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Replay Radio: The Crunch
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Replay Radio: The Crunch

Here is the replay of The Crunch from this week. My guests this week were Sandra Goudie, Dr. Michael Bassett and, of course, we have the Buddies. Enjoy! SANDRA GOUDIE: Former MP And Mayor Of Thames: On The Waitangi Tribunal’s Attempt To Expand Their Remit And Power DR MICHAEL

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Crushing It: Public Service Superstar Collects Enough Manager Signoffs to Actually Start on Some Work

Crushing It: Public Service Superstar Collects Enough Manager Signoffs to Actually Start on Some Work

Gordon Lightfoot whakatakitimes.nz DESTINED FOR GREATNESS Annabelle Robinson, a rising star at the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE), has absolutely smashed it at work this week. The 25-year-old policy advisor has just collected the signatures of ten different middle and upper-middle managers, securing permission

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NZ’s MSM Doesn’t Ask the Questions and Ignores the Elephant

NZ’s MSM Doesn’t Ask the Questions and Ignores the Elephant

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science NZDSOS.com As adverse effects and deaths mount in the wake of the COVID-19 injections we take a look at another recent death, in an attempt to provoke the gritty questions that our listless mainstream media conspicuously avoid. Meanwhile, the elephant grows

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Govt Sets Out Vision for Minerals Future
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Govt Sets Out Vision for Minerals Future

Hon Shane Jones Minister for Resources Increasing national and regional prosperity, providing the minerals needed for new technology and the clean energy transition, and doubling the value of minerals exports are the bold aims of the Government’s vision for the minerals sector. Resources Minister Shane Jones yesterday launched a

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$24 Million for Free Mental Health Counselling for Young Kiwis

$24 Million for Free Mental Health Counselling for Young Kiwis

The Rt Hon Winston Peters, joined by Mike King, has announced $24 million over four years for the ‘I Am Hope Foundation’, and will provide young people aged between 5 to 25 years with free mental health counselling services. This funding will help I Am Hope’s ‘Gumboot Friday’ initiative

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Memo to Maori Activists: You Need to Face Facts

In a recent post I wrote about Christopher Luxon and his impressive speech to the Auckland Business Chamber outlining the Government’s plans, objectives and challenges. Subsequent to that speech, on the same afternoon, further challenges came to light. These were, not surprisingly, from the world of the Maori activists

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Govt Invests in 1,500 More Social Homes

The coalition Government is investing in social housing for New Zealanders who are most in need of a warm dry home, Housing Minister Chris Bishop says. Budget 2024 will allocate $140 million in new funding for 1,500 new social housing places to be provided by Community Housing Providers (CHPs)

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Dodgier than a Week Old KFC Chicken Leg
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Dodgier than a Week Old KFC Chicken Leg

The Greens seem to be lurching from one crisis to the next. Golriz Ghahraman was nailed for pinching designer clothes, James Shaw quit in shame, Chloe Swarbrick chants racist and genocidal slogans, Marama Davidson is a racist misandrist, Ricardo ‘El Woko Loco’ Menandez-March has been swearing in parliament and

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When a Politician Ignores the Rules
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When a Politician Ignores the Rules

Dr Bryce Edwards Political Analyst in Residence, Director of the Democracy Project, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz It’s being explained as an “inadvertent error”. However, National MP David MacLeod’s excuse for failing to disclose $178,000 in donations for his

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One Speaks Out Among the Silent Majority

One Speaks Out Among the Silent Majority

Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior

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They Are Not Going to Apologise

They Are Not Going to Apologise

Media won’t retract their live-on-air comments for the unvaccinated to be refused medical treatment, socially ostracised and forcibly removed from vaccinated communities. The Broadcasting Standards Authority did not uphold a complaint about Hilary Barry’s denigration of the unvaccinated as sub-human when she said the unvaccinated

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Budget Challenges

Budget Challenges

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com As the new Government puts the finishing touches to this month’s Budget, they will undoubtedly have had their hands full dealing with the economic mess that Labour created. Not only was Labour a grossly incompetent manager of the economy, but they also set out

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A Slap on the Wrist with a Very Well Soaked Bus Ticket

A Slap on the Wrist with a Very Well Soaked Bus Ticket

Kiri Allan told us all that she’d defend her charges, that there was a ‘technical point of law’ that needed to be explored in a trial, that she was innocent and that her case would prove that out. And then on the morning of the trial after months of

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The Bureaucratic Language of Evil

The Bureaucratic Language of Evil

NewZealandDoc Philadelphia-born psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and author who emigrated to New Zealand in 2006. He retired from psychiatric practice in 2021, refusing to be inoculated, after working in the public sector in New Zealand. Yesterday, on 20 May 2024, New Zealand’s Health and Disability Commission handed down its decision

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The Populist Leader That Labour Needs?
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The Populist Leader That Labour Needs?

Dr Bryce Edwards Political Analyst in Residence, Director of the Democracy Project, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz Willie Jackson will participate in the prestigious Oxford Union debate on Thursday, following in David Lange’s footsteps. Coincidentally, Jackson has also followed Lange’s

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