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Letters to Jacinda

Letters to Jacinda

A letter from Amelia: 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

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Daily News Roundup – 31 March 2021

Daily News Roundup – 31 March 2021

Housing crisis Claire Robinson (The Guardian): Backlash to Labour’s housing policy has exposed signs of internal party disarray Graham Adams (Democracy Project): Housing – Ardern’s divide-and-rule tactics Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): National’s failure on housing risks making the party irrelevant Henry Cooke (Stuff): Public housing waitlist hits

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Toot, Toot, Here Comes Another Waste of Billions

Toot, Toot, Here Comes Another Waste of Billions

The Government has again announced that today there will be an announcement over Auckland’s stalled light rail project, that will somehow sandwich trams into the middle of Dominion Road and not affect traffic…cough, cough… The Government’s plan for light rail in Auckland has finally gone to Cabinet

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Not a Silver Subscriber Yet? This Is What You Are Missing Out On

If you don’t have a Silver level subscription yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles and podcasts. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by Olivia Pierson that was first published October 29th 2020. It’s Trump or a Green Government Commie Take

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Labor’s Own Dog Comes Back to Bite

Labor’s Own Dog Comes Back to Bite

The definition of insanity is said to be doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Which raises the question: are Australia’s politicians barking mad? After all, as I’ve written before, they keep trying on the same thing – idiotic, media-driven, Canberra-bubble

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Dutton Has Had Enough of Twitter Abusers

Dutton Has Had Enough of Twitter Abusers

As every conservative knows, Twitter’s rules aren’t worth the paper they’re written on. Like most social media, Twitter’s “Rules and policies” are a strictly one-way affair. Only conservatives are ever held to “standards”; the left, not to mention blatant degenerates, are free to do as

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New Figures Show New Zealand’s Attendance Crisis

Newly released attendance data National has been calling for for months shows an alarming number of students don’t attend school regularly, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “We can’t improve student achievement if the kids are not at school. “In term one of 2020 only 50.5

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Show Me Your Papers: New York Rolls Out Vaccine Passport Program

Show Me Your Papers: New York Rolls Out Vaccine Passport Program

Jordan Schachtel ronpaulinstitute.org What was labeled an unhinged conspiracy theory just last year has become a reality today. Unindicted human rights criminal Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced this week that New York has rolled out the nation’s first COVID vaccine passport program with the introduction of the “Excelsior Pass.

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China Attempts to Silence Western Companies on Xinjiang

Ethan Yang aier.org Ethan joined AIER in 2020 as an Editorial Assistant and is a graduate of Trinity College. He received a BA in Political Science alongside a minor in Legal Studies and Formal Organizations. He currently serves as Local Coordinator at Students for Liberty and the Director of

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We Need More Houses – Not a Capital Gains Tax

We Need More Houses – Not a Capital Gains Tax

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The above was a heading in last week’s Hutt Valley weekly newspaper, The Hutt News. It appeared over opinion pieces from respectively, new Labour MP Arena Williams and National MP Stuart Smith, these probably written a week before publication. Stuart correctly pointed to the

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Corrections Officers Have Had Enough of Kelvin Davis

Corrections Officers Have Had Enough of Kelvin Davis

Growing calls for a vote of no confidence in Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis by corrections officers should be making Mr Davis rethink his priorities in the portfolio, National’s Corrections spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “It’s no wonder corrections officers are quickly losing patience with Mr Davis, the Minister has

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The View from the Coup Leaders

The View from the Coup Leaders

28th March 2021 The Tatmadaw are increasing the variety of weapons they are deploying against the public. The regime would probably prefer it if we stopped referring to such weapons as RPGs. They are from now on to be described as SMPC Shoulder-Mounted Peace Cannons. The air raids on

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