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It’s about a union terrified of losing its grip on a narrative it has long taken for granted. Grenon’s not the threat here – E tū’s hypocrisy is.
The two organisations were approached for comment, asking if they had raised any concerns with Paul about police officers’ engagement with homeless people.
The censoring of doctors – even the ‘expert’ public health ones.
The Herald’s bias got me into trouble, since Nats started asking why I hated them so much, writing critiques of them and not Labour. The truth was that the critiques of Labour were rejected.
If the mast on New Zealand’s ship of state breaks and must be replaced with an Indian mast, how soon before the entire ship becomes an Indian ship?
It is time for National to rethink how it views some domestic issues. Winston is completely on song with his followers. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for National.
But assuming rationality in human behaviour is always a huge miscalculation in ignoring the reality of our more common irrationality.
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Thomas Paine, the English-born American patriot and one of the founding fathers, once said “lead, follow or get out of the way”.
Now she’s been promoted to director of inter-island ferry procurement.
He must go. His party must put New Zealand’s future and democratic foundations first.
Voters who find themselves disappointed in the current government should realise that these parties are actually delivering what they promised – for all the talk of efficiency, they never promised real change. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
It is time the coalition put the interests of New Zealand first by abandoning net-zero policies in order to focus on economic growth.
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By grounding the system in property rights, they’re telling Kiwis they can finally use their land without having to beg permission from every busybody with a clipboard.
