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“So Much for Libertarianism” – Swarbrick
Her plan to steal an average of $119,316 from each New Zealand household is the most disgusting assault on individual freedom in the 2026 election campaign, so I doubt we will hear a single squeak about the freedom of individuals to defend themselves from her.
Green candidate who called police ‘pigs’ joins Mongrel Mob hui
Te Pāti Māori MP Oriini Kaipara has defended visiting a Mongrel Mob pad run by Harry Tam south of Auckland alongside Green candidates Michel Mulipola and Hūhana Lyndon and fellow Te Pāti Māori MP Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke, Stuff reports.
Greens open to giving taxpayer money to Mongrel Mob drug programmes
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson says her party is open to funding Mongrel Mob-linked drug rehabilitation programmes, despite the gang's involvement in the drug trade and violent crime, the NZ Herald reports.
Nearly half of Kiwis believe they must leave NZ to get ahead financially
Almost half of New Zealanders surveyed believe they need to leave the country to get ahead financially, up from 29% in 2020 to 48% in the latest University of Otago Consumer Lifestyles study.
Population growth relies entirely on non-citizen migration as Kiwis keep leaving
While overall net migration rose from 9,163 to 20,503, New Zealand is gaining population through international migration while losing more of its own citizens than it attracts back.
“So Much for Libertarianism” – Swarbrick
Her plan to steal an average of $119,316 from each New Zealand household is the most disgusting assault on individual freedom in the 2026 election campaign, so I doubt we will hear a single squeak about the freedom of individuals to defend themselves from her.
Will We Make Big Pets?
The ‘new era of Super Intelligence’ is not here and may never be: but it’s worth thinking about what it might mean.
Greenpeace NZ with Professor Jane Kelsey Are Sandbagging New Zealand
Greenpeace NZ, with Professor Jane Kelsey, is sandbagging New Zealand.
For Political Uncertainty Watch the Colours
Have you noticed the new Labour Party hoardings appearing around the country?
Who Actually Sits on the Right in NZ
My own ideal government does not believe the state should run the economy.
Foodstuffs Did Not Appear by Accident
Foodstuffs didn’t wake up yesterday morning and discover that it had become one of New Zealand’s two major supermarket operators.
An Execution and Banning a Livestream
No one is forcing you to watch, listen or read. And if something you don’t like strays across your consciousness, close the book, change the channel or streamer or hit the off switch. Everyone has the power to be their own censor.
Quick Hit: Two Ticks Against Your Partner
Paul Goldsmith, sixth on National's list, is door-knocking Epsom for two ticks blue against David Seymour. National is polling with no list headroom and needs ACT's seats to govern.
Our Town Is Every Town
The machine cannot tolerate cogs that develop self-awareness. This is the very same machine that ran throughout the Covid years. Having built the technical infrastructure for the Great Barrington Declaration, I recognize the pattern of excommunication intimately.
Wet Gallery. Dry History.
Hager drops a mystery book Tuesday. Gallery sells destiny. The poll charts from 2002 to 2020 say noise. Agitprop in a journalist costume.
Tiny Home Thursday
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Sean Plunket Reacts To Uneventful Minor Party Leaders Debate
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What The TVNZ/Verian Poll Really Says
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Editors’ Picks
How High Did the Grooming Cover Up Go?
UK PM implicated in Muslim child-rape gang scandal.
Most of the Covid Tyrants Are Gone, What Next?
Ardern, Biden and Trudeau are now gone. But where to from here?
Continued Contempt of Parliament from Te Pāti Māori
If they don’t like the institution of parliament and its standing orders, then they can always go back to the mat.