Showing posts with label New Zealand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Zealand. Show all posts
Saturday, May 29, 2010

OPINION: Refugee Hysteria Suggests Aussies Have Forgotten Their Own Ancestors

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YOU can always tell when Australia has entered election mode. Suddenly the really big issues come to the fore - issues that affect the econo...
Sunday, April 25, 2010

POLITICS/UK: BNP wants to set up a penal colony ...

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Well, it looks like Nick Griffin, the Grand Ayatollah of the British Nazi Party (BNP) wants to be a serious contender in the upcoming UK el...
Tuesday, July 07, 2009

OPINION: Values blur in good and evil ...

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Uncle Sam stands at the top of a flight of stairs, looking more than slightly perplexed. Below him is a windowless chamber its sparse furnis...
Tuesday, October 07, 2008

LETTERS: Yet more tendentious responses to tendentious articles ...

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It seems my tendentious writing is continuing unabated, despite requests from some quarters for respectable media to cease publishing my wo...
Thursday, September 25, 2008

UPDATE: More of my tendentious writing ...

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A certain tabloid columnist recently described my writing as tendentious . According to the AskOxford website , the word "tendentious...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

VIDEO: Interesting tourism advertisement ...

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Is it time for the annual pilgrimage to New Zealand? Perhaps ... Words © 2008 Irfan Yusuf
Thursday, July 10, 2008

UPDATE: Stuff published elsewhere …

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The New Zealand Herald today published some observations on World Youth Day. NZ Herald columnist Garth George was, for some reason, mista...
Friday, June 13, 2008

UPDATE: More stuff published elsewhere ...

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The Kiwis have suddenly discovered Camden. Either that, or they've had far more important things to read and write about. This rather bl...
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

UPDATE: Stuff published elsewhere ...

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I was busy leading upto and on ANZAC Day, having stuff published in the NZ Herald , The Press of Christchurch, ABC Unleashed and the Canbe...
Friday, February 15, 2008

LETTER: A response to the anti-Williams pundits ...

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A New Zealand academic and widely published author on religion sent me a letter he had submitted for publication in The Press (a Christchur...
Tuesday, October 16, 2007

POLITICS: Riding the Brethren Express ...

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Last year, Greens Senator Bob Brown called for a Senate inquiry into the political funding and other activities of the tiny Exclusive Brethr...
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Monday, October 15, 2007

BOOK REVIEW: Dirty politics across the ditch ...

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The Hollow Men: A study in the politics of deception Nicky Hager Craig Potton Publishing, 352pp ___________ Believe it or not, politics can ...
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

CRIKEY: Studying the PM through the Crosby/Textor prism

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The entrails of Crosby/Textor' s leaked polling advice to the PM have been picked over by the commentators and yesterday Piers Akerman...
Monday, April 30, 2007

POLITICS: Helen Clark's Brethren?

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Last week Wednesday's Crikey posed the question about how private is a private conversation with the PM . Certainly any discussions the...
Thursday, April 05, 2007

OPINION: Try Kiwi values, mate!

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New Zealand has a crucial advantage over Australia when it comes to trying to define its values for newcomers, writes IRFAN YUSUF. Both Aust...
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Friday, January 26, 2007

REFLECTION: Cheers to our cultural diversity

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AUSTRALIA Day is traditionally a day for the Australian patriot. Certainly we have much to be patriotic about. In a short time compared with...
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Thursday, December 28, 2006

HUMOUR: New Auslandia? Too right ...

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I know we Aussies have always regarded our cousins across the Tasman as ever-so-polite. We've always presumed that behind all that hak...
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

OPINION: Mufti of New Zealand?

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Women who refuse to cover up to the level expected by Islamic teachings are comparable to meat. Men are comparable to cats that enjoy eating...
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