Articles in ‘Current Affairs’

exclusively on Voice Media Richard Pykett, Richard Pykett, an insurance broker with 35 years of experience, discussed the changes he has witnessed in the insurance industry during a conversation with Mykeljon Winckel on the Free Speech Space podcast. Pykett accidentally stumbled into insurance in 1986 and eventually found success by developing software that helped analyze client…

The Number 8 Workers Union of New Zealand Incorporated is delighted to have Voice Media on our side and to issue our first press release though elocal magazine and their free speech platform. The N8WUNZ is a great success but you’ll never hear about it except if you’re in the zooms we do every Wednesday and Friday nights at 7:30 p.m. Even then we can’t tell you any details…

Dr. Emanuel Garcia There is an old joke that goes something like this: “Why do Baptists forbid fornication?” “Because it might lead to dancing.” It came to me after a conversation with an Australian colleague studying psychoanalytic psychotherapy at an institution in the United States. She was appalled and deeply saddened by her experiences within this institution during the…

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola While the fake meat industry is being touted as an environmentally friendly and sustainable way to feed the world, the true intent is to recreate the kind of global control that Monsanto and others achieved through patented GMO seed development. Researchers at UC Davis warn there are major environmental downsides to lab-grown meat. According to…

exclusively on Voice Media Robert Wilson, Born in Timaru, my farming parents moved to Mimihau near Wyndham in Eastern Southland when I was five years of age. Finishing my Schooling at Menzies College in Wyndham, I initially worked on farms before taking up shearing along with my own run for 10 years, working both here and in Western Australia. Due to back problems I was forced…

Free Speech Union Council member Dr. Melissa Derby The Second Academic Freedom Report released by the Free Speech Union is a chilling read for those of us who work in universities. It uses a phrase we hear often – that universities are the “critics and conscience of society”. In New Zealand, that (dare I say it) privilege is enshrined in section 161(2) of our Education Act. There…

The National Party's policy to ban gang insignia and criminalise the posting of gang-related content online defies the very essence of free speech, and is certain to make the issue of gang violence and harm worse, not better, says Dane Giraud, spokesperson for the Free Speech Union “The National Party should have greater respect for the fundamental freedoms of Kiwi citizens, even…

This year the RSA marks 100 years of the Poppy Appeal. First held on the day before Anzac Day in 1922, the familiar red poppy continues to serve as a symbol of remembrance, while the appeal raises critical funds used to support the welfare of New Zealand’s veterans. This year’s Poppy Campaign runs throughout the month of April with the street appeal, known as Poppy Day, being…

Lady Deborah Chambers is a New Zealand Queen's Counsel specialising in relationship property and trusts law. The emergency legislation in response to Covid-19 giving our Government the right to control our freedom of movement is no longer demonstrably justified in removing the fundamental rights to which New Zealanders are entitled. The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990…

Mat, a Steel Mill worker and father of three talks about vaccine mandates, and making a stand to protect his children's future. Is free-choice free when it jeopardises the life that your family have and the future that you dream of? Trueworks is a collaboration of filmmakers scattered around New Zealand, dedicated to capturing and sharing the true stories of real New Zealanders…

Despite the misinformation spread by the nation's media, the Freedom movement is not an anti-vax movement. It is a pro-choice, anti-authoritarian movement. And as New Zealand's freedom fighters descended on Wellington on December 16, 2021, their message could not have been clearer – It's time the government of our country takes its hands off our freedoms. Trueworks is a…

Groundswell NZs main focus continues to be on the unworkable regulations impacting the rural sector. Like increasing numbers of New Zealanders, farmers have felt badly maligned by this current government and its policies. Like the protestors in Wellington we also have been ignored by the Government and called denigrating names. We can empathize with their frustration. Whether…

Disturbing images from Parliament, where protestors are being arrested, strike a frightening tone for Kiwis' free speech, says Jonathan Ayling, Free Speech Union Spokesperson. “Convoy 2022, which gathered on the lawn of Parliament in opposition to the Government's vaccine mandates on Tuesday has been clearly out of line in many ways, and beyond the pale of free speech. Yet, their…

Last October, Free to Be Church, a group of NZ Church leaders, announced that they would be challenging the NZ government in the courts regarding religious freedom and COVID restrictions. With the implementation of the traffic light regime, things have become worse and the need to address this matter more pressing. “The government has not made the process easy so far,” says…

Dr Garth Cooper has devoted his career to helping fellow Māori but he now finds himself in the gun over his opinions about science and indigenous knowledge. Graham Adams reports from the front lines of the culture wars. New Zealanders like their heroes talented and modest and preferably devoted to public service as well. Sir Edmund Hillary is the exemplar of that breed and very…

A Government that ignores reasoned opposition from local government by imposing 50/50 iwi-council co-governance through its Three Waters Plan is yet another step closer to a dictatorship, Hobson’s Pledge spokesman Don Brash said today. A Government that ignores reasoned opposition from local government by imposing 50/50 iwi-council co-governance through its Three Waters Plan is…

New Zealand is shifting to a new period in our Covid response. We are no longer pursuing a strategy of elimination. We need to rethink our economic strategy. National has today released ‘Back in Business’ – the plan that we believe the Government should be implementing immediately, given the unwelcome return of Covid into the community. National believes the business sector…

You may have missed it but the Water Services Act that became law a week ago quietly added to legislation water “partnership” while establishing a framework “to provide transparency about the performance of drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater networks and network operators”. Water “partnership” was legalised by a “Te Mana o te Wai” clause, that functions like a Treaty…

Students are expected to pay FULL, UNSUBSIDISED FEES for the sub-par education that they have received online. That's upwards of $9,000 for pdf slides and pre-recorded videos. WE WANT CHANGE! The University of Auckland claims that most of the fees paid by students go towards laboratories, campus expenses, recreational centre use and other practical overhead costs. All of which…

Petition to eradicate ‘Aotearoa’ from official use Lobby group Hobson’s Pledge is pushing for the name “Aotearoa” to be removed from official use until a binding referendum is held to decide whether or not to proceed with changing the name of New Zealand. Hobson’s Pledge spokespersons Casey Costello and Don Brash launched a petition today calling on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern…