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NZCPR: You Reap What You Sow
Monday, 28 January 2008, 9:37 am | NZ Centre For Political Debate
This issue of NZCPR Weekly looks at why child abuse is endemic Christine Rankin, the NZCPR Guest Commentator, decries a lack of leadership in addressing child abuse, and the weekly poll asks whether you would support reform to help break the child ... More >>
Global Mitigation or Adaptation
Sunday, 25 November 2007, 1:48 pm | NZ Centre For Political Debate
The fourth and final report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was released this week. 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”. More >>
An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Friday, 2 November 2007, 11:01 am | NZ Centre For Political Debate
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, ... More >>
Is It Time To Change Our Voting System?
Friday, 19 October 2007, 3:24 pm | NZ Centre For Political Debate
October 10th 1996 was New Zealand's first MMP election. Eleven years on, MMP has profoundly changed the face of New Zealand politics. More >>
Al Gore’s Oscar Award Should be Rescinded
Friday, 12 October 2007, 12:22 am | NZ Centre For Political Debate
Today Dr Muriel Newman, Director of the New Zealand Centre for Political Research, has written to the President of the Academy Awards, requesting that the Oscar presented to Al Gore for the Best Documentary film, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, be rescinded. More >>
Politics In Schools On Trial, By Dr Muriel Newman
Thursday, 11 October 2007, 3:43 pm | NZ Centre For Political Debate
During the three-day hearing the Court heard that Al Gore's film contained serious scientific inaccuracies, that it was 'politically partisan', and that it contained 'sentimental mush'. More >>
Political Answers to Real Problems
Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 11:54 am | NZ Centre For Political Debate
Almost every day there are calls from one group or another for the government to “do something” about some critical problem they have identified. Whether it is immunisation rates that are said to be too low, air quality standards that campaigners ... More >>
Dr Muriel Newman - Defending Free Speech
Monday, 27 August 2007, 11:54 am | NZ Centre For Political Debate
Every New Zealander who cares about our democratic right to free speech should be concerned about the Labour Party’s dangerous new bill on election financing More >>
Muriel Newman: An Attack on Freedom
Monday, 20 August 2007, 3:04 pm | NZ Centre For Political Debate
Islam Awareness Week, a government sponsored initiative that is designed to “promote greater unity among the diverse peoples who call New Zealand home”, has just passed. Orchestrated through the Office of Ethnic Affairs and the Human Rights Commission, ... More >>
Newman Weekly: Parents Under Attack
Monday, 5 March 2007, 9:48 am | NZ Centre For Political Debate
In two weeks time Parliament will again consider the Crimes (Abolition of Force as a Justification for Child Discipline) Amendment Bill, a bill that seeks to remove section 59 of the Crimes Act. More >>
Newman Weekly: State Accountability
Wednesday, 31 January 2007, 9:34 am | NZ Centre For Political Debate
This week the Parole Board decided against the early release of Bailey Kurariki, the 17-year-old who was sentenced to seven years in jail for his part in the killing of pizza delivery man Michael Choy in 2001. He was 12 years old at the time. More >>
Newman Weekly: Treating Men Equally
Tuesday, 2 May 2006, 2:03 pm | NZ Centre For Political Debate
This week Newman Weekly discusses a proposal to Parliament’s Health Select Committee to introduce a prostate cancer screening programme for men, and the NZCPD guest is Barry Young, President of the Prostate Cancer Foundation. More >>
Newman Weekly - April 22 2006
Monday, 24 April 2006, 2:53 pm | NZ Centre For Political Debate
Freedom and Prosperity This week's Newman Weekly looks at the link between freedom and national prosperity, and the paper from NZCPD Heritage Foundation guest Dr Daniel Mitchell examines the optimum size of government. More >>
Muriel Newman: Waiting for Help
Monday, 17 April 2006, 12:47 am | NZ Centre For Political Debate
This week Newman Weekly looks at our fraught health system and highlights the work done by an RSA Trust. More >>
Newman Weekly: Rich Country, Poor Families
Monday, 3 April 2006, 10:25 am | NZ Centre For Political Debate
This week Newman Weekly reflects on why it is that in spite of being a relatively rich nation, so many New Zealanders despair over the state of the family, and the NZCPD guest, Sir Roger Douglas shares his vision for the future. More >>
Newman Weekly: Private Property Rights.and Wrongs!
Monday, 20 March 2006, 9:53 am | NZ Centre For Political Debate
This week Newman Weekly looks at the erosion of private property rights through our planning laws and property advisor Andrew King, the NZ Centre for Political Debate guest commentator, asks whether government proposals could drive rental property ... More >>
Newman Weekly: Prison, Porn & P
Monday, 13 March 2006, 10:08 am | NZ Centre For Political Debate
This week Newman Weekly looks at our prison system to ask whether it is working properly, and Muriel talks to America's Toughest Sheriff for the NZ Centre for Political Debate guest comment. More >>
Newman Weekly: Are You a New Zealander?
Monday, 6 March 2006, 10:36 am | NZ Centre For Political Debate
This week Newman Weekly looks at the Census asking whether a government heavily influenced by the Swedish Social Democrats has made New Zealand a better place today than it was five years ago, and the NZCPD guest, acclaimed Swedish writer Johan Norberg gives ... More >>
Newman Weekly -The Boundaries of Free Speech
Monday, 27 February 2006, 3:06 pm | NZ Centre For Political Debate
The Boundaries of Free Speech: Muslims, Catholics and Maori This week Newman Weekly examines the controversy over free speech and political correctness, with reference to Muslim outrage, Catholic protest and Maori activism; the NZCPD guest is Dr Wayne ... More >>
Newman Weekly: The Virtue of Self-Interest
Monday, 20 February 2006, 10:40 am | NZ Centre For Political Debate
This week Newman Weekly examines the virtue of self-interest and the benefits of the entrepreneurial spirit, and the NZCPD guest, Douglas Myers, one of the many Kiwi entrepreneurs who now live abroad, outlines his thoughts on New Zealand from an overseas ... More >>
