Dr Michael Bassett

Dr Michael Bassett

Newspaper Columns

Columns

02/12/24 Māori Party Madness
13/11/24 Labour Struggles to Re-position Itself
01/11/24 Excessive Gate-Keeping Spoils our Health System
04/10/24 The Government Money Tree and New Hospitals
23/09/24 Iwi Bandits at Work
15/09/24 Why are Loud Mouths Frightened about The Principles of the Treaty?
09/09/24 Are We Our Brothers' Keepers?
20/08/24 Are We to be Governed by the Real, or by Nonsense Versions of the Treaty?
05/08/24 Is it State Care or Family Failure that explains our Underclass?
20/07/24 Dealing with Today's Small, Raucous, Crazy Maori Fringe
14/07/24 The Listener and Danyl McLauchlan
05/07/24 Dealing With Enemies of this Ministry
14/06/24 Is Paul Henry Correct that New Zealand could be Collapsing?
31/05/24 How Social Engineers stabbed Auckland City in the Heart
10/05/24 Welcome to the Current Welfare Mess
20/04/24 Maori Push for Parallel Government Structures
12/04/24 Sad Tales from the Left
30/03/24 Labour's Crime Legacy of the Last Three Years
14/03/24 Who is Responsible for Young Offenders?
28/02/24 URGENT ACTION REQUIRED OVER TV ONE
27/02/24 TV One Still Doesn't Get The Message....
19/02/24 Challenges Facing Christopher Luxon's Government
02/02/24 Shane Jones Deserves support about the Waitangi Tribunal
20/01/24 TV One's Beat-up and the King's Hui
09/01/24 Child and Teen-age Criminal Offending
06/01/24 The Silly Season and Auckland
19/12/23 WHO NEEDS CHIPPY WHEN WE HAVE THE HERALD?
11/12/23 TV ONE Journalists fail to Notice there's a new Government
06/12/23 Modern Maori Myths
26/11/23 A New Ministry at Last
04/11/23 The 2023 Election in Retrospect
15/10/23 Hallelujah: First Steps of Progress at Last
08/10/23 Beware of the Media in the Homestretch
02/10/23 Hapless Hipkins and his Racism
24/09/23 Why Can't Our Journalists do their jobs?
16/09/23 Our Media Still Don't Get it
06/09/23 Bogus Election Media Coverage
01/09/23 The View from Abroad and the Harsh Reality
27/07/23 Chippy's Chickens Fly the Coop
17/07/23 Chris Hipkins and Educational Failure
04/07/23 The Greens and the Coalition of Chaos
28/06/23 Dealing with the Underclass
11/06/23 Who is a Maori?
01/06/23 John Tamihere Guarantees a "Coalition of Chaos"
24/05/23 Mainstream Media Mischief
06/05/23 Labour Sows the Wind and Reaps the Whirlwind
01/05/23 The Labour Party and Tribal Maori Leadership
14/04/23 The Crisis in Maori Society
06/04/23 Labour and its out-of-control Bureaucracy
21/03/23 Hipkins and his Policy Deferrals
03/03/23 Kelvin Davis exposes the flaws in Labour's Maori Policy
19/02/23 Cyclones and Politics
05/02/23 Our Media in Election Year
22/01/23 Chris Hipkins