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Grandpa Hager’s Latest Work of Fiction
The denials and corrections are piling up. Nicky Hager’s Dirty Work is a work of fiction and a thin one at that.
Wealth tax wins 64% support — with a $10m threshold and family homes excluded
Almost two-thirds of respondents support a wealth tax targeting individual net assets above $10 million while exempting family homes, according to new Ipsos polling.
Education Ministry launches review as OIA concerns reach Stanford’s office
An Education Ministry manager allegedly told staff to stop recording teachers’ criticism during curriculum consultation because it could be released under the Official Information Act.
Workers of the world, admire my mansion
Commentator Rita Panahi has accused Jacinda Ardern of hypocrisy after the former prime minister reportedly bought a A$5.3 million Sydney home, contrasting the purchase with Ardern’s past description of capitalism as a “blatant failure”.
Dishonest Work: Wishart serves Hager a dose of his own standards on sexual allegations
Ian Wishart is questioning whether Nicky Hager applied the same publication standards in his new book, Dirty Work , that he advocated when giving evidence against Wishart in a 2013 defamation trial.
Change of Government Coming to Victoria?
Whichever party wins the state election, I don’t see a solution to the state’s enormous debt burden in the short term.
The Unbearable Agency Of Sydney Sweeney
Freedom means it should be entirely up to Sweeney if she chooses to make money from her old chains. But that’s not supposed to happen, according to the feminists.
Albo No-Mates Gets Shirtfronted by Lefty Journo
If he’s lost the ABC, he’s lost the last people who still pretended he was competent.
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.
Māori Roadside Art Has Become a Cultural Graffiti
An individual piece of Māori roadside art may be perfectly attractive, interesting, or even impressive.
Has Te Pāti Māori Overplayed It’s Hand?
Te Pāti Māori has exposed a weakness in the MMP system by promoting a voting pattern that could lead to an overhang in any newly elected government.
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.
Quick Hit: Breach Of Trust. Then The SFO.
Van Velden has lost confidence in FENZ CE Kerry Gregory after a seriously significant file was withheld for a year. SFO sits on a historical levy matter FENZ says is proactive and not Gregory personally. Accountability needs the file. Breach of trust. Then the SFO.
Face of the Day
Ngarewa-Packer made the remark after Speaker Maureen Pugh told fellow Te Pāti Māori MP Oriini Kaipara to watch her language in response to her calling the government’s move-on orders “bull crap”.
This Is a Naked Inconsistency
What the reaction to another Sydney Sweeney advertisement reveals about consistency, power, and political double standards.
Friday Fur
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Christopher Luxon: Three Years Later, Where Did All The Promises Go?
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National Party Supermarket Policies: Are They Turning Left?
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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.