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Wayne Brown to Auckland Transport: Shaddap You Face
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Wayne Brown to Auckland Transport: Shaddap You Face

Auckland Mayor, Wayne Brown, has channelled Joe Dolce and basically told Auckland Transport to “shut up and listen”. They seem to lack ears, so it will remain to be seen if Wayne Brown can make them listen to Aucklanders’ concerns over Auckland Transport. Mayor Wayne Brown has told Auckland Transport

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Protesters of the Day

David Seymour says protesters who heckled him at an event on Saturday “didn’t do their cause any favours”. Video shared on TikTok shows protesters, with placards saying ‘Save Gaza’ and ‘Stop Killing Children’, as they interrupted the Minister of Regulation at a ribbon-cutting event for Hamilton’s new

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Genter Shows Her True Colours

Genter Shows Her True Colours

These days it seems that you can’t go a week without having some Green MP go off the rails in one way or another. Case in point: Julie Anne Genter, Green MP and cycling advocate. A Wellington florist who claims to have been intimidated by Julie Anne Genter in

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Public Support for Phone Ban in Schools

familyfirst.org.nz Family First says that the new phone ban in schools has widespread support from parents and the general public. A survey done by Curia Market Research before the General Election last year found that 67 per cent of respondents support a cellphone ban for students in schools,

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Calling It like It Is
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Calling It like It Is

I have long had a nausea-inducing contempt for weak, useless men; any male who isn’t masculine and doesn’t display traditional male attributes doesn’t cut the mustard with me. Examples of this include those feeble useless sops who let themselves get walked all over by wives and

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Accepting This Pay Rise Shows How Out of Touch MPs Are

Bryce Edwards I am Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington, where I run the Democracy Project, and am a full-time researcher in the School of Government. democracyproject.substack.com How entitled are New Zealand’s politicians? Right now, MPs across the political spectrum look entirely out

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Brian Tamaki to Speak in Christchurch

Brian Tamaki to Speak in Christchurch

Press Release Brian Tamaki As Christchurch and Tauranga city councils consider installing rainbow crossings, Brian Tamaki and his Destiny Church say, “No way: not one more rainbow crossing!” “Rainbow crossings are another form of rainbow-washing that targets future generations. We’ve had enough,” states Brian Tamaki ahead of speaking

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They Want to Play God

They Want to Play God

Do not cast me aside in my old age; as my strength fails, do not forsake me. Psalm 71:9 The American actress Patricia Clarkson has been around since around 1987: she’s 64 years old. I’ve been an admirer of her and her work for many years, though

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New Media of the Day

New Media of the Day

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Modern Insurance Law Will Protect Kiwi Households

Hon Andrew Bayly Minister for Commerce and Consumer Affairs The Government is modernising insurance law to better protect Kiwis and provide security in the event of a disaster, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly announced today. “These reforms are long overdue. New Zealand’s insurance law is complicated and

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It Is Not Words That Are ‘Unsafe’
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It Is Not Words That Are ‘Unsafe’

A lesson (for Ardern and Victoria University students): actions, not words, can be ‘dangerous’. The ‘inappropriate’ (quote unquote Gerry Brownlee) actions of Julie Anne Genter when she accosted mild-mannered National minister Matt Doocey in Parliament this week waving a booklet in his face, demonstrated it is actions not words

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Country Update From Klaus

Country Update From Klaus

Owen Jennings Memo to:         Executive Council From:               Klaus Date:                May 2024 Subject:           Country Update – New Zealand Guten Morgen. Our operatives report that plans are in hand in New Zealand. Despite a seeming shift to the despised right, Prime Minister Luxon and his sidekick, Climate Change Minister Watts, are holding the

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Winston Calls Carr an ‘Irrelevant Ill-Informed Shill’

Winston Calls Carr an ‘Irrelevant Ill-Informed Shill’

The Media Party is all aquiver that Winston Peters seems to have more courage than them when it comes to calling things as they seem. He’s doubled down on Bob Carr, calling him an ‘irrelevant ill-informed shill’ which, given the ample information that abounds on the internet, seems

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Arking up against the Rainbow

It looks as if the backlash against the ‘rainbow’ groomers is really hitting its stride. The only surprise is that it’s taken this long. Of course, the only reason the groomers got away with what they did for even this long is because most people blindly accepted the mantra

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The Art of Taking No Responsibility

Alwyn Poole Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11 – 13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1 – 13. alwynpoole.substack.

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