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LIVE! Trans-Tasman Talk: Gunning For Surplus

LIVE! Trans-Tasman Talk: Gunning For Surplus

Tonight at 9pm on the Right Minds Youtube channel, Tim and Dieuwe will be discussing how Boris’ Brexit victory will affect our respective colonies. There is talk of a government budget deficit in New Zealand and a reduced surplus in Australia. Jacinda’s gun confiscation enters its final week, with

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Let’s get Road Pricing DONE

Let’s get Road Pricing DONE

Press Release: ACT Party “National should be congratulated for raising the idea of congestion charging but it must go further and commit to rolling it out in its first term of government”, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “ACT has pushed for road pricing for several years, but both major

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Political Photoshop Roundup 2019

Political Photoshop Roundup 2019

Political photoshops and memes are powerful influencers, just ask Boris Johnson who benefited from the ‘dark arts’ of Kiwi “meme machines” Sean Topham and Ben Guerin. Today’s political photoshop of National party candidate Chris Luxon parachuting into the Botany Electorate was created by Luke. All we want for Christmas

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2019 in Review: Part Three
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2019 in Review: Part Three

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com While the election isn’t until next year, the electioneering has already begun. Labour is promising to open up the taxpayers’ chequebook with a $12 billion spending spree using borrowed money – reminiscent of the spend big strategy of Rob Muldoon. Infrastructure spending will obviously be

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Highways to get MAJOR Funding Boost Under National
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Highways to get MAJOR Funding Boost Under National

Press release: National Party National will remedy Labour’s neglect of New Zealand’s highways by reigniting our Roads of National Significance build programme and introducing a new category of funding for Roads of Regional Significance, Transport spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “National is the Party that builds roads. The previous

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2019 in Review: Part Two
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2019 in Review: Part Two

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Jacinda Ardern’s Government has also villainised farmers through draconian law change proposals that include punitive taxes on livestock emissions and unworkable water quality restrictions. These will undermine a backbone industry that the country relies on for export earnings. Under the Labour Government, social wellbeing

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Why Extend Racial Preference in Law?

Hobson’s Pledge Trust hobsonspledge.nz There are two pieces of legislation wending their way through Parliament designed to further entrench the crazy notion that the Treaty of Waitangi created an obligation on governments nearly 200 years later to treat anybody with a Maori ancestor in some kind of preferential

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2019 in Review: Part One
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2019 in Review: Part One

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com As 2019 draws to a close, it’s interesting to review the year that was, and look ahead to election year. It has been a year of tragedy. This week the White Island eruption claimed sixteen lives, with many more in hospital in a critical

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Firearms Buyback Now an Omnishambles

Firearms Buyback Now an Omnishambles

Nicole McKee Spokesperson Fair and Reasonable Campaign With only five days left, the firearms buyback is turning into a total omnishambles. Firearms buy-back collects only 28% of banned firearms Yesterday we exposed that despite all of the media attention and advertising campaign by the Police, the firearms buyback has

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What We Can Learn from the UK Election
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What We Can Learn from the UK Election

One of the ongoing talking points on The BFD is the need for National to have friends they can partner with as without them their chances of regaining the Treasury benches are slim. In this regard, it is interesting to reflect on the UK election leading up to and on

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oral-questions-–-17-december-2019

Oral Questions – 17 December 2019

Questions to Ministers Dr DEBORAH RUSSELL to the Minister of Finance: What recent reports has he seen on the New Zealand economy? Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s statements and actions? DARROCH BALL to the Minister of Defence: What actions did

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Political Photoshop Roundup 2019

Political Photoshop Roundup 2019

Political photoshops and memes are powerful influencers, just ask Boris Johnson who benefited from the ‘dark arts’ of Kiwi “meme machines” Sean Topham and Ben Guerin. Today’s political photoshop of President Trump and Prime Minister Ardern was created by Boondecker. All we want for Christmas dear readers is to

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