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Shifting the Goalposts Yet Again

Shifting the Goalposts Yet Again

I’ve been saying for over a year that the politicians and bureaucrats will never let us be free again if they can help it. I hate being right. Nowhere is this better demonstrated than by the ever-shifting goalposts on vaccinations. First it was 70% and we’ll let you

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Five Freedoms: Julie Ponesse’s Speech to the Trucker Convoy

Brownstone Institute   brownstone.org The Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research is a nonprofit organization conceived of in May 2021 in support of a society that minimizes the role of violence in public life. Dr. Julie Ponesse was a professor of ethics who has taught at Ontario’s Huron

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The Inquiry We Need and Won’t Get

The Inquiry We Need and Won’t Get

Australia has quite a track record for royal commissions. In just the 120 years that they’ve been legislated, we’ve had no less than 139 of them — and that doesn’t count the state-based ones. Everything from the butter industry (1904-05) to bushfires (2009) and institutional child abuse (2013-17)

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National Release 10-Point Omicron Plan

Given the Government has listened to National’s policy to end MIQ for vaccinated travellers and recognised the importance of rapid tests, National is proposing more ideas to improve the response to Omicron, says National’s COVID-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop. “Today, National is releasing our 10-point plan for the

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NZ’s Child Mask Mandates Are Breathtakingly Immoral

Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org Barbara McKenzie has a PhD in  German Literature. ‘There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.’ Nelson Mandela Masking children is not indicated and is a huge threat to child well-being while masking anyone

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So Long and Thanks for All the Fish

Donald Digby Having been an ex-pat for close to 15 years now it was wonderful to finally make it back home to New Zealand for a long-overdue Christmas and New Year. This was the longest I had ever been away from home and as much as I was looking forward

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Thank You Charlotte Bellis

Thank You Charlotte Bellis

Let us not pretend that Charlotte Bellis is not totally responsible for the promised opening up of the borders that had been slammed shut indefinitely in December. For reasons I have constantly failed to understand, our ‘open and transparent government’ has ridden roughshod over New Zealand’s citizens for the

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The BFD Nightcap

The BFD Nightcap

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Omicron Is Behaving Like a Common Cold

Omicron Is Behaving Like a Common Cold

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Now Is the Time to Move Forward

Now Is the Time to Move Forward

Jacinda Ardern Labour Leader Labour Party Today I set out our plan for reconnecting with the world, the next steps in our COVID journey. In case you missed the announcement, I wanted to send a quick recap, along with a bit more detail about the next stage of our COVID

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How the Children of COVID Are Suffering Pt 2

As I reported in Part 1, the long-term hangover of the covid panic is already showing up. The effects on adults — unemployment, economic hardship, mental health, surging rates of cancer and other normally treatable diseases — are bad enough. But the scars inflicted on a generation of children are proving much

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End of MIQ the Right Thing to Do

End of MIQ the Right Thing to Do

The reopening of our border is welcome news for millions of New Zealanders offshore and at home, Opposition Leader Christopher Luxon says. “National has been calling for the Government to end the lottery of human misery that is MIQ and we are pleased that New Zealanders offshore now have some

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Canadian Media Stick To the Script

Canadian Media Stick To the Script

Have you heard about the Honkening? Possibly you haven’t, because the term is only just becoming attached to Canada’s massive trucker protest. If it was up to the mainstream media, you wouldn’t even hear about that. Stuff has just one story on the protest. Australia’s ABC

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