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Quick Hit: Make NZ Healthy
NZ First Make NZ Healthy: prevention over medicines that manage decline and sell another Pharmac cheque. Nutrition curriculum, metabolic health, written consent, GP autonomy, Medsafe/Pharmac barriers, Vit D and IV C trials are selling a different destination.
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Quick Hit: Labour Breaks Both. Nat Breaks One. ACT Breaks Nothing.
Labour would force Woolworths and Foodstuffs to split retail from wholesale. National still hedges Foodstuffs behind ComCom. Seymour brings the scissors. Breakup season. Same aisle. Three scripts. Labour breaks both. Nat breaks one (maybe). ACT breaks nothing.
Quick Hit: Breach Of Trust. Then The SFO.
Van Velden has lost confidence in FENZ CE Kerry Gregory after a seriously significant file was withheld for a year. SFO sits on a historical levy matter FENZ says is proactive and not Gregory personally. Accountability needs the file. Breach of trust. Then the SFO.
Quick Hit: Ten Point Eight Million. And The Veto.
Greens still sell KiwiMart at $10.8m a store with the library costing locked. Same week Seymour brings the aisle veto and National leaves ComCom out. Soft communism with a locked drawer. Campaign promise with coalition scissors.
Quick Hit: The Letter That Bought $4.9m
OT treated a thank-you letter from Willie Jackson's wife as the business case for $4.9m. Not procurement. A family note with a price tag.
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Albo No-Mates Gets Shirtfronted by Lefty Journo
If he’s lost the ABC, he’s lost the last people who still pretended he was competent.
What Has Gone Is Self-Government
If the legalised Muslim invasion of the West doesn’t stop, I fear that communities will rediscover the power of self-government and it won’t be pretty.
National Is the ‘Party of Business’
National doesn’t need complex market interventions for a political resurgence – it needs clear, foundational principles. The party could trigger an immediate surge in the polls by drawing a permanent line under race-based funding.
Most Popular. Melting Numbers.
Hipkins still says he is the most popular politician in the country. Ani has the clip. Cam already cut the line. Stats NZ has GDP up 0.2 per cent and construction up 2.7 percent. Popularity is a feeling. The ledger is a receipt.