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The Fans Must Be Allowed to Attend
Could you imagine the outrage if the team were Palestinian? One must ask, would this decision have originally been made if fans from Palestine had been visiting Aston Villa to play a fixture? With a suspected ‘two-tier’ system in this country, probably not.
Are the Gender Whisperers in Tas Schools?
Women Speak Tasmania are challenging both Premier Jeremy Rockliff and Education Minister Jo Palmer to come clean on whether they approve of government-funded materials teaching contested notions of ‘gender’ in the state’s schools and apparently being withheld from Tasmanian parents.
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[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day
Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.
Where Are We Going With This?
The US cannot have Wall Street send trillions to China to build their “military rise” and expect it to be “peaceful.” The United States must either take CCP threat seriously or suffer the consequences as we did in WWII and on 9-11.
No Respect in the Heartland for Protests
Every conservative knows these events aren’t organic. Thousands upon thousands of coordinated propaganda blasts went out, full of links to left-wing fundraising websites.
Seeking Freedom From the Citizenry
The gall of the Albanese government’s attempt to stop you being inconvenient.
Don’t You Believe It!
Hipkins’ desire to hold the levers of power in his hot little hands is so great he would crawl over upturned beer bottle tops and even ‘dance with the devil’ to achieve that goal! That desire is probably due to the need to prove himself to all his many detractors and maybe even his mother.
Labour pitches ‘Future Fund’ as alternative to tax hikes — but details are thin
NZ First called it “Temu mail order rip off.”
Kapa-Kingi says budget adjusted to care for ill colleague, not overspent, doesn’t explain hiring son
“The Speaker of the House...approved my budget adjustments..."
Palestine dispute deepens teachers’ strike tensions
“It just happened to be listed first."
Inflation hits 3% as power prices surge to highest level since 1989
ASB expects a 25-basis-point cut to the Official Cash Rate in November.
2,000+ New Zealanders push back against ‘BSA power grab’ over online media
“Kiwis don’t want unelected bureaucrats appointing themselves as the censor of the modern internet.”
Economist: New Zealand’s emigration rivals some conflict zones
“a beautiful but economically hollowed-out retirement destination."
Health NZ apologises after girl vaccinated at school against mother’s wishes
She “looked old enough to have this."