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Judith Collins: The View From Australia

Judith Collins: The View From Australia

Judith Collins’s ascension to the National leadership is, without doubt, the biggest story in New Zealand by far – but, like most news from across the Tasman, local legacy media are slower to catch on. Especially as it’s not (directly) about their sainted socialist fairy princess. On the actual

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A Poverty of Plain Speaking Never Affected Judith Collins

A Poverty of Plain Speaking Never Affected Judith Collins

Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Judith Collins has been in parliament for a long time and I have blogged about her for the duration. Not extensively but when I agreed or disagreed with her comments. She was, after all, National’s spokesperson on Social Development from 2005-08. She once

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Judith Collins on Border Restrictions & Todd Muller as Leader

Judith Collins on Border Restrictions & Todd Muller as Leader

National MP Judith Collins says the government doesn’t have a clear plan in place for opening New Zealand’s borders. Film workers have been allowed to fly into the capital to work on the Avatar franchise despite the borders remaining closed. And the Prime Minister has put the brakes

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Judith Collins vs Chloe Swarbrick

Judith Collins vs Chloe Swarbrick

On the weekend both National MP Judith Collins and Green MP Chloe Swarbrick had opinion pieces published by Stuff. Both opinion pieces had the theme of change. I thought it would be interesting to compare and contrast their views on our lockdown since they are so very different. One writer

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Judith Collins & Willie Jackson On Gangs, Ihumatao & Erebus
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Judith Collins & Willie Jackson On Gangs, Ihumatao & Erebus

Judith Collins and Willie Jackson on Garner yesterday morning. Jackson made a comment about how well Ardern speaks Te Reo and much better than Judith Collins. Not missing a beat Judith Collins says she thinks she speaks English better than Ardern (Touche) and gives her a few other good verbal

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A Response to Judith Collins’s Piece on Climate Change
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A Response to Judith Collins’s Piece on Climate Change

Arthur A politician interested in people’s views? OK, Ms Collins and I’ll keep it as short as possible, which is difficult on such a huge subject. 1.  Anthropogenic climate change is a con, vastly exaggerated, and greenhouse theory around CO2 is basically flawed. Yes, pollution of the air

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Judith Collins On Climate Change

Judith Collins On Climate Change

Judith Collins A thought about climate change. Politicians around the world have been calling for faster and faster action to reduce emissions. Our own Prime Minister has joined the political hype-train by announcing climate change is “my”/her generation’s nuclear-free moment. (Who made everyone under 40 “her”

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National MP Judith Collins

Judith Collins Took a Leaf out of Donald Trump’s Political Playbook

a stock of usual tactics or methods straight from his opponent’s political playbook. hmerriam-webster.com In this instance, Judith Collins is wise to avoid anything remotely connected to her opposition’s playbook, simply because their tactics don’t work for them and won’t help her either. Collins,

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Transcript: Susie Ferguson & Simon Bridges on Judith Collins & polling

Transcript: Susie Ferguson & Simon Bridges on Judith Collins & polling

Susie: Well two major political polls this week made for grim reading for National’s Simon Bridges. Both have the opposition leader being supported by only one in 20 people and both showed there was more support for his colleague Judith Collins. Asked on morning report yesterday if she thought

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National MP Judith Collins
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Audio: Judith Collins on the polls

Judith Collins on KiwiBuild and the polls as well as internal polling. At just after the 4min mark she makes a comment about  “keeping our heads down and getting on with the job and not getting all excited about ourselves”. She talks a lot of sense.

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