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CHAOTIC DESTINATIONS By Chris Trotter “The coalition of chaos”: that’s how Matthew Hooton and the right-wing commentariat are describing the putative Labour-Green-Te Pāti Māori parliamentary alliance. Which is a contradiction, of sorts, since the notion of New Zealanders voting [...]

The research group had a controversial role in the Covid-19 pandemic and has now entered the transgender debate by making a series of outlandish claims. FROM ACADEMIC RESEARCH TO NEWS HEADLINES: THE DISINFORMATION PROJECT'S INFLUENCE ON NEW ZEALAND MEDIA [...]

Dr Muriel Newman 28 March, 2023 Probably the most important court case of recent times was held in Wellington last month, yet it attracted no mention in the media. It was a Court of Appeal hearing seeking to overturn [...]

Frank Newman 25 March, 2023 This morning's press is again full of crime stories, two screaming out with messages of what's so wrong with our justice system and our government's pathetically soft approach to crime that borders on condoning [...]

Karl du Fresne 26 March, 2023 Protesters marching against the Springbok rugby tour in 1981 used to chant, “The whole world’s watching”. I doubt that the world was watching what happened in Auckland this morning (it probably wasn’t watching [...]

Karl du Fresne 27 March, 2023 So. We now know the person who tipped a litre of tomato juice over Posie Parker is a refugee from Colombia. Let me see if I’ve got this straight. Eliana Rubashkyn, who describes [...]

Kellie-Jay Keen's Assault by Transgender Activists in New Zealand Sparks Global Outrage Cranmer 27 March, 2023 An unruly mob in Albert Park has catapulted New Zealand into the global headlines with ugly images that may become iconic in the [...]

Katrina Biggs 25 March, 2023 Let Women Speak rally in New Zealand Today in Auckland, New Zealand, we experienced mob violence that was New York level. I never thought I’d see that here in New Zealand, but today I [...]

Alia Bland - VFF 26 March, 2023 Yesterday I attended the Let Women Speak event. A day and a half later, I am still reeling from the actions of a small but incessantly celebrated section of society and their so-called 'allies'. [...]

A Retrospective Analysis Cranmer 18 March, 2023 The government's enthusiastic promotion of the Pfizer vaccine approval in New Zealand overstated the strength of the clinical assessment despite significant gaps in the data.The Pfizer vaccine was approved for use by New [...]

Dr. Muriel Newman 18 March, 2023 New Zealand is now well and truly in the grip of ‘woke’ madness. And it’s destroying the unity of our nation. What is “woke”? With origins in cultural Marxism, the general view is [...]

Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash Thomas Cranmer March 17, 2023 Like it or not, the culture wars have entered New Zealand politics and look set to broaden and intensify. The culture wars are often viewed as an exclusively [...]

Dr. Muriel Newman 28 February 2023 On June 22, 1633, at a time when heretics were being burnt at the stake, Galileo, the Astronomer, Physicist, and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pisa, was charged by the Inquisition [...]