Labour’s ‘Free for Everyone’ Cervical Screening: Woke Virtue Signalling While Ignoring Real Kiwi Killers
At its core, this pledge exposes Labour’s flaws: splashing cash on low-impact problems, using evasive language that skirts reality and sidelining the health crises battering men.
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At dinner, Dave found his usual chair missing. Karen had moved it into the shed and left a note on his place mat: ELECTORATE LOST. “I can still get in on the party list,” he said. Karen handed him the camping stool. “You’re not on the list.”
End Bail-Outs to Force Councils to Confront Decisions
Wellington council spent irresponsibly, either with the support or resigned indifference of its ratepayers. The bill is due. Nobody else should be asked to cover it.
Would You Trust These Politicians?
Governing demands fiscal discipline, competent execution, and tactical clarity at the ballot box. New Zealand is not someone else’s company – it belongs to all of us.
Is This Election Already Over?
A polling clerk told me voting had been heavy all weekend. By Friday, nearly 600,000 votes had been cast, 32 per cent more than at the same stage in 2023.
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Gerry Brownlee isn’t buying the polls. At least, not yet. The 70-year-old has been a National MP for three decades (since 1996), held the Ilam seat for many years and in post-quake Canterbury was the powerful Earthquake Recovery Minister. After losing the Ilam seat for the
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When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry