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In 2016, American documentary film-maker Ami Horowitz conducted an interesting experiment. First, he visited ultra-left-wing UC Berkeley and asked its white liberal passers-by about voter ID laws. All of them agreed that voter ID discriminated against black people, citing reasons that people on the streets of
Questions to Ministers 1.Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all his Government’s statements, policies, and actions? 2.Dr DUNCAN WEBB to the Minister of Finance: What recent reports has he seen on the New Zealand economy? 3.MARK PATTERSON to the Associate Minister
Modern Treaty settlements are one of New Zealand’s greatest achievements. It’s no exaggeration to say they are world-leading policy. While the rest of the world is marred by terrorism, corruption, and violence, New Zealand has quietly gone about settling 180 years of disputes peacefully under the rule
Duncan: The latest political poll has NZ First below the threshold to stay in parliament, the party dropping from 5% to 3.3% in this latest poll. The same poll has National ahead of Labour by 2% points and joining us now is NZ First leader, Deputy Prime Minister, Acting
Mike: So over a good couple of days, as we were saying earlier in the show, for Simon Bridges’ political party – the cancer care announcement I think went reasonably well over the weekend and you’ve got to argue that it was an extraordinary thing for an opposition party to
I came across this tweet at the weekend, and I really did not know what to make of it. Remember that the person who wrote it is a member of our elected government, and is supposed to uphold the law and represent all New Zealanders. Initially, I thought she meant
Media Outraged Over Trump’s Tweets, Ignores Bernie Sanders Similar Statements. Over the past week we have been embroiled in another Donald Trump Tweet story pertaining to Elijah Cummings district in Baltimore and we know the media loves running wall to wall press about Trump’s tweets. Interestingly, however, Bernie
GetUp, the thuggish political hit-squad co-founded by former Labor leader Bill Shorten, with seed money from militant unions and Soros-linked organisations, has enjoyed a virtually free run for its army of nosey-nannas and unemployable Marxists. Until now. In an astounding display of bare-faced hypocrisy, even
The United States has been plagued with a tsunami of fake “hate-crimes” of late because actual racism is apparently so rare in Trumpian America that demand has far outstripped supply. Tired of waiting for depressingly non-racist whites to oppress them, eager, non-white wannabe-victims are having to
National party Welcome to the 83rd National Party Conference. How good is it to be back in Christchurch celebrating 83 years of the National Party? Can I start by welcoming two very important people, Hon Sir Jim McClay and Rt Hon Sir John Key, former leaders of this fantastic party
Questions to Ministers 1.Dr LIZ CRAIG to the Minister of Health: What recent announcements has he made about dialysis and cardiac facilities at Middlemore Hospital? 2.Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all his Government’s statements, policies, and actions? 3.Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE
David Clark, the Minister of Health, has come under fire this week for his poor performance. “Association of Salaried Medical Specialists executive director Ian Powell accused Health Minister Dr David Clark of a “rambling, confused or nonsensical” leadership. Powell, a veteran of the senior doctors’ union of 30 years who
Oh dear. You know you are in trouble when your office tries to shut down the media, who are asking perfectly legitimate questions about an issue that is currently at the forefront of the news. Jacinda Ardern has personally tried to prevent media from asking about the Ihumatao dispute while
