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Is This Knighthood the Price of Silence?
Sara Lunam voicesforfreedom.co.nz I have been trying to decide what is worse – the offer of a knighthood to an ex-public servant approximately six months out of office, or the acceptance of that knighthood by the recently ex-public servant? Ashley Bloomfield, whose salary working New Zealanders paid,
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Labour and the Greens’ Fart Targets
I would like to share with you a subject that might have been quite relevant for some or most of us over the Christmas/New Year period, as we consumed bounteous amounts of rich food and alcohol. And that is FLATULENCE or in common parlance, FARTING. Now I’m not
The Most Powerful Prime Minister of the MMP Era
Danyl Mclauchlan democracyproject.nz Danyl McLauchlan works at the Victoria University of Wellington School of Biology. He is an author, and a regular writer and commentator on politics and public life. By the end of 2019, Jacinda Ardern was a political superstar heading towards an election defeat. She was an
Inflation and the Reserve Bank: Part Two
Last week I wrote about how the Reserve Bank has got it wrong by reducing interest rates to close to zero, and then pushing them up at a rate of knots when inflation, that they created, started to hit. Some of you disagreed with that opinion, and in particular some
Labour Focuses on West Auckland
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. The days of the Labour Government being associated with middle-class social liberalism look to be numbered. Soon-to-be Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and
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Burn, Baby, Burn: Labour’s Great Policy Bonfire
Labour’s worst-ever leader, David Cunliffe, says that Chris Hipkins is going to have to burn a fair bit of policy to the ground in the coming months in order to have any glimmer of hope at the coming election. At his press conference, Chris Hipkins has been quick
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The Labour Party are currently fundraising on Trademe by putting up for auction new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins’ cap and sunnies. One funny commenter asked if they had been used in a ramraid. Read more here. Discuss it on The BFD. If you would like to access exclusive Member content
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