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What Should the Next Government Entrench?
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What Should the Next Government Entrench?

Pandora’s Box has been opened by the Labour-led Government. They’ve decided to entrench 3 4 5 6 7 8 waters legislation, which is a non-constitutional entrenchment. As David Farrar and multiple left-leaning constitutional experts have stated, this is a travesty and an appalling indictment of

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Surprise of the Day

Used car prices to go up 25 percent under Clean Car Standard, motor industry predicts. […] Dumper said if it had taken three or four years longer, there would have been a lot less pain. Subaru’s most optimistic planning was for sales to crash 20 per cent. “Our sales could

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Why are Banks Making Record Profits While We are Struggling?
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Why are Banks Making Record Profits While We are Struggling?

Below is Stuart Smith’s response. Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura When you look at banking sector profits, it is critical to understand the underlying reasons of why they are making such profits. Part of understanding why the banks have made such a profit would be having an independent investigation

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Don't Panic

Don’t Panic, It’ll All Be Fine

Corporal Jones always used to say “Don’t panic, don’t panic!”, usually when things were about to turn to custard. That was certainly how I’ve been feeling this past week, when what should have been a routine plugin upgrade for our membership system all of a sudden caused

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Will Jacinda Respect This Science?

Will Jacinda Respect This Science?

It’s official: there’s no such thing as “indigenous people”. Not, at least, unless you’re a natural-born member of the Khoe-San groups of Southern Africa. Everywhere else – you’re just an immigrant. A “coloniser”, if you will. It’s science. As scientists find more ancient human

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A Nation of Sheep Begets a Govt of Wolves

Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard 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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Reflecting on five years under Ardern
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Reflecting on five years under Ardern

Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com I have concluded our new prime minister Jacinda Ardern is clever stupid. She’s quick, has good analytical skills and communicates well. There’s no doubt she’s clever. But she’s stupid on how the world works and lacks thought-through principles and values. She

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A Pariah in Her Own Community?

A Pariah in Her Own Community?

There are times when criticising the PM becomes spontaneous. Her very presence, addressing any issue, can leave one thinking how this country could be so unfortunate as to be lumbered with such a lamentable simpleton, but there have been a number of occasions when her true character is indisputably exposed.

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Kiwis Have Been Truly Duped
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Kiwis Have Been Truly Duped

New Zealanders have been well and truly duped by Labour over Three Waters. From the outset, the primary objective has always been to deliver control of water to the Maori tribal elite. It is only through lies and manipulation, a compliant media and an absolute majority in the House that

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Stop Avi Yemini wrap up smear
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Media Meddling Revealed in Avi Yemini Saga

It’s the story that just won’t die: how Avi Yemini was prevented from visiting New Zealand, and the role the NZ Herald and TVNZ played in it all. On top of that we can reveal that Immigration Minister Michael Wood’s office were demanding updates on the saga

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Spin of the Day

Spin of the Day

After the violent murder of Janak Patel in Sandringham, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who lives in that community, decided to go ahead with plans to travel to the Chatham Islands. She copped some flak from other parties for her decision and others occupied the space left empty. What to do?

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And Another One

Tragically, a 14-year-old boy in Ireland died after getting the Covid vaccine. What gets me angry is that, even if you’re all for the vaccine, giving this kid the vaccine was both absolutely needless and a fundamental breach of basic human rights, whatever way you look at

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Election 2023: Coalitions, Kingmakers and a Rugby World Cup

Election 2023: Coalitions, Kingmakers and a Rugby World Cup

Grant Duncan Massey University Grant Duncan completed a PhD at the University of Auckland, and has worked at Massey University’s Albany campus (Auckland) since 1993. He teaches in the politics program, primarily in the areas of political theory and New Zealand politics. Sometimes it feels as if election year

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Jacinda’s Twaddle about Holding Parents to Account

Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former minister in the 1984-1990 governments. When I was young, kids appeared before a magistrate (a district court judge before 1978) sufficiently rarely that

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The Secret of Vaccine Success

The Secret of Vaccine Success

Attendees at the G20 meetings in Bali last week put out a statement of intent that includes preparation for the next global pandemic. Notably, pursuing high vaccination rates remains a priority, whereas saving lives through early treatment regimes (which were successful during the current pandemic) not so much. [22] “We

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