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Answering the $64,000 Question - closing the income gap with Australia by 2025 2025 Taskforce Click>>>	Report of the 2025 Housing Task Force Owen McShane Click>>>	Speech from the Throne John Key Click>>>
Protestors plan to build on private land Radio NZ Click>>>	Radio Spectrum Management and Development Final Report Waitangi Tribunal Click>>>	Indigenous Constitutions: Bolivia today, Aotearoa tomorrow? Radio NZ Click>>>
Status of Human Rights and the Treaty Human Rights Commission Click>>>	A Tax System for NZ's Future Tax Working Group Click>>>	Considerations on MMP Referendum Cabinet Paste this URL into your browser: http://www.beehive.govt.nz/sites/ all/files/Previous%20Cabinet%20consideration.pdf
MMP referendum to be held at 2011 election Simon Power Click>>>	NZ's Constitution Cabinet Paste this URL into your browser: http://www.beehive.govt.nz/ Documents/Files/NZ%20Constitution%20Cabinet%20Office%20backgrounder.pdf	What comes next after seabed Act? Gisborne Herald Click>>>
Nationhood Phil Goff Click>>>	East Coast iwi weigh up $110m cash offer Herald Click>>>	Tuhoe discusses areas of self-government Herald Click>>>
National-ACT Confidence and Supply Agreement NZ Government Click>>>	Security and Growth: National’s Economic Plan John Key Click>>>	Fiscal Policy: More Than Just a National Budget Ken Henry Click>>>
Answering the $64,000 Question - closing the income gap with Australia by 2025 2025 Taskforce Click>>>	Largest tax increases in the world Vaclav Klaus Click>>>	Are we feeling warmer yet? Richard Treadgold Click>>>
Climate Change help for poor has not materialised BBC Click>>>	Copenhagen Draft UNFCC Click>>>	Treaty Making Process in New Zealand MFAT Click>>>
New "National Schedules" Proposal Could Change International Strategy in Time for Copenhagen Breakthrough Institute Click>>>	Revenge of the Climate Laymen Wall Street Journal Click>>>	Climate scientists accused of manipulating global warming data Telegraph Click>>>
Ethics and Values E.T. Durie Click>>>	Treaty land - keep out Herald Click>>>	Tribe sets lakebed fishing levy Dominion Post Click>>>
Speech to Psychological Society Conference Tariana Turia Click>>>	Settlements of Major Claims in the 1940s Richard Hill Click>>>	Maori claim airspace above Rotorua marae Dominion Post Click>>>
Nationhood Don Brash Click>>>	National One Year On John Armstrong Click>>>	Doubts climate deal will be finalised in Copenhagen Radio NZ Click>>>
Victory Speech John Key Click>>>	Auctioning the Radio Spectrum Paul Milgrom Click>>>	Heidelberg Hydropower Station Renewable Energy Yearbook Click>>>
Quarterly Survey Energy Prices MED Click>>>	Review of the Electricity Market Electricity Technical Advisory Group Click>>>	Public Finance Act 1989 Fourth Schedule Click>>>
It's time for another quango hunt Colin Espiner Click>>>	Tsunami of Cronies Murray McCully Click>>>	Candidates for Appointments CabGuide Click>>>
The Great PC Hunt Jane Clifton Click>>>	Farming Column, Dec 2005 Nick Smith Click>>>	Archive of Research Papers Ross McKitrick Click>>>
Government Statement of Regulation Treasury Click>>>	Response to David Henderson’s Governments and Climate Change Issues: The Flawed Consensus Ross McKitrick Click>>>	Copenhagen negotiating text: 200 pages to save the world? Guardian Click>>>
Kiwi Carbon Race Wall Street Journal Click>>>	Defects in key climate data are uncovered Prof Ross McKitrick Click>>>	An Interview With Ian Plimer Robert Tracinski Click>>>
ETS Submissions Finance Select Committee Click>>>	Regulatory Impact Statements Treasury Click>>>	Oral Questions in Parliament Nick Smith Click>>>
Notes for the Aix-en-Provence Summer University Speech Hon Vaclav Klaus Click>>>	The timing of human discovery and colonization of New Zealand Douglas Sutton, John Flenley et al Click>>>	New Zealand Geographic Board Act 2008 Click>>>
Maori Party laughing all the way to the bank Fran O'Sullivan Click>>>	The Global Flat Tax revolution Dr Daniel Mitchell Click>>>	The Hong Kong Tax System Prof Michael Littlewood Click>>>
Tax Working Group Victoria University Click>>>	Public Sector Performance John Whitehead Click>>>	Trend to Bigger Government Must be Reversed Roger Kerr Click>>>
Senate Briefs Australian Parliament Click>>>	Questions - response and analysis Senator Steve Fielding Click>>>	Kiwi Carbon Haze Wall St Journal Click>>>
Are Non-Maori Second Class Citizens? David Round Click>>>	Q+A: Rodney Hide Interview TVNZ Click>>>	Nationhood Dr Don Brash Click>>>
Report on the Local Government (Auckland Council) Bill Auckland Governance Legislation Committee Click>>>	Auckland Governance Report Part 4: Structural Reform Royal Commission Click>>>	Benefits of Post Divorce Shared parenting Peter Tromp Click>>>
What Separating Parents Need When Making Care Arrangements for Children Families Commission Click>>>	Children at increased risk of death from maltreatment & strategies for prevention Ministry Social Development Click>>>	Death & serious injury from assault: children under 5 Children's Commissioner Click>>>
Estimates Vote Social Development Treasury Click>>>	Healthy Families, Young Minds and Developing Brains Families Commission Click>>>	Prosecutions and Case Studies Family First Click>>>
From FPP to MMP Electoral Commission Click>>>	Supplementary Material on Crimes Amendment Bill Maxim Institute Click>>>	Benefits and Wages OECD Click>>>
National Benefit Factsheets 2009 Ministry of Social Development Click>>>	Welfare Benefit Expenses Treasury Click>>>	The Underclass & Crime Blair Gibbs Click>>>
Drug-abusing beneficiary costs up $10m Dominion Post Click>>>	Getting there Green Party Click>>>	Fearlessly Independent (Ian Plimer interview) Robert Tracinski Click>>>
Anti-smacking prosecutions Bob McCoskrie Click>>>	NZ's 2020 Emissions Target Ministry for Environment Click>>>	Climate target crucial decision for NZ Brian Fallow Click>>>
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples UN Click>>>	Explanation of Vote by New Zealand Rosemary Banks Click>>>	Indigenous People's Legal Water Forum Pita Sharples Click>>>
Human Rights Council: Universal Periodic Review of NZ Simon Power Click>>>	Decision near on endorsing UN rights declaration Herald Click>>>	US Farmers sell their carbon credits - how come? Owen McShane Click>>>
Public Sector Performance John Whitehead Click>>>	Parkinson's Law Prof C. Northcote Parkinson Click>>>	Submission on the NZIER/Infometrics Report Roger Kerr Click>>>
Conspicuously Politically Incorrect Allan Peachey Click>>>	Education Bill to raise standards Ann Tolley Click>>>	Individual School Reviews Education Review Office Click>>>
Attendance, Absence and Truancy in New Zealand Schools in 2006 Ministry Education Click>>>	Regional Council Benefit Factsheets Ministry of Social Development Click>>>	Meet the man who has exposed the great climate change con trick James Delingpole Click>>>
Time to ditch climate policies BBC News Click>>>	The Climate Change Climate Change Wall St Journal Click>>>	The sun and the oceans do not lie Christopher Booker Click>>>
Celebrity Endorsed Climate Change - A Big Ask... Catherine Beard Click>>>	NZ May Go Bust Over Global Warming Dennis Avery Click>>>	Ministerial Review of Foreshore & Seabed Department of Justice Click>>>
Legal Background to the Foreshore & Seabed Review NZPA Click>>>	Maori Coastal Claims: Judicial Activism or Judge's Duty Stephen Franks Click>>>	Letter of Transmittal P.J. Savage Click>>>
Taranaki Whânui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika Deed of Settlement Click>>>	Port Nicholson Block Claims Settlement Bill Select Committee Report Click>>>	Settlements of Major Claims in the 1940s Richard Hill Click>>>
Progress of Claims Office of Treaty Settlements Click>>>	Greens draw up their own Anti-Smacking Bill Sue Bradford Click>>>	Supplementaty Material on Crimes Amendment Bill Maxim Institute Click>>>
Key backs election smacking referendum Herald Click>>>	Briefing: Conducting CIRs Chief Electoral Officer Click>>>	CIR Act Click>>>
2008 Briefing Incoming Minister Te Puni Kokiri Click>>>	Report of Review of Measurement of Ethnicity Statistics NZ Click>>>	Maori Socio-Economic Disparity Simon Chapple Click>>>
2009 BEFU Treasury Click>>>	Benefit Factsheets 2009 MSD Click>>>	Working for Families IRD Click>>>
Altruism: The Moral Root of the Financial Crisis Richard M. Salsman Click>>>	Projected Families by Family Type Statistics NZ Click>>>	Effect of Insulating Existing Houses on Health Inequality British Medical Journal Click>>>
Government defers promised tax cuts in Budget Radio NZ Click>>>	Budget Low-Lights Roger Douglas Click>>>	Estimates of Appropriations Treasury Click>>>
Budget Debate 2008 John Key Click>>>	Core Crown Expense Tables Treasury Click>>>	National's 2008 Election Tax Policy Click>>>
Will Media Expose Global Warming Con Job Jerry Carlson Click>>>	Global Lower Troposphere Temperatures and CO2 Friends of Science Click>>>	Thank God for Carbon Ray Evans Click>>>
Seeking to Save the Planet with a Thesaurus New York Times Click>>>	Winning Words Katy Butler Click>>>	Emissions Trading Scheme Review Submissions Parliament Click>>>
National's 2008 Election Tax Policy Click>>>	Briefing to the Incoming Minister Treasury Click>>>	The Optimum Government Richard Rahn Click>>>
Presidential Anecdotes P F Boller Click>>>	John Key on Tax Cuts: The National Leader's Speech Click>>>	Looking to and through Budget 2009 John Whitehead Click>>>
Study of the effects on employment of public aid to renewable energy sources Gabriel Calzada Click>>>	NZ Energy Quarterly, Dec ‘08 MED Click>>>	Real Energy Prices for Households, Industry MED Click>>>
$13m paid in RMA agreements by power companies RadioNZ Click>>>	Swedish parents enjoy school choice BBC Click>>>	How Members of the 111th Congress Practice Private School Choice Heritage Foundation Click>>>
Briefing to the Incoming Government Ministry Education Click>>>	President Obama's Speech to Hispanic Chamber of Commerce White House Click>>>	Education Matters Muriel Newman Click>>>
Men of Vice or Virtue? NZ History Online Click>>>	History of NZ Vol I-III NZ Electronic Text Centre Click>>>	Climate Alarmism to Realism Hon Vaclav Klaus Click>>>
Zombie Science Dr Bruce Charlton Click>>>	UN Framework Convention on Climate Change United Nations Click>>>	No Progress in the Climate Change Debate Hon Vaclav Klaus Click>>>
New Zealand Competitiveness Report World Economic Survey Click>>>	The PC Clobbering Machine Michael Bassett Click>>>	Frequently Asked Questions UNDRIP Click>>>
Explanation of Vote by New Zealand Rosemary Banks Click>>>	Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - Government Position Hansard PQ5 Click>>>	Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - Government Position Hansard PQ12 Click>>>
A depressing new agenda for Aboriginal politics Keith Windschuttle Click>>>	UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples UN Click>>>	Post-Election Brief MFAT Click>>>
Low Expectations for Municipal Amalgamation In Ontario David Barber Click>>>	The Burdens of Local Government Muriel Newman Click>>>	Reassessing Local Government Amalgamation Wendell Cox Click>>>
Planning for Auckland Royal Commission Report Click>>>	Housing Affordability Submission Reserve Bank Click>>>	The Toronto Mega-city 10 Years Later Wendell Cox Click>>>
Are You Happy Where You Live UMR Click>>>	Like throwing petrol on fire Roger Kerr Click>>>	Our History Crimestoppers UK Click>>>
Our History Crime Stoppers International Click>>>	Housing NZ details revealed to Mongrel Mob RadioNZ Click>>>	Police leave secret files with the Mongrel Mob ODT Click>>>
Core Crown Expense Tables Treasury Click>>>	10-Year Benefit Tables MSD Click>>>	The Kiwi Way: a fair go for all John Key Click>>>
The Emissions Trading Scheme Roger Helmer Click>>>	Spain's New Economy: Boom and Bust of the Spanish Renewable Miracle Dr Gabriel Calzada Click>>>	The Politics of Global Warming Hon John H. Sununu Click>>>
Heartland Institute Climate Change Conference Proceedings Click>>>	The Green Energy Fantasy Keith Lockitch Click>>>	Emissions Trading Threatens Jobs, Economy Epoch Times Click>>>
Impact of the Proposed Emissions Trading Scheme NZIER Click>>>	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 Click>>>	Domestic Violence Campaigners Accused of Bias Herald Click>>>	Gender Analysis Ministry of Women's Affairs Click>>>
NZ Economic Cost of Family Violence Suzanne Snively Click>>>	Legal experts criticise "boot camps" bill Radio NZ Click>>>	The Velvet Underground Ian Wishart Click>>>
The Value of Family NZIER Click>>>	NZ Maori Rugby Tour Morning Report Click>>>	Maori Socio-economic Disparity Simon Chapple Click>>>
Letter to SARU Board Joris de Bres Click>>>	NZ Maori not race-based team Minister Maori Affairs Click>>>	International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination Click>>>
Media Release 180209 SARU Click>>>	The Internet in NZ AUT Click>>>	Govt should can copyright law, says Dunne Herald Click>>>
Germany says "nein" to three-strikes infringement plan Jacqui Cheng Click>>>	The Creative Freedom Foundation Click>>>	Draft ISP Copyright Code TCF Click>>>
Ministers: Why we changed the Copyright Act Colin Jackson Click>>>	ISPs: New copyright law puts businesses in the gun; scrap it NBR Click>>>	UK backs down on three strikes - will sanity prevail here? Herald Click>>>
Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act 2008 Click>>>	Review of the Emissions Trading Scheme Parliament Click>>>	Kyoto Protocol United Nations Click>>>
Global crisis shows need for revision of economics Bryan Gould Click>>>	They gave your mortgage to a less qualified minority Ann Coulter Click>>>	Further responses to the RMA Reforms Owen McShane Click>>>
The Global Financial Crisis Kevin Rudd Click>>>	Minimum Wage Review 2007 Department of Labour Click>>>	Key announces employment summit Otago Daily Times Click>>>
Cold hard facts debunk global warming alarmism Prof Bob Carter Click>>>	The IPCC Can't Count John McLean Click>>>	Global Warming Petition Project Dr Arthur B Robinson Click>>>
Economy May Delay Work on Obama's Election Pledges New York Times Click>>>	Qualmark's Dark Green Agenda Stewart Haynes Click>>>	Tutin in Honey NZ Food Safety Authority Click>>>
The Current Situation Sir Roger Douglas MP Click>>>	Cross party push to fight child abuse The Press Click>>>	An Interview with Theodore Dalrymple Muriel Newman Click>>>
The Kiwi Way: a fair go for all John Key Click>>>	Priority for Change Muriel Newman Click>>>	After 17 months of unimaginable cruelty, Baby P finally succumbed The Times Click>>>
Speech from the Throne John Key Click>>>	SMEs in NZ 2008 Ministry Economic Development Click>>>	Committed employees have nothing to fear David Lowe Click>>>
Small & Medium Businesses in NZ Small Business Advisory Group Click>>>	Pirates & the Politically Correct Hal G.P. Colebatch Click>>>	The Gillard revolution Janet Albrechtsen Click>>>
Financial Stability Report Reserve Bank Click>>>	Subdued Economic Outlook for NZ Herald Click>>>	Economic Survey of NZ, 2007 OECD Click>>>
The Street of Shame Sunday Star Times Click>>>	Doctor's 4-point scheme to halve child abuse deaths Herald Click>>>	Lawnmower versus Sheep: the Kyoto folly Robin Grieve Click>>>
President Bush Discusses Financial Markets and World Economy White House Click>>>	National-ACT Confidence and Supply Agreement National Party Click>>>	Protecting Our Future Muriel Newman Click>>>
Job market holds up but future gloomy Herald Click>>>	Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Update 2008 Treasury Click>>>	The Greens Banned List David Farrar Click>>>
Inherent Flaws of NZ’s MMP Mike Moore Click>>>	Electoral Act 1973 Click>>>	Report of Royal Commission on Electora System Click>>>
New Maori Structure Top Priority for Maori Party TVNZ Agenda Click>>>	Inquiry into the Review of MMP MMP Review Committee Click>>>	OECD ladder too steep for NZ to climb National Business Review Click>>>
International Travel and Migration - Sept 2008 Statistics NZ Click>>>	NZ's place on the OECD ladder Treasury Click>>>	Shower pressure cut 'just won't wash' Herald Click>>>
Editor's Insight Nevil Gibson Click>>>	No public servants up 5% Herald Click>>>	Bureaucracy base expanding by the hectare Domion Post Click>>>
Maori Party faces hurdles to entrenchment Maori seats Andy Nicholls Click>>>	The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith Click>>>	US example puts paid to free market idea Matt McCarten Click>>>
Crossing the Line Muriel Newman Click>>>	Speech to Maori Party AGM Whatarangi Winiata Click>>>	Gay Wrongs? Listener Click>>>
Declaration of Human Rights United Nations Click>>>	Global Initiative to end all Corporal Punishment of Children UN Click>>>	Reasonable Force in Schools Muriel Newman Click>>>
Rainbow Room formally dedicated at Parliament Speaker Click>>>	When will New Zealand catch up with Australia? NZIER Click>>>	Killing Jobs to Save the Climate Speigel Click>>>
Climate change heroes’ sham case Bjorn Lomborg Click>>>	Prime Minister’s Statement to Parliament 2007 Helen Clark Click>>>	EU’s CO2 Plans A Cost Disaster: German Industry Reuters Click>>>
Record number of Kiwis head to Aust Business Day Click>>>	Kiwi billionaire sends hurry-up message Herald Click>>>	Horomia defends dictionary party Dominion Post Click>>>
Optical Dating ... Dr Richard Holdaway et al Click>>>	Pacific Peoples in NZ Race Relations Commissioner Click>>>	Growing Pains... Dr Greg Clydesdale Click>>>
Statement on Race Relations Human Rights Commission Click>>>	Dating Human Arrival in New Zealand Landcare Research Click>>>	International Corporate Tax Rates OECD Click>>>
What Owen Glenn said: text of letter Dominion Post Click>>>	Corruption in Parliament Muriel Newman Click>>>	Election Manifesto 2008 NZ Chambers of Commerce Click>>>
Evidence will clear Peters today: QC Herald Click>>>	Where Others Fear to Tread Muriel Newman Click>>>	NZ Election Study Jack Vowles Click>>>
Why Labour thinks it can win again Therese Arseneau Click>>>	Colmar Brunton Poll Results TVNZ Click>>>	Votes by Electorate Chief Electoral Office Click>>>
Fair Go for All Children Children's Commissioner Click>>>	Babies and Bosses OECD Click>>>	Benefits and Wages OECD Click>>>
National's Benefit Policy John Key Click>>>	Benefit Factsheet DPB Ministry Social Development Click>>>	PMs stance on smacking questioned TVNZ News Click>>>
The Great Experiment The Economist Click>>>	Scoring Our Schools: what makes for a good education? Roger Kerr Click>>>	How Our Schools Fail Helen Simpson Click>>>
The NZ Curriculum Ministry of Education Click>>>	Understanding Climate Change Ministry of Environment Click>>>	Bulk funding is dead: long live bulk funding Norman LaRocque Click>>>
Politics in School on Trial Dr Muriel Newman Click>>>	A Green Miscalculation Benny Peiser Click>>>	Emissions Trading Bill Select Committee Report Click>>>
Climate Statement "An Orchestrated Litany Of Lies" Dr Vincent Gray Click>>>	Coalition Challenges Royal Society 'Climate Report' NZ Climate Science Coalition Click>>>	Ofcom Ruling Click>>> Watch The Great Global Warming Swindle - view>>>
Climate Change Statement Royal Society of NZ Click>>>	P makes addicts human crime waves Christchurch Press Click>>>	Hundreds to get taxpayer-funded stomach stapling Dominion Post Click>>>
Selling Our Kids Short Muriel Newman Click>>>	As you like it: a sexy census Dominion Post Click>>>	The benefit and the doubt Waikato Times Click>>>
Police close email investigation NZ Police Click>>>	Earth calling Hager - get a grip please Fran O'Sullivan, Herald Click>>>	Securing Our Nation's Safety Dept Prime Minister & Cabinet Click>>>
Fat chance of balanced view on obesity issue John Roughan, Herald Click>>>	The money pit that is the Mission-On website Bernard Hickey Click>>>	Unsolicited Electronic Message Bill: Second Reading Rodney Hide Click>>>
Defending the Front Line Cameron Bagrie, ANZ Bank Click>>>	Maori badges childish Herald Click>>>	Alarming figures on teenage crime Herald Click>>>
Is There Really a Fatherhood Crisis Prof Stephen Baskerville Click>>>	Parliamentary Question Gordon Copeland Click>>>	Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Balance Robin Grieve Click>>>
Emissions Trading Charlie Pedersen Click>>>	Emissions Trading Bill NZ Government Click>>>	NZ Emissions Profile Ministry of the Environment Press Click>>>
GDP: March 2008 Quarter Statistics NZ Click>>>	The Maori Seats in Parliament Professor Philip A. Joseph Click>>>	Rocky Ride & Pounamu Stone flies first class to satisfy protocol Christchurch Press Click>>>
Inflation Calculator Reserve Bank Click>>>	NZ's Spending Binge Phil Rennie Click>>>	2007 Annual Report Tertiary Education Commission Click>>>
Polling Trends Good News for National Dr Therese Arseneau Click>>>	Green Party Conference Co-Leader Speeches Russell Norman - click>>> Jeanette Fitzsimmons - click>>>	Neglect May Cost Labour Herald Click>>>
June Monetary Policy Statement Reserve Bank Click>>>	NIWA Scientists have become propagandists NZ Climate Science Coalition Click>>>	Environmentalism as Religion Michael Crichton Click>>>
Petition Project OISM Click>>>	Brr! The climate cools for reality-deniers Melanie Phillips Click>>>	35 Inconvenient Truths Lord Christopher Monckton Click>>>
400 Prominent Scientists Dispute Man-Made Global Warming Consensus US Senate Report Click>>>	UN Global Warming Forecast Violates Accepted Principles NCPA Click>>>	Global Warming: Experts’ Opinions versus Scientific Forecasts Dr K Green, Prof S Armstong Click>>>
Climate Panel on the Hot Seat Dr Sterling Burnett Click>>>	Committee Report on the ‘Hockey Stick’ Global Climate Reconstruction Dr Edward Wegman Click>>>	Testimony to Senate Committee Dr Michael Crichton Click>>>
Climate Change Effects and Impacts Assessment Ministry for Environment Click>>>	Briefing to Incoming Government 2005 Treasury Click >>>	Budget 2008 Key Facts for Taxpayers Treasury Click>>>
How UN structures were designed to prove human CO2 was causing global warming Dr Tim Ball Click>>>	Senate Testimony>>> Global Warming alarmists intimidate dissenting scientists into silence Dr Richard Lindzen Click>>>	NIPCC Report Dr Frederick Seitz Click>>>
35 Inconvenient Truths Lord Christopher Monckton Click>>>	Gore Financially Invested in Climate Change CNS News Click>>>	IPCC Wins Nobel Prize Dr Vincent Gray Click>>>
Emissions Trading Scheme Must Proceed Parliamentary Commissioner for Environment Click>>>	Kiwi Climatology Wall St Journal Click>>>	Politics in School on Trial Dr Muriel Newman Click>>>
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 >>>	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.