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House Speaker Trevor Mallard has apologised “unreservedly” for falsely accusing a former parliamentary staffer of rape, which led to a $333,000 taxpayer-funded legal settlement. Mallard appeared before the Governance and Administration Select Committee in Wellington on Wednesday where he was grilled by National MPs who have been calling

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Election Night Errors – How Did That Happen?

Election Night Errors – How Did That Happen?

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Open Letter to the PM

Open Letter to the PM

Bruce Moon It is reported in ‘Newsroom” for 11/11/20 that the leaders of the Maori Party have said: “From seeking to rebuild their communities – South Taranaki and eastern Bay of Plenty – from the ravages of land alienation. From lived memories of the brutal seizures in Taranaki, that the

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Will the Real Karl Marx Please Stand Up? [Updated]

Depending on which side of the Marxist divide your sympathies lie, Karl Marx himself was either the devil incarnate or a luminous angel who was “beloved, revered and mourned by millions”. The last sentiment, spoken at Marx’s funeral in 1883 by his lifelong friend and collaborator, Friedrich Engels, was

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Life-Jackets to Be Worn at Wellington Council Meetings

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I’m informed that such is the degree of wetness by the Wellington City Councillors, to avoid drowning, henceforth councillors will wear life-jackets when meeting. The latest insanity is the proposal by two conspicuously wet virtue-signalling Councillors, Rebecca Mathews and Tamatha Paul, for

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Diversity Is Queen under Great Reset

Diversity Is Queen under Great Reset

Information Satire Speaking from the throne in her Facebook bunker, the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, today, announced a Great Reset in her thinking. “As officially one of the world’s great thinkers of our time, I have come to the conclusion that diversity must be applied not just to the

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More Bah Humbug from Audrey

More Bah Humbug from Audrey

O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant O come ye, O come ye to Wellington O come and behold her Born the Queen of Kiwis O come let us adore her… Such is Audrey’s admiration for Ardern that the Christmas carol is pretty much appropriate. Audrey says few

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Hate Speech Laws Are Attacks on Democracy, Free Speech

Hate Speech Laws Are Attacks on Democracy, Free Speech

Daphna Whitmore rdln.wordpress.com It is clear from the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Christchurch massacre that Brenton Tarrant had easy access to a firearms licence. The police failed abysmally in their duty to prevent semi-automatic weapons and ammunition from getting into the hands of a psychopath.

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Daily News Roundup – 16 December 2020

Daily News Roundup – 16 December 2020

Briefings to Incoming Ministers Luke Malpass (Stuff): Government briefings blame Covid and are a double edged sword Henry Cooke (Stuff): Some cash, please: Many government departments want more funding after Covid-19 Herald: Briefings to ministers: Government releases advice to new ministers Newstalk ZB: Housing crisis, Covid misinformation, racism: Problems

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Why Is It Green MPs Seem to Embellish Their CVs?

Why Is It Green MPs Seem to Embellish Their CVs?

Information Research by Sally Remember when we heard that Green MP Golriz Ghahraman was allegedly a prosecutor of war criminals, and then it turned out that she was the opposite, actually working on the defence of a convicted war criminal and genocidaire? It seems de rigueur for Green MPs to

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

[…] But my gut says she’s going to keep protecting him, based solely on the fact that that is what she always does. She always protects her mates longer than she should. She protected Clare Curran for ages, Phil Twyford, David Clark, Iain Lees-Galloway, the guys at Labour Party

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