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PM Won’t Commit to No Kids in Motels by Xmas
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PM Won’t Commit to No Kids in Motels by Xmas

The Prime Minister is all spin and no substance. She has not encountered a target she will not fail to meet nor made an announcement that will not go undelivered, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “In Parliament today Jacinda Ardern had no answers to my questions about the

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No Progress on Ihumatao Housing
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No Progress on Ihumatao Housing

Brooke van Velden ACT Deputy Leader and Housing spokesperson Eight months after the Government made a $29.9 million agreement with taxpayers’ money to buy the land at Ihumatao from Fletcher, there has been absolutely no progress to build houses. Worse than that, the Maori Housing Minister Peeni Henare has

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Government Needs to Walk and Chew Gum

Government Needs to Walk and Chew Gum

David Seymour ACT Leader The Prime Minister today told parliament that she didn’t know when Janssen vaccines would be on shore in New Zealand because Medsafe has only just approved the vaccine. The European Union and United States’ authorities approved the Janssen vaccine in March and February, respectively. Janssen

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Government Has Wasted $4.3 Million on Patsy Questions This Term
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Government Has Wasted $4.3 Million on Patsy Questions This Term

David Seymour ACT Leader The Government has wasted more than $4 million dollars of taxpayers’ money this term asking itself questions about things as banal as what reports Grant Robertson’s received. Yesterday, Leader of the House Chris Hipkins accused ACT of wasting taxpayer’s money by raising questions to

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Janssen Approved, So What Now?

David Seymour ACT Leader Now MedSafe has approved the Janssen one shot vaccine, months after the United States and European Union, the Government should be transparent about its plans for using the vaccine. Under questioning in Parliament yesterday, the Prime Minister showed the Government has no plan for getting back

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Labour Does Not Understand Tax Fundamentals

Labour Does Not Understand Tax Fundamentals

Today we accepted a petition from Lindsay Calvi-Freeman signed by nearly 15,000 people. The petition calls for the Government to reverse their decision to remove tax deductibility of interest for landlords, National’s Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly and Housing spokesperson Nicola Willis say. “Labour are misrepresenting interest deductibility

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We’re 105 Today
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We’re 105 Today

Kelvin Davis Deputy Leader Labour Party Kia ora, Ra whanau ki a tatou! Today is the 105th birthday of the Labour Party. It’s a big milestone for Labour, and a great chance for all of us to come together and celebrate everything that brought Labour to where we are

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Half of All Water Assets May Be Quietly Given to Tribes

Hobson’s Pledge Trust Hobson’s Pledge opposes the Three Waters plan released last week, in which all of New Zealand’s water services will be amalgamated into four super entities because it is intended that the proposed regional groups will be governed on a 50/50 basis between local

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Well Done New Zealand Herald

Well Done New Zealand Herald

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Thank God for the Herald’s integrity. In articles, editorials and cartoons they’ve hammered the government over the outright blatant lies and incompetence of the Health Department re access to Covid vaccines. The indisputable fact is that New Zealand’s vaccine roll-out is

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Business Extinction Rebellion

Business Extinction Rebellion

dairyowners.org The Dairy and Business Owners Group is calling on retailers, restaurateurs and business owners to stand for council election in 2022 as part of a ‘business extinction rebellion.’ “You have to wonder if councillors and council managers have shares in Westfield given how they want to destroy retail

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Democracy, like Capitalism, Has Failed – Ardern

Democracy, like Capitalism, Has Failed – Ardern

Information Satire Ethno-Nationalist-Fascism Explainer Editor Auckland Law School academic Claire Charters, the author of He Puapua, has been contracted by the Scottish Government to prepare a similar report and pathway to self-rule by the indigenous chiefs of Scotland and their clansmen serfs. The report titled Och Aye

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Doocey Seeks Select Committee Inquiry into Mental Health

National’s Mental Health spokesperson Matt Doocey will ask the Health Select Committee to open an inquiry into the 15 new inpatient mental health facilities later this morning. “Both the Government and the Opposition have agreed that the pace of building the new mental health facilities needs to increase and

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Ardern Can’t Have It Both Ways

Ardern Can’t Have It Both Ways

It was revealed on the AM show that Mike King apologized for being rabidly critical of the government last week after it refused to help fund Gumboot Friday counselling sessions. King admitted he had been up the night before the interview supporting a young person in hospital who had attempted

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