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As I reported recently, Victorian premier Daniel Andrews displayed his hitherto-unsuspected talent for stand-up comedy, when he claimed that Victoria had “higher standards” than any other state when it came to pandemic management. Dan is keeping them rolling in the aisles by following up with a classic banana-
Why on earth did the left finally come out and admit that the 2020 US election was rigged? Simple. Too much evidence of vote rigging has been trickling onto the public stage and rather than address the issue, why not short circuit debate by justifying vote rigging as representative of
ACT Party “The Government must ensure that journalists can remain independent of the state despite the $55 million of taxpayer money it’s just given to media companies,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Journalists must be more than free to bite the hand that feeds them – as the Fourth Estate
12th February 2021 Today (12th February) is Union Day in Myanmar and residents woke to the news that the military regime is planning to release 23,000 prisoners. Why? The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) suggested that it was to make room for future political detainees. If this is
National Party Paul Goldsmith Labour’s messaging on New Zealand’s curriculum is confused and misses what is important to improve student achievement, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “On the one hand, Associate Education Minister Jan Tinetti says the re-announced curriculum review will focus on ‘wellbeing, identities,
The Government is hell-bent on implementing a gun register; apparently, such a thing will keep us all safe. Meanwhile, an NZTA worker has been sacked after 44 customers’ personal details were accessed unlawfully: Police have charged a worker at the New Zealand Transport Agency, and the worker has been
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Dominic O’Sullivan Charles Sturt University Dominic is a Professor of political science at Charles Sturt University and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences at the Auckland University of Technology. The recent controversy over a decision by the Tauranga City Council to establish a Maori ward
She’d almost certainly hate the comparison, but Tasmanian senator Jacquie Lambie reminds me a lot of Donald Trump. By that, I mean that she’s a political outsider almost accidentally thrown into the national spotlight and that she’s also what commo pontificator Phillip Adams calls a “maddie”. “Maddies”
When I visited New Zealand in the glorious, pre-COVID days of 2019, I was somewhat sceptical of Aucklanders who warned me about the traffic. Then I spent an hour crawling just a couple of kilometres along the Southwestern Motorway. But, if I thought Auckland traffic was bad, nothing prepared
Machiavelli described three ways a conquering prince might best treat its defeated subject. Ruin them, rule them directly or install a puppet government. “Therein a state of the few which might keep it friendly to you.” The example Machiavelli gives of the last is the friendly government Sparta established in
ACT Party “For three and a half years the Labour Government has been pushing housing further away from those who most need it, and from today that challenge will be amplified,” says ACT Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “Warnings that increased business risks and costs being piled onto landlords by
