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Housing Developers Caught Up In Iwi Disputes

Housing Developers Caught Up In Iwi Disputes

First there was Ihumatao (or Tomato as a non-pc friend calls it, unable to get her tongue or her head around the correct pronunciation) and now Sir Bob regales us with another story in Wellington about property developer Ian Cassels struggling to build 400 apartments in Shelley Bay, “the site

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Rule by Terror

Rule by Terror

I generally listen to Newstalk ZB, on the basis that they are slightly less wet and biased than the other news media. I am a big Hosking fan, but most of the rest of them leave me reasonably cold, or at best only lukewarm. So imagine my surprise when I

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Judith Has Ardern and Media Running Scared

Judith Has Ardern and Media Running Scared

Judith has immediately got Ardern and the media on the run. Both are now showing their true colours. It is no surprise that they have immediately implemented their anti-Judith, anti-National strategies. What they appear to be unaware of, or are too thick to see, is that they have put themselves

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National Announces Biggest Infrastructure Package in History

National Announces Biggest Infrastructure Package in History

Wow. Three days into the job and opposition leader Judith Collins has announced the biggest infrastructure spend in history, with $31 billion to be spent on infrastructure projects over the next decade. Stuff reports: National Party leader Judith Collins has announced plans for what she calls “the biggest infrastructure package”

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BFD Political Corner: Election 2020 Green Party

BFD Political Corner: Election 2020 Green Party

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 Green Party: Please send us links to any speeches, social

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What a Difference a Day Makes

Information Satire Dhuni Early Tuesday morning an empty car pulled up to Parliament and Ted Mullet got out to announce that he never really existed #IfALeftistNationalMPFallsInTheForest #DoesAnybodyCare. By late evening the vacuum in space left by the man who never existed was filled when the National Party selected Jude “Crusher

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National’s Upper North Island Infrastructure Package

National’s Upper North Island Infrastructure Package

National’s transport infrastructure package is just the first part of the Delivering Infrastructure theme of its Plan to Get New Zealand Working. Today initial announcements focus on the Upper North Island with announcements planned for across the rest of the country. What projects are part of National’s Upper

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Collins Has a Daunting Challenge Exacerbated by Resignations

Collins Has a Daunting Challenge Exacerbated by Resignations

tutere44 pointofordernz.wordpress.com Back from the dead? National backbenchers,  particularly those down the party list, might be breathing again— now that Judith Collins has taken control, after the political trauma of the past few weeks. Party stalwarts, some of whom had been drifting off to the ACT  party, are

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Collins’ Refusal to Play the Identity Politics Game Frustrates Dompost

Collins’ Refusal to Play the Identity Politics Game Frustrates Dompost

She’s rough, I tell ya’, in the sandpit known as the Dompost editorial office where the five-year-olds are giving newcomer Collins a bit of a kicking in an eleven-paragraph snivel-fest. Suffice it to say the diatribe carries all the expected cliches: divisive, baggage, associations with shadowy attack-bloggers, along with

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