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Labour’s Renter’s Tax Confirmed
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Labour’s Renter’s Tax Confirmed

Brooke van Velden ACT’s Housing Spokesperson The official advice the Government got on interest deductibility changes backs up the many stories ACT is hearing from landlords and the experts. The Ministry of Housing and Urban Development’s advice to the Housing Minister was that the removal of interest deductibility

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Something Odd Is Going On

Something Odd Is Going On

28th April 2021 The view of Mindat shows how difficult the terrain can be for the Junta troops to assert their authority. It is why a guerrilla war could keep going for years, as it has done for 70 years, but with more intensity. Following on from the intensive firefight

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Elites Salivating for Return of Mass Immigration

Elites Salivating for Return of Mass Immigration

Survey after survey, poll after poll, shows that the majority of Australians want to see the country’s immigration drastically curtailed. The only difference between the polls is the size of the majority. No matter what the left-elite may sniff, this is not “racism”: Australians continue to support migration

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Ratings Shock: Someone Actually Watches Qanda!

Ratings Shock: Someone Actually Watches Qanda!

In news that should surprise absolutely no one, this year’s Oscars drew record-low audiences. In fact, the only real surprise is that they drew an audience at all. The Oscars have faced plummeting ratings for years, but this year they still fell further by an astonishing 60%. Apparently

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More Certain Than Climate, Economic Doom

More Certain Than Climate, Economic Doom

Has anyone noticed that there have not been any student protest marches during the school holidays despite a recent climate summit during the holidays? It’s almost as if the protests are really organised by adults with an agenda… If you enjoyed this Satirical image please share it so others

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The Speech Mahuta Should Have Given
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The Speech Mahuta Should Have Given

Free Press ACT Party Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta’s speech on China has been described as just dreadful. Free Press has acquired an earlier draft of the speech. The MFAT employee who wrote it has not been seen lately, and the final version Mahuta delivered was quite different. Nonetheless, we’

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Challenge Accepted

Challenge Accepted

In an excellent paywalled article about comedy great David McPhail he said: […] it would’ve been tough for him to satirise current prime minister Jacinda Ardern. “Up until now, she hasn’t made any mistakes and you don’t do a whole sketch show about Mother Teresa, it just doesn’

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Housing Stories Show Renters Will Suffer

Housing Stories Show Renters Will Suffer

Brooke van Velden ACT’s Housing spokesperson A website set up by the ACT Party to hear concerns about the Government’s new interest deductibility law change has shown just how damaging this policy will be to renters. We have been inundated with stories about how this policy will hurt

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Finally, National Calls Little’s Health Shake up What It Is, Segregation

Finally, National Calls Little’s Health Shake up What It Is, Segregation

National has come out swinging against Andrew Little’s proposed command and control power grab of health bureaucracy and the establishment of a race-based Maori Health organisation: National leader Judith Collins has stepped up her attack on the proposed Maori Health Authority, calling it “segregation” from last century and

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Why We Need a Sensible Shooters Association

Why We Need a Sensible Shooters Association

Recently I received an email from the Antique Arms National President, Andrew Edgecombe. In the email, he has a crack at me (Note to Andrew: I don’t use minions) and my messages about the failures of COLFO. I will address his email in this article on the points that

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Daily News Roundup – 29 April 2021

Daily News Roundup – 29 April 2021

Health reforms: Maori Health Authority Jo Moir (Newsroom): Collins ignores facts for political point-scoring Tova O’Brien (Newshub): National leader Judith Collins’ ‘segregation’ remark earns her Maori Party rebuke RNZ: Collins says her party won’t stand for ‘racist separatism’ New Zealand Michael Neilson (Herald): Judith Collins calls Maori

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Sorry, Tova, It’s Not a Leaked Document No Matter How Hard You Spin It

Sorry, Tova, It’s Not a Leaked Document No Matter How Hard You Spin It

If you need proof that media are untrustworthy, capricious and inherently dishonest, then you need look no further than yesterday’s “leaked” documents non-story from Tova O’Brien: The gushing Tova O’Brien was live on morning television breathlessly exclaiming that National had leaked again…except they hadn’t.

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Michael Woodhouse – Labour Will Say Anything to Get Elected
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Michael Woodhouse – Labour Will Say Anything to Get Elected

Labour walking back its commitment to transport projects across the country is further proof it will say anything to get elected, but won’t actually deliver it, National’s Transport spokesperson Michael Woodhouse says. Labour announced a number of transport projects as part of the New Zealand Upgrade Programme, many

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Face of the Day
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Face of the Day

National Party leader Judith Collins says her party will not pursue policies of ‘racist separatism’ when dealing with poverty and lack of opportunity in New Zealand. Collins said socio-economic statistics pointing to inequities faced by Maori reflected poverty and simply highlighted the need to address obstacles in the way

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