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Nash Intent on Taxing the Life Out of Tourism

Nash Intent on Taxing the Life Out of Tourism

ACT Party ACT Tourism spokesperson Dr James McDowall. “Be warned, the Labour Government looks set to break more promises with Tourism Minister Stuart Nash saying in Parliament today on the potential for introducing bed taxes that would hit New Zealanders, ‘there’s a whole lot of work going on in

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Collins’ Comments

Collins’ Comments

Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz Petition to Open the Trans-Tasman Bubble I am overwhelmed by the wonderful response I have had from people contacting me in support of our National Opposition petition to get a travel bubble opened between Australia and New Zealand as soon as possible.

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Time for China to Welcome UN Investigative Team

The National Party welcomes and affirms the joint statement from the New Zealand and Australia Foreign Ministers calling on China to grant ‘unfettered access to Xinjiang for United Nations experts, and other independent observers’, National’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson Gerry Brownlee says. “In a phone conversation with the Chinese Ambassador

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Daily News Roundup – 26 March 2021

Daily News Roundup – 26 March 2021

Housing: Rental market Stuff: Editorial – Renters could be ‘lost generation’ in New Zealand’s housing crisis 1News: ‘I want them to have a future’ – Concerns renters have been overlooked in housing package 1News: Megan Woods challenged by John Campbell on consideration given to renters in housing package 1News: Rents will

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Must Be a Poll Coming, More Letters from the Prime Minister

Must Be a Poll Coming, More Letters from the Prime Minister

I earlier wrote about the uncanny and symbiotic relationship of our narcissist Prime Minister releasing or writing letters to people, mainly children, and the polls that follow shortly thereafter. This past week we have seen a deluge of letters. There must be a Newshub poll coming on Sunday evening. Just

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Police Minister Must Grant Short Term License Extensions
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Police Minister Must Grant Short Term License Extensions

ACT Party ACT Firearms Reform spokesperson Nicole McKee. “The Police Minister should use powers available to her under the Arms Act to protect many of the 10,000 firearms users caught up in a relicensing backlog from falling foul of the law,” says ACT Firearms Reform spokesperson Nicole McKee. “During

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Labour’s Housing Policy Looking like Kiwibuild 2.0

Labour’s Housing Policy Looking like Kiwibuild 2.0

If Labour was serious about its housing policy it would’ve provided detail and criteria when it announced it, yet we’ve seen none of that, National’s Housing spokesperson Nicola Willis says. “The Government has announced interest costs will no longer be deductible, but hasn’t been able to

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Climate Change Commission Won’t Stop One Gram of Emissions
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Climate Change Commission Won’t Stop One Gram of Emissions

ACT Party ACT’s Climate Change Spokesperson Simon Court “The Climate Change Commission’s proposals for reducing our emissions will give massive power to government, hit Kiwis with higher costs, but fail to achieve its goal,” says ACT’s Climate Change Spokesperson Simon Court in ACT’s submission on the

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Australia and NZ Finally Agree on China

Australia and NZ Finally Agree on China

In my recent series of posts on the Australia-New Zealand defence relationship, I warned that New Zealand was in growing danger of drifting further from its ANZAC partner. The most obvious point of difference recently has been China. Where Australia has become something of the poster child for Western

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Bill to Ban Synthetic Urine as a Way to Cheat a Drug Test

Bill to Ban Synthetic Urine as a Way to Cheat a Drug Test

A bill that will ban the importing, supply and acquisition of synthetic urine to pass a workplace drug test is to have its first reading in Parliament, MP for Waimakariri Matt Doocey says. “Drug testing in the workplace is used to keep people safe and prevent accidents and deaths. At

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Dear Jacinda

Dear Jacinda

Information Satire The Taxpayer’s Union intercepted this letter sent from Sally to Jacinda Ardern.

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Police Minister’s Silence Is Deafening
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Police Minister’s Silence Is Deafening

Police Minister Poto Williams needs to publicly denounce Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon’s comments that New Zealand’s police are racist, National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “Meng Foon’s comments have been condemned by both the Police Commissioner and the Police Association, yet Police Minister Poto Williams

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Are the Actions of NZ Super Fund Anti-Semitic?

Perry Trotter The Advocate israelinstitute.nz Antisemitism has been dubbed The Longest Hatred and is as old as the Jewish people. It has shown itself remarkably adaptable, able to morph and repeatedly reinvent itself across time and culture. One of the most recent and effective iterations of antisemitism in the

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The Next Year of COVID Response Must Be Smarter

The Next Year of COVID Response Must Be Smarter

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “One year on from New Zealand plunging into level four lockdown, we need some honesty about the Government’s COVID Response – it must get smarter or we’ll go broke,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “If anyone thinks the COVID show is over, I

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