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28Oct2026

Jacinda Ardern appointment – BIG mistake.

October 28, 2026

An e-mail from John McLean to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney (mark.scott@sydney.edu.au)

Dear Professor Scott,
It was with disbelief and horror that I read that the University of Sydney is to employ Jacinda Ardern as a “Professor of Practice” to teach students about “emphatetic leadership, social cohesion and civil trust”. This beggars belief as during her disastrous term as Prime Minister of New Zealand she introduced huge divisions to society and was exceptionally cruel to various groups that did not fit in with her own prejudices or interests.

Some of these were vulnerable groups. For example, by her beloved abortion legislation, allowing the killing of the foetus virtually right up to the time of birth, she has made New Zealand the most dangerous country in the world for a baby to be born in. By prancing around in front of the cameras wearing a Muslim head covering veil in order to attract the votes of male Muslims, she undermined the rights of Muslim women who are forced to wear such uncomfortable clothing by their husbands. For this photographic stunt she was criticised by those Muslim women who have had the courage to throw off the veil, the universal symbol of the Islamic persecution of women.

During the Covid scare, which she manipulated by lies into something far more serious than it actually was, she victimised various vulnerable groups, including the relatives of those in prison. Such family members were forbidden to visit a prison unless they had been vaccinated with the potentially dangerous Pfizer vaccine that she was trying to inflict on everybody. To deprive prisoners of such family contact is about as cruel as it can get.

Jacinda Ardern is a congenital liar who told everyone that the Pfizer vaccine was “safe and effective” when, in fact, it was neither and has caused both illness and deaths. Her obsession with death seems quite perverse – whether it is killing little babies in the womb or forcing an untried and potentially harmful vaccine on people with heart conditions and other ailments, some of whom have died from it.

How can your university force your fee paying students to listen to such a naturally deceitful person as anything that she says – especially on the subject of “emphatetic leadership” would be incapable of belief due to her lying nature?

The reason why she is trying to sell herself to overseas universities is that within New Zealand she is the most hated person in the country as the people had plenty of opportunity to see through her lies and her manipulation of situations that have created such lasting divisions in society.

You owe it to your students to save them from being exposed to this liar, false prophet and extremely bad character. In the interests of the reputation of your university I ask you to cancel this inappropriate appointment.

Yours faithfully,
John McLean

27Oct2026

A NOVEL DEVELOPMENT

October 27, 2026

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boer war, mozambique, rhodesians, South Africa, the moretons, zimbabwe Book Launch

Tross Publishing has branched out in to the field of fiction with the publication of “Sunlight and Shadows; A Novel of Rhodesia” by John McLean, the author of “The British Empire; A Force for Good” and other books.

In its 261 pages this historical saga traces the progress of the Moretons, a fictional pioneer family whose progenitor went to the new land of Rhodesia at the beginning of the twentieth century and set up a large cattle ranch in the east of the country. The book covers three generations of the family with references to some of the important developments in Rhodesia’s short, romantic but ultimately tragic history.

Life in Africa may be dangerous in so many ways but it is never dull. This is brought out in the book which deals with love and deceit, hunting wild animals, game preservation, relations between Briton and Boer and between the white man and the black man, the power of modern terrorism to destroy a peaceful and orderly society, the unfortunate habit of the British Foreign Office in yielding to violence, and the ultimate betrayal of Rhodesians – both blacks and whites – by Margaret Thatcher’s treacherous Conservative government which, by means of deceit, handed this hitherto well-governed country over to the worst gang of jungle killers in all of Africa.

The scene sometimes shifts to other countries – South Africa during the Boer War, Britain during the two world wars and Mozambique, which preceded Zimbabwe on the road to economic ruin as a result of Marxist policies.

The book is both entertaining and informative and is available from: www.trosspublishing.com

30Sep2026

Should Our Country be Named Aotearoa

September 30, 2026

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By Kerry Butler

There has been a movement in recent times to push a name change for our country to “Aotearoa” by way of creeping normalcy. This subversive agenda is brazenly orchestrated by ideologically biased Media … especially via News Presenters.

Before this woke crusade is allowed to go too far, people need to be enlightened as to all aspects of a name change … especially considering what is at stake, i.e. the financial cost as regards our hard-earned Internationally recognised “NZ” marketing brand.

There should also be consideration for our soldiers who died fighting in two World Wars … 30,000 of whom are interred in overseas countries, where their gravestones are proudly inscribed with the name of their homeland as being “New Zealand”.

Of course, to counter these aspects, it will be argued that the New Zealand name will always remain combined with Aotearoa. Rubbish. We already see and hear numerous examples of where it is not.

Of real significance concerning this whole matter is that despite what has been our country’s name under various spellings since 1643 (which is quite a stretch of history) the desire to now change it to Aotearoa is based solely on the belief that it’s the original Māori name. But the truth is, Māori had no name for the country as a whole. The North Island was Te Ika ā Māui and the South Island Te Waka ā Māui.

It is said that the word Aotearoa described white cloud. And “Aotea” was used by some to name the North Island. Although, the area now known as the King Country was referred to as Aotearoa during the 1870’s.

In 1890 the author, William Reeves popularized the usage of “Aotearoa” to describe the entirety of New Zealand through romanticized literary narratives rather than traditional precedent.

The first Māori dictionary, published in 1844, had no entry for Aotearoa. And the Te Reo Treaty of Waitangi signed in 1840 makes no mention of it.

In 1835 when chiefs were establishing the Declaration of Independence (which failed due to intertribal fighting) they didn’t know what name to give their country, so called it Nu Tireni which expressed their pronunciation of the English wording for “New Zealand”.

This not only proves that Aotearoa was never the traditionally accepted name, but also that Maori were happy with the name New Zealand. So much so, they made up Te Reo words to match it.