>


November 2006
The Global Warming Emperor has no Clothes by Prof Bob Carter of the James Cook University of Queensland. Of particular interest is the graph of the  earth's temperatures over the last 6 million years. Click to view >>>
November 2006
Climate Change and the Policy Dilemma 
by NZ Climate Science Coalition. An analysis of the situation in NZ and a proposed solution. Click to view >>>
November 2006
The Stern Review by Prof Bjorn Lomberg published in the Wall St Journal. A critique of the UK Government's report on Climate Change by Nicholas Stern.
Click to view >>>

State versus Market: Forever a Struggle?
Johannes Linn of the Brookings Institute examines the change in direction from being market driven to increasing state control in Russia. 
Click to view article >>>

Parkinsons Law by Northcote Parkinson. An article first published in the Economist in 1955 which explained the relentless growth in government bureaucracy.
 Click to view article >>>
Are Good Institutions and  Policies Enough? by Roger Kerr. First published in the Otago Daily Times, 3 November 2006. 
Click to read article >>>

September 2006
Criminal Careers Up To Age 50, A new report from the Home Office, UK reports on a Cambridge longitudinal study of 411 South London males first studied at age 8 in 1961, which shows that a small fraction of the males (7%) accounted for over half of all of the  convictions among the males in the study. 
Read study>>>

Of Mailer and Murder by Theodore Dalrymple (Nov. 2006).  "You probably think of New Zealand as an empty land of beautiful landscapes: and so it is. In 1950, when it was one of the wealthiest countries in the world, it had almost no crime whatever, or at least an irreducible minimum of crime. Now it has one of the highest crime rates in the western world, including crimes of violence. It is very puzzling." New Engish Review link >>> 

September 2006
Household Labour Force Survey by Satistics NZ - the report released on November 9 2006 shows that unemployment is growing with 83,000 people now officially unemployed, and that  participation in the labour force is falling. 
Click to read report>>>
Autumn 2004
The Frivolity of Evil, by Theodore Dalrymple. When prisoners are released from prison, they often say that they have paid their debt to society. This is absurd, of course: crime is not a matter of double-entry bookkeeping. 
Read article >>>
21 October 2006

Corruption and Party Funding
, by Michael Bassett.

Read article >>>
21 September 2006
Hoping to Restore Growth, Voters Rebel Against Sweden's High-Tax Welfare State by Dan Mitchell. In a stunning setback, Sweden’s Social Democrats were ousted from power in Sunday’s election after receiving their lowest share of the vote since 1914. 
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November 2001
GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO REPORT OF MMP REVIEW COMMITTEE ON INQUIRY INTO THE REVIEW OF MMP.

Read report >>>

3 October 2006
QUADRANT ANNIVERSARY SPEECH by Australian PM John Howard:
“Nowhere I suggest, have the fangs of the left so visibly been on display as they were in a campaign based on character assassination and intellectual dishonesty…” 
Read full speech >>>

October 2006
FIFTY YEARS OF QUADRANT – Quadrant Magazine Editorial
“Political correctness … is a form of censorship not by state or church authority but by bullying.”
Read>>> 

13 April 2006
HOW THE GOVERNMENT CREATES CHILD ABUSE by Stephen Baskerville warns: “Child abuse is largely a product of the feminist- dominated family law and social work industries. It is a textbook example of the government creating a problem for itself to solve". 
Read article >>>
23 Septemberl 2006
HOME TRUTHS: HOW URBAN PLANNING IS DESTROYING THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN DREAM by Bob Day, Chairman of the Great Australian Dream Project, discusses home ownership and family stability and how planning laws have robbed young families of affordable housing Read>>> 

30 September 2006
INTO A DANGEROUS VOID by Carroll du Chateau: The NZ Herald interviews Theodore Dalrymple who will be visiting New Zealand and will speak in Wellington, Napier, Tauranga and Auckland between Oct 11 and Oct 18. See "Cradle to the Jail" link at the end of the article for more details. Read>>> 
June 24, 2006
THE KAHUI TWINS: MURDER - AND THE COVER UP, by Carroll du Chateau and Louisa Cleave. Read 
Read NZ Herald article >>>
September 18, 2006
THE JIHAD AGAINST THE POPE, by Melanie Phillips. Yesterday’s careful statement by the Pope, in which he expressed regret for the way in which his remarks had been misinterpreted by the Muslim world, seems to have taken some of the more dangerous steam out of that reaction before any more harm could be done. But the violent uproar over those remarks remains deeply disturbing. 
Read article >>>
September 12, 2006.
POPE'S SPEECH (that caused Muslim outrage), "It is a moving experience for me to be back again in the university and to be able once again to give a lecture at this podium. I think back to those years when, after a pleasant period at the Freisinger Hochschule, I began teaching at the University of Bonn...." 
Read full speech >>>
11 September 2006
FIVE YEARS ON
by Melanie Phillips. But of course the war against the west did not start with Iraq. It did not start with Afghanistan. It did not start with 9/11. You could say that it actually started in the seventh century when Islam decided to conquer and rule the world, and was interrupted for a while after Islamic imperialism was repulsed at the gates of Vienna in 1683. 
Read article >>>
19 July 2006
THE IMPACT OF WELFARE REFORM
by Robert Rector. Ten years ago, President Bill Clinton signed legislation overhauling part of the nation’s welfare system.  
Read article >>>
March 1995
THE REAL ROOT CAUSES OF VIOLENT CRIME: THE BREAKDOWN OF MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY
by Patrick F Fagan Read article >>>
July 2006
ESTIMATING THE COST OF CRIME IN NEW ZEALAND. Treasury report. Read article >>> 

July 2006
THE POLITICS OF SKY-HIGH HOUSE PRICES, How government jacks up the price of owning your home by Joel Miller. 
Read article >>>

August 2006
FINDINGS FROM THE NEW ZEALAND NUMERACY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS 2005.
 
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25 August 2006
WE DON'T WANT NO EDUCATION
by Theodore Dalrymple.
Education has always been a minority interest in England. In the past their ignorance was purely passive: the mere absence of knowledge. Of late, however, it has taken on a more positive and malign quality: a profound aversion to anything that smacks of intelligence, education, or culture. 
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23 August 2006
THE PROBLEM WITH DAY CARE
by Karl Zinsmeister. In a perfect world, there would be an abundance of intelligent, well-balanced, devoted individuals willing to attend lavishly and patiently to the demands of strangers’ children—enough so that every family who wanted could have their own full-time loving surrogate.  But there are no dream caretakers.  
Read article >>>
7 August 2006
NEW ZEALAND'S DARKEST SECRET
, by Jamie Whyte. 
"New Zealand is not only violent, it is (relatively) poor too. Per capita GDP is only $26,000 (£14,500), compared with $35,000 in Australia and $37,000 in Britain. This is not because New Zealanders do not work. We have one of the highest employment rates in the world. It is just that what gets produced by all this work is not worth very much. New Zealand has a low-productivity, low-wage economy."  Timesonline. 
Read article >>>
7 August 2006
NEW ZEALAND IN THE 21ST CENTURY. A consumer lifestyles study. 
Read report >>> 
9 August 2006
NEVER MARRIED PENALTY - EARLY DEATH? People who have never married are more likely to die — at all ages — than people who are married and live together, U.S. data show. Read article >>>
24 January 2006
IT'S THE DEMOGRAPHY, STUPID,


August 2006
A CONVERSATION WITH MILTON FRIEDMAN, by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.

 

 

 

 

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27 July 2006
TOUGH LOVE WORKS, Economist Magazine.
Welfare reform was once regarded as a harsh, right-wing, America-only idea. But an unexpected lesson of the past ten years is that it enjoys much wider political appeal. Within America, its success has silenced the former fierce opposition of left-wing Democrats, which Mr Clinton had overruled. For the Labour government in Britain and for social democrats in Europe, reform offers a way to reintegrate people who would otherwise live in a welfare apartheid. Furthermore, it is a way to defend generous support for the poor—as long as they find work. Another attraction for developed countries as their populations age is that it mobilises more employment to maintain living standards and help pay for the old. And, best of all, it works." 
Read full article >>>
27 July 2006
WHY LABOUR [UK] DESPISES THE FAMILY by Melanie Phillips.
Having torn up all the rules on marriage, the state then claims that it is best placed to bring up the unfortunate children who are the result of the collapse of this institution. Thus, the state takes draconian control of our lives, parents are radically disempowered, freedom is grossly undermined — and the social catastrophe of family disintegration still continues apace.View >>>
18 July 2006
PRIVATE EDUCATION WORKING IN CHINA by Qiang Liu.
Few people believe that private schools exist in the impoverished, rural areas of China. The role played by private schools has been ignored and neglected by the government for some time. Reasearch shows that it is the poorest of the poor who are sending their children to the private schools, with the very poorest families usually preferring private schools run by businessmen. 
View >>>
18 July 2006
I HAVE A PLAN TO DESTROY AMERICA by Richard D. Lamm, former governor of Colorado. History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and they all fall, and that "an autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide." Here is my plan:  
View >>>
16 June 2003
WHY CONGRESS SHOULD IGNORE RADICAL FEMINISM TO MARRIAGE
by Patrick F. Fagan, Robert E. Rector, and Lauren R. Noyes. Marriage is good for men, women, children--and society. Because of this simple fact, President George W. Bush has proposed a new pilot program to promote healthy marriage. Despite demonstrated evidence in every major social policy area of the need to rebuild a strong and healthy culture of marriage, President Bush's new marriage initiative is still opposed by the extreme wing of feminism that sees no good in marriage or in unity between men and women, and between mothers and fathers.  
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12 July 2006
THE WELFARE STATE'S ATTACK ON THE FAMILY by Vedran Vuk

The agenda of the state is to break up the family. The more you depend on the state, the more you justify its existence, and the larger it grows. The idea that people can provide things for themselves either individually or through the family frightens the state. It delegitimizes its role. The role of the family is dangerous to its survival. 
View >>> 
15 JULY 2006
PAYING FOR THE HOSPITAL WAITING LIST
by Bronwyn Howell. View >>>
7 JULY 2006
SAFE AT ANY SPEED, editorial in Opinion Journal.
We are often told, by nanny-state advocates, that such public goods as safety require a loss of liberty. In the case of speed limits and traffic deaths, that just isn't so. 
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25 June 2006
REFORMING LAW & ORDER IN BRITAIN by Dr David Green. Britain is a high-crime society with a complacent government. David Green suggests reform. The Telegraph. View >>> 
June 2001
THE 'UNDERCLASS" by Dr Muriel Newman
A
review of the causes behind the killing of baby Hinewaoriki Karaitiana-Matiaha - Lillybing. Have things changed five years on?  
View >>>
May 23, 2006
MANHOOD WHITEWASHED by Keith Windschuttle as published in The Australian. 
The Aboriginal ghettos of Redfern in Sydney and the Gordon Estate in Dubbo, NSW, are as dysfunctional as any in central Australia. Nonetheless, that Sydney and Brisbane house Aboriginal populations of 35,000 and 28,000 respectively, most of whom enjoy suburban lives indistinguishable from other Australians, shows none of this is insurmountable. View >>>
June 2005
TURNING AROUND THE CHILD ABUSE CRISIS by Dr Muriel NewmanA five step plan to turn around child abuse.  
View >>>
June 17
A MINISTER FREE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM by Pavel Kahout. 

Imagine an economist taking the place of a surgeon at an operating table. Such an inhumane experiment would undoubtedly result in a serious bodily harm for the patient. Now let us picture another experiment: a Ministry of Health managed by a physician. What would be the difference? The extent of the death toll. An economist at an operating-table would never be able to cause as many premature deaths as a doctor trying to handle the funding of health care without a basic knowledge of how markets work. View >>>
June 10
THE SMACKING DEBATE by Ruby Harrold-Claesson. A lawyer defends families in Sweden who are being prosecuted and who are having their children taken from them under the Swedish no-smacking legislation. Ruby says the destruction of families in Sweden is horrendous.She is coming to NZ to testify before the NZ Select Committee on the Anti-Smacking legislation. 
View >>>
June 1
CHILD AGENCY TO BE SCRAPPED by Rosemary Bennett
The Times has learnt that, in future, separating parents will be told to sort out their own financial arrangements with the help of national guidelines on appropriate levels of child maintenance. Cash incentives may even be offered to couples for staying away from the new, slimmed-down agency. View >>>
June 6
ATTITUDE CHANGE
This article looks at attitude change. In applied forms it might be defined as what is commonly called brainwashing. In the 50's there was a series of classical psychological studies on attitude formation and effects of the social atmosphere upon perceptions and thinking. 
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June 2
WELL-EDUCATED MEN BEST DADS
Well-educated men tend to make better fathers, according to a new US government report on fatherhood. View >>>
May 20
THE DETROIT OF EUROPE. Steve Forbes tells the story of the amazing transformation of Slovakia after the introduction of a low flat tax of 19 percent.  
View >>>
May 24
WEAK MEN AND DISORDERLY WOMEN by Carey Roberts 
After thirteen years of social engineering designed to advance the feminist agenda, we can ask, Are we now closer to the long-awaited gender utopia? View >>>
May 29
WHO KILLED OFF MARRIAGE? by Melanie Phillips. If future historians try to identify who was guilty of the deadly assault upon the bedrock institution of our society, the bloody trail will surely lead them straight to the legal profession.View >>>
April 7, 2006
Is globalization a race to the bottom or a race to the top? Will living standards for the average American inevitably fall as all those foreigners make everything for us while being paid spit-and-a-packet- of-peanuts? Or, as most economists point out, will foreigners getting richer make us richer still? 
TCS Daily link >>>
May 2, 2006 
A group of leading New Zealand climate scientists has announced today the formation of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, aimed at refuting what it believes are unfounded claims about anthropogenic (man-made) global warming. See www.climatescience.org.nz/
May 16, 2006
ARE NZ'S PAYING TOO MUCH TAX?  
In actual terms, New Zealanders pay 50% more tax than they did in 2000.  The government's tax revenue has increased at twice the rate of inflation and well ahead of all predictions.  In this paper, Phil Rennie writes that New Zealand is a highly taxed country on a global scale.  New Zealand has record surpluses, giving the country a once-in-a- generation chance to cut taxes significantly.  In the lead-up to the New Zealand government's 2006 Budget, Rennie argues that taxpayers deserve to keep more of the wealth they have generated.
View CIS >>>
April 30, 2006
Social scientists show the Dutch experience with same-sex marriage results in a deterioration of marriage. Heritage Foundation link >>>.
May 1, 2006 
Welfare reform celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, and celebrates seems the right word. As most readers know, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) ended the much-despised Depression-era federal entitlement to cash benefits for needy single mothers, replacing it with short-term, work-oriented programs designed and run by individual states. Its success has surprised just about everyone... City Journal link >>>
April 24, 2006
Political correctness in the USA. The gender police have already ruined college sports for many men, .... the new target is math and science departments. See TownHall.com
April 16, 2006
In the early 1970s when I helped found Greenpeace, I believed that nuclear energy was synonymous with nuclear holocaust, as did most of my compatriots.... Thirty years on, my views have changed..." view Washington Post >>> 
April 28, 2006. 
Women’s income in free economies is, on average, almost 10 times the income of women in repressed economies. Shows economic freedom brings the greatest opportunities for women
link >>>
6 April 06 
Meteorologist Augie Auer says farmers needn't beat themselves up about the possibility their animals are contributing to global warming. "Water vapour contributes 95% to the beneficial warming process and mankind cannot alter the greenhouse effect even if we wanted to." More >>>
10 April 2006
Illiberal Europe. The Long and Growing List of Things You Can't Legally Say by Gerard Alexander.
On February 20, an Austrian court sentenced the notorious British writer David Irving to three years in prison for denying in a 1989 speech that Auschwitz contained gas chambers. Many American observers had mixed reactions. Link >>>
18 April 2006
Health, an international comparison. How do other countries ensure a high standard of care for rich and poor alike without public sector monopoly?
Canada, Denmark
France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland.

More on international health reform (care of Civitas) >>>

6 April 06
Is the “Working for Families” package a tax cut, a cash payment or a handout?. Dr Stuart Birks examines the issue. view >>>

 

28 Mar 06
A map showing that Chinese fleets circumnavigated and charted the globe before the Europeans was unveiled in January of this year. Since then the map has been met with skepticism from some Chinese historians. Several professors even alleged “[This] map was faked by someone in the 20th century”. view >>>

28 Mar 06
The revelations that Auckland City rates could rise to more than $70 a week for the average ratepayer, strengthens my view that New Zealand may now be ready for a Ratepayer Bill of Rights... view >>>
24 Mar 06
The Sensible Sentencing Trust
is working with the Government to develop new initiatives to reduce crime and ensure better treatment for victims of crime.
Garth McVicar reports on a fact-finding trip to London, Amsterdam and Helsinki with the Minister of Corrections. ... view >>> 
24 Mar 06
Owen McShane looks at the Environmental Legal Assistance Fund. He asks if it really is reducing “imbalance”, or is it  “laundering” money? Why is the Environmental Defence Society receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funding? ... view >>>

16 Mar 06
The Nordic Model of High Growth. Five economic and social analysts who live in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland comment that embracing the Nordic Model of high growth and generous welfare is not a panacea for progress. They conclude that it is less government and more market that creates growth and prosperity... view >>>


 

 

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