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The News Site You Can’t Trust

Stuff is one of the biggest troughers when it comes to availing itself of large quantities of taxpayers’ cash to prop up its ailing edifice. At Stuff they constantly push how grand and independent they are. What they’ve never realised is that if you need to state it, you

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Psst Want a Free Taste of Silver Membership

Psst Want a Free Taste of Silver Membership

If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer Chris Trotter. The Facts Don’t Matter Explaining the loss of public trust and confidence in the mainstream news

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Neither Te Tiriti nor the Treaty Imply Co-governance

Neither Te Tiriti nor the Treaty Imply Co-governance

Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party leader from 2003 to 2006. On 13 May Newsroom carried a column by four writers at Victoria University under the heading “Commitments to equality in Te Tiriti mean co-governance”. In attacking those

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Public Meeting of Minor Parties: Tauranga By-Election
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Public Meeting of Minor Parties: Tauranga By-Election

The Freedoms & Rights Coalition In case you missed the newsflash, Brian Tamaki is hosting a public meeting this Monday in Tauranga for the upcoming by-election, so we sat down with him to find out his motivation. TFRC: Why have you invited several minor parties together in one meeting?

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Your Chance to Win a signed Hardback Copy of “Nudged into Lockdown?”

Your Chance to Win a signed Hardback Copy of “Nudged into Lockdown?”

We are running another fantastic giveaway for our members. The prizes are two signed, hardback copies of Nudged into Lockdown? Behavioral Economics, Uncertainty and Covid-19 by BFD author Ananish Chaudhuri. Utilizing extensive research in economics, psychology, political science, neuroscience and evolutionary theory, Ananish Chaudhuri provides a critical perspective on

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Some Bad Ideas Just Never Go Away

Stephen Hickson University of Canterbury Stephen Hickson is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics and Finance at the University of Canterbury. He is currently the Director of the Business Taught Masters Programmes. Removing the goods and services tax (GST) from food is not a new idea. Te

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How We Were Nudged Into Lockdown

How We Were Nudged Into Lockdown

This an edited version of an article that appeared on the Elgar Blog from Edward Elgar Publishing. Reproduced with permission. Warning Long read. 1582 words. Ananish Chaudhuri is Professor of Experimental Economics at the University of Auckland and the author of “Nudged into lockdown?” Behavioral Economics, Uncertainty and Covid-19″

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The Pot Calling the Kettle White
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The Pot Calling the Kettle White

New Zealand First Media “The Maori Party announcing that they are not standing in the Tauranga by-election because it is a ‘safety issue’ due to ‘racism’ is a ridiculous insult to the voters and just plain wrong,” says Rt Hon Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First. “The Maori

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BFD Caption Competition

BFD Caption Competition

Here is one I prepared earlier… 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 experience more enjoyable click here to

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How to Control and Brainwash a Community

How to Control and Brainwash a Community

Here is proof of how insidious the power of brainwashing and conditioning is. Especially when those with the power to dictate the rules make a concerted effort and when the mainstream news services in tandem are supportive and compliant in twisting the truth. If you enjoyed this article please share

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Face of the Day
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Face of the Day

ACT Party Cameron Luxton ACT’s Tauranga candidate “The Maori Party has been caught in a lie, trying to bad-mouth Tauranga by spreading misinformation and they owe our city an apology,” says ACT’s Tauranga candidate Cameron Luxton. “Te Pati Maori president Che Wilson has described Tauranga as a

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Jackson Fond of the Blame Game

Jackson Fond of the Blame Game

Pete Cabell Information Opinion Maori radical Willie Jackson has called ACT leader David Seymour “a useless Maori”. It seems anyone of Maori heritage who does not share Jackson’s extreme views is a “useless Maori”. The problem for Maori radicals like Jackson (who have as much or more Pakeha blood

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NZ Conservation’s First Line of Defence

NZ Conservation’s First Line of Defence

Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc. www.sportingshooters.nz By proposing regulations that make it harder for shooting clubs and ranges to operate, along with imposing restrictions on how novices can enter the sport, police are attacking New Zealand conservation ideals and heritage. It has been estimated that recreational

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PM Has No Use for Paul Hunt

PM Has No Use for Paul Hunt

David Seymour ACT Party Leader ACT’s policy to get rid of the Human Rights Commissioner has today been backed up by Jacinda Ardern and her Government. The fact that the Human Rights Commissioner hasn’t requested a meeting with the Prime Minister or her senior Ministers for three years

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Luxon Makes Bridges Look Good

Luxon Makes Bridges Look Good

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. Could it be a case of not appreciating what you’ve got until it’s gone? The National

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