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Problems of Wind Power: Killing Birds NCPA Click>>>	Green v Green The Guardian - the rejection of wind farms Click>>>	The Biofuels Backlash Wall Street Journal Click>>>
Impact Proposed Emissions Trading Scheme NZIER Click>>>	The Clean Energy Scam Time Magazine Click>>>	Global Warming Rage Lets Global Hunger Grow Telegraph Click>>>
Children in Poor Families: Does Source of Family Income Matter? Ministry Social Development Click>>>	Tribal Trouble Time Magazine Click>>>	Gangs in New Zealand Ross Kemp Click>>>
How Social Inequalities Damage NZ Children Child Poverty Action Group Click>>>	Women's Participation in the Labour Force NZ Treasury Click>>>	Prevalence & Persistence of Low Income Among NZ Children Ministry Social Development Click>>>
2007 Crime Statistics NZ Police & Statistics NZ Click>>>	NZ Crime Statistics NATION MASTER Website Click>>>	International Crime Victim Survey Dutch Government Click>>>
Local Government Repeal of Race Based Representation Bill Debate Hansard Click>>>	Office of Treaty Settlements Website Progress of claims Click>>> Waikato River details Click>>>	OTS Website Details landbanked properties Click>>>
Seats "would ensure Maori role" Herald Click>>>	Consultation with Maori Royal Commission Auckland Governance Click>>>	Royal Commission of Inquiry into Auckland Governance - SUBMISSIONS Click>>>
Why Airport Decision is an Unaffordable Luxury Bernard Hickey Click>>>	Quarterly Business Confidence Survey NZIER Click>>>	Big, Not Better CPS Click>>>
Overseas Investment Act NZ Legislation Click>>>	Balance of Payment & International Investment Position Statistics NZ Click>>>	Germany Scraps Plan to Raise Ethanol Content For Cars Bloomberg Click>>>
Gore Raises $5 billion for Investment Fund New York Times Click>>>	How Should We Pay For Our Kyoto Liability? Business NZ Click>>>	Tax Calculator NZIER Click>>>
The Impact of Taxes on Economic Behaviour Fraser Institute Click>>>	Why is Australia So Much Richer than New Zealand? Phil Rennie CIS Click>>>	Dismal Productivity Figures Roger Kerr Click>>>
The Struggle for a Free Economy & Society in Russia Dr Yegor Gaidar Click>>>	Emissions Trading Bill Click>>>	An Inconvenient Price George Will NEWSWEEK Click>>>
Cullen's Insult Cause for Disquiet Karl Du Fresne Click>>>	Maori in Australia Te Puni Kokiri Click>>>	All Bets Are Off On Monaco Fran O'Sullivan HERALD Click>>>
Who is Fascist? Thomas Sowell Click>>>	Do Affordable Housing Mandates Work? Click>>>	Climate Change Bill Castalia Click>>>
Fact Sheet re Ngati Porou Heads of Agreement Click>>>	Summary of Ngati Porou Foreshore Agreement Click>>>	Foreshore & Seabed Ministry of Justice Website Click>>>
Submission on Housing Affordability Inquiry Registered Master Builders Federation Click>>>	Submission on Housing Affordability Inquiry NZ Reserve Bank Click>>>	2008 Demographia Survey Hugh Pavletich & Wendell Cox Click>>>
The drug addled road to a child's abandonment Stephen Cook Click>>>	Inter-Agency Plan for Conduct Disorder & Severe Antisocial Behaviour Ministry Social Development Click>>>	Show Me The Child Listener Click>>>
CO2: Greatest Scientific Scandal Of Our Time Dr Zbigniew Jaworowski Click>>>	Is Climate Change Bad News & Should NZ Bother To Fight It? Richard Mead ISCR Click>>>	Great Global Warming Debate - a bunch of hot air Garth George, Herald Click>>>
Open Letter to Secretary General of the UN 100 Scientists Click>>>	100 Scientists Full List Click>>>	Jobs at Risk Greenhouse Policy Coalition Click>>>
Housing for the Future Prime Minister Click>>>	NZ Emissions Trading Scheme Castalia Strategic Advisors Click>>>	Rich has become a four-letter word John Roughan NZ Herald Click>>>
Affordable Housing Bill Introduced Minister of Housing Click>>>	NZ Stuck as other Nations Prosper Dominion Post Click>>>	Special Report: 24 hours in violent, angry NZ Sunday Star Times
Matching Family and Work Commitments OECD Report Click>>>	Appropriations Bill Second Reading Debate Click>>>	Electoral Finance Bill NZ Law Society Click>>>
Electoral Finance Bill Report from Justice & Electoral Select Committee Click>>>	Electoral Bill Still An Outrage NZ Herald Editorial Click>>>	Changes to Electoral Finance Bill in Detail NZ Herald Click>>>
Fire and Ice Business and Media Institute Click>>>	Environmentalism as Religion Michael Crichton Click>>>	I Was On The Global Warming Gravy Train David Evans Click>>>
New School Curriculum Ministry of Education Click>>>	Why Our Schools Are Failing - available on-line Dr Kevin Domnnelly Click>>>	Talking Tough TVNZ Sunday Documentary Click>>>
NZIER Australia: Lucky Country for Kiwi Migrants (& on-line wage calculator) Click>>>	Flat World, Flat Taxes Daniel Mitchell Click>>>	Tackling the Tax Myths Stephen Hickson Click>>>
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Click>>>	British High Court Judgement Stuart Dimmock vs the Secretary for Education Click>>>	Heartland Institute Deplores Nobel Award for Albert Gore and IPCC Click>>>
MMP and Public Policy Graeme Hunt Click>>>	Maori Indpenedence Website Curriculum Resource Click>>>	Curriculum change shifts emphasis from 'what' to 'how' Sunday Star Times Click>>>
Interview with Al Gore Grist Magazine Click>>>	High Court Ruling: Inaccuracies in An Inconvenient Truth Click>>>	Failures in Retail Investment Markets: Aust-NZ Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee Click>>>
IPCC 4th Report 2007 Summary and Analysis Viscount Christopher Monckton Click>>>	Kyoto Protocol Loophole costs $6 billion New Scientist Click>>>	All Cost, No Benefit Competitive Enterprise Institute Click>>>
Prime of Helen Clark Colin Espiner, CC Press Click>>>	What's Next? Yellow Stars? Matthew Hooton Click>>>	Sickness & Invalid Benefit Information MSD Website Click >>>
What Price Carbon? The Economist Click >>>	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 Click >>>	Nuclear Dawn The Economist Click>>>
Heat Treatment By Simon Terry, Listener Click >>>	Kyoto Protocol United Nations Click >>>	Independent Inquiry into Local Government Rates Click >>>
Widows Fury NZ Herald Click >>>	Speech to the National Press Club John Key Click >>>	English strategy a win-win John Armstrong NZ Herald Click >>>
Liberalism v Islamism Melanie Phillips Click >>>	Sharia-Compliant Investing Tariq Ashraf Click >>>	Youth Justice Statistics in New Zealand: 1992 to 2006 Ministry of Justice Report Click >>>
Boy's 111 'parent assault' call unfounded Eastern Courier Click >>>	Inquiry into the Future Monetary Policy Framework by NZ Business Roundtable Click >>>	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 Click >>>	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 Click >>>	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" Click>>>
Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Conviction of Authur Allen Thomas Click>>>	Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science US Dept of Justice Click>>>	A Broken System: Error Rates in Capital Cases, 1973-1995 Columbia University Click>>>
The NZ Draft Curriculum Ministry of Education 2006 Click>>>	System fatally Flawed By Peter Joyce Christchurch Press Click>>>	Britain's Cultural Revolution By Melanie Phillips Click>>>
Deaths in NZ Attributable to Second Hand Smoke Ministry of Health 2000 Click >>>	Public verdict firms on Budget measures Click >>>	IMF Report May 2007 Click >>>
The great trans-Tasman tax debate Click >>>	Human Resource Capability Survey 2006 Click >>>	Briefing to Incoming Government 2005 Click >>>
Budget Economic and Fiscal Update 2000 Click >>>	Budget Economic and Fiscal Update 2007 Click >>>	OECD Tax Burden Click >>>
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. Click to view>>>
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. DSL Mp3 Audio Dialup Mp3 Audio	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 >>>	September 2003 Work and Marriage: The Way to End Poverty and Welfare by Ron Haskins and Isabel V. Sawhill Click to view >>>
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 >>>