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Judith Collins – Speech to Lower North Island Regional Conference

Judith Collins – Speech to Lower North Island Regional Conference

Good morning, delegates. It’s an absolute privilege to be speaking to you all here today as your leader. I’d like to acknowledge National Party President Peter Goodfellow, my fellow board members, my lower North Island colleagues and all of you, the members of the National Party. It is

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Daily News Roundup – 10 May 2021

Daily News Roundup – 10 May 2021

Public sector pay freeze Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Political Roundup: The Public sector worker backlash against Labour Andrea Vance (Stuff): Why Jacinda Ardern needs to make a John Key-style u-turn on pay sector freeze Alexia Russell (RNZ): Pay freezing out your traditional voter base Liam Dann (Herald): Muldoon or Richardson?

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Poll: 69% Oppose Two-Govt Tribal Rule Plan

Poll: 69% Oppose Two-Govt Tribal Rule Plan

Hobson’s Pledge Trust Sixty-nine per cent oppose a plan for two governments under a tribal compliance committee while 20 per cent said news of the plan would change the way they voted, according to a poll that finished on Friday Researchers Pure Profile did an internet survey of 1003

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Collins’ Comments

Collins’ Comments

Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz Transparent Government is paramount for Democracy My National caucus and I want to know what Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern really thinks about the report called He Puapua that Labour commissioned in 2019. He Puapua in its un-redacted format sets out a roadmap to

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One Nation One People

One Nation One People

Pete North CEO New Conservative I came here as an immigrant 44 years ago, and long ago became a New Zealand citizen.  I was part of a generation of Kiwis that spoke out against the ethnic separatism taking place in South Africa in the ’70s and ’80s.  Never in my

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Daily News Roundup – 17 April 2021

Daily News Roundup – 17 April 2021

Public sector pay freeze Stuff: Editorial – Pay freeze stretches public sector loyalty Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Pay freeze shows Government can’t manage the books Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Pay freeze controversy enters second day, with Greens and National pressing Labour Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Do people really earn more in

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A Divided and Resentful ‘Team of 5 Million’

A Divided and Resentful ‘Team of 5 Million’

Susan Short Secretary democracyaction@xtra.co.nz It is obvious from feedback we have been receiving lately that more and more people are becoming disillusioned, frustrated and angry about the direction the Government is taking our country. It seems like every other day another decree is declared that is creating

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Daily News Roundup – 6 May 2021

Daily News Roundup – 6 May 2021

Parliament’s Speaker Trevor Mallard Henry Cooke (Stuff): National v Mallard: That atrocious late-night debate is the reason people hate politicians Barry Soper (Herald): Trevor Mallard’s outburst this week questions whether he understands what a serious sexual assault is Claire Trevett (Herald): The unedifying spectacle of the Speaker v

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Act Deputy Leader Statement on Xinjiang
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Act Deputy Leader Statement on Xinjiang

Brooke van Velden ACT Deputy Leader Mr Speaker, I move that this House is gravely concerned about the severe human rights abuses taking place against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. We call on the Government to work with the United Nations, international

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Winter Is Coming
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Winter Is Coming

Rob Salmond General Secretary Labour Party Kia ora The days are getting shorter and colder, which means it’s once again time for Labour’s Winter Energy Payment. I’m enormously proud that Labour introduced the Winter Energy Payment back in 2018. Since then, the payment has helped around a

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What Does the Treaty Mean?
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What Does the Treaty Mean?

The Haps Armed with only Parliament’s Standing Orders, Brooke van Velden has succeeded where nuclear powers have failed. She’s made Labour take a clear position on China. Either they will support her motion condemning genocide in Xinjian, or prevent it being debated, as would sadly now happen in

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Daily News Roundup – 5 May 2021

Daily News Roundup – 5 May 2021

He Puapua document and the National Party Henry Cooke (Stuff): Whose race card is this anyway? Judith Collins and David Seymour both appear to have found the same wedge issue Graham Adams (Stuff): Ardern on a hot tin roof over He Puapua plan to share power with Maori Claire Trevett

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Brash: PM Needs to Be Honest about Tribal Govt Plan
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Brash: PM Needs to Be Honest about Tribal Govt Plan

Don Brash Hobson’s Pledge Trust Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern should front up to the people of New Zealand about what has and has not been decided on a plan for two governments in New Zealand, one for Maori and one for everyone else, Hobson’s Pledge spokesman Don Brash

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Glad to See Collins, Seymour Oppose Two-Govt Plan
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Glad to See Collins, Seymour Oppose Two-Govt Plan

Hobson’s Pledge Trust There is a glimmer of hope that two political leaders may be listening to voter concern about arrogance by successive administrations on the Treaty, racial preference, and the latest plan for two governments under tribal control. On Saturday, National Party leader Judith Collins used her keynote

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Read Our Week in Review

Read Our Week in Review

We’re focused on the issues that matter to Kiwis. Catch up on the latest in politics with our Week in Review below. * Does the PM really stand for democracy and equal rights for Kiwis? * Officials told Labour that renters would suffer. * Upgrade Programme transport flip-flop another hollow promise. * Complacency

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Daily News Roundup – 4 May 2021

Daily News Roundup – 4 May 2021

China and New Zealand Bryce Edwards (The Guardian): Ardern’s speech was not an attack on China, or even a shift away from Beijing Geoffrey Miller (Democracy Project): Something for everyone in Ardern’s speech on China Michael Neilson (Herald): Greens, Labour undecided over Uyghur motion calling for declaration of

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