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Greens Demand Benefit Increases
It never takes long for the Greens to revert to type. Having done moderately well in last month’s election, but having been denied a seat at the Cabinet table, the Greens are now ramping up demands for significant benefit increases to make life much more bearable for those on
Gutter Media: Proudly NZ Made!
Kerry Grant banana-boat-boy.com I was appalled to see the following headline on my newsfeed yesterday morning — from the New Zealand Herald: US Election: White House Staff Lighting Scented Candles — to Combat Smell of Fast Food. I would expect this type of trash talk from the American news
National Party Reshuffle
Judith Collins has announced her her line up: 1. Judith Collins – Pacific Peoples, Technology, Manufacturing & Artificial Intelligence 2. Shane Reti – Health, Children 3. Andrew Bayly – Shadow Treasurer (Revenue), Infrastructure, Statistics 4. Michael Woodhouse – Finance, Transport, Deputy Shadow Leader of the House 5. Louise Upston – Social Development & Employment, Social
NZ’s Most Diverse Cabinet Ever
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Kamala Harris Wins Historic Victory
Information Satire Kamal Harris was declared President for life after Joe Biden ‘resigned’ in embarrassment. He had wandered out onto a huge outdoor stage in front of the White House to address the world’s press, trouserless, saying, “Where am I? Look at my hairy legs” and then sniffed the
Where to Now for Labour and National?
The chortling from the left field of politics has extended from Wellington’s beltway now to the deep state of Washington DC with the apparent election of 77-year-old Joe Biden to the presidency of the United States. At this stage, I have to say “apparent” to guard against
Labor’s Climate Emergency
Despite the left-media’s obsession that it is the only issue that matters, a succession of Australian governments have crashed on the rocks of climate policy. Successive surveys show that voters consistently rank climate as a fifth or tenth-order policy, well behind the bread-and-butter issues of
Is NZ Heading for a Japanese-Style Economic Morass?
With a cheerleading media failing to ever hold our hopeless government to account it pays to read international media to get some critical reporting on serious matters. Our media are too focused on what Clarke Gayford tweeted or who Jacinda Ardern has hugged lately. Meanwhile, our government is splurging out
Face of the Day
Putin Won’t Congratulate Winner of US Election Until Legal Challenges Settled Russian President Vladimir Putin is waiting for official results from the U.S. presidential election before congratulating the winner, a Kremlin spokesperson said. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday that while the Kremlin hopes “to
Electoral Fraud: What We Know So Far
President Donald Trump is furiously adamant that the widespread electoral fraud that he warned about for months has indeed come to pass. The left and the mainstream media just as furiously deny it. Even supposedly “conservative” journalists like the Australian’s Caroline Overington categorically claim that there is “no evidence”
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Utu Move by Labour on Full Representation
ACT Party Three days after the full representation rule brought an additional Maori Party MP into Parliament, Jacinda Ardern wants to get rid of it. “Election rules should be changed rarely, and only for good reason. Labour has no good reason to change the election rules other than its own
Tech Talk: Make Your Dumb TV Smart
This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in
