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Albo’s Little Clown Car Honks On

Albo’s Little Clown Car Honks On

If the Albanese government was a car, you’d write it off to the scrapheap, instead of pushing it from one disaster to the next. Well, Albo is running a car, of sorts: a clown car. Only when it breaks down, it tends to spew out foreign-born rapists, murderers, and

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Comcom’s Solution for the NZ Banking Industry
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Comcom’s Solution for the NZ Banking Industry

Martien Lubberink Associate Professor of Economics Victoria University of Wellington The New Zealand Commerce Commission recently released a draft report on the state of personal banking services in New Zealand. Unsurprisingly, the market study found a marked lack of competition among the largest financial institutions in New Zealand. But will

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Thanks for Nothing Roger Douglas
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Thanks for Nothing Roger Douglas

JM White Before 1985 we had a bi-cultural population which was heavily intermarried and we were well on the way to a unique way of life; so much so that in 1975 the United Nations sent an emissary to find out what we were doing that worked so well. There

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The Good Ship Lollypop
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The Good Ship Lollypop

2017-2023 Do Not Rest in Peace I can’t help but think as I see the terrifying images of the MV Dali, the container ship taking out the Key Bridge in Baltimore, that it can be seen as an analogy for the Labour Government and its destruction of this country.

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Inconsistency at the End of the Rainbow

Simon O’Connor Husband, step-father, and longtime student of philosophy and history. Also happen to be a former politician, including chairing New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Committee. onpointnz.substack.com I find many protest actions ridiculous and counter-productive. Throwing white paint over rainbow crossings is just another

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Swing That Axe, Hard
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Swing That Axe, Hard

Stuff had an article yesterday asking how much fat can be trimmed off public sector jobs. I would suggest that the answer is plenty, plus some more. Stuff, however, thinks such thoughts are too simplistic. It is too simplistic to assume that recent large increases in public sector staff numbers

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The Case for Trump’s Foreign Policy Leadership

The Case for Trump’s Foreign Policy Leadership

Karina Lipsman realclearwire.com The Republican contest on Super Tuesday, anticlimactic as it was, was a pivotal day for American foreign policy. Yes, domestic issues were the major concern of primary voters, but the two candidates presented competing visions of America’s future role on the global stage. Nikki Haley,

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NZ Announces Humanitarian Assistance to Gaza, Sudan
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NZ Announces Humanitarian Assistance to Gaza, Sudan

Rt Hon Winston Peters Minister of Foreign Affairs Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced $6 million in humanitarian assistance to those affected by conflict in Gaza and Sudan during his ongoing visit to Egypt. “There are huge and urgent humanitarian needs in both Gaza and Sudan, and it is important

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Steven Joyce’s $4000 a Day Govt Appointment
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Steven Joyce’s $4000 a Day Govt Appointment

Bryce Edwards Political Analyst in Residence, Director of the Democracy Project, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.substack.com Former National Government Finance Minister Steven Joyce is being paid $4000 a day to chair the new Government’s “expert advisory panel” on infrastructure. That’s over twice what

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Waste of the Day

Adam Andrzejewski realclearwire.com Topline: A California school district used $2 million of taxpayer funds to train high schoolers to fight for racial and social justice, according to records obtained by The Free Press. Key facts: Long Beach Unified School District hired the group Californians for Justice in 2019 to

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The CDC Encouraged Mail-in Ballots

The CDC Encouraged Mail-in Ballots

Jeffrey A. Tucker Jeffrey Tucker is Founder, Author, and President at Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Life After Lockdown, and many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social

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Who Wants to Be Like Hungary?

Tamás Klein Tamás Klein is a Hungarian paleolibertarian and an economics student at Grove City College. He is the president of the Mises Society at Grove City College and an apprentice for the Mises Institute. mises.org In recent years, my homeland, Hungary, a small country in central-eastern Europe, has

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Satirical Image of the Day

Satirical Image of the Day

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They Hitched Their Wagon to Springsteen

They Hitched Their Wagon to Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen, born into a working-class family, wrote lyrics that resonated powerfully with two types of people – those living hand to mouth feeding their families on struggle street and the politicians intent on getting their votes. A powerful social conscience is evident throughout Springsteen’s music career but his early

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