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David Seymour ACT Party Leader Creating a new public holiday on a whim is causing chaos amongst businesses, our health system and schools, what’s worse, we’re behind the world again after waiting two weeks for Jacinda Ardern to get home from New York. This public holiday is estimated
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Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio, tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under
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Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Wellingtonians are desperately unhappy with the politicians running their city, and a new poll out yesterday shows they’
Stephen Berry Voting papers have started to be issued in Auckland and across the country for the 2022 local body elections. Former Auckland Mayoral candidate and political commentator Stephen Berry is encouraging people to have as much information available as possible before casting their vote and recommends they use the
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freenz.substack.com We wanted to highlight this speech given on the weekend at the protest against mainstream media in Wellington, NZ. Huge respect to the speaker here (we would love to know his name please) – Credit to @haztruth and @wheresclarke on Instagram for capturing this. Dear RNZ. To many
Growing up I was often fascinated by the role of whistleblowers and journalists holding institutions to account. What was fascinating was the idea of protection for those who leak private information. This focus on the privacy of the individual rather than the privacy of the information they are releasing to
Mark Freeman Concerned citizens visited media offices in the three main New Zealand centres on Saturday to protest at mainstream media bias. The marches and rallies were part of a global event, the Worldwide Rally for Freedom, to promote freedom, peace and human rights. In Auckland, a number of speakers,
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You have to hand it to this Government, they are nothing if not shameless. National released the findings of the Uffindel Inquiry, only to be attacked by the Government, in the bloviating form of Grant Robertson who criticised the release as being “disrespectful” on the day of the Queen’s
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com “Time to sever the tie with these soap opera characters,” wrote Joe Bennett in Stuff of the British Royal Family. I totally agree. Along with Australia and Canada, plus a handful of tiny island states, every other Commonwealth state has already done this. Royalists ascribe
