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What Happened to Governing for All New Zealanders?
David Seymour ACT Leader Jacinda Ardern’s reasoning for forcing undemocratic union contracts on people who don’t want any part of them just doesn’t add up. The Government originally said only one or two industries would be affected by this policy, then in Parliament today Ardern said three
The Wokest Place on Earth?
rt.com Walt Disney Co. has reportedly joined corporate America’s rush toward critical race theory, teaching staff that America is rooted in “systemic racism” and that white employees must show special deference to their black colleagues. Disney training materials obtained by journalist Christopher Rufo include a program called “Reimagine
Labour Government Walks the Tightrope
The government last week made two announcements that sent two completely different messages about workers’ rights. Their first announcement was a pay freeze across the public service. It was an announcement that most would expect to come from a conservative government. The only sign that it wasn’t from a
Help: PayPal Is Trying to Shut down Rebel News!
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Sen. Hawley: Big Tech Has Bought off D.C., Must Be Broken Up
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ACT Would Repeal Undemocratic Compulsory Unionism
David Seymour ACT Leader Compulsory unionism is undemocratic, will be a wrecking ball on the economy, and doesn’t solve any identified problem. Today’s proposal is far more radical than anything the Government has proposed before. It said it would initially be ‘one or two industries.’ Today’s proposal
Scott Simpson – Labour Stuck in 1970s with National Awards 2.0
Labour’s so-called Fair Pay Agreements are an ideologically-driven project without any sound analytical basis, National’s Workplace Relations spokesperson Scott Simpson says. “It is acknowledged in the Cabinet Paper that the FPA could lead directly to businesses having to cut costs by reducing staff numbers and hours
The Internet Once Offered a Promise of Free Speech for Everyone; Big Tech Has since Turned It into a Prison
Nebojsa Malic rt.com Is a Serbian-American journalist, blogger and translator, who wrote a regular column for Antiwar.com from 2000 to 2015, and is now senior writer at RT. I once thought the internet would have the same effect on corporate media gatekeepers as the AK-47 had
Woke Capitalist Pigs Need to Shut the Hell Up
Imagine the screaming outrage from the left if a multinational corporation or a billionaire publicly campaigned against gay marriage or “transgender rights”. Actually, we don’t have to imagine: we’ve already seen it. Even something so mild as a brewery calling for civil debate over gay marriage was met
If Profit Is Not the Objective, What Is?
In a key scene in Orson Welles’s classic Citizen Kane, an outraged trustee confronts Kane at a party celebrating his purchase of a newspaper. The newspaper is a bad investment, he warns: it lost a million dollars in just the last year. Far from being chastened, Kane replies: “You’
Government’s Paternalism over Maori Businesses
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government’s paternalistic approach towards Maori through procurement is a step too far and needs explaining. The Government, in another departure from the idea that all New Zealanders are equal before the law, has set a quota of five percent of Government procurement being spent
Nash’s Precarious Position on Bed Taxes
David Seymour ACT Leader Stuart Nash owes New Zealanders an explanation about why he said he wasn’t working on a bed tax when he has been. Information obtained by the ACT Party through Parliamentary Written Questions and briefings to Stuart Nash show that Government is working with the Queenstown
Amazon Just Announced a (Voluntary) Pay Raise for 500,000 Employees. Here’s Why
Brad Polumbo fee.org Brad Polumbo is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Policy Correspondent at the Foundation for Economic Education. This article is excerpted from the FEE Daily, a daily email newsletter where FEE Policy Correspondent Brad Polumbo brings you news and analysis on the top free-market economics and
Cooks Travel Bubble Almost a Year Too Late
David Seymour ACT Leader The Prime Minister’s paternalism of the Cook Islands has caused economic and emotional harm to our Pacific neighbours that will take years to fix. ACT was calling for a travel bubble with the Cooks in July last year. Here we are almost a year later