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We could do better with the 10-year $30 million investment in the WHO.
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The Limits of Cleverness Versus Capitalism
If Labour and Sepuloni are returned to government, this time with the influence of the Greens and Te Pāti Māori, how much worse will these numbers get?
Shut Up, Woman, They/Them Explain
Woman fired from community radio station simply for talking to another woman.
The Case for Saving Chris Bishop
A parliament without Chris Bishop would be a worse parliament.
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Guy Fawkes Is Two Days Too Early
There it is folks, the asylum collection personified. They will fail to light the fuse of those wanting sanity in government and policies designed to grow the wealth of the country.
Politicians and Gangs: An Etiquette Guide
If politicians must pal around with thugs and crims, they should at least know how to behave.
The campaign is getting louder. The money isn't.
September was light on money and the election is heavy on work. If more of you don't start paying, I will cut content and services.
Dame Jacinda – An Empathic Leader
I’m not going to even try and make sense of this. Graham Norton, Mark Scott and all the rest of you simps can have her.
Quick Hit: ACT’s $22b In Four Lines
ACT’s manifesto puts $22 billion of savings on the table over four years, debt $12.4b lower by 2031, Super at 67 by 2035, and a three-year minimum wage freeze. One headline muddled that to $2b. Hipkins still has not priced his first week.
Why Does the Left Soft-Soap Māori Gangs?
It’s true that you can’t choose your family, but if it includes members of an organisation that unrepentantly peddles misery and violence – and you are neither willing to denounce their behaviour nor distance yourself from them – politics is always going to be a very risky career choice.
The Greens Want The Truth Taken Down
Sensible Sentencing Trust put Swarbrick, Davidson and Hipkins under “BACKING THE GANGS”. The Greens complained. JCDecaux paused the ads. Swarbrick called it a “despicable downgrading of democracy”. The billboards rest on the Greens’ own words.
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