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The Ethnic Minority You Can Stereotype to Your Heart’s Content.
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The Ethnic Minority You Can Stereotype to Your Heart’s Content.

It’s rough making fun of people these days. With so many protected victim groups you have to watch your tongue and tiptoe through the eggshells to avoid being called out by the offenderati and the Broadcasting Standards Authority. But wait…it turns out that there is an ethnic minority

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Oral Questions – 12 December 2019

Questions to Ministers Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH to the Minister of Finance: Does he stand by all of the Budget Responsibility Rules he committed to in Budget 2018? CHRIS BISHOP to the Minister of Transport: What proportion, if any, of the “$6.8 billion for new transport projects” announced yesterday will

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Oral Questions – 11 December 2019

Questions to Ministers Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s statements and actions? Dr DEBORAH RUSSELL to the Minister of Finance: What recent announcements has he made about Government investment to boost the New Zealand economy? Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Prime

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Lester is Getting Antsy, Still Leaking to Media

Lester is Getting Antsy, Still Leaking to Media

The word around Tauranga is that Lester Gray is really annoyed that some people think that he is having a mental health breakdown. Which, when you think about it is rather strange considering that he told the world that he was suffering from depression on Facebook. It is also strange

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Should I Give My Party Vote to ACT?

Should I Give My Party Vote to ACT?

I am a National voter. I have not always voted National, but I have done so, without fail, since 2005. I also voted for them in 1990, but I hated the Jim Bolger government, with its extreme austerity, so much that I didn’t vote for them again. It is

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Oral Questions – 10 December 2019

Questions to Ministers Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s statements and actions? RINO TIRIKATENE to the Minister of Civil Defence: What actions has the National Emergency Management Agency taken in response to the eruption on Whakaari / White Island? Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH

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Society Is Screwed Up: Part Two
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Society Is Screwed Up: Part Two

In part one of this series, I dealt with the woke society. In this article, I will talk about the politically correct nonsense that has in fact, been around for some decades. Wokeness and political correctness have a certain similarity. They both invoke a climate where one is expected to

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Watkins Says ‘Cats in Dairies’ Cost Labour the 1975 Election
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Watkins Says ‘Cats in Dairies’ Cost Labour the 1975 Election

Crikey. Stone the crows. Have you ever heard such bloody nonsense? Yesterday’s editorial in Pravda The Sunday Star Times was a real doozy in the art of uninformed twaddle-peddling; yes, it was that bad. Editor and ‘senior’ political writer Tracy Watkins, ostensibly supporting our governing cluster-clot’s

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Society Is Screwed Up: Part One
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Society Is Screwed Up: Part One

Planet Earth, i.e, the world, is falling off its axis. Funnily enough, it’s the people most affected by it that are the ones causing the problems. It’s not the “OK Boomers” Ms Swarbrick was talking about recently. Definitely not. It’s the Millennials and Gen Z that

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