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Information Satire Jacinda Ardern Explainer Editor: Speaking from her Facebook NewsHub bunker, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced today the creation of a new ministry which she will oversee. Hungarei Manu Waiata (Ministry of Holidays) will manage public holidays and create new ones as the need arises. Firstly, taking into account
“Cognitive dissonance” is the state of holding contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values. Many of the hot-button issues in the Culture Wars are characterised by profound cognitive dissonance. For instance, groups preach about “tolerance” and “inclusion”, yet behave like bigots who viciously exclude anyone who disagrees with them. Our society
For those of us who like to think of ourselves as Christians, Easter is the most important time of the year because it is the annual reassurance of certainty in our lives in the here and hereafter. Would that it could be the same for those of us who are
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A letter from Toby: We’ve set up an email address so you too can submit letters to the Prime Minister. We will format your letter in a suitable child-like font, perhaps make it look like crayon, so she will read it, then we will publish it and send
Travel bubble announced with Australia Luke Malpass (Stuff): Trans-Tasman bubble brings palpable relief to Parliament Audrey Young (Herald): Jacinda Ardern manages expectations over transtasman bubble (paywalled) Herald: Editorial: Bubble a significant and welcome step Jo Moir (Newshub): The public handbrake on an Aussie bubble Hannah Martin (Stuff): Public health
Despite all the publicity and hoopla, the first scheduled slow train from Hamilton to Papakura had just 59 paying passengers on it, although media on freebies counted their staff and claimed 80 people: The new rail service from Hamilton to Auckland has been lauded for providing an important connection between
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “Once again the Government is long on self-congratulation but late on delivery with its announcement of a travel bubble with Australia, but Jacinda Ardern couldn’t treat us like lucky little prisoners any longer,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “In an extraordinary admission
The Government should not consider a trans-Tasman bubble ‘job done’ when it comes to reconnecting New Zealand to the world, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “Today’s announcement was too long in coming for the families who have been kept apart for more than a year and
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “If the petition I received on the steps of Parliament this morning from Darryl Clarke seeking to have exhibitions separated from mass gathering rules is acted on by this Government it will probably come too late for many in this important sector,” says ACT
After questioning in Parliament today it’s clear Revenue Minister David Parker has no idea how his interest deductibility policy will work, National’s Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly says. “Minister Parker was asked some basic questions such as how many people will be affected by his new policy and how
