The prime minister has expressed her anger at the fact that The Warehouse Group is about to lay off 1,080 workers. She is particularly angry because the company accepted the government wage subsidy in March, taking $68 million in government subsidies at that time. This week alone, we have
The take-over is a fait accompli. The civil service walks in a left-wing goose-step. Our universities are left-wing. Our teachers are too, as is our education system. Our corporates toe the line. Our parliamentarians, generally speaking, are, and our legal system sways to the left in
Maori Party co-Leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer has called new National leader Todd Muller a racist. “Muller is showing himself as a racist who has no respect for tangata whenua needs,” Seriously? How many hats is Muller going to have to put in a box at the back of the
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So the last person with coronavirus recovered just in time for the Prime Minister’s announcement that we can move to level one but it was a close call. Or was it? The declaration of a full recovery was made with two hours to spare. Spare a thought for the
On the AM show this week Garner asked Jacinda Ardern how she felt about the last 75 days (it feels sooo much longer to me). Ardern was in her usual toothy form, saying it was “a massive team effort”. Give yourself a round of applause dear reader, she means you,
Imagine that you are a struggling business trying to stay afloat and to keep all your staff employed after a punishing 7 week lockdown. Then imagine that you are finally allowed to open but with costly and restrictive conditions. Then at last you are told at level one you are
In New Zealand this year the Labour Party supported and celebrated blatantly racist criteria in an Wellington government funded organisation. Eight other government funded organisations are considering or have left the door open to similar changes in Northland, Nelson Marlborough, Taranaki, Wairarapa, Southern, Bay of Plenty, MidCentral and Auckland. I
The other day left-wing site The Spinoff declared that they had reached 10,000 subscribers. That is quite some achievement, so well done to Duncan and his team at The Spinoff. Their model is a ‘pay what you can’ model but they’d prefer you to contribute $10 a
