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Judith Collins Sets National Party Five Priorities for 2021
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Judith Collins Sets National Party Five Priorities for 2021

Before setting out her five priorities for her National Party for this year in a “State of the Nation” speech to the Rotary Club of Auckland yesterday, Opposition Leader Judith Collins reflected on why she became a Member of Parliament, and the significance of her nickname, “Crusher”. “As a politician

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A Headline Coming to MSM near You

A Headline Coming to MSM near You

Owen Jennings A future MSM Headline, coming to a media outlet near you and soon. Government Announces Massive Stock Culling Plan to Reduce Methane. The Government has decided to proceed with a drastic plan to reduce livestock numbers by 33% over the next three years in an effort to meet

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The Planning Profession Used to Help Not Hinder
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The Planning Profession Used to Help Not Hinder

Let’s face it, our cities are messy urban sprawls. The rapid growth of the last thirty years has been disorganised and disjointed, resulting in choked motorways and inefficient infrastructure. If only we’d had people to carefully plan it. We did. An entire profession of planners has poured out

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Are You Ready for Further Restrictions?

Are You Ready for Further Restrictions?

This little gem slipped out at the press conference yesterday. She is unequivocal, she is looking for further restrictions, just to keep you “safe” mind. The Government is coming for your freedoms, it is up to you whether you allow that or not. It was from the “Podium of Truth”

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Daily News Roundup – 27 January 2021

Daily News Roundup – 27 January 2021

Covid: Vaccine Tova O’Brien (Newshub): New Zealand catching up to allies on COVID-19 vaccines but mass roll-out won’t begin until mid-year Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Not much time for DHBs to get ready to administer Covid vaccines, vendor warns Rowan Quinn (RNZ): Health staff train

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Fact Checking the PM Because Someone Has to

Fact Checking the PM Because Someone Has to

Yesterday the Prime Minister delivered her post-cabinet press conference and told a series of lies. No one in the media picked her up on those fibs, so it falls to us to outline her disingenuousness. Have a listen to her answer to a very simple question: She said no

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Controlling Covid

Controlling Covid

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Last May, the Government announced $37 million would be spent on a strategy to ensure New Zealand would not be left behind when it came to securing the COVID-19 vaccine. In the lead up to the election, the Prime Minister announced “hundreds of millions”

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Tracey McCovid’s Road Trip

Tracey McCovid’s Road Trip

There was a lady called Tracey, Whose brain could get kind of spacey To hell with lockdown let’s go out on the town and make the new strain go crazy Wibble So, we are told that “Tracey McCovid” has been “assiduous” in using the government snitch app…except when

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Daily News Roundup – 26 January 2021

Daily News Roundup – 26 January 2021

Covid Luke Malpass (Stuff): Northland Covid-19 case threatens to bring summer to screeching halt Audrey Young (Herald): Aussie suspension adds to Cabinet’s Covid agenda (paywalled) Richard Harman: Testing the limts – the Northland Covid-19 case Katie Todd (RNZ): ‘This is totally on the government’ – anger grows in Northland

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What Does the Government Do When People Will No Longer Comply?

What Does the Government Do When People Will No Longer Comply?

The response to the CCP virus by governments all over the world has been the same, lockdowns, despite the clear evidence that they simply do not work. But what happens when citizens will no longer comply? Well, the Government simply gives up, as people have found out in Italy: Thousands

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Let’s Party Like It Is 2017

Let’s Party Like It Is 2017

While sleepy Joe Biden was rehashing tired old cliches in his inaugural speech to the nation, Jacinda Ardern was busy doing some rehashing of her own. Having retained her title as the Spin Queen by naming 2021 as the “Year of the Vaccine”, she then moved on to the most

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Daily News Roundup – 25 January 2021

Daily News Roundup – 25 January 2021

Covid Harry Lock (RNZ): Covid community case: Infection at MIQ facility ‘most likely scenario’ Jamie Morton (Herald): Time to ‘turn down tap’ on travel from risky countries, experts say Kate Green and Jackson Thomas (Stuff): Covid-19 response, experts say in wake of probable case Audrey Young (Herald): Where is

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