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The Left’s Mad Witches Are Hunting Again

The Left’s Mad Witches Are Hunting Again

Their ABC – Australia’s taxpayer-funded leftist propaganda outfit – is at it again. Where once, perhaps, the ABC occasionally remembered how to do polity-shaking investigative journalism, now it mostly does hysterical propaganda and grubby mud-slinging. The nadir of the ABC, perhaps, has been its unhinged witch-hunting of

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Courting the Chameleon

Courting the Chameleon

Denis Muller University of Melbourne Joe Biden’s victory in the US presidential election raises a perennial question about what Rupert Murdoch does when the candidate he has opposed wins. Answer: He adapts and he waits. Electoral cycles last three, four or five years. Murdoch has been wielding power for

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Peaceful Protests

Peaceful Protests

The definition of a ‘peaceful protest’ seems simple enough to the average person but apparently, appearances can be deceiving. So what does our local Government-owned TV network think about peaceful protests?  Fortunately, we found out the answer to that question thanks to TVNZ 1 News at Six hosted by

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Austria Set to Outlaw the “Breeding Ground” of Terror

Austria Set to Outlaw the “Breeding Ground” of Terror

The US presidential election couldn’t have come at a better time for the global mainstream media. With a series of horrific Islamic terror attacks suddenly reminding the world that the jihadis had never gone away, the mainstream media desperately needed something to lull the masses back to complacent sleep.

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BFD Daily Opinion Poll

BFD Daily Opinion Poll

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Trump is a Genius!

Trump is a Genius!

Trump saw the scurrilous attacks on his presidency coming even before he was sworn and naturally planned accordingly for the assault on his US 2020 election campaign. On 12 September 2018 Trump signed an executive order that largely flew under media radar until its significance recently became clear. “I, DONALD

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One by One, Labour’s Excuses on Housing Are Evaporating

ACT Party “Labour blamed the housing crisis on foreigners and the tax system, but its excuses are evaporating, and now it has no idea how to solve the problem,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “According to Labour, people with Chinese sounding names were to blame, but experts have found the

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A Free Taste of an Insight Politics Article

A Free Taste of an Insight Politics Article

Today Non- Subscribers get a FREE taste of what they are missing out on. Have a read of this Insight Politics article then decide whether or not you would like to subscribe to a Silver subscription or upgrade your existing Basic or Bronze level Subscription to Silver. And Right on

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NZ Professor Warns of Neo-Maoist Threat
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NZ Professor Warns of Neo-Maoist Threat

In that misty, distant time called “pre-COVID”, one of my favourite restaurants in Melbourne was a dumpling place in Chinatown. Mountains of cheap, delicious dumplings. The biggest cost was ignoring the Maoist propaganda on the walls, including the banner lauding the “great statesman, ideologist[… and] poet”. The only concession

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Daily News Roundup – 17 November 2020

Daily News Roundup – 17 November 2020

Housing Liam Dann (Herald): House price surge just getting started – Westpac Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Social pressure from renters may force Govt to implement wealth tax: Westpac Michael Cullen (Stuff): Time for a monetary policy rethink Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Reserve Bank fuelling housing boom with printed money says former Finance Minister

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Yet Another Reason to Not Use Public Transport

Yet Another Reason to Not Use Public Transport

She who must be obeyed, ‘The Covid Queen’, has spoken again from the podium of truth and given commuters another reason to not use public transport. A Government order compelling people to wear face masks on public transport in Auckland and planes nationwide will come into effect on Thursday. Prime

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