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Want Jacinda to Read Your Letter?

Want Jacinda to Read Your Letter?

The Taxpayers’ Union have noticed that the only way to get the Prime Minister to do anything is to get a child to write to her. We agree and have taken on a new volunteer to help our readers to get their concerns read by the Prime Minister. Send your

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‘Pinocchio Joe’

‘Pinocchio Joe’

Joe Biden is the new ‘Pinocchio’. Pinocchio was a wooden puppet in an Italian children’s story written in 1883 by Carlo Collodi. Pinnochio wanted to be a boy not a puppet, and the “Blue” Fairy (Kamala Harris) by magic granted his wish. Jiminy Cricket (his conscience) was supposed to

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Cancer Doesn’t Just Affect the Wealthy, Grant Robertson

Cancer Doesn’t Just Affect the Wealthy, Grant Robertson

National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti is calling out Finance Minister Grant Robertson for making the issue of unfunded cancer drugs an issue for the wealthy. “In response to a National Party proposal for DHBs to cover the costs of administering cancer drugs PHARMAC won’t fund, Mr Robertson

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Free People Require Free Movement

Free People Require Free Movement

Hannah Cox fee.org Hannah Cox is a libertarian-conservative writer, commentator, and activist. She’s a Newsmax Insider and a Contributor to The Washington Examiner. “Vaccine passports” are the latest in a long line of unusual terms we’ve all become familiar with over the past year. The Washington

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Time Extension Needed for Climate Change Report

Time Extension Needed for Climate Change Report

National has written to Climate Change Minister James Shaw calling for him to extend the report-back time on the Climate Change Commission Report, National’s Climate Change spokesperson Stuart Smith says. “We all want an Emissions Reduction Plan that addresses the environmental challenges we face in New Zealand, but

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A Letter to the Spinoff

A Letter to the Spinoff

Mother of Four I would like to complain about the Spinoff article A mufti day is enormous fun but time to give it a new name. One of my teenagers sent the link to me with a “WTF???” attached to it. I can’t help but agree. Our language is

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Beijing Boasts of Controlling US Think Tanks

Beijing Boasts of Controlling US Think Tanks

The same people who adamantly insist that the 2020 US Presidential election was the fairest, free-est, best-run election in the history of elections, ever, also screeched for four years that the 2016 election was “rigged” by “Russian collusion”. Anyone who voices even the slightest doubt about either is

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Labour Owes Mental Health Foundation Apology

Labour Owes Mental Health Foundation Apology

Labour Minister David Parker has thrown the Mental Health Foundation under the bus in a continuance of his Government’s refusal to take responsibility for their series of failings when it comes to mental health, National’s Mental Health spokesperson Matt Doocey says. Having told The AM Show on Friday

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Is Australia a Scientology Tax Haven?

Is Australia a Scientology Tax Haven?

All sorts of dodgy types seem to exploit Australia’s charity regulations and reap tax-free windfalls. Whether it’s hardline leftists who repeatedly harass and bully Coalition politicians or “fauxborigines” who leverage their dubious “Indigenous” status and run what appear to be little better than shelf companies milking millions

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Interview with Retired US Ambassador: Part One

Interview with Retired US Ambassador: Part One

8th April 2021 The Irrawaddy spoke to Scot Marciel, who served as US ambassador to Myanmar from 2016-20, about the unfolding crisis in the country and how the international community and regional powers can help stop the regime’s violence against the Myanmar people. THE IRRAWADDY: It seems Myanmar

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50K Cost on New Builds Unacceptable
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50K Cost on New Builds Unacceptable

ACT Party ACT’s Housing Spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “Adding up to $50,000 to the cost of a new home with higher insulation standards is unacceptable in the middle of a housing crisis”, says ACT’s Housing Spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “All New Zealanders want to live in a

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The Hollow Empty Lie of White Privilege
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The Hollow Empty Lie of White Privilege

Arthur White privilege! We are fed this lie and social garbage time and time again by brown, black and other colour activist racists and various racial and religious groups not of European origin, as part of a continuing woke hate campaign against anyone of Caucasian origin in a successful society.

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He Shouldn’t Have Said What He Really Thinks

He Shouldn’t Have Said What He Really Thinks

On the face of it, Josh Bornstein would seem to be an ideal fit for a Labor candidate: member of a progressive think tank, union lawyer, prolific and often vicious tweeter But Bornstein’s bid for a Labor Senate spot is foundering between the Charybdis of Labor factional politics and

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