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If You Own a Rental Property, You Need to Listen to This Podcast

If You Own a Rental Property, You Need to Listen to This Podcast

This week’s podcast, in my opinion, is one of the most important ever. The government’s ‘Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill’ is, in short, shocking for any landlord. If you own a rental property, you need to listen to this podcast and then submit feedback to your local government representatives.

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The Silliness of Diversity
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The Silliness of Diversity

Once upon a time we took for granted a culture of honesty and trust, diligence and reliability, certainly respect, until diversity overtook virtue.  Diversity is a cancer devouring healthy cells, eating away common sense. Anything goes and previously lauded attributes can no longer be taken for granted. A recent and

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High Court to Hear Pell Appeal
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High Court to Hear Pell Appeal

Australia’s High Court has taken the first step to possibly overturning George Pell’s sex-abuse conviction. The conviction and subsequent rejection of appeal delighted many in Australia but also created shockwaves in the legal fraternity, where it was widely viewed as a flawed and dangerous judgement. While the High

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Who Voted against All Attempts to Moderate the Extreme Abortion Bill?
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Who Voted against All Attempts to Moderate the Extreme Abortion Bill?

McBlog bobmccoskrie.com There were three specific amendments to the abortion legislation that were voted on Tuesday night. All three were designed to make the bill less extreme, and to balance the law just a small amount towards the unborn child. They were: 1.‘care of a child born’ – a

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Letter to the Editor: Odious Ogres
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Letter to the Editor: Odious Ogres

Dear Editor did you see/hear/read the words of David Seymour, who presented last night’s abortion legislation amendment to scrap proposed “exclusion zones”? As you’ll be aware, his amendment was passed, very much to the chagrin of the Abortion supporters in our Parliament. But Seymour explained that

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Things That Make Me Go Hmm

Now that our lawmakers are wanting to pass a law to allow doctors to kill a baby right up till birth and even after birth (if they survive an abortion) by leaving them to die (by denying them medical assistance) they are having to make changes to prevent them being

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WHY the Abortion Legislation Bill fails so badly
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WHY the Abortion Legislation Bill fails so badly

Mcblog2 bobmccoskrie.com Summary of specific problems with the Abortion Legislation bill. Policy fail. *To remove legislation about abortion from the criminal code and insert it to the health code is to equate a procedure to remove an unborn baby with a procedure to remove an appendix, kidney stones, gall

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NZ First Sticking to Their Guns

NZ First Sticking to Their Guns

The NZ First “handbrake” is working again. I wrote a few weeks ago that Stuart Nash was overly confident about getting his anti-shooter bill passed, and voila!, NZ First is holding it up: The Labour party is struggling to get support to pass a new gun law as NZ First

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STOP the War on Tenancies

STOP the War on Tenancies

Press Release: Stop the War on Tenancies New Zealand’s 290,000 rental property owners should resist radical changes to the Residential Tenancies Act both by submission and by vote in this year’s election, Tenancies War spokesman Mike Butler said on Sunday. The current government has the despicable habit

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Firearms In New Zealand: Where To From Here?

Firearms In New Zealand: Where To From Here?

Chris Cahill NZ Police Association President Speech Transcript This time next week, all going well, Parliament will have passed the Arms Legislation Bill as the second tranche of firearms reforms designed to make all New Zealanders safer. Together, the reforms will do this by taking the most dangerous of weapons

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