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Daily News Roundup – 22 December 2021

Daily News Roundup – 22 December 2021

Housing Luke Malpass (Stuff): Labour announces that it will make more housing announcements this year Zane Small and Conor Whitten (Newshub): Backlash over Labour’s public housing ‘re-announcement’ prompts firm defence from Jacinda Ardern Chris Trotter: The Economic consequences of Mr Hickey Miriam Bell (Stuff): More public housing won’

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National Concerned by Police Backdown on Cannabis
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National Concerned by Police Backdown on Cannabis

Simeon Brown national.org.nz Police need explain why they’ve quietly decided to ditch the annual cannabis eradication operation and how they will continue crack down on the supply of cannabis, National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “To make a major decision such as this and not tell

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Mexico’s Left-Wing President Schools America in Free Speech and Civil Rights

Mexico’s Left-Wing President Schools America in Free Speech and Civil Rights

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. childrenshealthdefense.org Mexico’s socialist president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, popularly known by his initials, AMLO, has condemned Silicon Valley’s social media titans for censoring free speech around the world. He has proposed a global coalition of the world’s Democratic governments to stand up

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What Will the Donald Do Next?

What Will the Donald Do Next?

The Democrats’ second impeachment attempt on President Trump, in the last days of his term, might seem like mere political spite, but there is a method to Pelosi’s malice. RINO swamp monster Mitch McConnell knows it, too, which is why he’s hissing about voting with the Democrats in

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COVID Bureacrats Decree: No Fly for You!

COVID Bureacrats Decree: No Fly for You!

These unelected Little Hitlers are drunk on power. As I reported recently, Western Australia has become an elected dictatorship, but much of the rest of Australia has given up even the pretence of elected representation. Instead, elected governments have handed decision-making over to unelected bureaucrats; and, having got their

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Victoria’s Latest COVID Stuff-Up

Victoria’s Latest COVID Stuff-Up

As Victoria edges ever closer to the abyss of a new round of COVID infections, the Victorian authorities are once again struggling to differentiate their arses from their elbows. As reported earlier by The BFD, just a handful of new cases saw the government’s contact tracing regime fall to

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Letter from the North

Letter from the North

Where’s Carbis Bay? As a welcome diversion, we started off the week with the announcement that the June G7 meeting of world leaders will be held in Carbis Bay, Cornwall. In typical Cornish fashion, the news was greeted with self-congratulations by local politicians and total disdain and apathy

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Online Leftists Are Inciting Violence

Online Leftists Are Inciting Violence

There is growing evidence that clandestine left-wing agents provocateur were at least partly responsible for the unrest at the US Capitol last week. If nothing else, the leftist and mainstream media (pardon the tautology) shrieking claims that President Trump “incited” the event simply doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.

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Simon Wilson Is Still Afraid

Poor old Simon Wilson. He finished up 2020 telling us why he was afraid and he’s started in 2021 by still being afraid. The things he’s afraid of haven’t changed much; he’s still banging on about climate change. Well, there’s good news on that front

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Public Deserves Clarity and Consistency on Vaccine Timing

Public Deserves Clarity and Consistency on Vaccine Timing

ACT Party “ACT’s January 6 call for a vaccine timetable review, and January 11 charge that the Government’s response to COVID-19 had become complacent, are being sadly vindicated with each day’s developments,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Minister for COVID-19 Response and Director General

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Daily News Roundup – 21 January 2021

Daily News Roundup – 21 January 2021

Housing Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): Greens say house prices need to fall Vita Molyneux (Newshub): Green Party will continue to push for wealth tax, blast Govt for ‘not doing enough’ about housing crisis Anna Whyte (1News): ‘Government is not doing enough’ – Greens, National call for action amid soaring public housing need,

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