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Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards HEALTH Guyon Espiner (RNZ): Outdated alcohol guidelines understate health risks, ministry documents reveal 1News: Q+A: Doctors warn private health moves risk a US-style system Fred Christensen (E-Tangata): The kids aren’t smoking, so why aren’t we celebrating? Thomas Coughlan (Herald)
UN Busybody Schooled by David Seymour: New Zealand’s Sovereignty Isn’t Your Playground
Seymour’s response was a masterstroke, defending New Zealand’s right to govern itself without interference from UN bureaucrats who wouldn’t know a Treaty settlement from a parking ticket.
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Face of the Day
In spite of the massive impact that coming out has had on her life, she cannot and will not go back to life as a man. “Technically, it’s possible, because I haven’t had operations and so forth.”
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… elegiac (adjective): 1a: of, relating to, or consisting of two dactylic hexameter lines the second of which lacks the arsis in the third and sixth feet b(1): written in or consisting of elegiac couplets (2): noted for having written poetry in such couplets c:
The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse
When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him.
Standup Sunday
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Benjamin Yang On Facing Legal Action From KFC
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Professor Kendall Clements On Mātauranga Māori v Science
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I've never seen Piers Morgan so quiet
I've never seen Morgan so quiet. Mic drop do we think? Quite astonishing speech. A must watch. pic.twitter.com/5vg7bWBWby — Barry Wall (@HeadWarriorTWM) July 9, 2025 If you have a great Youtube, Rumble or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@goodoil.news
The Good Oil Daily Roundup
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Diving into Obscurity: Captain Beefheart
“Once you’ve heard Beefheart, it’s hard to wash him out of your clothes. It stains, like coffee or blood.”
Zoomers Want Their Boss to Be Their Mummy
And bosses are foolish enough to indulge them.