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Why Sustainable New Zealand?

Why Sustainable New Zealand?

Sustainable NZ Sustainability is based on the principle that everything we need for our survival and well-being depends on our natural environment. It means meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Our focus on sustainability means that we

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1080 Alternatives Funded & 1800 NEW Police

1080 Alternatives Funded & 1800 NEW Police

Press release: NZ First 1800 new police New Zealand First was proud this week to deliver on our Coalition Agreement commitment to add 1800 new police and make an exciting funding announcement for alternatives to 1080. On Thursday, Rt Hon Winston Peters attended Recruit Wing 332’s graduation, which brought

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The Destructive RELIGION of Julie-Anne Genter

The Destructive RELIGION of Julie-Anne Genter

Press Release: New Conservative Leighton Baker, Leader New Conservative The Green MP’s call for ACC to divest of its $1Bn investment in fossil fuels overlooks a few basic truths clearly understood by New Conservative and the average New Zealander. No 1 is that 80% of the world’s energy

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Politics In Full Sentences: ‘ACT is on Top’
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Politics In Full Sentences: ‘ACT is on Top’

ACT Party Politics in Full Sentences, 23 November 2019 The Podcast Last night, the Politics in Full Sentences podcast covered the New Zealand First Foundation saga, the counterproductive changes to tenancy laws, and the Government’s effective surrender on the gun ‘buy-back.’ Standing Up for Free Speech David Seymour

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NZQA Exam Questions Portray Unbalanced View of Farming

NZQA Exam Questions Portray Unbalanced View of Farming

Press Release: National Party Todd Muller NZQA needs to front up to concern that has been created by questions in their exams painting a one-sided picture of New Zealand’s farmers, National’s Agriculture spokesperson Todd Muller says. “Students who sat their NCEA level three English exam were tasked

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A Desperate Disgrace

A Desperate Disgrace

On reading that the Government was going to give “people in care” for less than three years the vote, my 39-year-old daughter said, quite correctly, that this Government is a joke. It is, in fact, more than that. It is a collection of disparate people who were enabled

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United Nations Directive IGNORED by CoL

United Nations Directive IGNORED by CoL

According to an article by RNZ, the UN should be dictating our immigration policy, but to our government’s credit, they ignored the United Nations directive to increase African refugees showing that in this case at least, the UN is not yet in charge of our immigration policies. Cabinet papers

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Face of the Day: Spotty McSpotface

Face of the Day: Spotty McSpotface

Today’s face of the day should have been taken behind the bike sheds and given a good walloping and told to come back in 20 years. What on earth are the National Party thinking? Poor Jo Hayes has been beaten for selection in Palmerston North by a 17-year

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Dear Professor Gerrard

Dear Professor Gerrard

Information This is a letter from John Rofe, a self-declared “Concerned Citizen” to Professor Gerrard, the NZ Prime Minister’s Science Advisor. As it is quite long we have ‘serialised’ it over a few days. * Part one here. * Part two here. * Part three here. You needn’t concern yourself

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It’s Hard Work Being a Candidate

It’s Hard Work Being a Candidate

National’s parachute candidate Chris Luxon in Botany is feeling the strain already, nodding off at a public meeting Saturday at the Buddhist Temple in Botany. Either that or he was praying for it all to go away. Or was he was collecting some Chinese donation money? (just kidding) Then

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JLR Knows How the National Party Operates
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JLR Knows How the National Party Operates

National President Peter Goodfellow has confirmed that Jami-Lee Ross was correct when he told The Nation that National party candidates are set fundraising targets. He also confirmed that JLR was correct when he said that members and local party electorate committees are “encouraged” to donate to the National Foundation.

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