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Two years ago the Taxpayer’s Union launched a campaign against the Government handing over regular donations (some of which reached nearly three million dollars), to a subsidiary of the Clinton Foundation. Yesterday the government revealed that they are stopping the funding early and will not be renewing the contract.
There has been another “leak” of private information regarding NZ First, including membership lists. A shabby newspaper and purveyor of stolen materials has led with the details: There has been a further leak of internal NZ First documents, including highly confidential lists of party members and a complaint alleging that
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Sky News host Chris Kenny has praised Scott Morrison’s speech, delivered to the Lowy Institute on Thursday night, saying it was “the strongest speech we have heard from a prime minister in many a year.” If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to
Leighton Baker, leader of New Conservative talks about how our party takes a different approach to Climate Change. We believe hard-earned taxpayers money is better well spent looking for solutions to pollution and other environmental ills including climate change. Carbon credits are a wasted effort as we have little
The overweening conceit of the left since at least the 1960s has been “anti-racism”. Despite the long history of leftist racism (for instance, eugenics and social Darwinism were practically articles of faith for “progressive” politics in the early 20th century), the left has spent the last half-century endlessly
News of a surge in reported hate crimes in the past few years is invariably met with screeches of “Trump!” and a chorus of blame from the smug elitists in the media, but digging into the figures paints a different picture. The bulk of hate crimes are directed at Jews.
On his blog, No Punches Pulled Bob Jones has published a letter sent to him by a friend who is a professor at Berkley. His friend reveals that his Dean has told him that the name of a Science award will have to be changed because the famous and respected
However, the question was not, “How to wreck an economy?” The question was about dealing with the climate crisis. Since this answer was proposed by Billy Fleming, a US landscape architect, we had better sit up and take notice. Safeguarding New Zealand against the devastating impact of climate change could
Dear Editor I could not resist clapping at Mass this morning when a letter from Cardinal Dew was read out, advising congregants of the resignation of Charlie Farlie [Ed. Charles Drennan] Back in March 2015, just a few days after Charles Drennan took over from Protestant Pete as bishop of
There has been close to universal condemnation of last week’s decision by the High Court to reject the Free Speech Coalition’s application for a judicial review of the decision of Regional Facilities Auckland last year to de-platform two Canadian speakers who Mayor Phil Goff didn’t like.
Cancel culture just keeps getting more ridiculously awful by the day. Obeying the rule that revolutions eat their own, cancel culture warriors are increasingly claiming leftists as well as their traditional, conservative targets. It’s a big ask, of course, to expect the left to wake up to themselves. After
In yet another climate change ‘save the planet’ rant, our dear friends at Stuff and Nonsense have published an article about climate change Fake News in which, without a hint of irony, they publish fake news. It begins: A quick Google search often reveals that, yes, someone out there, somewhere,
Press Release: National Party The Government’s soft on crime approach has led to almost 1400 more people joining gangs since it took office and is deeply concerning, Leader of the Opposition Simon Bridges says. “Since October 2017, the number of patched gang members has increased by 26 per cent.
