Luxon Looks to Create Growth
This was a speech that you would never hear from the left. They are unable to grasp this sort of vision that the country sorely needs.
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Absolute Number on Benefits at All-Time High
Today New Zealand is carrying hundreds of thousands of people who are quite capable of carrying themselves. And would if such an easy alternative wasn’t presented.
NZ Politics Daily: 27 January 2025
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards GOVERNMENT Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): Economics 101: The coalition’s wake-up call (paywalled) Russell Palmer (RNZ): Economists challenge details of Luxon's new growth plan Press Editorial (Post): Just a question of attitude (paywalled) ODT Editorial: Going for growth (paywalled) Luke Malpass (Post)
Whale Songs: For $4M You’d Think It’d Be On Spotify
Because it is Māori-related wasteful spending, newsrooms fall over themselves not to cover it. We get individual journalists contacting us about some of our stories saying they’d love to pick them up but their colleagues and editors would go berserk.
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While she hopes that sharing what happened will help to prevent such horrors from being repeated, Mindu is deeply saddened by what is happening in the world today. “Our main aim is to stop hatred, prejudice and segregation. I know I survived to tell our story and make sure people never forget.”
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… eupeptic (adjective): 1: of, relating to, or having good digestion 2: cheerful, optimistic Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Eupeptic first appeared around 1700 and was probably created from eupepsia, a word meaning "good digestion." (Eupepsia was cooked up from eu-, meaning "good,"
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for riches don’t last forever, and the crown might not be passed to the next generation.
CIA backs lab leak theory for COVID origins in shift from previous stance
It reflects a growing scepticism of China's transparency.
Golriz Ghahraman’s shoplifting case sheds light on police use of Auror
“Retailers choose to make this information available to law enforcement.”
Javier Milei’s Davos address on ‘wokeism’ liberty and ’the quest for privileges’
“Long live freedom, dammit!”
New Zealand benefit numbers hit record high
“New Zealand is carrying hundreds of thousands of people who are quite capable of carrying themselves.”
Journalist Ezra Levant: “They really want you to eat the bugs”
"This is not a conspiracy theory.”
