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Maori Children Are Failing in Education So Let’s All Learn Te Reo!

Maori Children Are Failing in Education So Let’s All Learn Te Reo!

Another hare-brained idea from a government full of them! Education has failed predominantly Maori and Pasifika children for over a decade so what does this government do? They abolish charter schools – which were producing great results – and unveil their solution: moving toward te Reo becoming mandatory. In 1996 school attendance

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How to Deal with a Mistake

How to Deal with a Mistake

David Seymour MP for Epsom, ACT Leader You may see a story in the Herald this morning about me having an interest in property. While sensationalized, the story is substantially accurate. I thought I should give you a clear picture of the facts (for your own benefit and in case

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The Plagiarism of the NZ Herald and Rod Emmerson

The Plagiarism of the NZ Herald and Rod Emmerson

Failed editor, hard-left writer, and cycling aficionado Simon Wilson tweeted a Rod Emmerson cartoon from the NZ Herald: Oh we all laughed and chortled with Simon Wilson…until one of our moderators spat in Wilson’s coffee with some facts: It is as clear cut a case of plagiarism as

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

An Open Letter: Dear Mr Deeply-Disappointed, I was moved, almost to tears, not by the terrible photo your propaganda arm chose to illustrate your comments, but by your heartfelt words of concern for the sub-group of Aotearo-ites consistently suffering worse health outcomes, and shorter life-expectancy, than other sub-groups, and the

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Harris’s Fake Reminiscence on a Fake Holiday

Harris’s Fake Reminiscence on a Fake Holiday

Remember Politico’s “Trump Lies Database”? Aside from the irony that most of it was blatant lies about Trump supposedly lying, it’s notable that they’re not running a similar hit-job on Joe Biden. In fact, they’ve outright said that they won’t. They certainly aren’t keeping

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Denying the Facts? Yeah Right

Denying the Facts? Yeah Right

‘Correlation Does Not Imply Causation‘. What does that well-known phrase actually mean and how is it relevant to the above tweet? The phrase refers to the inability to legitimately deduce a cause-and-effect relationship between two events or variables solely on the basis of an observed association or correlation between them.

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‘El Woko Loco’ Wants to Fix the System That He Exploited

‘El Woko Loco’ Wants to Fix the System That He Exploited

‘El Woko Loco’, ‘Tricky Ricky’ Menendez March and the Green party are wanting to reform the immigration system, that they say is broken: The Green Party is calling for an overhaul of the immigration system, which they say treats “migrant workers as cheap labour and second-class citizens” and discriminates based

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Daily News Roundup – 30 April 2021

Daily News Roundup – 30 April 2021

Housing crisis Hamish Rutherford (Herald): Government’s fix for its housing problems are just a game of whack-a-mole (paywalled) Amelia Wade (Newshub): Even if house prices fell 20 percent, three-quarters of renters still couldn’t afford one Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Govt crunches numbers to reveal property investors’ incomes Vita Molyneux

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Quelle Surprise! More People Distrust the Media Than Ever Before

Quelle Surprise! More People Distrust the Media Than Ever Before

The latest findings on trust in media organisations is out and the left-wing dominated media have taken a flogging. It seems that the public are well attuned to their lying ways and are voting with their feet. Newsroom reports: Less than half the New Zealand public now professes ‘overall trust’

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

A Straightforward Question. In a letter to the editor in Wednesday’s DomPost, very experienced Wellington property developer and philanthropist Mark Dunajtschik, the man who donated the new $60M Children’s Hospital (now nearing completion) to the city wrote: “The New Zealand Transport Agency projecting the cycleway between Ngaurunga and

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Help Us Win a Lopsided Battle

Help Us Win a Lopsided Battle

Stuff has reported on the extent of media bludging from government troughs. It is eye-watering just how much taxpayer coin some media organisations have availed themselves of. Media companies large and small claimed funding from the Government’s media package last year. In April 2020, Broadcasting, Communications and Media Minister

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More Certain Than Climate, Economic Doom

More Certain Than Climate, Economic Doom

Has anyone noticed that there have not been any student protest marches during the school holidays despite a recent climate summit during the holidays? It’s almost as if the protests are really organised by adults with an agenda… If you enjoyed this Satirical image please share it so others

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