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This Week’s Eye-Rolls
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This Week’s Eye-Rolls

Beth Houlbrooke Act Party Deputy Leader / Vice President When thinking about this week’s Ad Lib, all the immediate topics that came to mind caused me to roll my eyes involuntarily, so I’ll skip over them quickly: Lowering the voting age Using the argument that 16 is the age

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A Novice on the World Stage

A Novice on the World Stage

I have long held A Newspaper in such regard that I refuse to pay for its premium content. The few articles worth reading amongst endless pieces of mundane dross means the economics just don’t stack up. Content about Ardern is freely available as she doesn’t rate premium content

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Massive Waste of Taxpayer Money for Virtue Signalling Companies
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Massive Waste of Taxpayer Money for Virtue Signalling Companies

A major new government campaign to convince companies to cut down on their carbon emissions has splashed the cash in a big-budget one million dollar production. The 90-second long ad opens with Martin Luther King Jr’s ‘I have a dream’ speech (which has NOTHING to do with

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Tweets From Jacinda

Tweets From Jacinda

Warning This series does not contain actual tweets from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. All tweets are fictional and were created for the purpose of humour.

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Perfectly Pathetic, Ardern Achieves…Nothing

Perfectly Pathetic, Ardern Achieves…Nothing

Donald Trump expressed interest in New Zealand’s gun buyback scheme during his meeting with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern […] a conversation around our buyback […]the work that we had done to remove military style semi-automatic weapons and assault rifles […] Ardern told reporters. […] during their ‘pull-aside’ discussion […], which Ardern

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Labour’s Fails Series: Education

Labour’s Fails Series: Education

In June 2019 Nikki Kaye, National’s spokesperson on education, reviewed Labour’s education promises and came up with 50 failed promises in education and only partial delivery on another 30 promises. Teacher Strikes and dropping NCEA results Promise: “Continue to work with sector unions to develop and strengthen career

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It’s Like They Need a Brick In the Face
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It’s Like They Need a Brick In the Face

I am starting to wonder if the National Party Caucus needs a brick in the face to see what is completely obvious to the rest of us. Exhibit (A) Exhibit (B) The leader of the National Party Simon Bridges scored 2.50 while Mr Unpopular himself ex-Labour leader Andrew

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The Zero Carbon Bill Hits the Skids

The Zero Carbon Bill Hits the Skids

I honestly cannot see the point of the Zero Carbon Bill. For a country that produces 0.17% of global emissions, and whose farmers are the most efficient and productive in the world, it just makes no sense. Why hamstring our economy for a rate of emissions that would make

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Oral Questions – 25 September 2019

Questions to Ministers Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Minister of Internal Affairs: Does she have confidence in the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care? KIERAN McANULTY to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all his Government’s policies and actions? Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH to the Minister of

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Maungakiekie-Tamaki ward: An Absolutely Biased Guide to Auckland Local Elections
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Maungakiekie-Tamaki ward: An Absolutely Biased Guide to Auckland Local Elections

Maungakiekie-Tamaki ward RATINGS GUIDE: $ to $$$$$ with $ being a leftist trougher and $$$$$ being small government dynamo For some, however, a clown is more appropriate. More than one may be awarded. There are four candidates standing for one position in this Council ward. Josephine Bartley – Labour $$ Bartley was elected in the

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