Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com If Waitangi Day truly carried the significance for New Zealanders as the media presents it, instead of its reality, namely another paid holiday off work, then it would manifest itself accordingly with celebrations across the land. It does not. Instead a bunch of victims who
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On Tuesday David Seymour kicked the year off for the ACT party. They were kind enough to email a copy of his speech to me in the weekly Free Press and it is breathtaking in its disconnect. Much of the speech is the usual fare – Labour is bad, National hasn’
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. In recent decades the Labour Party has lost its traditional connection with working-class voters, becoming more of a middle-class party of liberalism. This
Mike Donnellan “In olden days a glimpse of stocking was something shocking now heaven knows, anything goes.” “Anything Goes” Cole Porter 1934 Do you remember those days, when you couldn’t turn on the radio without hearing a man or a woman declaring their love for a member of the
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com It’s impossible to avoid the conclusion that New Zealand is rapidly approaching a crisis point. There are now two fundamentally different views of our future and there is no way to reconcile them. On the one hand, we have the view implicit in the Government’
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Isn’t it funny that when the politicians take an extended Christmas break and aren’t shoving their faces into our lives, their poll ratings go up? The latest Roy Morgan poll confirms a post Christmas and post-Ardern bounce for Labour. The questions will be whether the bounce can
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* GONE: Merger of RNZ/TVNZ – RNZ, NZ on Air to get more funding instead. * GONE BUT MIGHT BE BACK POST 2023: Social insurance scheme. Off the table until economy improves. * GONE: Biofuels mandate. * HALTED, MORE WORK: Hate speech legislation. Will be withdrawn and considered by Law Commission.NZ Herald via
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