My father always used to think that everyone in New Zealand wore grass skirts and threw spears. He wasn’t joking. That was the view often presented to the world when royalty or dignitaries came here. He had a clear memory of the Prince and Princess of Wales in a
Lindsay Mitchell bassettbrashandhide.com Child poverty stats are a joke. If adults get collectively poorer, children get richer. Never has this been better illustrated than by a just-announced Stats NZ cock-up. Treasury, “…identified several respondents incorrectly reporting the superannuation payments they received, resulting in double counting their income from superannuation,
George Orwell’s prophecies are coming true. Little by little our freedoms are being eroded by technology and by a government willing to use that technology to track your every movement: Currently, electric vehicles are exempt from road-user charges, and do not pay fuel tax. If that exemption were ended
By Cameron Slater ( *republished) I made this video some time ago for Skippy, my father-in-law. Some of the photos in the video were taken by him at Nui Dat. He was an Aussie serving with the NZ Army…he trained at Puckapunyal, Canungra and Singleton…many of the places mentioned
Many organisers of ANZAC Day events like to read out a message from the Prime Minister or the Governor-General as part of their service. Here is the ANZAC Day 2021 message from the Governor-General. The Rt Hon Dame Patsy Reddy, GNZM, QSO Governor-General of New Zealand Kia ora koutou Every
Many organisers of ANZAC Day events like to read out a message from the Prime Minister or the Governor-General as part of their service. Here is the ANZAC Day 2021 message from the Prime Minister. The Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister of New Zealand ANZAC Day Message 2021 On
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Michael Snyder endoftheamericandream.com Don’t you hate it when what you get turns out to be far different from what you were promised? In this article, I am only going to share facts that have been documented by corporate media sources. These facts are going to upset a lot
It is becoming increasingly obvious that this government has decided it knows best in virtually every area of governance. It doesn’t matter whether it is health, education, transport, housing, foreign affairs, finance, justice, police, welfare, climate change or any other area; where they have had advice given to them,
PM Jacinda Ardern says we will know ‘hate speech’ when we see it. Whilst her government is very keen to impose hate speech laws on us it is not so keen to define what ‘hate speech’ actually is. The government’s hate speech game is therefore Russian roulette. You spin
Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz ANZAC Day 2021 It will be a great relief to many to return to the usual commemoration of ANZAC Day this year after the lockdown one we experienced last year. Sadly for some New Zealanders and Australians, the situation will still be a
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been savaged for sucking up to China and turning her back on the Five Eyes alliance during a historic debate in which British MPs unanimously declared that China is carrying out genocide and crimes against humanity. Newshub Nanaia Mahuta on Wednesday said Aotearoa would continue
Remember “two weeks to flatten the curve”? Somehow, as we are all too well aware, that morphed into weeks, months and now nearly two years and counting of lockdowns, restrictions, mandatory masks and plainclothes coppers kicking down the doors of pregnant mums in Ballarat and slapping them in cuffs. At
