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Labour Still in COVID Trance

Labour Still in COVID Trance

Right from the outset Labour’s approach to the Covid pandemic has been laboured and divisive. Jacinda Ardern has adopted the philosophy of divide and rule, black against white, the vaccinated against the unvaccinated, area against area. I can only assume the rationale is that it’s better to have

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Sir Russell Coutts Facebook After experiencing what it’s like in Europe since May, it appears there are a lot of things being mis-reported in New Zealand. The media here seems set on promoting fear. It would be interesting to send a truly independent news crew offshore to report on

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National Halts Labour’s Local Government Power Grab

National Halts Labour’s Local Government Power Grab

National has forced the Government to back down on an electoral power grab buried in a Covid bill. “The Government proposed to give itself the power to repeatedly delay local body elections through a change hidden quietly in the Covid Response (Management Measures) Legislation Bill,” says National’s Local Government

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Anything is Better than Lies and Deceit

Anything is Better than Lies and Deceit

Anything is Better than Lies and Deceit Leo Tolstoy In the continuing saga of the government’s vaccination campaign, the daily deepening of the divide continues to split family and friends with divisions between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated as well as the many other segregations we are now faced

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How Jacinda Ardern Bought the NZ Media

How Jacinda Ardern Bought the NZ Media

Does Jacinda Ardern own the New Zealand media? This was the gist of the questions recently put by a Sky News Australia panel to Chantelle Baker. The panel wanted to know why, as James Morrow put it, “That Jacinda Ardern gets such a free ride in the New Zealand media?

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Three Years Has Just Flown By

Three Years Has Just Flown By

At this time three years ago I was flat on my back in North Shore hospital after having woken up after a severe stroke. The right side of my face had slumped, my right arm was dead with no ability to move, and I had trouble walking and maintaining my

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Psst Want a Free Taste of Silver Membership?

Psst Want a Free Taste of Silver Membership?

If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles and politicasts. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer Chris Trotter. Labour Adrift In Dangerous Waters THERE IS SOMETHING seriously amiss in Labour’s caucus. Too

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Jacinda’s Push Turns to Shove

Jacinda’s Push Turns to Shove

Is it really such a big deal that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern shoved a sign language interpreter out of the way, with a hip-and-shoulder worthy of Robert Dipierdomenico? (I realise that may lose in tans-Tasman translation: instead of a real football player, New Zealanders can insert whatever rugby player does

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If They Steal It, We’ll Give It Back

If They Steal It, We’ll Give It Back

Simon Court ACT Local Government spokesperson ACT will be campaigning to return stolen property to councils, reversing Three Waters reforms and restoring democracy to New Zealand. If Labour steals it, ACT will give it back. It doesn’t occur to Nanaia Mahuta that if people don’t like her plan,

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