Month: July 2006
W.A.Y.N.C.R? Number 11, Grant Robertson
My latest Where Are You Now, Campus Radical? Profile concerns Grant Robertson. Many will remember Grant Robertson from Otago University in the early ’90s, where…
Scratch Marx?
Question What would Karl Marx be doing if he were alive today? Answer Scratching the lid of his coffin.
Apprenticeship, the Overlooked Institution, Part 2
Part 2 of a speech on the apprenticeship system, I gave to several ACT regional conferences in late 2004. Part 1 is here. Check out…
S.A.P. Number 8, Brian Roper
My latest Socialist Academic Profile is of Otago University senior political lecturer, Brian Staples Roper. Dr Roper has an MA from Canterbury University and a…
Maybe This Communism Does Work After All!
From the Communist Party of Australia’s Guardian of 12 July, 2006 The sweeping electoral triumph of the Bengal Left Front under the leadership of the…
CCQ 12 Do We Need a Commerce Commission?
Broadstairs asks Is there a need for bodies such as the Commerce Commission? Now I originally posed this question as an example. What I was…
Apprenticeship the Overlooked Institution, Part 1
Here is part one of a slightly edited speech I gave to several ACT regional conferences at the end of 2004. While I never did…
Trade Training In a Mess
New Zealand once had an apprenticeship system that for many decades turned out some of the world’s best tradesmen. That’s all gone to hell now….
Duff on Maori Underperformance
From Muriel Newman’s NZ centre for Political debate. Alan Duff on Maori underperformance. The quality of debate in this country on Maori issues is poor,…
CCQ 11 Paying Caesar, Who Chooses How?
Anonymous wants to know If money is issued privately, how will the government decide which currencies to accept for court fees and fines? The only…
ACT Upper South Events
ACT’s Upper South region extends from Timaru to Nelson and includes the West Coast Regional Conference This year our Annual Regional Conference is to be…
Who Is Charles Chauvel?
Labour Cabinet Minister, Jim Sutton has bitten the bullet and will be leaving Parliament on August 1st. His replacement will be Number 44 on the…
Welfare and the Destruction of Manhood
Muriel Newman quotes Australian commentator Keith Windschuttle on the corrosive effects of welfare on Aboriginal males. From Newman Weekly Historian and author Keith Windschuttle, in…
A US Communist on Chile's Bachelet
Prime Minister Helen Clark’s best friend in Latin America is Chile’s new Socialist President, Michelle Bachelet. Despite a , Bachelet is widely regarded as one…
Low Marx
As we mark the 25th anniversary of the Springbok Tour, there are a lot of self righteous cretins popping up to tell us about their…
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