PREFU and the June quarter GDP numbers have been announced this week. Yes, we all knew the numbers were going to be bad. But how bad? Well, the answer is very bad, yet the media, on both occasions, has played it down, saying (quoting the politicians) that things are ‘not
Editorial Note: The death toll is now 25 Our Coalition Government hasn’t got a lot to choose from when it comes to appointing some of them to Ministerial positions. The situation has been made even worse by some of the original selections having to be fired for sundry reasons.
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Jacinda Ardern needs to get with the implementation of her rules. She does her pathetic little stand up every afternoon, making the Guinness Book of Records for the most facial contortions in half an hour, while using COVID as an electioneering platform. She gets out her little red book of
As I write this, staff from the New Zealand Transport Agency and the Waikato Regional Council are trying to block resource consent for a billion-dollar investment by Sleepyhead. The well-known bed maker is looking at moving from Auckland to Ohinewai in the Waikato so its employees can have
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The New Conservative Party has not been invited to take part in the Election debates on TVNZ. When a member of New Conservative wrote to TVNZ to ask why an invitation had not been received this is the response that they received. The Multi-party Debate criteria for inclusion is
Shelby The National Party’s horror run with young male MPs and candidates continues. The latest is a hitherto unknown bloke by the name of Jake Bezzant. He’s a supposedly bright young tech whizz-kid who was picked to move into Paula Bennett’s seat of Upper Harbour. I
Press Release: New Conservative Editors note: Stuff has pulled their fake news report, but at the time of writing there has been no retraction or apology. New Conservative’s candidate for Napier (and cancer survivor), Deborah Burnside, has been the target of a fake news article by Stuff, which has
The Prime Minister has said that we should know her Government by their deeds. So far those deeds haven’t amounted to much more than non-delivery of bumper sticker slogans. But we are implored to “keep moving”. One of their flagship policies at the last election was the fees-
The Prime Minister’s obsession with control in relation to COVID is making her look like the fool that she is. Often what comes out of her mouth is not the reality being experienced by many in her dream team of five million. As I have mentioned in earlier articles
There is a rather perplexing conundrum I have been wrestling with of late. When does an iconic band merge into little more than a tribute band? An example of this was when “The Hollies” toured NZ last year. Since their halcyon days of the ‘60s there has been no fewer
As we approach what might arguably be the most important NZ election for several generations, perhaps it’s timely to think about our electoral system and system of government. Our considerations shouldn’t be confined to MMP, which delivers some bizarre outcomes that fly in the face of the very
David Seymour sees the huge opportunity the Greenies buried when they opposed oil and gas exploration and argued that mining will destroy valuable conservation land. How hard was it to look more closely at the one-third of our country unceremoniously bundled holus-bolus into Schedule Four conservation land in
Information Satire The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, speaking from her podium of truth, announced today that she has decided that herd community is the path Aotearoa will follow rather than the bothersome and problematic herd immunity. The One-Team-Game, 10,000 pixels to be compulsory throughout Aotearoa. The BFD.
