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Marsden Point Closure: Govt Set to Reap What They Have Sown
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Marsden Point Closure: Govt Set to Reap What They Have Sown

New Zealand First Media New Zealand is now in desperate need of bitumen for the lengthy and expensive roading rebuild – a quality product which Marsden Point was once producing for us locally until it was shut down. Now we are forced to import an expensive inferior alternative product from overseas.

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Commissioner Gaslight Has Got to Go

Commissioner Gaslight Has Got to Go

David Seymour ACT Party Leader Police Commissioner Andrew Coster, AKA Commissioner Gaslight, needs to stop undermining East Coast residents, mayors and business leaders and show them support. Residents on the East Coast have been through hell. Instead of listening and responding to their concerns, Coster just says they’re wrong.

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More on Lockdowns

More on Lockdowns

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com When I suggested recently that the media ask Chris Hipkins, why given our current record covid infection numbers and deaths, if it was a good idea to throw the country into a ludicrously punitive lockdown in 2020, 2021 and 2022, it’s not now? Some

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Lessons We Need to Learn

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. Cyclone Gabrielle was a tragedy

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Woke and ‘Bread and Butter’ Politics
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Woke and ‘Bread and Butter’ Politics

John A.Z. Moore democracyproject.nz John A.Z. Moore is a writer for the Democracy Project and a precarious worker in the provinces. Jacinda Ardern’s government promised transformation in the economic and social spheres. But after failing to deliver on key material/economic concerns, such as with the

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Therapeutic Products Bill an Extremely Important Issue

Therapeutic Products Bill an Extremely Important Issue

Mark Freeman A protest against the Therapeutic Products Bill in Wellington at the weekend drew a very positive response from passing motorists. Nearly 50 people from several freedom groups in the city came together on Saturday to raise public awareness of the legislation. The event was one of a number

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They Are Us
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They Are Us

Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com In February-March 1988 when Cyclone Bola hit the eastern North Island I was Minister of Civil Defence. I remember flying crab-wise into a howling gale to a closed Gisborne airport in a small Air Force plane in order to get an immediate handle on

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Will the Govt Response Lose or Win Them an Election?

Will the Govt Response Lose or Win Them an Election?

As the scale of the disaster of Cyclone Gabrielle on the East Coast of the North Island is becoming more and more known, people in the region are starting to wonder whether the Government response will be like the response in the US to Hurricane Katrina, which ultimately cost George

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Army Needed to Restore Law and Order in Hawkes Bay Region
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Army Needed to Restore Law and Order in Hawkes Bay Region

New Zealand First Media It is appalling that during these tragic circumstances in the Hawkes Bay and elsewhere where people have lost their lives and livelihoods, we are now seeing gangs and feral thugs threatening, robbing, stealing, and looting. The lawlessness cannot be allowed to continue and will only get

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Education: Where Are the Kids?

Alwyn Poole www.innovativeeducation.co.nz www.alwynpoole.substack.com/ The Minister of Education (Hipkins) who drove attendance in NZ off the cliff was planning to make a big ANNOUNCEMENT this week on how to cure the disease he has significant responsibility for causing. The announcement has been delayed. From

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Luxon is Too Nice to Labour
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Luxon is Too Nice to Labour

Luxon had time to observe how he wanted National to work as he sat in Parliament and watched what went on. Right from the onset of his leadership he stated he wanted to work differently. He emphasised that his MPs were to work in both a civil and a bi-

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They Believe They Can Do No Wrong

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 PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior manager

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Time to Swing the Axe on Government Spending

Time to Swing the Axe on Government Spending

As the impact of Cyclone Gabrielle starts to be fully understood, it is going to force the government into making some unpalatable decisions that will affect its re-election chances. But they are decisions that will have to be made, and made sooner rather than later. In an article we

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The Basics of the Treaty
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The Basics of the Treaty

Waitangi Day has been and gone with much ink spilled over what it means for present-day New Zealand, and where we go from here. The Treaty was drafted in English and translated into Maori and, while there are disputes about the meanings of different terms, there is no compelling

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What Sturgeon and Ardern Teach Us

What Sturgeon and Ardern Teach Us

Many moons ago, I wrote that Jacinda Ardern, Justin Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron were the Hermione, Harry and Ron of globalism. Why Is It, When Something Happens, It Is Always You Three? I pondered whom would be the first of the three to be expelled, as it were. Well, we

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