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New Words for an Old Favourite: Lily the Pink

New Words for an Old Favourite: Lily the Pink

Cindy The Fink We'll drink a drink, a drink To Cindy the fink, the fink, the fink The tyrant of the Kiwi race For she imposed the ridiculous mandates Most disastrous in every case. Mr Mallard had little man syndrome And it made him a bully boy So

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PM Fails to Show Positive Leadership

PM Fails to Show Positive Leadership

Ted Johnston BSc BA LLB Co-leader New Conservative “This is a time to show true positive leadership. To not further divide the people, like she has already done by making many of them second class citizens with very restricted rights” says Ted Johnston New Conservative Co-leader. The protestors

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Satirical Images of the Day Special Edition

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NZ Has Crossed a Rubicon

Matt Judd Information Opinion We crossed a Rubicon a few years back. What year? I can’t really say. Maybe it happened gradually. Maybe it just happened all at once, while we were watching Australian Married At First Sight, or British Big Brother or something equally voyeuristic and empty. But

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Mallard Out for a Duck
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Mallard Out for a Duck

Trevor Mallard has single-handedly made a right duck of himself. People with his type of personality rarely get any given situation correct. They are unable to think in a measured way. Their first instinct is to go for the jugular to, metaphorically speaking, beat your opponent up. Although, if

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“We Are Not Allowed onto Our Marae”

“We Are Not Allowed onto Our Marae”

Cindy de Villiers The words came with such equanimity that the overwhelmingly serious implications for all New Zealanders were not immediately apparent. However, on reflection of the day’s events, it is clear to me that when individuals are no longer permitted to engage with their whanau, New Zealand is

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And Still, the Lies Go On

And Still, the Lies Go On

On February 7th, Stuff decided to run an article comparing the current COVID outbreak with the Spanish Flu of 1919. Here is the most interesting part: As the coronavirus pandemic creeps into its third year, and the death toll in the United States reaches 900,000, the 1918 influenza pandemic

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Kids as Collateral

Jack thecommoner.substack.com Tune in to the local news channel every night at six o’clock and one may well find themselves left with the impression that in New Zealand, despite the best efforts of those horribly backwards “far-right anti-vaxxers” who seem to care a little too

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Top Ten Most Viewed from the past Week

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Trevor, the Abyss Stares Back at You

Trevor, the Abyss Stares Back at You

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche makes his remark about the abyss (in Beyond Good and Evil) just after cautioning the reader that

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