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The National Party has done it. Judith Collins has done it. The Greens have made it pretty clear how they’re going to vote. Of course, I’m talking about the Cannabis referendum. Unfortunately though Jacinda Ardern still hasn’t let us know which way she’s voting: Jacinda Ardern
Ryan McMaken mises.org Ryan McMaken is a senior editor at the Mises Institute. Ryan has degrees in economics and political science from the University of Colorado and was a housing economist for the State of Colorado. He is the author of Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State
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David Clark Valetta Farm, Ashburton. David and Jayne Clark farm an irrigated mixed arable farm at Valetta in Mid Canterbury, running breeding ewes, finishing winter lambs and growing a wide range of grain, forage and vegetable seed crops. It is a proudly inter-generational farm business with David’s parents
National has struck a chord with its tax policy. Jacinda describes it as “desperate and reckless”. Lefties on Twitter are catatonic. They are claiming that National is promising people “free money”. Since when has being able to keep a bit more of your own earnings free money? Isn’t it
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Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The American Presidential election promises a fitting chaotic finale to a monumentally disastrous year for the world. A voter surplus for Trump is plainly not going to occur. Last time he lost by 3 million votes but won the White House through the undemocratic vagarities
Never hold an inquiry unless you know the outcome. Never ask a question unless you already know the answer. Both of these adages hold true with regard to two ongoing public inquiries in Australia. One, the Bushfires Royal Commission, has panned out more or less exactly as feared: a soapbox
Election 2020: National to repeal RMA, reverse oil and gas ban, back 'responsible' mining as part of 'pragmatic' energy policy https://t.co/WA2W9KSDYd — Stuff.co.nz Politics (@NZStuffPolitics) September 18, 2020 If you enjoyed this BFD article please share it.
Politics, the saying goes, is downstream from culture. Just as many in Australia are quick to ape the latest cultural trends from America, they’re only too eager to jump on the latest stateside political bandwagon. Case in point: Black Lives Matter. The fact that BLM is nothing more than
Unemployment figures are skyrocketing. “More than 60 per cent more people are now receiving Jobseeker Support work-ready benefits than the same time a year ago – and the number of people aged under 24 on the benefit has leapt 80 per cent.” Christie wrote this week about unemployment being the
Mark Williams I got my title from a 90’s dance music album by a group called Altern-8. Famous for their mask-wearing and hazmat suits at raves I was reminded of them by the mask hysteria we are now currently experiencing. How did we go from no facemasks
Dear Judith, I know you’re out there on the campaign trail and all that, and you’re probably hugely busy, listening to your PR advisers and doing your own brand of kissing babies, shaking hands and so on, but some of us are getting a bit worried, quite frankly.
I keep returning to the SARS-CoV-2 situation as one which is in equal parts astonishing and appalling, and also because we seem to have sleep-walked into the biggest singular threat to democracy so far this century without anyone realising it. We are in the grip of a
