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The Prime Minister loves slogans, lots of slogans. One such slogan that featured on the cover of Time Magazine was “Know us by our deeds”. She has used the statement many times, especially with regard to the Christchurch massacre and at the Big Gay Out. Jacinda Ardern loves bold statements
The original Ten Commandments are pretty basic. * Believe in the Lord thy God. * Do not worship false idols * Do not swear by His name. * Work six days a week, worship, and rest one day a week. * Respect your parents (and elders). * Do not murder anyone. * Do not steal anything. * Do
David C. Barker American University School of Public Affairs Sam Fulwood III American University Most political analysts define “swing voters” as those who swing their support from one party to the other between election cycles – determining winners and losers in the process. According to this conventional wisdom, the “swingiest” voters
Michelle Grattan University of Canberra COVID-19 has now made us two Australias. There’s Victoria – most specifically Melbourne – and then there’s the rest of the country. Melbourne’s extraordinary lockdown complete with curfew is an act of desperation by Daniel Andrews’ government, as it fights a daily tally
Subscribe to a Silver subscription or upgrade your existing Basic or Bronze level Subscription to Silver today. We’ve had another brutal week in politics, this time with the demise of Iain Lees-Galloway who has let an office affair destroy his political career. Some are blaming Judith Collins for
Claire Breen University of Waikato With COVID-19 vaccine developers reporting promising results, it is probable we will one day face a major public health question: can the government compel New Zealanders to be vaccinated? Just as inevitably, some people will refuse a vaccine. As we have seen overseas with
Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news Healthy Australians have been forced into various stages of lockdown since 21 March: four and a half months ago. The Good Sauce · Pellowe Talk Editorial At no stage did we ever think lock down was a sustainable measure. We were told we only had to flatten
Ardern’s popularity hangs off Christchurch and COVID – nothing more and nothing less. She did not end child poverty, build affordable housing, reduce hospital waiting lists, create jobs or get vagrants off the streets. Facts do not matter and neither does policy. Having failed to keep previous promises, why bother
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Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com As always, with elections there’s new parties popping up, none of which will register meaningfully in the polls. I include the Maori Party, now under the joint leadership of John Tamihere, in that category as I suspect it’s done its dash as the
Salman Rushdie, a man who has been cancelled perhaps longer than any other writer, has spoken out against left-wing cancel culture: Salman Rushdie has warned that Left-wing ‘cancel culture’ is a threat to literature and freedom of speech. Responding to the idea that authors should write only ‘what
The government told us that we didn’t need to wear masks so most of us didn’t. Being friendly with a number of health professionals, I was told that there is not much point in wearing a mask anyway unless they are proper surgical masks and properly fitted. Their
Judith Collins claims people feel ‘very segregated’ because of calls for more diversity National leader Judith Collins has blasted concerns about lack of diversity in society, claiming “people have felt very segregated” because of it – but she has no plans to get rid of the Maori electorates. Collins was asked
