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Kainga Ora’s Uncaring Double Standards

Brooke van Velden ACT Housing spokesperson The Labour Government needs to explain why a terminally ill state housing tenant was left fighting to get a heat pump in the middle of winter when private landlords have a looming deadline to have them installed. Housing Minister Megan Woods said recently “…with

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Winston Peters Is Back… and So Is He Puapua

Winston Peters Is Back… and So Is He Puapua

Graham Adams democracyproject.nz Graham Adams is a journalist, columnist and reviewer who has written for many of the country’s media outlets including Metro, North & South, Noted, The Spinoff and Newsroom With the help of a largely dismissive media, concerns raised in April by David Seymour and then

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Compelled Speech at the Ministry of Education

Compelled Speech at the Ministry of Education

[Name withheld, government worker at the Ministry of Education] I am writing to you about the issue of compelled speech in the Ministry of Education here in New Zealand. I apologise that I do not give my name. I believe that if senior staff at the Ministry of Education discovered

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Win in the High Court for Our Speak up for Women Case

Win in the High Court for Our Speak up for Women Case

Jordan Williams Free Speech Union Further to my article Friday about the comprehensive win we achieved this week in the High Court, the full judgement (reasons) came through Friday night and is available to read here. Given the current cancel culture and suppression of opposing opinions, the Judge’s comments

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Discrimination of the Day

Discrimination of the Day

We’re looking for rangatahi who are looking for a foot in the door of the civil infrastructure industry at Downer. If you have a positive attitude, willingness to learn, a minimum of a restricted driver’s license and you’re looking for a full-time career in a large

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A Slow-Moving Coup

A Slow-Moving Coup

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com A slow-moving coup is underway in New Zealand. Unlike most coups, the transfer of power through non-democratic means that’s taking place is being orchestrated by the Prime Minister. Under the guise of implementing the United Nations Declaration of Indigenous Peoples, Jacinda Ardern

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Rural NZ Will Suffer from Labour’s Car Tax
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Rural NZ Will Suffer from Labour’s Car Tax

Mark Cameron Ruawai Dairy Farmer ACT Primary Industries spokesperson Michael Wood knew he was going to be punishing rural New Zealanders when he introduced Labour’s car tax, he just didn’t care. In a Transport Ministry Green Paper, which has a foreword written by Michael Wood, it says the

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They Did Not Come to His Rescue

They Did Not Come to His Rescue

Blogger Tim Wikiriwhi recently pointed out that the ACT Party and the Free Speech Union were conspicuously missing in action when  New Zealand YouTuber Lee Williams fell victim to a vicious cancel culture mob. If only popular speech spoken by popular people is going to be defended then it is

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Telling Us How to Think
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Telling Us How to Think

hobsonspledge.nz Indoctrination is the process of instilling ideas and attitudes by persistent instruction. The New Zealand government systematically fosters politically correct ideas and attitudes on the Treaty of Waitangi, our history, and the position of Maori people in society. Once upon a time, New Zealand culture was heavily dominated

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100% Renewable Energy by 2035?

100% Renewable Energy by 2035?

Whether or not you believe human intervention is responsible for increased CO2 emissions and that those emissions are a matter of planetary life and death, Ardern’s goal of 100% renewable energy by 2035 is quite simply unrealistic. I hope the popular ute turns out to be Ardern’s shower

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Govt Flexes Its Muscles in Wellington

Govt Flexes Its Muscles in Wellington

Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org Barbara McKenzie has a PhD in German Literature. On Wednesday it was revealed that a weekend visitor to Wellington from Sydney, who had presumably taken advantage of the ‘bubble’ that has been created between New Zealand and Australia, ‘tested positive’ when he returned home. We are

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