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Compelled Speech at the Ministry of Education

Compelled Speech at the Ministry of Education

[Name withheld, government worker at the Ministry of Education] I am writing to you about the issue of compelled speech in the Ministry of Education here in New Zealand. I apologise that I do not give my name. I believe that if senior staff at the Ministry of Education discovered

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Discrimination of the Day

Discrimination of the Day

We’re looking for rangatahi who are looking for a foot in the door of the civil infrastructure industry at Downer. If you have a positive attitude, willingness to learn, a minimum of a restricted driver’s license and you’re looking for a full-time career in a large

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Animist Beliefs Treated as Facts

Animist Beliefs Treated as Facts

Hobson’s Pledge hobsonspledge.nz Some years ago, the Labour Government refused to take action to clear a channel so that the crater lake on Mount Ruapehu could drain safely, despite failure to do so risking the kind of disaster which destroyed scores of lives at Tangiwai in 1953. Why?

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No Sense of Urgency on COVID Response

No Sense of Urgency on COVID Response

David Seymour ACT Leader If the Government knew at 7.30 pm last night that a Sydney tourist with COVID-19 had visited Wellington, why did it take nearly 12 hours to confirm this with the public? News started break last night about the COVID case but only because the

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PM Admits There’s No Alternative to Utes

PM Admits There’s No Alternative to Utes

David Seymour ACT Leader Jacinda Ardern yesterday told Parliament she knows that farmers and tradies have no alternative to using utes, but she’ll tax them anyway. Last week Ardern questioned whether some people are using utes for “legitimate use.” Even if they are by her definition of “legitimate,” it

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Letter to the Editor: A War in NZ

Letter to the Editor: A War in NZ

Dear Editor I would like to draw your attention to the latest ‘war’ occurring throughout New Zealand. The war is against anyone who is non-Maori, and especially if they have a small family business. It started off with Lee Williams, the blogger Cross the Rubicon, who has been taken

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3 Reasons Homeschoolers Often Become Entrepreneurs

Hannah Frankman fee.org Hannah is a writer, filmmaker, photographer, and storyteller. I learned the word “entrepreneurship” when I was 12. I had just started my first business, and my mother informed me I was now an “entrepreneur.” I didn’t know what the word meant, but I liked the

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Coviditis and Feeling the Pinch

Coviditis and Feeling the Pinch

Tiger Tiger, a tenacious, surprisingly well-educated animal, living and working in the real world.  Having to come up with staff wages every week sharpens the senses. It’s been bothering me for some time now, the pinch point of vaccination is fast approaching. I have to travel for work,

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Bracket Creep

Bracket Creep

I have a client who has been hit rather badly by the Bright-line Test. His profit on the property sale is over $200,000, on which he will have to pay tax. As he already has a reasonable income, this is going to push him well into the top

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Labour Says Aucklanders Are Not Legitimate Ute Drivers

Labour Says Aucklanders Are Not Legitimate Ute Drivers

Transport Minister Michael Wood has today clarified the Prime Minister’s comments about who are “legitimate” ute drivers and it seems it’s region-dependent. According to Wood on Newshub Nation this morning, if you live in Auckland you shouldn’t drive a ute but if you’re on the

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How ‘Tiger Farms’ Have Turned a Wild Animal into a Species Worth More Dead Than Alive

Simon Evans Anglia Ruskin University Simon is Director of International Partnerships in the Lord Ashcroft International Business School. He’s also a Principal Lecturer specialising in tourism and environmental issues, with research interests including ecotourism and tiger conservation. Tigers could once be found across much of Asia, from eastern Turkey

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GDP Numbers a Dead Cat Bounce

GDP Numbers a Dead Cat Bounce

David Seymour ACT Leader The Reserve Bank printed $100 billion, the Government borrowed $60 billion – we’ve got an economy that’s running on a sugar hit. The Government has been focused on all manner of initiatives, from bike bridges to public holidays, and paying people more to stay home,

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‘Legitimate Use’ of a Ute?

‘Legitimate Use’ of a Ute?

Look at this gob smacking and astonishing statement from Jacinda Ardern about who she thinks should or shouldn’t be using utes: But Ardern confirmed she’s ruling out exemptions for utes. “We did discuss that because we recognised that there is a lag in the technology right now. But

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