Susie:Just while you are here if I can also talk to you about the polls that came out the other day. For you, how does it feel to be polling higher than Simon Bridges?Judith:Ah, well it’s um… I just let people see that I’m getting
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The story of refugee Ibrahim Aziz, who is apparently leaving the country to start a new life in Malaysia, has highlighted a real problem with our increased refugee intake; once they leave the resettlement centre, we have nowhere for them to live. That is hardly surprising when the number of
The word for today is… commemorate (verb) – 1. To honour the memory of (a person or event, for example), especially with a ceremony. 2. To serve as a memorial to. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : When you remember something, you are mindful of it. It’s appropriate, therefore, that commemorate
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Proverbs 12 10 The godly care for their animals, but the wicked are always cruel.
By Paul Marcus Patriot Realm I read an article from America bemoaning how bad things are in the detention centres there. One unnamed person said, “It’s not just Ebola. It’s rampant TB, diphtheria, measles, mumps, scabies, huge HIV, incurable gonorrhoea, syphilis, impetigo, malaria, and child soldiers.” I had
Financial activism has long been one of the favourite tools for the left to punish Wrongthink. Not that the right is immune, as recent boycott campaigns have shown, but the left have raised the tactic to a dark and dubious art. By the 1980s, vexatious lawfare, particularly by race-activist groups,
By The Aunties I often talk about what a great film Once Were Warriors is, and I also tell people it’s what cemented a very wrong-headed narrative in our national psyche. For many people, too many people, this is what family violence looks like. For most people, too many
Why do the pollsters get it so wrong? In the 2016 US election, the polls showed Hillary Clinton had an 85% chance of winning. Polls in the recent Australian election had Labor certain to win. Brexit polls showed that Remainers outnumbered Leavers by a large margin. Going back as far
A week-long Supreme Court battle over the extradition of Kim Dotcom and his business associates has begun. Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom and Matthias Ortmann, Bram van der Kolk and Finn Batato face extradition to the US, which claims they were involved in a worldwide criminal organisation that led to an
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds A fortnight ago our government took on an awesome responsibility: the wellbeing of 4.8 million souls. The ‘wellbeing’ budget, after suffering more leaks than a hedgehog’s raincoat, was unveiled to the world and immediately received
