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Dr Muriel Newman 
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Articles & Research of Interest

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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
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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. 
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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.
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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. 
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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 
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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.
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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.  
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The Real Root Causes of Violent Crime: The Breakdown of Marriage, Family, and Community by Patrick F. Fagan. 
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Why tax cuts are good for growth - full report by Phil Rennie.  
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9 December 2006
Highlights from the 2006 Census about New Zealand's people and their lives, with simple graphs and tables. 
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Education Answers by Joseph Driessen. In New Zealand, a persistent disparity between boys’ and girls’ educational achievement has emerged over the last 20 years. 
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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 >>>