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Lions in Opposition but Lambs in Govt?

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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Never Forget Those Who Held the Line
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Never Forget Those Who Held the Line

Mark Freeman About one hundred and fifty freedom-lovers attended a picnic on Parliament Ground in Wellington on Saturday to commemorate the second anniversary of the day that anti-mandate protesters “held the line” against the police on 10 February 2022. One minute’s silence was observed for people injured,

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The Spectacle We Have Come To Expect

The Spectacle We Have Come To Expect

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Waitangi Day was the spectacle we have come to expect. Like a reality TV show, politicians attended to supposedly pay their respects, while radicals acted out their disrespect. Most Kiwis didn’t bother about it and just enjoyed another summer day off work. This year

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Wayne Brown Needs to Stop Whinging
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Wayne Brown Needs to Stop Whinging

Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown is starting to sound like a cry-bully socialist upset that other people’s money has been taken away from ‘his city’. Instead of crying a river of tears why doesn’t Mayor Brown start doing that for which he was elected: cutting waste from council

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They Are Playing Foolish Games

They Are Playing Foolish Games

The world is in the throes of two major international conflicts. I do not need to name them. I am writing about a third one: it is domestic. It is between the mainstream media and the Government. The fundamental question is this: are the mainstream media going to destroy the

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More Funding to Hawke’s Bay and Tairawhiti
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More Funding to Hawke’s Bay and Tairawhiti

Hon Mark Mitchell Minister for Emergency Management and Recovery Urgent work to clean-up cyclone-affected regions will continue, thanks to a $63 million boost from the Government for sediment and debris removal in Hawke’s Bay and Tairawhiti. The funding will help local councils continue urgent work removing and

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ACT Surges in Latest Poll
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ACT Surges in Latest Poll

The latest Taxpayers’ Union Curia Poll was released over the weekend and shows ACT surging. National also gained some, while Labour, Greens and NZ First saw slumps in support. Contrary to the claims of the woke media, it seems that ACT’s Treaty Principles Bill is gaining support. PartySupportChange compared

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The Six Documents that Made NZ
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The Six Documents that Made NZ

One New Zealand Foundation Inc Colonization did not destroy the tangata Maori’s way of life, it was Hongi Hika, Ngapuhi, who destroyed it when he returned from England in 1820 with over 500 muskets and went on the rampage south with 2000 followers, killing thousands of their unarmed countrymen,

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

The Act party and its leader David Seymour appear to have reaped the dividends of a heated Waitangi Day period, rocketing up to 13.7 per cent in the latest Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll. […] On the poll results, NZ First would no longer be needed to form a government – Act

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Supreme Court Decision Astounding
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Supreme Court Decision Astounding

Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com Three years ago a friend of mine whose a District Court Judge asked me if I would be guest speaker

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Have We Lost Our Minds?
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Have We Lost Our Minds?

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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The Treaty vs Te Tiriti

The Treaty vs Te Tiriti

Far too much has been written and said about the Treaty of Waitangi. I say this because the great Maori leader, Sir Apirana Ngata published the definitive work on it in 1922. There really is no need for anything else. A copy of his book, The Treaty of Waitangi – an

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It Is Amateur Night in Government

October 1980. The National party loses a by-election in East Coast Bays to the Social Credit party. It takes a very special kind of candidate to manage such a feat, but it happened. In the aftermath Deputy Prime Minister Brian Talboys made it known he’d accept the job

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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. It’s the first show of the year! Enjoy! DON BRASH: On Waitangi Day, the Treaty Principles Bill, and What It Really Means Don Brash joins Cam to review Waitangi Day events and discuss the Treaty Principles Bill and what

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Why Do They Hate Donald Trump So Much?

Why Do They Hate Donald Trump So Much?

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