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Winston Peters has again said no to wasteful and silly spending, this time it is the light rail project that Labour promised would be completed by 2021, but so far hasn’t had a single rail tie laid. The Government has conceded its flagship transport has been put on ice,
If you had asked me last week whether or not I thought the Government would go full term, then I’d have said yes. Now, I’d hedge my bets, but say the likelihood of an earlier election has passed a greater than 50% chance and is likely heading towards
#Brutal pic.twitter.com/FjbEYxGJv8 — Tova O’Brien (@TovaOBrien) June 24, 2020
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Daniel Andrews really does seem to be determined to supplant Tommy Bent as Victoria’s most corrupt premier. The Red Shirts, the firefighters’ union deal, signing up to China’s BRI, and now, yet another branch-stacking scandal. Branch-stacking is, to be sure, an old political game. But for
Information Parody I beat Covid19 but the National party let it back in. pic.twitter.com/CefmAFy49v — Jacinda Ardren (parody) (@JacindaArdern_0) June 20, 2020 I will be resigning this afternoon. The Team of 5 Million let me down. I have not been on a holiday for over 3 months.
Redline rdln.wordpress.com A week ago JK Rowling tweeted that that biological sex is real. She took issue with an article that referred to “people who menstruate,” instead of “women”. She pointed out: “If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased.?.?. . I do not
A proposal to make hate speech a criminal offence, as it is in the United Kingdom, has been stalled and is unlikely to pass before the election. The Government fast-tracked a review of hate speech legislation in the wake of the March 15 Christchurch terror attack last year. Justice
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Are you certain? And now for another excellent point that the New Zealand Law Society made about the government’s approach to the rule of law being so inexcusably
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Worldwide the media gloated over the only third full stadium for Trump’s first re-election signature assembly. Given their characteristic agenda-pushing dishonesty that shouldn’t surprise. They deliberately ignored the sabotaging of the event by organised mass bookings by his opponents to achieve
Editor’s Note: The speech is over 12,000 words so I have read through it and put in bold key and interesting aspects of it for those of you who do not have the time to listen to or read the entire speech. Donald Trump: (01:11) Thank you,
“I will get you that number – I’m sorry I haven’t got it – I’d like to have it as well.” It’s been a week and counting since the Director-General of Health was first asked how many people have left managed isolation without being tested for Covid-
COVID-19 infections are on the rise again in parts of Australia, especially Victoria. But while this is still very far from the much-touted “second wave”, it is risking yet another government panicking and rushing to impose lockdowns again. It’s also exposing the incompetence and double-standards at
Watercare’s 2013 application with the Waikato Regional Council waits for RMA approval to take an extra 200 megalitres of water to cater to Auckland’s increasing population demands, but 105 applications are ahead of it on the RMA list. Auckland’s reservoirs were depleted during the very dry summer
A message to Todd Muller and the Nats. Do you want to win the election? Here’s your sentence. We will rescind any agreement put in place by this Government that involves the use of taxpayer money to purchase the disputed land at Ihumatao or any other privately owned land
