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Labour Delivers More Officials Than Kiwibuild Houses
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Labour Delivers More Officials Than Kiwibuild Houses

New figures released to National show Labour has hired more housing officials than it has built KiwiBuild homes, National’s Housing spokesperson Nicola Willis says. The Labour Government has added 1205 new housing officials across Kainga Ora and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, more than doubling the total

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Why did Faafoi reject Afghan applications?
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Why did Faafoi reject Afghan applications?

David Seymour ACT Leader Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi should tell New Zealanders on what grounds he rejected the applications from a group of Afghan people who helped New Zealand’s military. A group of Afghan people who assisted New Zealand in the Afghanistan conflict had their applications declined by Kris

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PHARMAC Must Explain Funding Decisions

PHARMAC Must Explain Funding Decisions

Brooke van Velden ACT Health spokesperson A report this morning that all PHARMAC staff, rather than clinical experts or those with patient experience are making decisions about life-saving medicines is astounding. Is PHARMAC using staff as de facto focus groups for funding decisions? Every year ill people cross their

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Cancer Society latest to experience Little’s temper

Cancer Society latest to experience Little’s temper

Instead of apologising for his comments on One News on Saturday calling the Cancer Society “off the planet” Andrew Little has doubled down in a tweet exchange on Sunday and again name called the Cancer Society, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “The Cancer Society is a beloved

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Olympic Success – Political Failure

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The Olympic Games are over and New Zealand stands proud of the achievement of our athletes. In spite of the immense difficulties they have faced in this Covid-era, they exceeded expectations and brought home a record haul of medals. Japan too, did itself proud,

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Inconvenient Facts the Media Won’t Print

Inconvenient Facts the Media Won’t Print

We’ve all been bombarded with weeks and weeks of “sustained propaganda” about how safe the vaccine is, or how by taking the vaccine it will allow us all to have better possibilities. But what if I told you that the majority of patients in an Israeli hospital, with the

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Heartbreaking… https://t.co/BJ4gVFiJKc — Elliot Page (@ElliotIkilei) August 14, 2021 Read the article in full here. Comment on it on The BFD.

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Female Preacher Falsely Arrested – Wins Case

Female Preacher Falsely Arrested – Wins Case

Family First familyfirst.org.nz This is how ‘hate speech’ laws look in the UK, just a complaint – even a false one – can lead to significant persecution. No doubt similar events – leading to false arrests – will happen in New Zealand if the proposed Hate Speech laws come into force. “Miss

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Dissension within Green Party Ranks

Dissension within Green Party Ranks

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. A Quiet Conference of Defence and Challenge Surrounded by questions about the lack of Green achievements, the party went into its annual conference last weekend.

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Greens – To Eat or Expunge

There are two common types of greens. We have the ones that are found in the garden or at the supermarket and then there are the ones in Parliament. The former we are told are healthy, contain lots of goodness and we are encouraged to eat them. The ones to

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Are the Greens just ‘Labour’s little helper?’
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Are the Greens just ‘Labour’s little helper?’

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. By joining the Government, the Greens promised to give Labour the spine it needed to act decisively on housing, inequality, climate change and other pressing

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Trained Media Seals Applaud Treating Citizens like Criminals

Trained Media Seals Applaud Treating Citizens like Criminals

Treating ordinary citizens like criminals? Welcome to Jacinda Ardern’s world. She’s really acting all Stalinist. This is just the start of implementing gulags for the non-compliant, (after the obligatory show trials of course). But why don’t the media get up them when they suggest shit like

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The Message and the Messenger

The Message and the Messenger

Tiger Tiger, a tenacious, surprisingly well-educated animal, living and working in the real world.  Having to come up with staff wages every week sharpens the senses. As we are daily browbeaten by bobbing heads and flapping hands across New Zealand and Australia to mask up, get vaccinated, maintain social

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