'A major distraction': Luxon calls urgent caucus meeting as leadership pressures spill into the open
“This issue needs to be resolved quickly.”
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The Greens Are Being Remarkably Honest
We should listen. The plan is for a very different New Zealand.
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This Is What They’re Protecting
The government has abrogated its responsibilities and the judges and bureaucrats never take any.
Is a Marae Near You Worth $2.44 Billion of Your Tax Money?
This $2.44 billion “donation” isn’t about community infrastructure is it: it’s a desperate, taxpayer-funded undertaking to buy votes. Why aren’t the media asking the Greens if they are serving New Zealanders, or just subsidising and aligning themselves with the Māori Party’s agenda?
No Winston, This Is His Country Too
Radically reducing immigrant arrivals and visa restrictions is one thing, but rounding up people who may have been in the country for decades because they don’t ‘look like a Kiwi’ is quite another – and a much more horrifying – story.
eKaren Is up to Her Usual Tricks
No matter how often she loses at taxpayer expense, she remains unelected and untouchable.
Looks like Luxon Wants to Stare Down the Backstabbers, Again
The backstabbers are not going away. They are just waiting to see if three votes are still enough.
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Philip Polkinghorne got a call midway through from his friend, defence lawyer Tony Bouchier, who told him his house was a crime scene and he was likely a suspect. Police had not told him that, he said.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… deepfake (noun) - : a digital image, video, voice, etc. that has been convincingly generated or altered to misrepresent someone as doing or saying something that was not actually done or said Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : The old maxim "things aren’t always as they seem&
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Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
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