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National Welcomes Lifting of Auckland Lockdown

National Welcomes Lifting of Auckland Lockdown

Lifting the Auckland lockdown will be welcome news to all those people who have slogged their way through Level 3 multiple times now, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. But given the Government’s confidence that this outbreak is under control, National sees no good reason why Auckland can’

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Unkind Face of the Day

Unkind Face of the Day

Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Or any dollars at all. That’s the message from Southland’s mayor to Destiny Church leaders Brian and Hannah Tamaki who he says are not welcome in his region. The only reason why today’s unkind face of the day Southland

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NZ Super Fund Undermines NZ’s Reputation as a Fair Actor
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NZ Super Fund Undermines NZ’s Reputation as a Fair Actor

IINZ israelinstitute.nz The New Zealand Government superannuation savings vehicle, the NZ Super Fund, is ostensibly joining the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel – a movement deemed racist by many of New Zealand’s traditional allies. It is divesting from six Israeli banks under the auspices of biased

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Gas Barbecued Chickens Coming Home to Roost
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Gas Barbecued Chickens Coming Home to Roost

ACT Party ACT Climate Change spokesperson Simon Court. “The Government was warned its hasty virtue signalling policy of banning new oil and gas exploration would have the opposite of its intended impact on the domestic economy and the global environment, and so it looks set to play out with New

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Falling Out of Love with Jacinda Ardern

March 3rd 2021 The north has been having a love fest over Jacinda Ardern for more than 3 years now. She has become the darling of the left, the woke and the virtue signallers. She was exposed to Tony Blair and his philosophy (look back and see what damage that

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Put in, Pulled Out and Put in Again

Put in, Pulled Out and Put in Again

From memory, it’s about ten days since I last wrote an article and since then rather a lot has taken place. Auckland was put in and pulled out of a pointless three-day lockdown and now we are in a seven-day lockdown which will prove to be equally

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Obedience

Obedience

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Where Is New Zealand’s Vaccine Rollout Plan?

Where Is New Zealand’s Vaccine Rollout Plan?

National is calling on the Government to provide more detail on the schedule for vaccinating the entire population so that New Zealanders – particularly businesses – have the clarity they need to plan for the post-Covid future, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “It is great that border workers are

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Ardern a Success at ‘Sustained Propaganda’

Ardern a Success at ‘Sustained Propaganda’

Boss-Lady’s gaffe: “We drum in that messaging around the dangers of Covid pretty diligently for a full two-week period of sustained propaganda” on Monday was just too big, and too public to ignore. So her sycophants did as sycophants do, and went in to bat for her:

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Our ‘Kind’ PM Versus a School Girl

Our ‘Kind’ PM Versus a School Girl

A few months after taking office the PM withdrew from duties to attend to her six weeks of maternity leave. During this time she was undoubtedly on full pay, which proportionally amounted to about $57,000. This absence from work was hailed both locally and internationally as a shining example

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Daily News Roundup – 5 March 2021

Daily News Roundup – 5 March 2021

Covid Chris Trotter: Atavistic urges Matthew Hooton (Herald): Lockdown 4 sparks Jacinda Ardern’s wrath (paywalled) Peter Dunne: The government urgently needs to upgrade its Covid19 strategy Michael Morrah (Newshub): Information contradicting Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on KFC worker came from Ministry of Health Emile Donovan (Stuff): The Detail: NZ’

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Plummeting Prison Population

Plummeting Prison Population

Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Corrections has released December 2020 prison statistics. My question is, how do you react to this graph? There are around 1,500 fewer people in prison than the Justice Sector forecast there would be. Does that inspire you? Does it make you feel less safe?

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Before We Introduce Vaccine Passports We Need to Know How They’ll Be Used

Before We Introduce Vaccine Passports We Need to Know How They’ll Be Used

Tim Dare University of Auckland Tim trained and worked as a lawyer before completing his PhD in philosophy. His publications include books and articles on the philosophy of law, legal ethics, immunisation programmes, the significance of judicial disagreement, parental rights and medical decisions, the proper allocation of the burden of

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Letter to the Editor: 2021 Bluegreens Forum Newsletter
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Letter to the Editor: 2021 Bluegreens Forum Newsletter

Dear Editor For better or worse I am a paid-up member of the National Party (after promising our electorate MP that I would join the party if they put Judith in as leader.) I was rather shocked to receive the below newsletter this week from the “Blue/Greens”. I

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