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Ihumatao deal reached: Government to purchase south Auckland land from Fletcher Building for $30 million Read the full article here. Comment on it on The BFD.
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COVID Vaccine: The Media Were Completely Wrong. Again
If the left-media didn’t have double-standards, they wouldn’t have any. It’s a well-used saying but no less true for that. One only has to look at a Guardian writer posting headlines like Why Ivanka Trump’s new haircut should make us very afraid and,
Tweet of the Day
The Government is using taxpayers to pay off protestors, only to get fewer houses built. Bad news for Kiwis hoping for more housing, bad news for our full and final Treaty settlements and sets a very dangerous precedent for property rights. https://t.co/aVXp9qxHAs — Judith Collins (@JudithCollinsMP) December 16,
The Manchurian Candidates Down Under
It’s shaping up as the biggest communist spy scandal since the Cambridge Five or the communist infiltrations of Hollywood and the US political bureaucracy in the 1930s and 1940s. When academic Clive Hamilton published Silent Invasion: China’s Influence in Australia he was immediately attacked by China sympathisers in
Dear Minister Hipkins
Alwyn Poole Dear Minister Hipkins Firstly – this is official notification that the Villa Education Trust will apply for a 240 student Designated Character School (non-zoned) in central Auckland to begin in 2022. This will be similar to the application that you rejected by stating that: 1. It was not
The Dictator’s Temptation and the Tyrant’s Technique
Bruce Logan The Prime Minister, in the wake of the Royal Commission report on the Christchurch terror attack, would have us believe that hate speech legislation will protect Islam and other minorities from racial and religious disharmony. There is a worm at the root. Hate speech law must always have
Taxpayers Should Not Foot the Bill for Ihumatao
National Party The Government will open a Pandora’s Box if it spends even a single cent of taxpayer money on cleaning up the mess it made at Ihumatao, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “The Ihumatao situation is a problem of Jacinda Ardern’s own making, and taxpayers
Last of the Bah Humbug from Audrey
In this last treatise on Audrey Young’s NZ Herald article, which contains possibly more Bah Humbug than you can take, she talks about Ardern and Robertson and their team. Her piece is headlined – Joined at hip, there’s no way Ardern, Robertson can possibly be separated. Audrey notes that
Ardern’s Masterful Mendacity
A compulsive obfuscator and consummate, incorrigible liar is our prime minister, we all know that, but Monday’s effort on the Mallard debacle was gold-medal standard, truly world-class, a masterpiece in mendacity. She hit the truth out of the park. Bravo PM! Listen from 07:25 Interviewed on
Daily News Roundup – 17 December 2020
Speaker Trevor Mallard’s rape allegations Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Trevor Mallard has made things worse Barry Soper (Herald): Trevor Mallard raises more questions than he answers Claire Trevett (Herald): National’s attacks water off a Mallard’s back (paywalled) Newstalk ZB: Barry Soper reacts to Trevor Mallard’s
Daily News Roundup – 17 February 2021
Australia-NZ dispute over terrorist suspect in Turkey Dan Satherley (Newshub): Judith Collins defends Australia’s move to dump terrorist problem on New Zealand Tova O’Brien (Newshub): How Australia snookered New Zealand and angered Jacinda Ardern Audrey Young (Herald): Australia fails to meet its own ‘fair go’ test (paywalled)