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The Minister of Finance is poised to gain new powers over bank lending, with economists warning the surprise move challenges the Reserve Bank’s independence. […] So far the Government has given little detail about how the powers would be used, other than that the Deposit Takers Bill will propose allowing

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Labour Wrong to Limit Where Kids Can Go to School

Labour Wrong to Limit Where Kids Can Go to School

Proposed changes to the Education and Training Act 2020 are part of an ongoing attack on school choice by Labour, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “Labour is hell-bent on a one-size-fits-all approach to our education system.” The Government is proposing to deprioritise children and

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How Much Power Is Robertson Trying to Grab Now?
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How Much Power Is Robertson Trying to Grab Now?

The Finance Minister needs to give New Zealanders peace of mind that the new powers he’s proposing to give himself over bank lending won’t over-reach into retail banking, National’s Finance spokesperson Andrew Bayly says. “The Finance Minister needs to reveal the full details of what he’

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How Many More Lies Will We Let Them Get Away With?

How Many More Lies Will We Let Them Get Away With?

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me, goes the old saying. So what does it mean when the public let the mainstream media fool them again and again and again? Shame on them both. The mainstream media are no longer bothering with just bending the

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Maxine Waters Could Trigger Mistrial in Minneapolis

Maxine Waters Could Trigger Mistrial in Minneapolis

This post was written before the trial verdict was delivered. It has been updated. If it weren’t for the overwhelming evidence that Maxine Waters is little more than a drooling idiot, I’d suspect she was deliberately trying to trigger a mistrial in Minneapolis. As lawyers wound up their

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Deposit Insurance Is Moral Hazard Madness

Deposit Insurance Is Moral Hazard Madness

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “The Government’s deposit insurance scheme is the kind of moral hazard madness that led to the GFC,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “This is the socialisation of banking. “The Minister of Finance is saying 93 percent of bank customers don’t care about

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Green Theory Trumps Real-World Bushfire Experience

Green Theory Trumps Real-World Bushfire Experience

We all know that academia has long since become little more than a taxpayer-funded circle-jerk for people who’d rather collect PhDs than actually work for a living in the real world. To some extent we could live with that: if only the onanistic eggheads kept their furious

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Time to Decolonise the Cook Islands, Jacinda
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Time to Decolonise the Cook Islands, Jacinda

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “Jacinda Ardern’s paternalism and colonialism of the Cook Islands has gone too far as she’s stopped it from unilaterally being able to open its border,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “There is no threat to New Zealand, there is no entry point

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The New Normal: A ‘Justice System’ Ruled by the Mob

The New Normal: A ‘Justice System’ Ruled by the Mob

Andrew Torba CEO, Gab.com Jesus is King Everything about the Chauvin trial and the media coverage of it showcases the subversion and transformation of our justice system into one of a third-world banana republic. We can’t have a justice system that is ruled by threats of violence,

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