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The Left Are in a Buggers Muddle
Labour, Greens and the Maori Party all need to shut their traps, cease their maniacal rhetoric and crawl back into their respective caves to work out what they stand for. If they keep standing for what they espoused before the election they will find themselves sitting on the Opposition benches
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Reflections on the 2023 Elections
With the 2023 elections done and dusted (almost), it’s now time for everyone to offer their post-election analysis. So here are my observations for this year. Rise of the minor parties: On election night, we saw Labour grieving and National celebrating. But the happiest were the minor parties.
SUV and Ute Sales Slowed Due to NZ’s Clean Car Discount
Timothy Welch University of Auckland theconversation.com With National, ACT and NZ First locked in coalition negotiations, various urgent and climate-related transport challenges hang in the balance. Based on pre-election rhetoric, the Clean Car Discount (CCD) scheme may soon be gone. While popular with the public, National has
Greens’ Hypocrisy on Full Display This Week
Mary Hackshaw The rank hypocrisy of the Green Left has been on full display in the last week. The Melbourne Cup drew the usual rabble of protesters outside the Flemington venue, claiming that horse racing is cruel and that it kills. Following protests at recent Melbourne Cup parades of jockeys
How Safe Is It to Tip Your Toes Into the Housing Market Right Now?
Don Brash Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 bassettbrashandhide.com Over the last couple of months, there have been lots of media reports which have had the effect of encouraging people to jump back into the housing market.
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Casey Costello: She’s the Real Deal
I’ve interviewed Casey Costello twice now on Reality Check Radio. She is a brilliant addition to parliament. After ignoring her candidacy, along with every other NZ First candidate, the NZ Herald seems to have taken the lead from me and finally woken up to how brilliant she will be
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Some Practical Tips to Beat the Scammers
Decades ago, notorious Kiwi-Australian journalist Derryn Hinch observed that con-men tend to make money off people who are just stupid and greedy. That was true enough in the pre-digital ’80s and ’90s, when the stock-in-trade of con-artists was get-rich-quick schemes. Today, though,