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Both of NZ’s Post COVID Futures Are Bad: Part One

Both of NZ’s Post COVID Futures Are Bad: Part One

Alex Davis theemperorsrobes.blogspot.com After ten days of no new COVID-19 cases many New Zealanders are likely to be feeling a mixture of relief and complacency. The country dodged a bullet – now there is just the journey back to normality. However for those prepared to look honestly at

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One Rule for Hollywood, Another for Working New Zealanders

One Rule for Hollywood, Another for Working New Zealanders

Press Release: ACT Party “The Government’s free pass for Hollywood filmmakers at the border is an insult to working New Zealanders,” according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “Economic Development Minister Phil Twyford has caved in and allowed more film crews to enter the country after productions threatened to pull

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And Now It Is Three Polls

And Now It Is Three Polls

As if the 1News/Colmar Brunton and the Newshub/Reid Research polls weren’t bad enough, Roy Morgan have begun polling again and have confirmed the accuracy of both the other polls. * Labour 56.5% (January 40%, March 42.5%, April 55%) * National 26.5% (January 40%, March 37 %, April

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oral-questions-–-2-june-2020

Oral Questions – 2 June 2020

Questions to Ministers TODD MULLER to the Prime Minister: Will she accept my offer to work with the Government to implement National’s JobStart policy as soon as possible? MARAMA DAVIDSON to the Minister for the Environment: How will new standards for freshwater, announced last Thursday, help create healthy waterways

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Utter Nonsense in a Medical Journal

Utter Nonsense in a Medical Journal

The once-esteemed Lancet has long taken a leftward-bent trajectory and that’s why, call me cynical if you like, before reading any editorial content published by the outfit I recommend a grain of salt at the ready. In the course of the last week-and-a-bit, that

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Deliver Us from Evil

Deliver Us from Evil

Lindsay Perigo solopassion.com I’m delighted to see this thoroughly well-deserved tribute to Lady Olivia here. I’m sure she won’t mind if I observe that her excellent comments to Bro Hubbard the Woke seem to stem from a private conversation she and I had in which

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No Rules for Rent a Mob

No Rules for Rent a Mob

Monday’s protest marches run by rent a mob have achieved nothing other than to make the Prime Minister look like a complete fool. The first politician to point this out was none other than David Seymour, this country’s number one Opposition MP. He correctly pointed out that the

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Do NZ Lives Matter?

Do NZ Lives Matter?

Parris Goebel culturally appropriated another country and people’s cause yesterday and in doing so gave the big middle finger to Jacinda Ardern and her “team of 5 Million.” How yesterday’s protest was handled revealed how real the threat against New Zealand lives from COVID-19 really is. The

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Where the Bloody Hell Are Ya, Tourism New Zealand?
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Where the Bloody Hell Are Ya, Tourism New Zealand?

Press Release: ACT Party “Advertising by Tourism South Australia on New Zealand television shows the gulf in proactiveness between New Zealand and Australia when it comes to getting the economy restarted,” according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “While Tourism New Zealand cries ‘do something, New Zealand,’ and says it is

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Today’s Protesters Must Play by Level 2 Rules

Today’s Protesters Must Play by Level 2 Rules

Press Release: ACT Party “While the Government continues to restrict the size of social gatherings to 100, today’s protesters must play by same rules as the rest of us,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ACT believes New Zealand should be at Level 1 now, restrictions on the size of

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The World Is on Fire
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The World Is on Fire

Owen Jennings I am trying hard not to become a conspiracy theorist. I have learned how the climate change issue is exaggerated and dramatised without sound scientific foundation and is now driving hugely detrimental policy changes. I am struggling against a feeling that there must surely be some other agenda

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Time to Base Decision Making on Real-World Data

Time to Base Decision Making on Real-World Data

David Theobald Four weeks more. Four weeks? Surely now the government has moved from parallel universe territory into extracting the Michael. Four weeks – why not four months, four years or forever? If they are to dispel any suspicions (convictions) that the stage-managing of the country is based on politics

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