RNZ | 7 May 2016 The anonymous leaker of the Panama Papers has spoken for the first time and has singled out Prime Minister John Key for criticism. The offices of law firm Mossack Fonseca in Panama City Photo: AFP In a 1800-word statement, the whistleblower offered to help law authorities make prosecutions in return…
Bernard Hickey | 4 May 2016 The Government was under sustained pressure in and out of Parliament yesterday as the fallout from the Panama Papers continued to swirl around both John Key and the Overseas Investment Office. Key was forced to remind his former Revenue Minister Todd McClay that he had indeed told McClay that…
Bernard Hickey | 3 May 2016 John Key’s apparently casual conversation in late 2014 with his lawyer Ken Whitney over the IRD’s plans for a review of foreign trusts will no doubt be in the spotlight, given Whitney went on to use Key’s name to successfully lobby Todd McClay to drop the review. Key has…
NZ Herald | 24 April 2016 Journalist and historian James Robins writes about the Genocide of Armenians in Turkey during the First World War, and New Zealand’s historic, but forgotten, links with this event. Armenian residents being deported from the city of Harput, 1915. Photo / Supplied On April 24, 1915, the day before Anzac…
Scoop | 18 April 2016 Data released by the Ministry of Health today confirm that water fluoridation is having no noticeable effect in reducing tooth decay. Around one in three NZ children have at least one cavity by age 5, and growing up with water fluoridation seems to offer no benefit. Children in areas without…
Scoop | 15 April 2016 With NZ moving towards government enforced water fluoridation, there has never been a more urgent time for open public discussion on a national level. “A national level decision demands national level debate” says Dr. Stan Litras of the dentist group FIND. Dentists from FIND have been presenting evidence at public…
NZCPR | 15 April 2016 In this politically correct world, our right to free speech is increasingly being eroded by the apparent rights of others who disagree with our views. State broadcaster Television New Zealand came under attack last month, when they were accused of including a ‘racist’ question in their new KiwiMeter survey. KiwiMeter, a…
NZ Herald | 12 April 2016 [AM editor’s note: terrible news and another quantum leap for big government tyranny]. District Health Boards, rather than councils, will decide whether water supplies are fluoridated under proposals announced by the Government. The change would lead to more water supplies being fluoridated, as the benefits and safety of doing…
Scoop | 12 April 2016 Prime Minister John Key could have dealt with the clamour for an independent inquiry into the Panama Papers scandal in a variety of ways. He could have – for instance – set up a public inquiry, as was done in the mid 1990s, in the wake of the Winebox tax…
NZ Herald | 9 April 2016 Prime Minister John Key was the star guest at a private fundraising lunch for the Change the Flag lobby group in a last-ditch bid to raise cash from wealthy Chinese donors who supported a flag change. The exclusive meeting with no more than six donors took place in a…