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Name Withheld In a very important Finance meeting this month, Hamilton City Councillor Sarah Thomson was upset by the word: FUDGE. Yep, the dreaded F-Bomb. It was so bad that it made the lead story on the Waikato Times website, distracting from her fellow (can I use that word?) Greenie
Jacqui Van Der Kaay Jacqui Van Der Kaay is a former journalist, holds a Masters degree in Political Science from Victoria University of Wellington and has a specialist interest in political leadership, voter behaviour, immigration and how social media affects democracy. Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz Parliament’s speaker
The legacy media still aren’t getting it as to why people no longer trust them. A case in point is the puerile questions media were asking about “woke food”. Then they get all upset when the Prime Minister slams them so they go and write articles about it in
I grew up in Victoria (don’t judge me, it wasn’t always the way it’s become), and lived through the dark days of the early 90s. Back then, it seemed that hardly a week went by without another economic calamity: the Pyramid building society collapse, the Tricontinental bank
It looks like Chloe Swarbrick is fast running out of threadbare excuses to hide behind: even a bog-standard lefty like Anthony Albanese admits that her favourite genocide chant is “violent” and “has no place on our streets”. Still think it has a place on the streets of Auckland, Chloe? Do
Ahron Shapiro aijac.org.au Australian news headlines this morning (May 7) were remarkably consistent. Firstly, they said, Hamas had agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza, and secondly, that Israel had not accepted it and was instead moving ahead with an attack on the southern Gazan city of Rafah, which
He’s a busy boy, is Melbourne’s Mohammad Sharab — and he’s rubbing shoulders with the elite of the Melbourne left. Sharab is, of course, on bail for his alleged part in a shocking kidnapping in Melbourne in March. Along with prominent Muslim activist, Laura Allam, Sharab is accused
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A couple of weeks back impassioned and possibly drunk, Green MP Julie-Anne Genter, stormed across Parliament, leapt up on a typically non-descript National MP’s desk, lifted her skirt, pulled down her pants and peed on his head. Not content with that, she then grabbed
Chris Lynch Chris Lynch is a journalist, videographer and content producer, broadcasting from his independent news and production company in Christchurch, New Zealand. chrislynchmedia.com Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has criticised the Dean of the AUT Law School after she publicly told a highly-respected King’s Counsel to “die
Gun ownership in New Zealand has a varied and interesting history which can be broken down into three distinct historical periods. When white folks came to New Zealand they brought lots of guns with them; Parliament enacted laws requiring licences and registration for gun ownership – which were promptly ignored by
Bob McCoskrie bobmccoskrie.com Oranga Tamariki has just signalled it’s ready to knock on family doors if they refuse to let their children change gender. A loving family who want to protect their child from confusion, chemicalisation and castration will warrant possible removal of the child from that loving
It beggars belief that we are now again recording school attendance daily, and somehow it is a revelation that David Seymour has implemented such a system. What on earth were the last Government doing, other than refusing to release attendance figures – such as they were? A new data portal showing
Frank Miele Frank Miele, the retired editor of the Daily Inter Lake in Kalispell, Mont., is a columnist for RealClearPolitics. His newest book, “What Matters Most: God, Country, Family and Friends,” is available from his Amazon author page. realclearwire.com It is no secret that Donald Trump is a hot
It didn’t take long for the Albanese government to revert to Labor type. For all the hoopla over Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ two budget surpluses, what was ignored is that those were essentially windfall gains — due entirely to an unexpected surge in Chinese demand for iron ore, as well as
The wheels of justice grind slow, indeed. Still, a win against a corrupt, violent police force brutally enforcing unjust laws is a win for freedom, however belated. The only problem is that, in the interim, the fear of a police state is already instilled in the populace. After all, it
