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You Can’t Polish a Turd

How tarnished is the gloss on Jacinda Ardern‘s premiership? Pretty tarnished is the answer, and the sheen has come off overseas now too. They say you can’t polish a turd, but you can whack some big teeth on it, dress it up in a sack and some Allbirds

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$179M Committed to Help Build Thousands of New Homes

Kainga Ora Critical infrastructure projects to enable seven large housing projects around the country will receive a share of almost $179m in funding to enable thousands more homes, Housing Minister Megan Woods announced today. Rotorua, Omokoroa, Kaikoura, Otaki, Napier, Gisborne and New Plymouth will all receive a portion of the

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The Buck Stops with Them

The Buck Stops with Them

Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. It’s ordinary people who are suffering the most from the current cost of living crisis. In other

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The Committee of Public Fear Unmasked

The Committee of Public Fear Unmasked

Warning Satire “Order!” shouted Hellish Quark in stentorian tones. The rabble seated around the meeting table continued shouting at each other and ignored the command, thus forcing Hellish to produce a gavel the size of a young sledge-hammer and whack a metal gavel plate with it, producing a noise

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A New Mental Health Facility

A New Mental Health Facility

You may remember that, shortly after the current Government came into office, they allocated $1.9 billion to additional mental health services. It has to be said, at the time, that seemed like a hell of a lot of money, but now it seems paltry, such has been the chronic

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It Is a Media Magic Trick

It Is a Media Magic Trick

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. Information Opinion On July 14th Stuff

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The True Cost of Not Solving Homelessness

When this Government was elected one of their main promises was to address and rectify the housing market, including solving the claimed homelessness crisis. What no one knew back then was what that actually entailed. But now we do. The Government has hosed the thick end of a billion dollars

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Hotel Paranoia
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Hotel Paranoia

A parody rewrite of the Eagles’ 1977 hit song, Hotel California, relevant to the current times, the times of pervasive paranoia and pandemics of fear. On the great reset highway, fools’ words in my ear Warm smell of infection, rising up through the fear Up ahead in the future, I

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Dear Leader Makes Glorious New Future
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Dear Leader Makes Glorious New Future

If someone had said to you forty, even ten years ago, that we would soon be living in a world where your face is stored on a central government computer and cameras and microphones built into your devices would be spying on everything you did and said, you’d have

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Things That Make Me Go Hmm

But didn’t they say that the vaccines are safe and effective? If you enjoyed this article please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading

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Jacinda Weather Vane

Jacinda Weather Vane

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Vaccine Effectiveness

Vaccine Effectiveness

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Can Jacinda’s Hands Get Any Grubbier?

If the Ardern government’s flirtatious two-step with the Chinese Communist Party hasn’t got its hands dirty enough, there’s no shortage of brutal, authoritarian regimes they can roll in the mud with for a few sweet bucks. Like Saudi Arabia. They’ve got lots of money! Joe

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Ardern Has Nothing Good to Say So She Says Nothing at All
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Ardern Has Nothing Good to Say So She Says Nothing at All

As meagre information about the appointment of Nanaia Mahuta’s younger sister, Tipa, to a pivotal role in Three Waters is gradually prised out of the government, it is becoming clear the Prime Minister has no intention of letting the public know exactly how that shell game played out. What

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Labour’s Reforms Get an F for Failure

Labour’s Reforms Get an F for Failure

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. Since their election in 2017,

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