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Coviditis and Feeling the Pinch

Coviditis and Feeling the Pinch

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. It’s been bothering me for some time now, the pinch point of vaccination is fast approaching. I have to travel for work,

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Benefit Fraud Prosecutions Heading for Zero
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Benefit Fraud Prosecutions Heading for Zero

Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under

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Our Celebrity PM Turns Getting the Jab into a Media Event

Our Celebrity PM Turns Getting the Jab into a Media Event

No wonder we are not “best in show” for vaccine rollout (to use Professor Des Gorman’s description of our government’s posturing tendencies). Being at the bottom of the OECD list is nothing to write home about.  I lean towards Derek Cheng’s option of “shambles”. I know from

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Back to School!

Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 Great news for my kids this week: no more grumbling in the classroom about how the planet is coming out of an ice age. They can now go

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Bracket Creep

Bracket Creep

I have a client who has been hit rather badly by the Bright-line Test. His profit on the property sale is over $200,000, on which he will have to pay tax. As he already has a reasonable income, this is going to push him well into the top

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Of Course He’s Coming Back

Of Course He’s Coming Back

Winston Peters yesterday announced the bleeding obvious, that he is going to attempt a resurrection of Lazarus’ comeback…again. And he has launched an attack against the fairy princess and her government while he is at it: New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has given no hint of any intention

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Face of the Day

NZ First leader used his first speech since losing power to attack the Government now operating without him on a laundry list of culture war issues. […] Also on Peters’ hit list at his party’s annual general meeting was the media, the Greens, National, the Maori Party, cyclists, “cancel culture,

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Loopy Bike Bridge a Sump Hole for Taxpayer Dollars
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Loopy Bike Bridge a Sump Hole for Taxpayer Dollars

Two opinion pieces in the Weekend Herald made for interesting reading. One from Fran O’Sullivan, the other from Michael Cullen. In respect of Fran, I find myself disagreeing with her a little more often than I used to. As for Michael Cullen, pretty much permanent disagreement there folks. Both

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The Wrong Path

The Wrong Path

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Last year Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared a “climate emergency” in New Zealand. Now, in response to the Climate Commission’s report outlining how New Zealand should reduce greenhouse gas emissions to meet its United Nations Paris Accord targets, she’s claiming climate change is

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Someone Tell Stuff ‘Explaining Is Losing’

Someone Tell Stuff ‘Explaining Is Losing’

Stuff‘s Editor in Chief, Patrick Crewdson, has written a classic ‘explaining is losing’ editorial about why Stuff‘s editorial integrity is intact despite taking millions in state subsidies: If you want an example of the independence of Stuff’s journalism, you’ll find it in Stuff Circuit’s documentary

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The Three Deadly Myths about Aborigines

The Three Deadly Myths about Aborigines

Anthony Dillon is one of those Aboriginal people that the left-media don’t like. You’ll rarely see Dillon on The Project. You won’t see Jacinta Price or Warren Mundine, either. It would be merely churlish to suggest that that’s because Price, Mundine and Dillon are distinctively

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