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Letter of Transmittal P.J. Savage Click>>>
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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>>>
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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>>>
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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>>>
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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. 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. Read article >>>
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. Read report >>>
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. Read article >>>	23 August 2006 THE PROBLEM WITH DAY CAREby 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. Read interview >>>	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. View >>>
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. View >>>
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 Newman. A 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. View >>>	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 >>>