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An Honest Mistake
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An Honest Mistake

Information Satire The Prime Minister has said that she will apologise to her partner, Fisherman Clark Kent after she appeared to forget that he was her fiancé and referred to him as “that guy with a fishing show.” The PM said she would apologise to “whatshisname”, saying that she has

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Botany Coronation for Luxon Turning to Custard

Botany Coronation for Luxon Turning to Custard

The Botany selection for the National Party is turning to custard. It was supposed to be a coronation for Christopher Luxon, orchestrated by local electorate chair Mark Darrow and Peter Goodfellow, but it has all the hallmarks of becoming a public relations nightmare for the party. Mark Darrow, the electorate

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Oral Questions – 17 October 2019

Questions to Ministers Hon PAULA BENNETT to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s policies and statements? JAN TINETTI to the Minister of Education: What action, if any, is the Government taking to ease pressure on early childhood education services that have been hit by qualified

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ACT With Two Seats

ACT With Two Seats

Beth Houlbrooke ACT Party Deputy Leader / Vice President NEWSHUB POLL Sunday night’s Newshub poll contained an image we haven’t seen in a long time. ACT with two seats. With National up and Labour down, it’s hard to say where these extra points have really come from, but

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Random Impertinent Question & Answer

Random Impertinent Question & Answer

Question for our PM: Does she stand by her comment that Lester ran as an independent in the Wellington local body election? Answer: No she does not. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to apologise to Justin Lester for forgetting he ran as a Labour candidate Newshub

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Poor Lester Shoved Down the Memory Hole

Poor Lester Shoved Down the Memory Hole

Well; that’s not very nice. Jaz has gone and memory-holed poor ol’ Justin…“ It seems Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has thrown deposed Labour Wellington mayor Justin Lester under a Wellington bus. Lester may still be licking his wounds after losing out to Andy Foster but Ardern seems to

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Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Threats to Food Security
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Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Threats to Food Security

Press Release: Andy Loader Co-Chairman P.L.U.G. Primary Land Users Group. The aim (copied below) of the agreement is: “to decrease global warming described in its Article 2, “enhancing the implementation” of the UNFCCC through:[11] (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well

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Shane Jones Is Off the Reservation

Shane Jones Is Off the Reservation

Shane Jones appears to have sent PM Jacinda Ardern a very pointed message and the fact that he felt comfortable doing it shows how powerless Ardern is to do anything about it. The Labour Party have made a big song and dance out of their gun ban. It has garnered

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A Plan So Cunning You Could Put a Tail on It and Call It a Weasel

A Plan So Cunning You Could Put a Tail on It and Call It a Weasel

Simon Bridges loves grandstanding in parliament, using heaps of supplementary questions to try to ‘get’ Jacinda Ardern. Most of the time all he succeeds in doing is pissing off his caucus by wasting questions that they could have used to skewer dead-set useless ministers. Two and a half weeks

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Botany Turning into a Real Mess for National

Botany Turning into a Real Mess for National

Simon Bridges must almost be wishing that he’d never chucked Jami-Lee Ross under the bus. Botany is turning into a real mess as list MPs jockey for a safe seat and flip the bird at the President, Peter Goodfellow and Regional Chair, Andrew Hunt, who both want ‘Happy

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