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Replay Radio: The Crunch

This week’s guests were NZ First Candidate for Bay of Plenty Kirsten Murfitt and Lee Donaghue NZ First Candidate for Hutt South. Plus a review of the leaders debates and the two polls this week. Enjoy! Help Fund Our NewsDesk We are building a NewsDesk, hiring journalists and taking

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Labour Is Putting Globalists in Charge of the High Seas

Labour Is Putting Globalists in Charge of the High Seas

There has been no public announcement or discussion of the Minister’s intention to sign this agreement. In short, the Minister is signalling before the next government is even elected, an intention to ratify. Labour is putting globalists in charge of the high seas, and from here the NGOs will

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If You Are Feeling Under the Weather, You Need to Read This

If You Are Feeling Under the Weather, You Need to Read This

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 Questions They Didn’t Ask

The Questions They Didn’t Ask

Rod Kane I have no idea who the winner was Wednesday night but it’s fairly obvious who the losers were: us. This wasn’t a debate, it was a badly choreographed yell fest. Hipkins came off the blocks shouting like an enraged parrot and he never really stopped until

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The Problem With Welfare ‘Loans’

The Problem With Welfare ‘Loans’

Hanna Wilberg University of Auckland The National Party’s pledge to apply sanctions to unemployed people receiving a welfare payment, if they are “persistently” failing to meet the criteria for receiving the benefit, has attracted plenty of comment and criticism. Less talked about has been the party’s promise to

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Could the Dam Be About to Break?

I remember a radio discussion a couple of weeks before the 2002 general election between the respective party Presidents – Mike Williams, and (You-Know-Who) for National. Williams delivered what probably turned out to be a king hit by lisping “National cannot win the election so supporting them is a

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Potentially Good News for Auckland Central

Potentially Good News for Auckland Central

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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Media and Hipkins Handing Winston Free Hits

Media and Hipkins Handing Winston Free Hits

In the unseemly debate on Wednesday night Chris Hipkins used a quote from NZ First candidate Rob Ballantyne out of context. It allowed Winston Peters to have a free hit and get free publicity across all the media at once, hijacking the news cycle brilliantly. New Zealand First leader Winston

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Wondering What All the Political Terms Mean?

J D Wealth Tax: A tax that should be paid, by anyone who has more money than I have. Capital Gains Tax: See above. Rich Prick: See above. Free Speech: Anything I say. Hate Speech: Anything you say that I don’t agree with. Racism: The idea that anyone should

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Leaders’ Debate

Leaders’ Debate

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A Good Old-Fashioned Political Party Rally

A Good Old-Fashioned Political Party Rally

Mark Freeman An estimated 2,000 or more people took part in the Abandon Agenda 2030 protest march and rallies in Wellington on Thursday. The event was timed to coincide with the United Nations Association of New Zealand’s one-day conference Advancing Agenda 2030. However, in an overblown reaction

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Freedoms NZ Protest Photos September 28, 2023

Freedoms NZ Protest Photos September 28, 2023

Thanks to a BFD Citizen Photo journalist we have these photos from yesterday’s Freedoms NZ protest. By 10.30, only about twenty people had gathered to protest, while about one hundred police, Maori wardens, and parliamentary security were present. They were largely dispersed around the fenced perimeter but were

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NZ’s Green Party Is ‘Filling the Void on the Left’

NZ’s Green Party Is ‘Filling the Void on the Left’

Priya Kurian University of Waikato theconversation.com The Green Party has run a strong campaign. With a 14.2% share in the latest Newshub-Reid Research poll, up by 1.9 percentage points since the previous poll, that is more than half the Labour Party’s 26.5%. The gain

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Will Winston Be the Spectre We Think?

Will Winston Be the Spectre We Think?

Allow me to preface this contribution with the following statement: If I were asked to express a preference between a National/ACT coalition or a National/ACT/NZF coalition then it would be the former. This week Luxon declared his position, which was if Winston is needed he will pick

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The Convoy of Courage

The Convoy of Courage

The Freedoms & Rights Coalition Today marks the conference of the UNA-NZ, hosted by Sir Ashley Bloomfield, where they will tackle how to Advance Agenda 2030. Originally planned as an in-person event in the Parliament Banquet Hall, it’s now moved online to avoid ‘disruption’ caused by our

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