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Ardern’s Promises & Platitudes.

Ardern’s Promises & Platitudes.

I recently had the privilege of reading the Prime Minister’s speech from the Wellington Labour Party Rally. I am sure the civil servants in their cardigans lapped it up like kittens drinking milk out of a bowl. Mittens the cat actually got a mention as evidently one of those

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Election Meddling

Election Meddling

I don’t mean to be rude, but I’d like to ask if anybody else finds these coincidences curious? While the NZ Greens are desperate to make 5% to maintain relevance and ensure left-wing government in NZ (remembering the overseas lefty votes have been the Greens’ saviours several

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Dan and Jacinda: “Shabby” and “Fraudulent”

Dan and Jacinda: “Shabby” and “Fraudulent”

Despite the endless temper-tantrums of the left, we in Australia are lucky that we have at least some counterweight to relentless group-think in the mainstream media. Unlike the endless, mindless fawning of most, left-leaning, news media, papers like The Australian retain enough of their critical faculties to

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Election 2020: Final Thoughts

Election 2020: Final Thoughts

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com On Saturday night we should know who will form the next government. There is unlikely to be a ‘kingmaker’ party this time around to hold the country to ransom. The polls are indicating the government is more likely to be Labour and the Greens, and

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Daily News Roundup – 16 October 2020

Daily News Roundup – 16 October 2020

Election Henry Cooke (Stuff): Thank goodness this empty election is almost over Richard Shaw, Bronwyn Hayward, Grant Duncan, Jennifer Curtin, Rawiri Taonui (The Conversation): The final debate and the campaign’s winners and losers ahead of the big decision Luke Malpass (Stuff): This seemingly eternal campaign is now all over

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Aussie Columnist Goes Where Kiwi Columnists Fear to Tread

Aussie Columnist Goes Where Kiwi Columnists Fear to Tread

Aussie columnist Greg Sheridan has ripped apart the sad fantasy of how great Jacinda Ardern really is in his column in The Australian. In doing so he has put to shame the media sycophants of Ardern here in New Zealand: No international halo is so shabby, or so fraudulent, as

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Tweet of the Day

Tweet of the Day

Liar, liar Tova should be on fire. What an absolute fib from ?@NewshubPolitics?. I have visited Hutt South with ?@cjsbishop? 3 times during our campaign, and Ms O’Brien was told that. Focus on what matters. The NZ economy is going into the worst time in 160 years. #TwoTicksBlue https:

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Sheriff Collins and the Asset Stripping Gang

Sheriff Collins and the Asset Stripping Gang

Information Satire I keep hearing the words the ‘WINDS of CHANGE’.  BURT from ‘MARY POPPINS’ soliloquies “Winds in the East, mist coming in, like something is brewin’, and ‘bout to begin. Can’t put my finger on what lies in store, But I fear what’s to happen all happened

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Our Wet Woke Councils
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Our Wet Woke Councils

Arthur Rising Damp was a popular British sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV. It broadcast from 2 September 1974 until 9 May 1978. It concerned a sneaky and cunning landlord, who was entirely self-serving and self-interested, and his long-suffering tenants. However, this article concerns our increasingly

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