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The only good news from the Australian election is that it has foreshadowed a change in government here. Electorates grow disillusioned with parties that have been in power for too long and vote for change.
The Electoral Finance Bill, which seeks to impose complex restrictions on how people can engage in the democratic process during election year, was reported back from the Justice and Electoral Select Committee last week. (To read the Committee’s report click here )
The fourth and final report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was released today. Speaking at the launch, the Secretary General of the United Nations stated that climate change is putting the world on the edge of a global “catastrophe”. Such scaremongering over climate change appears to be par for the course.
The new primary and secondary school curriculum was launched this week amidst fanfare claiming that it is leading edge and progressive. However, the new curriculum may well sell New Zealand children – and teachers - short.
In the wake of last month’s Police raids, Tuhoe activists have asked to be left alone to establish an independent Tuhoe nation. They say that they will take up arms to defend their right to live as they please, as a country within a country.
With the average Kiwi family being more than $5,000 better off living in Australia than New Zealand, it is no wonder that almost 500 New Zealanders a week are packing up for life across the Tasman. According to the Australian Immigration statistics, 23,906 people who were born in New Zealand settled in Australia during the 2006-07 year. This is a 25 percent increase on the year earlier.
Earlier this month a napalm bomb was detonated in a guerrilla-style exercise in a training camp deep in the Urewera Ranges. Police say that such military-style training camps have been under surveillance for over a year.
October 10th 1996 was New Zealand’s first MMP election. Eleven years on, MMP has profoundly changed the face of New Zealand politics.
Schools around New Zealand that are using Al Gore’s controversial film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ to promote the Government’s climate change agenda should be warned that a High Court ruling in Britain has just found that the film is unfit for schools.
Socialism has become much more sophisticated in recent times. Socialist power no longer comes from the barrel of the gun, but from using populism to “corrupt” free market principles. There are no better examples than the present introduction of carbon trading to change the dynamics of the energy industry and the government’s intrusion into telecommunications. Both rely on “convincing” an uninformed public that a problem exists that can only be solved through government regulation.
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