Blaming capitalism for policy failure is fake news
Dr Muriel Newman Whangarei, October 29, 2017 The country’s new Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister have claimed that free market capitalism is failing New Zealand. In his coalition announcement,...
View ArticleSix Varsities jointly offer Maori Business Programme
Supplied Content Auckland, October 30, 2017 Responding to the need for top-level business expertise and leadership within the burgeoning Maori economy – now worth over $42 billion and growing faster...
View ArticleThe best of Odissi this weekend in Auckland
Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Epsom Girls School, November 4, 2017 Venkat Raman Auckland 30, 2017 Dr Ghulla (Sam) Goraya, who has enthralled audiences all over the world with his exquisite execution of...
View ArticleNew Zealand has no place for hate speeches and racists
Dame Susan Devoy Wellington, October 31, 2017 The following is in response to the Iranian diplomat Hormoz Ghahremani’s anti-Semitic speech at an Auckland Mosque. People who deny that the Holocaust took...
View ArticleDepression is better treated as 12 separate disorders
Supplied Content Auckland, November 2, 2017 The way depression is diagnosed and treated needs a major overhaul, authors of a new review article in the scientific journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity...
View ArticleFor sure, Andrew Little has a huge job on his hands
Foreshore and Seabed issue would decide our future Dr Muriel Newman Whangarei, November 5, 2017 If anyone was hoping that the election would deliver some form of reprieve from the hundreds of...
View ArticleLanguage framework should include other tongues as well
Joris de Bres Wellington, November 11, 2017 Sunita Narayan is delighted to see new initiatives for te reo Maori and Pasifika languages in the Labour-led government’s policy programme, but hopes that...
View ArticleGlobal body adopts new code to protect e-services
Frederic Trojani Paris, November 13, 2017 The Secure Identity Alliance, the global identity and secure eServices advisory body, has announced the adoption of a Code of Conduct to which all the members...
View ArticleEthnic people ignored for leadership roles in New Zealand
This is not Inclusive New Zealand Eric Chuah New research shows that ethnic diversity at the leadership table is the key ingredient missing from a truly inclusive multicultural society in New Zealand....
View ArticleNew Zealand’s public health system needs a thorough check-up
Peter Dunne Christchurch, November 17, 2017 Politician and commentator Austin Mitchell once described the New Zealand education system as “a complex balance of groups, so nicely deadlocked as to make...
View ArticleReducing child poverty should no increase welfare dependency
Dr Muriel Newman Whangarei, December 3, 2017 The new government will announce a mini budget on December 14, 2017. It may well include some of the changes to the welfare system that Labour promised...
View ArticleDude, the spirit in us does not diminish with age
A Research Report on the drinking habits of Maori and Non-Maori Auckland, December 10, 2017 Very little is known about the role of alcohol in older people’s lives over the lifespan, patterns of alcohol...
View ArticlePeter Dunne names Andrew Little ‘Politician of the Year’
The ‘Dunne Speaks’ considers five candidates for the Honour Peter Dunne Christchurch, December 14, 2017 In keeping with the beauty parade approach many of our commentators take to reporting politics –...
View ArticleIntolerance erodes freedom of speech in New Zealand
Dr Muriel Newman Whangarei, December 17, 2017 “The freedom to criticise or ridicule ideas – even if they are sincerely held beliefs – is a fundamental freedom of society. In my view, the right to...
View ArticleIndo-Kiwi bilateral trade remains modest and marginal
Dr Rahul Sen Through India Trade Alliance Auckland, December 17, 2017 New Zealand’s trade relationship with India has been strong and growing rapidly. As at Year ended June 2017, India was the Seventh...
View ArticleJournalists are Essential to a Democracy
A Few Blemishes Shouldn’t Mean We Forget That Sushil Aaron From ‘The Wire’ (India) Stand First from Indian Newslink (New Zealand): The murder of Journalist Gauri Lankesh in front of her home in...
View ArticleKashmiri Pundits initiate Indian Renaissance for human progress
Religious fundamentalism- of all sorts- will collapse Veer Khar Auckland, December 28, 2017 On May 29, 1453, following the Ottoman attack and the fall of Constantinople, Greek intelligentsia took off...
View ArticlePrivacy? There is no such thing in the world!
Our Smartphones are increasingly exposing us Jeff Inglis Australia, December 29, 2017 Over the course of 2017, people in the US and around the world became increasingly concerned about how their...
View ArticleDigital natives must know the enduring power of Print
Patricia A Alexander and Lauren M Singer Trakhman The Conversation (USA) December 29, 2017 Today’s students see themselves as digital natives, the first generation to grow up surrounded by technology...
View ArticleAdventurous spirit takes family of four around the world
Thirteen countries and 40 cities in six months gratify Auckland couple Auckland, December 30, 2017 Khadija Poonawala, her husband Husain Rampurwala and their two children Ammar (9) and Ozair (now...
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