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It is interesting to learn that Peeni Henare would very much like to be the next Minister of Health. He evidently wants the job so badly that he is openly campaigning for it. He is of the opinion that if he’s given the job he will turn the health
Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing at all. He didn’t get any peace deals across the line and his foreign policy was missing in action yet for some reason he was nominated and won. Jacinda Ardern was supposedly nominated too. Our lickspittle media declared her
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Ryan McMaken mises.org Back in August, European politicians were threatening lockdowns and calling for “vigilance.” But given the economic devastation wrought by full, nationwide lockdowns, politicians have become fearful of going down that road again. For example, in the Czech Republic, where the seven-day average for reported covid
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Frank Newman nzcpr.com Frank Newman is an investment analyst and accountant, who has lectured in property matters at Massey University. He served two terms as a councillor on the Whangarei District Council and is the author of numerous books on investment matters. Labour has a problem. It will now
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com My predictions for Labour/Green and National/ACT were astray by 5% thanks to the landslide. The happiest people will be the pollsters who Auckland Central excepted, pretty much got it right, even with NZ First given historically they’ve understated that Party’s vote.
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Eliora Martyn Iles from the ACL (Australian Christian Lobby the advocacy organisation, not the ACL knee joint that can be injured in rugby) reports that they have been petitioning Government to let people go to church during the COVID 19 pandemic. The sentiment of faith groups is clear, from a
Dear Editor The National party is about to commence a review into its disastrous election result. Unless I am very much mistaken, it will involve all sorts of finger-pointing and excuses but — as is usual in such cases — not involve blaming themselves. The reason they did so badly is
I was having a chat with a longstanding friend about the election result. She is a Labour supporter who is enormously optimistic about the future and believes Labour will build thousands of houses and lift people out of poverty. This was not the time to mention words like Kiwibuild or
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com According to one election night commentator, Saturday’s landslide result was a remarkable victory for a party that “couldn’t make anything fly, not even a kite”. Favoured by the media and seen by many voters as the leader who had literally saved them from
In 2017 Ardern described herself as a Democratic Socialist, the label applicable to Hugo Chavez and Nicolás Maduro, authors of Venezuela’s economic disaster. Jacinda Ardern: “Some people have asked me if I’m a radical. My answer to that is very simple. I’m from Morrinsville. Where I come
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden shocked viewers on Thursday with a bizarre reference to Adolf Hitler during the final presidential debate. Trump said he has a civil “We’re not in a war, we have a good relationship,” Trump said of his relationship with North Korea Supreme Leader Kim Jong
Launceston has long grown accustomed to empty shopfronts in its CBD, a trend only exacerbated by the Wuhan plague. So, when a new shopfront opens it naturally piques local interest. The more so when the shop sports entirely Chinese-language livery, is stocked with row upon row of baby formula
