Bayly Bites Back: Misled, Mugged and Now Gunning for Luxon
This saga exposes the dirty underbelly of party politics, where loyalty goes out the window when it suits the top brass. Keep watching: the real fireworks are just starting.
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Free GP Visits Sound Nice, but I’ll Happily Pay My Way
There’s a difference between compassion and overreach. If you can afford to pay for your doctor, you should. It’s that simple.
The Greens and the Cannabis Argument
The Greens will struggle to persuade New Zealanders that we shouldn’t continue to say nope to dope, given the overwhelming evidence of the harms of legalisation.
Did We Screw Up or Did We Not?
The consequences of our passivity, our surrender, and our loss of autonomy are not over. They’re just beginning.
The Deep State
Unless a government steps in and removes the separatist framework upon which they are building their success, they will succeed. Doing nothing is no longer an option.
Principals Whinge About Curriculum Changes While Ignoring Epic Education Failures
If teachers churned out these pitiful results in the private sector, they wouldn’t be complaining about changes. They’d be shown the door – fired on the spot. No golden parachutes and no endless consultations. Just accountability.
Face of the Day
Speaking from South Korea at the ASEAN summit, Luxon said comments about his finances were a political diversion. “I’m aware that they’ve had a pretty rough week, with the capital gains tax – the policy that’s their fourth failure I think in the last two weeks.”
The Fish-Hooks With the Charter School Announcements
The Wellington Phoenix school and the Sisters United Academy must accept applications from all students/families and cannot add any criteria.
It Is Time to Start Thinking About the Big Picture
Even though time is passing and memories may have faded. The effect of the New Zealand Gene Technology Bill, if passed, will be not peripheral to our personal interests or safety.
I See – Promises, Promises
Labour's Future Fund recalls KiwiBuild, but with even less detail.
Labour Offers Kiwis About $4.27 a Week in Exchange for CGT
Tax-to-spend is not what New Zealand needs.
Winston Peters Delivers a One-Word Reality Check to Christopher Luxon’s Ego
This incident is a timely reminder for Luxon: coalition governments thrive on collaboration, not ego trips. If he keeps forgetting that, he might find more one-word corrections coming his way.
Only Human Rights for Some
Amnesty International’s woke ideology is undermining all the good work they have done and should be doing in the area of unlawful torture, media freedom and rights of refugees and asylum seekers.
Labour Pushes More Tax and a Digital ID ‘Medicard’
The plan would see the Medicard, a form of digital ID, functioning as both an identification tool within the health system and a means to track entitlements.