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ACT Party ACT Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “No wonder the Prime Minister’s spin doctors have been hunting out quotes from economists who might disagree with many of their colleagues that renters will suffer as a result of scrapping of mortgage interest deductibility,” says ACT Housing spokesperson Brooke van
It might still be summer in Australia, but we’ve got plenty of snowflakes blowing around. A whingeing “Indigenous activist” has recently bullied Coon Cheese into changing its name. Now, in what a gay friend of mine characterises as “more flaming faggotry”, an LGBTBBQEIEIEIO activist is campaigning against another longstanding
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government must start taking some of the steps other countries are to chart the course ahead for how we travel in a post-vaccine world,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “On April 12 the United Kingdom (UK) Government will receive detailed recommendations from
National is calling on the Government to make a statement of intent about protecting New Zealanders from Covid-19 by setting a target of having at least 70 per cent of the adult population vaccinated, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “New Zealand is one of only
28th March 2021 In a new low of depravity, even for the amoral regime, a protestor was shot and refused treatment before being burned alive by the authorities. A neighborhood watch member was burned alive after being injured by gunfire from Myanmar’s security forces in Aungmyethazan Township, Mandalay, on
Matthew Tukaki, self proclaimed “Chief Barking Dog”, Executive Director of the National Executive of the New Zealand Maori Council, is well known for popping up on any show where a token Maori viewpoint is needed. But he showed his true colours yesterday on TV3’s Newshub Nation. On the 10am
There is increasing evidence that “resilience”, once an essential virtue to cope with life’s pitfalls, is a foreign concept amongst today’s younger set. Or in laymen’s terms, they are becoming soft. Your insistence that we all be “kind” is manipulative hogwash. Kindness does not protect the insecure
Sometimes, the things that senior members of this government do not understand are frightening. Thus it was last week when Jacinda Ardern and even Grant Robertson described the ability for investment property owners to claim deductions for mortgage interest as a ‘loophole’. Tax loopholes are things that inadvertently allow taxpayers
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon, who I dubbed Foolish Foon after his recent outburst against the Police, will have learnt a valuable lesson from the widespread criticism he copped. That is how quickly public sentiment changed from contempt to respect by doing as he has
Housing Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Political Roundup – Housing announcement a blow for those at the bottom Hayden Donnell (RNZ) Investor-economist alliance dominates media’s housing response Jack Tame (Newstalk ZB): Housing changes are a gamble Peter Wilson (RNZ): Week in Politics: Property speculators under the hammer as new ‘political
A letter from Nicki: 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
If it were at all possible to make KiwiBuild look like a stellar success then Labour has managed just that with the news that they’ve spent over $50 million to create just FOUR jobs: The Government has been accused of working at a glacial pace on fixing Maori unemployment
Which saint of politics was seen shouting at a staff member as they left Auckland Airport this weekend? Very good sources tell me that “The Saint” was roundly shouting at the staffer travelling with “The Saint”. So much for kindness. It can only be one person who is under terrible
Speaker Trevor Mallard has acted as the PM’s bodyguard in parliament and now she is returning the favour despite evidence of bullying that would force the resignation of a National Party politician in an identical situation. “Jacinda Ardern may like to preach kindness from the pulpit of truth, she
