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It’s War and We Are the Enemy

It’s War and We Are the Enemy

A deeply cynical, secretive, dishonest and treacherous bunch of fellow travellers are this mob in power, epitomised by Jacinda Ardern. She leads the most deceitful New Zealand government in the last fifty years. It’s a travelling caravan of the craven with nobody prepared to talk outside the tent and

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Climate Travesty

Climate Travesty

I have taken to reading The Spectator Australia and The Telegraph in the UK recently, as they produce decent journalism that is well researched, well written and thought-provoking without being inherently biased. The Telegraph attacks members on both sides of the political divide roughly equally, while The Spectator attacks

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Labour Has Failed on Housing

Labour Has Failed on Housing

Jacinda Ardern’s Labour party was elected in 2017, and again in 2020, ostensibly because they promised to fix the housing market. They claimed that Kiwibuild was a policy which would build 100,000 homes, or 10,000 each year for ten years. They also claimed that their policies would

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Free Press

Free Press ACT Party The Haps ACT’s Honest Conversations tour kicks off in the South Island this week. If you’d like to meet ACT’s MPs, please check out the schedule for when they’ll be near you. The Prime Minister says she could have communicated her Hate

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Human Rights Commissioner Needs to Pay Taxpayer Back $200 Donation

Human Rights Commissioner Needs to Pay Taxpayer Back $200 Donation

Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust Public money shouldn’t be funding a Mongrel Mob Chapter that has had several of its members arrested as part of an international drug and crime ring.  The Human Rights Commissioner needs to personally pay back the $200 that was forked out

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National Should Do the Right Thing on UNDRIP
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National Should Do the Right Thing on UNDRIP

David Seymour ACT Leader The National Party should take a stand against the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP), even if it has to reverse its previous position. Judith Collins is correct when she says that Labour is the major culprit here for commissioning the He

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Labour MP Kiritapu Allan Returns to Parliament Three Months after Cancer Diagnosis Labour’s Conservation Minister Kiritapu Allan has returned to work at Parliament, three months after a cervical cancer diagnosis. […] “I want to acknowledge in particular the overwhelming amount of support that I’ve received in my time off.

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Discrimination of the Day
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Discrimination of the Day

Taxpayers’ Union The Taxpayers’ Union is responding to reports that the Government has quietly changed the rules so that the Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF) will now pay Maori researchers 2.5 times the rate of non-Maori, while Pasifika academics will be paid two times the non-Pasifika rate.

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Govt Living Hand to Mouth on Vaccine

Govt Living Hand to Mouth on Vaccine

David Seymour ACT Leader Chris Hipkins’ celebration of 150,000 doses of vaccine arriving is like hooting and hollering for a drop goal while the team of five million is 50 points behind on the scoreboard. Most of us are happy to get an email or text notification when a

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Ardern Is in Control as NZ Spins Out of Control

Ardern Is in Control as NZ Spins Out of Control

Ardern’s political philosophy at its most basic is all about control. This has become more evident this term as her electoral mandate allows her carte blanche to do whatever she wants. We can call her a socialist, a Marxist, even a communist and can point to some truth in

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Human Rights Commissioner Must Go
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Human Rights Commissioner Must Go

I am calling for the resignation of Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt following the news that he used taxpayer’s money to make a donation to the Mongrel Mob when he spoke at their gang pad in May, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “It is an incredible lapse

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Unteach Racism – Module 4 – Harmful Assumptions

Unteach Racism – Module 4 – Harmful Assumptions

Lewis Andrew sojournal.co.nz Once again, after a break of a few weeks, we are set to continue our ascent of Mt Lunacy, otherwise known as the Unteach Racism app put out by the education-focused Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand. For those of you determined to assault

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Muzzling Free Speech

Muzzling Free Speech

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Last Friday the Minister of Justice Kris Faafoi announced that the next step in the Government’s plan to introduce hate speech laws would be two public consultation processes – the first seeking feedback on their legislative proposals, and the second asking how to build a

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Dark Matters

Dark Matters

While driving today, I heard something on the radio which said we are now celebrating 2 years of being plastic-bag free. We are not plastic-bag free, of course. Anyone can buy them at the supermarkets in packs, or in bulk on the internet. I assume they mean ‘free-

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