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Questions and Advice for Judith Collins From the Chinese Community

Questions and Advice for Judith Collins From the Chinese Community

Portia Mao asiamediacentre.org.nz Portia Mao has been working as a journalist since graduating from Auckland University with a Masters degree in Film, Television and Media Studies in 2002. Following a public appearance in Pakuranga by National Party leader Judith Collins, journalist Portia Mao went out to the New

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India Slams Pakistan for Building China-Backed Dam

India Slams Pakistan for Building China-Backed Dam

As the Wuhan pandemic sweeps the world, wrecking economies and straining societies to breaking point, China is desperately trying to buy friends. Surveys show that world opinion is divided on China. Not only do people in the US, Canada, Australia and Western Europe view China unfavourably, but so do those

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Peaky Blinders Season 5 gets political

Peaky Blinders Season 5 gets political

Bianca Coleman theplumlist.com The long-awaited fifth season of the British crime drama Peaky Blinders, now on Netflix, opens in 1929 with the financial crash that crippled the world – the Shelby family included. There’s a lot of scrambling as they quickly find their feet again. Meanwhile, Tommy’s

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Sheriff Collins and the Hell’s Angels Gang

Sheriff Collins and the Hell’s Angels Gang

Information Satire HELL’s  ANGEL! Missie Ardern’s sainthood has been elevated to that of an angelic being. COWBOY JACK (Jackson) is referring to Missie Ardern as “MY ANGEL”. But is she an “angel of light,” an “angel of darkness” or a “red angel” that brings destruction? NOT ON MY

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On Euthanasia: Part 1

On Euthanasia: Part 1

On election day, Saturday 19 September, voters will take part in a referendum on the End of Life Choice Act 2019. This referendum, which will be binding on the government, is likely to make euthanasia and assisted suicide legal in New Zealand. Pro-euthanasia campaigners argue that the issue is

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Double Standards Abound
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Double Standards Abound

Dr David Cumin israelinstitute.nz This past fortnight there have been two admissions of bias that should be a shock. Most recently, Twitter executives defended their decision to restrict President Trump but not Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. And just before that, the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and

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The Coming Election

The Coming Election

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Despite the polls I have a gut feeling the election will be a close-run race. The Nats have taken a beating thanks to MP scandals plus the party’s extraordinary decision to pluck as their leader, an obscure MP, who in two terms had

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Hang On, Didn’t the PM Tell Us We Had Beaten the Virus?

Hang On, Didn’t the PM Tell Us We Had Beaten the Virus?

The Government’s scare tactics have continued. Yesterday Chris Hipkins raised the prospect of community transmission and the use of masks in the Governments daily political propaganda health broadcast. Households should add masks to their emergency supply kits in the case of further Covid-19 outbreak, Health Minister Chris Hipkins

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BLM Really Is “Gangsta”

BLM Really Is “Gangsta”

H. G. Wells aptly described the totalitarian regimes of the 1930s as “structurally great gangster systems”. The only difference between the Bolsheviks and the Mafia was the scale of their rapacity. The great Mob epics, like The Godfather, The Irishman, or James Ellroy’s “Underworld USA” trilogy, cast organised crime

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Quarantine Chaos on the “Crazy Floor”

Quarantine Chaos on the “Crazy Floor”

Eighties Australian pop group Little Heroes once sang that “Melbourne just isn’t New York”, but in terms of COVID-19 in Australia, Melbourne is not just New York, but Milan and London to boot. The situation in Victoria lurches from disaster to disaster. Disaster almost entirely of the Andrews’

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