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NZ’s Most Valuable Asset
Our over-65 pensioners aren’t a burden: they’re holding New Zealand together.
Too Few to Win, Too Many to Die
Why should New Zealanders pay the slightest attention to anything the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has to say?
LARPing as Bums
And what about the half-empty cartons of Cody’s? The burnt meth pipes lying here and there? I mean, you have to at least be a little bit realistic.
The Many Are Watching While the Few Are Being Worshipped
A classroom coup in New Zealand. NZ’s education system risks collapse as identity politics replaces shared learning. When schools elevate the few, the many silently walk away.
News Briefing: 21 July 2025
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards INFRASTRUCTURE Keiller MacDuff (RNZ): 'Announcement of an announcement': Govt accused of recycling projects in $6b infrastructure push RNZ: Govt says billions being spent on infrastructure will create thousands of jobs Bridie Witton (Stuff): Government promises $6b infrastructure blitz will create thousands more
Jevon McSkimming’s Downfall: The Police’s Self-Inflicted Shame
Chambers can play the disappointed boss all he wants but the buck stops with him. He’s presiding over a force that’s more skilled at dodging accountability than upholding the law.
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Face of the Day
A Saudi prince who spent more than two decades in a coma following a car crash in London has died at the age of 36.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… discrimination (noun): 1a: prejudiced or prejudicial outlook, action, or treatment b: the act, practice, or an instance of discriminating categorically rather than individually 2: the quality or power of finely distinguishing 3a: the act of making or perceiving a difference : the act of discriminating b
The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse
But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
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