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Unions and Economists Shoot Mouths off at RSE Scheme

Byron Freeman Sure as night follows day, or New Zealand follows Australia, the unions here in New Zealand have decided to chirp up and meddle in what was once (and hopefully still is) a very successful programme.  The adage “don’t fix something that isn’t broken” seems to fall

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16 Businesses You Can Run from a Shipping Container

ConexBoxes – Steel Storage Container Solutions conexboxes.com Starting a business is tough and expensive. As a business owner or potential business owner, you are always looking for ways to keep costs low while not compromising the quality of your services. One of the greatest costs is your space, and renting

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‘Coming 2 America’: A Woke Joke Falls Flat

‘Coming 2 America’: A Woke Joke Falls Flat

Gabriel Andrade mercatornet.com Gabriel Andrade is assistant professor of medicine at Ajman University, in the United Arab Emirates. His main area of research is Ethics and Psychology in a medical context, as well as the analysis of cultural phenomena from a psychological and philosophical perspective. Coming 2 America Directed

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‘This Is How You Get Your Power Back’

‘This Is How You Get Your Power Back’

Catherine Rentz propublica.org **This story is the third of a three-part series. “This Is How You Get Your Power Back” by Catherine Rentz; Illustrations by Isabel Seliger, special to ProPublica ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.  Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories

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Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder sunlive.co.nz Rainfalls for the month of May have been recorded in Tauranga since 1898 – except for 1904, 1907, 1908, and 1909. The graph shows the range of rainfalls from an extreme high of 634 mm in 2005 to a low of 13 mm in 2001. The

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IDF: Hamas Used AP Building to Plan Disruption of Israel’s Iron Dome System

IDF: Hamas Used AP Building to Plan Disruption of Israel’s Iron Dome System

Eric Lendrum amgreatness.com Eric Lendrum graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was the Secretary of the College Republicans and the founding chairman of the school’s Young Americans for Freedom chapter. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) released a statement confirming the intelligence that the Palestinian

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SNAs Okay for Farmers but Not for Iwi

Mark Cameron ACT Primary Industries spokesperson Associate Environment Minister James Shaw on Friday said it’s okay to carry out a land grab on farms, but not on land owned by iwi. Friday morning ACT congratulated the Government on hitting pause on Significant Natural Areas, where the Government issues a

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Curing Our Loneliness Epidemic

Jeremy Vargo maxim.org.nz Why are young New Zealanders so lonely? You may imagine it’s the elderly who are loneliest. They often live alone. Their health is declining. They’ve lost spouses, partners and friends.  No. While loneliness and its associated ills are prevalent among older New Zealanders,

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COVID-19: A Fijian Businesswoman’s Perspective

COVID-19: A Fijian Businesswoman’s Perspective

Kim Beddoes devpolicy.org Kim Beddoes is a weddings and events specialist based in Nadi, Fiji. She was the youngest woman to be awarded Fiji’s Businesswoman of the Year, in 2018. I am the owner of Party & Events Fiji and Fiji Weddings. We specialise in creating stunning celebrations

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The Value of a Vaccination

Alwyn Poole What we are told by health professionals: The vaccine is well tested, safe and effective. stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/125386042/nzs-covidfree-status-relies-on-trust-in-the-vaccine Or this: “The researchers found that fully immunised participants were 25 times less likely to test positive

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Coal Data Makes a Mockery of Climate Commission

Coal Data Makes a Mockery of Climate Commission

David Seymour ACT Leader Even Jacinda Ardern’s harshest critics never imagined her ‘nuclear-free moment’ would be coal-powered. According to the latest figures from the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE), coal imports are up are up 25 per cent on the same quarter last year. Coal

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NZ Histories Curriculum: The Ministry of Indoctrination

NZ Histories Curriculum: The Ministry of Indoctrination

Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org Barbara McKenzie has a PhD in German Literature. ‘[…] there are risks that, if done poorly, compulsory history in our schools could veer into the realm of indoctrination.  It is no coincidence that one of the first functions authoritarian regimes undertake on assuming power is to produce

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Govt Lies and Hyperbole on Climate Change
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Govt Lies and Hyperbole on Climate Change

Owen Jennings Former National President of Federated Farmers Yesterday Prime Minster Ardern claimed that action on the Climate Commission’s recommendations was “a matter of life and death”. There is zero truth in that statement. It is outrageous and dangerous. All the evidence shows that climate-related deaths – both from

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