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An ‘Inhumane’ Plan to Make Older Migrants Wait Longer for NZ Super
Winston Peters was the driver of a plan to extend the qualification period for NZ Super for migrants to New Zealand from 10 years to 20 years. Most New Zealanders agreed with this proposal. It was clear that some devious financial planning was going on, whereby younger family members were
Does Labour Have an Anti-Semitism Problem?
IINZ News israelinstitute.nz The Israel Institute of New Zealand can report that Labour MP for Christchurch Central, Dr Duncan Webb, has been an active member of an antisemitic Facebook group for about one year having posted to the page, commented on posts, and ‘liked’ posts. “Aotearoa Standing With Palestine”
Daily News Roundup – 28 January 2021
Covid: General David Welch (The Conversation): Northland case is a reminder NZ’s ‘dumb good luck’ may run out Jamie Morton (Herald): Why aren’t we seeing more cases in Northland? Amelia Wade (Herald): Two new Auckland community cases, locations of interest released Adam Pearse (Northern Advocate): Two positive Auckland
Who Knew That Loading Costs onto Landlords Would Lead to Increased Rents?
Who knew that freezing rents then loading costs onto landlords would lead to increased rents? Clearly the Government didn’t know that would be the result of their war on landlords. Rents shot up around the country when last year’s rent freeze was lifted, including the largest monthly rent
Biden Buyer’s Remorse Is a Bit Late
At some point, you have to start wondering just how dumb the American left really are. After voting in a sleepy, creepy, career swamp monster, they’re shocked – shocked – that he’s doing exactly what he said he’d do. Somehow, it seems, they imagined that “business as usual” in
“It Is Wrong to Lie”: Margaret Court Returns Serve
For a group who spend so much time prating about “kindness” and “inclusion”, few people beat the “progressive” left when it comes to bullying, exclusion and unhinged hate. Their Goldstein du jour may change on a whim, but whether it’s Donald Trump or J K Rowling, there’s nothing
Did ‘Collectivism’ Save Us from COVID?
ACT Party The Prime Minister seems to think ‘collectivism’ saved us from COVID-19. Labour would love the event of the decade to back their belief system, but it doesn’t. Nobody is an Island. If collectivism just means working together, then everything is collectivism. When Labour says collectivism, they
All You Ever Wanted to Know about Israeli Elections
In March 2021 Israel heads into its fourth general election in just two years and with its perennial Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu facing a number of criminal charges and accusations of impropriety, it’s pretty difficult to make north or south of the local ‘political map’ for both Israelis
Letter from the North
Why Carbis Bay? More on the G7 meeting in Carbis Bay. It just gets stranger by the day. It transpires that Carbis Bay is where Boris Johnson’s grandmother went into labour before being rushed to Penzance where she gave birth to Stanley, his father. The next issue is the
NZ’s Dumb Luck Runs Out
A plane-load of passengers bound for Australia forced to disembark just before takeoff: it’s a humiliating bit of symbolism for New Zealand’s self-annointed “COVID Queen”. After repeatedly bragging about her supposedly world-leading performance in eliminating the Wuhan Plague, suddenly New Zealanders are being treated like
Excuse Me, Mr President
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