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This Land Was Our Land: Waitangi
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This Land Was Our Land: Waitangi

Cultural Norm When I was younger, into my forties and a South Islander, I took my first trip up to the Bay of Islands – and each morning we would walk from our lodgings in Paihia to stroll through the beautiful Treaty Grounds at Waitangi. It was magic. On our right,

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Daily News Roundup – 23 March 2021

Daily News Roundup – 23 March 2021

Housing Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): D-day for the Government’s plan to fix housing, with few easy options Rachel Sadler (Newshub): ‘Radical’ change needed to tackle New Zealand’s severe housing deprivation – political commentator David Hargreaves (Interest): Govt housing changes ‘won’t address the central problem in the housing crisis’

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Theatre of the Absurd

Theatre of the Absurd

ACT Party What to make of the Government’s announcement of an announcement? After Cabinet yesterday, the Prime Minister told us when the much-anticipated Aussie Bubble will be announced, in nearly three weeks’ time on April 6th. It is what you’d expect from a leader whose main expertise

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Kiwis Want a Travel Bubble Now Prime Minister

Kiwis Want a Travel Bubble Now Prime Minister

National Party National Leader Judith Collins Yesterday, the Prime Minister had a chance to do the right thing and announce a date when the trans-Tasman safe travel bubble will be open. She chose not to. Instead, she announced that she will soon announce an announcement of a date. You

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Faces of the Day

Faces of the Day

There are all kinds of political rumours, but they don’t get much bigger than: “The PM is about to resign.” […] What would happen, I asked myself, if the PM made it clear to her Cabinet colleagues that she was no longer willing to play it safe; that, having made

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Please Prime Minister, Bore Us with the Details Now

Please Prime Minister, Bore Us with the Details Now

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “It’s simply not good enough for the Prime Minister to treat the media like five-year-olds and tell them there are ‘layers of complexity’ ‘which I won’t bore you with now’ behind why she can’t say more about a trans-

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Reality Check: Dems Don’t Give a Hoot about Kids at the Border

Reality Check: Dems Don’t Give a Hoot about Kids at the Border

Leesa K. Donner libertynation.com Leesa K. Donner is Editor-in-Chief of LibertyNation.com. A widely published columnist, Leesa previously worked in the broadcast news industry as a television news anchor, reporter, and producer at NBC, CBS and Fox affiliates in Charlotte, Pittsburgh, and Washington, DC. She is the

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Skypath Funding Should Be Re-Prioritised
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Skypath Funding Should Be Re-Prioritised

With Skypath looking dead in the water, some of the $240 million set aside for it in ATAP should be redirected towards detailed design, planning and other preparatory work for a second harbour crossing. “It’s been clear for a while that Skypath wasn’t going to get off the

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The People Have Spoken, They Want a Travel Bubble
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The People Have Spoken, They Want a Travel Bubble

More than 42,000 people are backing National’s call for a safe trans-Tasman travel bubble to open, National’s Covid-19 response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “The Government can’t delay this any longer. Anything less than an announcement today on a hard-and-fast April start date

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Lego Cindy

Lego Cindy

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