Dr Michael Bassett

Dr Michael Bassett

Newspaper Columns

Columns

19/04/25 Wish-lists and Reality
08/03/25 Academic Arrogance: Dame Anne Salmond
12/02/25 Maori, Welfare and Tikanga
27/01/25 Reforming the Waitangi Tribunal
17/01/25 Waitangi Day Looms
10/12/24 Beware of "Te Tiriti" Nonsense
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