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Does This Describe You?

Does This Describe You?

Currently, five generations make up our society. Depending on the specific workplace, the workforce includes four to five generations. The typical birth years for each generation are: * Traditionalists or Silent Generation: Born 1945 and before * Baby Boomers: Born 1946 – 1964 * Generation X: Born 1965 – 1976 * Millennials or Gen Y: Born

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Local Council Votes to Hold Drug Users’ Hands

Local Council Votes to Hold Drug Users’ Hands

It seems that there’s no nanny-state soapbox too pointless that local councils can’t work themselves up into a virtue-signalling lather about it. Once upon a time, ratepayers laboured under the impression that the role of local councils was to see to it that the rubbish was collected, local

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Demented, Deluded & Deranged

Demented, Deluded & Deranged

By John Not a day goes by without the publication of an illogical rant by some unhinged politician of the Left. These poor deluded creatures, deceived by their own beliefs, are only succeeding in making themselves the laughing stock of normal thinking people. Unfortunately, much of what they have to

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Playing Gender Politics While Men Die

Playing Gender Politics While Men Die

You can’t help but notice that feminists’ obsession with “gender imbalances” seems more than a tad mercenary. The same gender warriors who faint and clutch their pearls if there are 50.1 percent males in some lucrative boardroom, are strangely silent about the fact that teaching and nursing are

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The Confiscation Blow-back Debacle

The Confiscation Blow-back Debacle

Advocates for liberty are watching New Zealand as we speak, quietly admiring the individual resistance (quite obviously on display) from members of the firearms owning community in, so far, failing to participate willingly in the confiscation of their devices. Let me say, from the outset, I have no skin in

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Prisons: Punishment, Rehabilitation or Training Grounds for Extremists?

Prisons: Punishment, Rehabilitation or Training Grounds for Extremists?

As another round of terror raids in Sydney unfolded recently, a depressingly familiar refrain emerged: “Radicalised in prison”. The central conceit of the modern criminal justice system is that prison should be all about rehabilitation rather than punishment. Similarly, we are told that our response to growing Islamic extremism ought

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A Readers Response to ACT President Tim Jago’s e-mail to supporters

Thanks for the update, some interesting reading. One statement which seems a bit off is The usually unsympathetic Whaleoil blog even allowed itself to admit ACT is a party whose time has again come.”. Over the years there has been considerable support for ACT on the Whaleoil Blog to the

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Read the Top Five Posts from Yesterday

This post is to provide you with the links to the top five most-read posts as the vast majority of our readership do not comment and the post with the most comments is not always the most popular post. Our What’s Hot post and Must Read posts up the

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Trotter Could Take a History Lesson from Australia

Trotter Could Take a History Lesson from Australia

At The Daily Blog, Chris Trotter has dared say the un-sayable and point out that there’s a rather large, grey pachyderm in the corner of the room that everyone seems determined not to notice. The elephant is, of course, immigration, and the sheer scale and speed of the demographic

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A Little Bit Racist?

A Little Bit Racist?

I watched the first part of TVNZ’s series ‘That’s a Bit Racist’, and it was the most biased, one-sided and in itself racist programme that I had ever seen. It was brought about, of course, by the dreadful Christchurch massacre, but that was the first mistake. The mosque

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

An 88-year-old Tauranga Corporal has received an Australian unit citation for gallantry in Vietnam. The award was presented to Corporal Erik Kristensen from Colonel Tenby at the 6th Hauraki Battalion’s 121st birthday in Tauranga. Erik was a solder with the Royal New Zealand Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and was

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History Lesson for an Intellectual Lightweight

History Lesson for an Intellectual Lightweight

Jack Tame needs a history lesson. The Crusades were a response to the military takeover of the holy land by Muslim invaders. The subjugated people begged the Crusaders to ride to the rescue. Terrible things happen in war but that does not change the historical fact that Muslims invaded the

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