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Our World Class School System

James is 8. He is a bright, imaginative, sensitive and caring little boy, who loves being read to and adores animals, his family and playing with swords, toy guns and Lego. He is soon entering his fourth year at school but he still cannot read even at his age level

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Minister’s Reckless and Nasty Privacy Breach

Minister’s Reckless and Nasty Privacy Breach

David Seymour ACT Party Leader The mask of kindness has fallen off Jacinda’s Government. Chris Hipkins‘ use of Charlotte Bellis’s personal information to publicly attack her is reckless and nasty. Hipkins released a statement yesterday in a desperate effort to save face over the Bellis saga. Charlotte has

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Here we go again: Numerous Adventure Events Cancelled!

Gary Moller garymoller.com Gary is a Health Practitioner who is focused on addressing the root causes of ill health or poor performance rather than just treating the symptoms. I’ve written this article for the adventure sports industry. However, what I have got to say here applies to other

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Village Life for the Unvaxed

Village Life for the Unvaxed

Harry McCathie Five years ago, Mary (not her real name) made the decision to move into a retirement village. It proved to be a good decision as in the intervening years her health declined and she suffered a bad fall. The early Covid years were difficult with the restrictions imposed

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The Challenges of Waitangi Day

The Challenges of Waitangi Day

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 With Waitangi Day coming up, it looks as if we are to receive another dose of nonsense about

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You Couldn’t Be More Wrong, Pal

Christopher Luxon has just finished up his caucus retreat, and in his stand up with the hostile media he said National would focus on the economy, Covid-19, and Maori. “It’s game on.” That’s the message from National leader Christopher Luxon in his speech to MPs at the

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United Nations Once Again Shows It’s Institutionally Antisemitic
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United Nations Once Again Shows It’s Institutionally Antisemitic

The Zionist Federation of New Zealand The UN has once again shown the world it is institutionally antisemitic. Not only does it try to erase all Jewish connection to the Land of Israel by only using Arab terms for places of Jewish significance, such as the Temple Mount, in its

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

“It’s game on.” That’s the message from National Leader Christopher Luxon in his speech to MPs at the party’s caucus retreat in Queenstown. […] The retreat will focus on topics Luxon thinks will be important in the new year: The economy, Covid-19, and Maori. […] Luxon said centre-

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Immigration Failure Forcing Nurses to Leave NZ

Yet another immigration train-wreck is seeing nurses forced to leave the country for lengthy periods of time to attempt to secure a visa for their loved ones, at a time when Omicron cases are growing, National’s Immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford says. “After pressure from National, in early 2021

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Pandemic Through the Eyes of Children …

Alwyn Poole alwynpoole.substack.com Alwyn Poole founded and was the Principal of Mt Hobson Middle School and the Villa NCEA Academy in Newmarket, Auckland for the first 18 years. The default mode of children and young people is to look to the grownups in the room for inspiration, comfort

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Light Rail Is a Tram Crash
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Light Rail Is a Tram Crash

I am aware of someone ‘in the know’ who has said that the Government has gone ahead with the dopey light rail idea on the basis of ‘it’s their philosophy’. The other reason is that (as Heather du Plessis-Allan pointed out), this was Jacinda Ardern’s promise which

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Cancel MIQ Today

Cancel MIQ Today

David Seymour ACT Party Leader The saga of Charlotte Bellis should be a turning point for the Government. It should cancel MIQ today, as there is no justification for waiting another month. Bellis is far from the only case. The cruelty of MIQ has created many like hers. The absurdity

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Trudeau Publicly Unmasks Himself

Trudeau Publicly Unmasks Himself

Colin Ford inothernews.co.nz Information Opinion Earlier this week I wrote an article titled, “The Case for Doing What is Right.” In it, I noted that “we have become accustomed to political figures stating bald-faced lies while looking us squarely in the eye.” Just yesterday, Canadian Prime Minister

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Why National Has to Comply

Why National Has to Comply

Information Opinion Many of you on this site express frustration at an opposition that ‘does nothing’. They vote along with the government on anything to do with COVID, forcing us all to believe that, if they were in government, they would be doing exactly the same things. I don’t

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The Taliban Kinder Than the Ardern Regime?

The Taliban Kinder Than the Ardern Regime?

The case of Kiwi journalist Charlotte Bellis gives all the proof that we need that the Ardern regime is evil and acting against its own citizens. What makes this more obvious is that the medieval patriarchs of the Taliban appear to be kinder than Ardern: My name is Charlotte Bellis

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