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What Is the Point of a Budget If You Won’t Stick To It?

What Is the Point of a Budget If You Won’t Stick To It?

Less than three weeks after delivering the Budget, the Minister of Finance is refusing to commit to its spending limits for next year, National’s Finance spokesperson Nicola Willis says. During his appearance at the Finance and Expenditure Committee this morning, the Minister of Finance, Grant Robertson, refused to commit

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One Person, One Vote End of Story
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One Person, One Vote End of Story

Simon Court ACT Local Government spokesperson The Government needs to scrap its anti-democratic bill that would add unelected representatives to the Canterbury Regional Council based on their race. The Canterbury Regional Council (Ngai Tahu Representation) Bill gives Ngai Tahu the ability to appoint two un-elected representatives to council.

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We Are Going on a Duck Hunt
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We Are Going on a Duck Hunt

David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Mallard hunting season came to an end last weekend but there’s one more Mallard that still needs to go. Parliament is too important an institution to have someone leading it who New Zealanders don’t trust. A 1News poll last night shows New

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Killing Fields

Killing Fields

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The Creepy-Crawlies

The Creepy-Crawlies

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We Said This Would Happen and Now It Has

We Said This Would Happen and Now It Has

Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc The revelation that documents stolen from an abandoned Auckland police station contained the names and addresses of licensed firearm owners has outraged gun owners. Said Chaz Forsyth, President of the Sporting Shooters Association, “The fact that these documents have lain in an empty

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Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor The CCCFA Amendment Bill is probably one of the biggest ever attacks on the New Zealand financial markets by a government in the history of New Zealand. On 1st of December 2021 the bill was put into law. Prior to this top officials from senior banks in NZ

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The Pyromaniacs Are in Charge

The Pyromaniacs Are in Charge

J d’Anconia A central banker walks into a pizzeria and orders a pizza. When the pizza is done, he goes up to the counter. There, an assistant asks him, “Should I cut it into six pieces or eight pieces?” The central banker replies, “I’m feeling rather hungry right

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Time for Poto Williams to Go

Time for Poto Williams to Go

It is time for Poto Williams to be removed as Police Minister, Opposition Leader Christopher Luxon says. “Poto Williams may have skills better suited to other portfolios, but it is clear she is not equipped to be Police Minister, especially at a time when gang activity and violent crime are

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Riding the Road to Ruin

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. Warning Long read. 1395 words. Information

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Council to Ban Dogs from Dog Park

For 160 years, people of any skin colour have been able to walk their loved family pets around Lake Te Ko Utu in the heart of Cambridge. The east end of the lake reserve is a designated off-lead exercise area. It is a beautiful spot with a flat track

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Are You Still Wearing a Mask?

Are You Still Wearing a Mask?

Voices For Freedom voicesforfreedom.co.nz Still wearing a mask? Not all the time? Just some of the time?Not because you believe the lie. Not because you really think they do anything much. But because ...It's no big deal Claire. I just don't want to

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Says the Woman Protected by Armed Bodyguards

Jacinda Ardern has shown just how out of touch she is with the voting public by telling off the victims of increased crime resulting from Labour’s soft on crime policies. She has even lectured them about how they shouldn’t be thinking of arming themselves to protect themselves from

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Jacinda Ardern: “I’m never ever going to say that there is a situation where the right response is for someone to arm themselves” pic.twitter.com/FghpuVSELu — Mediaspot (@mediaspotnz) June 6, 2022 Says the person protected by armed men. Says the person who says she is sending “lethal aid”

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It’s Time to Ban Gangs

It’s Time to Ban Gangs

Sensible Sentencing Trust The Sensible Sentencing Trust has launched a petition to demand the government bring in legislation to ban the existence of criminal gangs in New Zealand. “There is only one question that needs to be asked – do we as a society want to accept the violence, intimidation, and

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