Election 2020
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Another Labour Govt Policy Fail
Way back in August 2017, not long before New Zealand’s last General Election, Jacinda Ardern stood before a bunch of enthralled, mainly Pacifica school kids at Kelston Girls High and announced that should the Labour Party win the upcoming election, they would give five ‘free‘ driving lessons, a defensive
If ‘Capitalism Failed’ the Last Time, What’s Failing Now?
Progressive politics embodies the idea of movement, and we have had a large helping recently. But which way are we moving? Is it upwards or downwards, forwards or back? Attributed in the Regency period – that pinnacle of British, if not of global civilisation – to Alexander Fraser Tytler, is the observation
A FREE Taste of Insight: Politics Podcast Episode 24
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Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers
A piece by Aussie-domiciled ‘AAP FactCheck’ but written by Otago-based free-lancer George Driver (a sometimes-contributor to The Spinoff and RNZ) and subsequently published by several New Zealand outlets piqued my interest: a Judith Collins statement, was, they adjudged, “False” – adding “The checkable claim is false”. How very forthright. The “statement”
Daily News Roundup – 5 October 2020
NZ First Damien Grant (Stuff): Winston Peters’ political story is coming to an end John Armstrong (1News): Winston Peters and NZ First are goners come election night Zane Small (Newshub): Winston Peters thinks some MPs have become ‘clone members who are indistinguishable’ Jason Walls (Herald): NZ First leader Winston Peters
Strutting and Fretting Her Hour Upon the Stage: Second Leaders’ Debate, Part 1
the play’s the thing Hamlet, Act 2 Scene 2 Between the acting of a dreadful thing and the first motion, all the interim is like a phantasma or a hideous dream Julius Caesar, Act 2 Scene 1 The term ‘method acting’ encompasses a range of training and rehearsal techniques
Will You Miss Winston?
The media are talking about Winston as if he has gone already. The man whose political career spans nearly 50 years has reached an ignominious end. Everyone is treating him as irrelevant. Judith Collins, in promising funding for the racing industry, has just made an attempt to steal his last
Face of the Day
National leader Judith Collins has got in on the early voting action casting her ballot in Auckland’s Tamaki. Collins, who stands in the Papakura electorate, lives in Tamaki, a seat comfortable held by National MP Simon O’Connor. She arrived about 11 am to place her vote at St
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Ardern & Labour Are a Joke.
With humble apologies to Stu P.D. Lefthard, Ardern and Labour are a joke. They sit around, not capable of having an original idea in their collective noddles, and wait for National to release a policy, then pretty much copy it. If this is their so-called strategy it’s pathetic.
The COLFO How to Vote Guide
Michael Dowling Chairman Council of Licenced Firearms Owners On Friday night we held our National Firearms Debate in Masterton. As we had hoped, it was a mix of tough questions, debate and fun. If you didn’t watch it live, you can replay it via our Facebook, and YouTube sites.