National is promising to create a single Crown-owned bank to streamline and fund infrastructure projects if elected into government. https://www.watchme.co.nz/news/nz-herald-focus/7th-13th-september/focus-live-collins-outlines-nationals-plan-to-streamline-infrastructure-projects/
Ruth Boyask Auckland University of Technology The anger and outrage expressed by school leaders and teacher unions towards Green Party co-leader James Shaw’s announcement of a government grant of NZ$11.7 million to the private Green School New Zealand comes at a time of financial high anxiety. Ordinarily,
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Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Oh my God; the nation is reeling with the shock news. Wicked Winston smoked a cigarette and if that ain’t bad enough, he did so on Otago University’s campus. Should we bring back hanging, or at the least flogging for such acts of
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Press Release: NZ Initiative Almost a third of Kiwi voters do not know which political parties are in Parliament and less than half understand how a party can get there, according to a new study. With elections just around the corner, new research by The New Zealand initiative reveals just
Information Satire The Prime Minister, Jacinda put the nation on notice, saying moves are afoot to have the whole nation microchipped by the end of the year. It will neatly kill two birds with one stone by solving the problem of contact tracing and keeping an eye on people in
The announcement by Jacinda Ardern of a day off to celebrate Matariki of itself pretty much sums up her three years as Prime Minister. This is nothing more than a simplistic ploy to cement in votes from one of Labour’s core constituencies. I could say any simpleton could have
Press Release: National Party The news that the Government has rejected adding road maintenance to its list of shovel-ready projects is concerning, National’s Transport spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “National has allocated $300 million from its record $31 billion transport infrastructure package for immediate deployment on ‘digger-ready’ funding for our
The so-called “experts” made a simple, but huge – absolutely huge – mistake and over-stated the mortality of COVID to the power of 10, yes, really, not 2, nor 3, but 10! From Cambridge University Press, authored by Ronald B. Brown, PhD: “Public health lessons learned from biases in coronavirus mortality overestimation“
BFD Political corner: Election 2020 is a series that features political speeches, political ads and political campaigns on Social media from a range of different political parties in the lead up to the New Zealand election. Today we have the Advance NZ Party: We are proud to release our Advance
Press Release: National Party Less than six weeks before the election, Labour continues to conceal its tax intentions and it’s time to come clean, National’s Finance spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “Grant Robertson has made it clear that Labour wants more revenue. “What would that mean for Kiwi taxpayers?
