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What a Government Grants You, They Can Easily Take Away

Never trust a government, especially when they come bearing gifts, like subsidies, grants or rebates. What a government grants you, they can easily take away. Pretty soon electric vehicle buyers are going to find that out  the hard way. Electric cars currently have a free pass from paying Road User

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Ardern’s Titanic

Ardern’s Titanic

Information Opinion Jacinda Ardern is as thick as two planks when it comes to good management and overall has no ability to make a sound executive decision. Things will never come right for ‘Crazy Cindy’s’ ministry until Mahuta is moved on from local government. Change is needed at Health

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Face of the Day
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Face of the Day

Labour Party president Claire Szabó will be standing down from her role in November and says she has not decided yet about standing for the party as an MP. […] Former Labour MP Louisa Wall, who in April ended a 14-year parliamentary career, said she was “forced out” of her

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Protect Our Schools from Far-Left Activists

Protect Our Schools from Far-Left Activists

Helen Houghton Co-leader New Conservative “Activists are targeting our children with harmful ideologies. Not only through indoctrinating kids with anti-biology teaching on gender, but they are now attacking religious schools like Bethlehem College for their beliefs. This has to stop,“ says Helen Houghton, a former teacher and New

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Public Interest Horse and Buggy Fund Next?

Public Interest Horse and Buggy Fund Next?

The Ardern government is determined to keep a dying industry afloat. But an unflinchingly loyal industry. Its “Public Interest Journalism Fund” is somewhat akin to a government of the 1900s pouring money into the horse and buggy industry, in return for plastering election posters on the horses’ arses. Some of

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‘He Would Have Been Hanged’
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‘He Would Have Been Hanged’

Information Opinion Dieuwe de Boer rightminds.nz You can follow Dieuwe de Boer on Telegram or Twitter. I saw a rather funny tweet from former PM Helen Clark recently: Preposterous for #NZ judge to reference death penalty in sentencing person on drug-related charges. The #deathpenalty was abolished in NZ

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orange for the win
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The Flaw in the PM’s Plan

Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under

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Rule 11: Pick the Target

Rule 11: Pick the Target

Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame. Rules for Radicals https://www.citizenshandbook.org/rules.html If you aren’t angry with the way the

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The Battle Scars of the Unvaxxed

The Battle Scars of the Unvaxxed

freenz.substack.com An opinion piece from a vaccinated Australian writer, that is equally relevant in NZ. Yes it’s long, but I hope that some take a few minutes to read as it’s profound and wise. And it makes me wonder about the truth of those early reports

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Gender Ideology Not Welcome in Our Schools

Gender Ideology Not Welcome in Our Schools

Family First A new nationwide poll has found significant opposition to gender ideology being taught to primary school students, and majority support for parents being informed of their own children exhibiting gender dysphoria at school. There is also more support than opposition for a ban on transition medicine and surgery

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They Are Suppressing Dissent, Not Protecting Health

They Are Suppressing Dissent, Not Protecting Health

Mandatory vaccination, face masks and social distancing is enforced by Ardern’s volunteer army manning the doors of supermarkets and large retailers. I know they believe they are keeping everyone safe because that’s what they tell me. But what if the dictatorial Ardern Government is doing the same thing

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A Rock and a Hard Place
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A Rock and a Hard Place

Stuff have confirmed that either Aucklanders don’t have a clue who the plethora of mayoral candidates are or if they do they have a choice between a Giant Douche or a Turd Sandwich. Auckland voters are between a rock and a hard place. With the Auckland mayoral election fast

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Tell the Full PGF Story, Minister

Tell the Full PGF Story, Minister

David Seymour ACT Party Leader Minister for Corporate Welfare Stuart Nash should tell New Zealanders the full story about what results $3,000,000,000 in taxpayers’ money funnelled through the Provincial Growth Fund has achieved. Launching the PGF, Shane Jones said: “We are being bold and we are being

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A Challenge for Chris Hipkins

A Challenge for Chris Hipkins

Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc We really hope that new Minister of Police Hipkins will unravel the complex legislation that confuses lawful gun owners and police alike and instead transfer the administration funding to getting illegal guns off the streets. That’s the message from the Sporting Shooters

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