Articles in ‘Current Affairs’

This is the claim made by Kate Hannah in the podcast released last week by Radio New Zealand (RNZ), Undercurrent. It is a 7-part series on Misinformation in New Zealand, hosted by Susie Ferguson and there is one word for it: Propaganda. “It’s genocidal because it’s about the eradication of a particular group of people,” adds Ferguson after Kate Hannah’s claim. The inference is…

The Government is currently in the process of scraping the 30-year-old Resource Management Act (RMA) and replacing it with three new pieces of legislation. The three new replacement Acts are: • The Natural and Built Environment Act (NBA), whereby local government and mana whenua will be required to form joint, regional planning committees to develop one NBA plan for each region,…

Let’s face it. Three weeks to ‘flatten the curve’ has and still is changing our nation’s social landscape. Up until March 2020 most of us were doing our thing, living what we considered to be pretty good lives. We thought we were in control - albeit grumbling about fluctuating prices of fuel, and taxes, ohh those pesky taxes. But we were mostly compliant, law-abiding, and left…

Watch the true story of the Wellington protests that the New Zealand Government tried to ignore and the media attempted to suppress. In 2020-22, the New Zealand government enacted emergency laws, mandates and a medical passport system that caused thousands of New Zealanders to lose jobs, businesses, homes and health. Furthermore, those people were locked out of New Zealand…

exclusivley on Voice Media Alistair Harding, The filmmaker behind We Came Here for Freedom is Alistair Harding. A New Zealander by birth, Alistair spent much of his working career in Asia, where he began making short documentaries in Singapore, Japan, Malaysia and Indonesia as well as longer films for National Geographic, History Channel and corporate clients. His first feature…

Adam Young - is a free speech advocate who works as a legal researcher for the Free Speech Union. When I imagine the exercise of free speech, speaking truth to power and “sticking it to the man”, I don’t think of back-room discussions or big-money lobbying. No, one simply needs to run a google image search of “free speech” to see the symbols of protest: the crowds holding up…

MJ chats to Shane Callander from Callander Contruction. Established in early 2007, Callander Constructions is based in Pukekohe and provides residential and commercial building and construction services to the wider South Auckland and North Waikato regions. Because they are a small local company, they offer a more personalised approach to all clients. They also offer quality…

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science (NZDSOS) This seems to be an increasingly common phenomenon – doctors bemused or unable to diagnose or explain odd conditions. The article refers to a baby girl who has developed a cataract. It states that the parents noticed an odd eye and went to get it checked. It is reassuring to know that, despite the current state of our health…

By: Democracy Action ‘Co-governance’ is an emerging and developing model of decision-making in New Zealand. This term refers to a shared governance arrangement – commonly with representatives of iwi on one side, and representatives of central and/or local government on the other, each having equal voting rights at the decision-making table. The introduction of the co-governance…

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…