Victory in Tauranga
In a good example of ACT/Libertarianz co-operation, Frances Denz and Ron Scott have been elected to the Tauranga Energy Consumer Trust. ACT members Frances and…
New Indonesian Crypto Communist Party Formed
Indonesia’s most active Marxist Party, the The Partai Rakyat Demokratik (PRD) or People’s Democratic Party, has just got bigger. According to the latest Green Left…
Message to Michael Cullen
Neville Bennett, writing in the latest NBR, claims that tax receipts in the US are expected to increase 11.4% this year, despite tax cuts. According…
Won’t Ever Let My Kids Go Nude By My Old Pool…
PC has reached my old home town. According to the Christchurch Star of 14.7.06 a mother of four, Amanda Crozier was forbidden from changing her…
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…
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