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About Welcome to House of Travel Albany In January 2008, Tim Malone and Angela Nunn purchased a small independent travel agency in Albany. Their intention was always to form a partnership with House of Travel and by March [...]

By Peter Williams A short radio news item caught my attention the other day. “A copy of a new book about the Treaty of Waitangi by lawyer Roimata Smail has been gifted to every secondary school in the country. An [...]

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The following piece was first published in 2022 at Breaking Views but is even more relevant two years on. In recent years karakia (Maori prayers or chants) have become relatively standard at special (and even not so special) events. I [...]

By Dr Ananish Chaudhuri With Kemi Badenoch taking over the leadership of Tories in the UK, newspapers have been replete with how this represents a radical turn to the right. Similar headlines appeared when Labour was booted from power in [...]

By Peter Williams A well performing local council listens to its ratepayers and residents. If the people don’t want something to be built, then it shouldn’t go ahead. Which means the proposed new McDonalds in Wanaka should be a non-starter, [...]

By Ian Wishart Former High Court judge Robert Fisher, now a KC, argues in the NZ Herald that New Zealand is already a republic in all but name, and that Parliament could lock it in with a couple of legislative [...]

By Dr Muriel Newman In November 2000, former Prime Minister David Lange stated: “Democratic government can accommodate Maori political aspiration in many ways… What it cannot do is acknowledge the existence of a separate sovereignty. As soon as it does that, [...]

By Don Brash As you probably know, we have been running a petition to End the Waitangi Tribunal. That campaign continues, but in the meantime we heard some news that brought a smile to our faces... the Government has appointed former [...]

By Meryl Nass Dr. Ashley Bloomfield was the face of COVID in New Zealand, just the way Dr. Tony Fauci was in the US, or Dr. Christian Drosten was in Germany. Each was turned into a celebrity as well as [...]

By Dr Muriel Newman A number of opinion polls published over recent weeks confirm support for Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s National-led governing Coalition is holding. That’s in spite of the tough economic times, public service resistance, and biased media reporting. [...]

By Dieuwe De Boer Much was made of an August 2024 poll by the NZ Herald that showed "most New Zealanders support Kamala Harris." Her support was 55% with Donald Trump's at a mere 21%. That was the least interesting [...]

By Mary Hobbs If we are to reach real peace in this world .. we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence . . . we won’t have to pass fruitless [...]

By Rachel Stewart Political scientist Bryce Edwards is someone I respect for his level-headedness but his recent article on Nicole McKee needs to be fact-checked, and fact-checked hard. If you haven’t seen it here it is: https://substack.com/@democracyproject/p-149335230 I mean, I get [...]

By Dieuwe de Boer A few weeks ago I wrote about how I supported the treaty principles being put forward by ACT because the treaty is a liberal document. The abstraction of the treaty into universal liberal rights was inevitable and a [...]

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