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School Lunches: The $324 Million Question

Alwyn Poole Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11 – 13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1 – 13. alwynpoole.substack.

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They Control Councils, Cops and the Country!
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They Control Councils, Cops and the Country!

Brian Tamaki Kiwis have had enough…it’s gone too far! Gisborne is a prime example, just look at Tuesday! Police, gays and Council were waiting at the rainbow crossing after the media tipped them off to Destiny Church turning up. They were standing together, shoulder to shoulder, against those

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From the Desk of a Male Pale and Stale

The University of Auckland in New Zealand was founded in 1883 as Auckland University College, initially serving as a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. Its humble beginnings were in a disused courthouse and jail, where it started with 95 students and 4 teaching staff. Regretfully amongst these

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Spotlight on the Courts
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Spotlight on the Courts

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com “Houston, we have a problem!” New Zealand’s Supreme Court – the highest court in our land – has been captured by activist judges. What is heartening, is the emergence of a wide range of eminent legal voices all openly criticising the Court and calling for this

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Like They Care What the Media Thinks

Like They Care What the Media Thinks

Newshub is stoking the fires against David Seymour and Winston Peters, expressing outrage about what both have said about the appalling segregation occurring at Auckland University. Their headline screams they are facing criticism: But are they? And who is the criticism from? The Deputy Prime Minister and ACT Party are

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An Open Letter to Government

Geoff Parker Open Letter To: The Rt Hon Christopher Luxon, Prime Minister –  Christopher.Luxon@parliament.govt.nz The Rt Hon Winston Peters, Deputy Prime Minister –  Winston.Peters@parliament.govt.nz The Hon David Seymour, Leader of the Act Party – David.Seymour@parliament.govt.nz The Hon Shane Jones, Deputy Leader

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This Can’t Go On Much Longer

This Can’t Go On Much Longer

When is this madness going to end? The derangement of record-high mass immigration is so out of hand that even the bien pensant lefty readers of The Age can see it. Even if the scribblers at Pravda-on-the-Yarra can’t quite bring themselves to. But how much longer can anyone keep

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Boofhead Gets a Dose of Reality Salts

Boofhead Gets a Dose of Reality Salts

Sooner or later, even the most demented, smooth-brained Climate Cultist has a discomforting collision with reality. Across the world, governments and corporations have been quietly backing away from their “climate commitments”, as they realise, firstly, how ruinously expensive they are, and, secondly, how utterly useless. Car rental giant Hertz is

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A Win for the Doctor-Patient Relationship

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science NZDSOS.com Once again, a corrupt public body meant to serve the people, rather than industry and its own pockets, has had to back down. While it has not admitted fault, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reached a settlement with

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Time for Chloe to Refrain From the Mary Jane Campaign

Time for Chloe to Refrain From the Mary Jane Campaign

Alwyn Poole alwynpoole.substack.com Founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11 – 13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1 – 13. As

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Florida Teens Forced to Actually Talk to Each Other

Florida Teens Forced to Actually Talk to Each Other

As I wrote some time ago, Ron DeSantis for a while looked like the new Ronald Reagan. In a sense, that’s still true: DeSantis is the closest to a centre-right conservative who might reunite a bitterly divided America. But that’s not what America needs in 2024: things have

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Banks and Climate Change

Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com As everybody who is not blind and deaf is aware, there is a huge political preoccupation with climate change at the moment, a widespread (though by no means unanimous) belief that global temperatures are rising mainly as a result of the greenhouse gases created by humankind,

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The Government Has the Left in Shock

Those who vote for a government have every right to expect it to carry out what it campaigned on, certainly its main policy planks. In the past there has been no end of criticism of governments who have failed to do so or, worse, have done something entirely different. This

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What Was Suspected, Is Now Exposed

What Was Suspected, Is Now Exposed

Simon O’Connor onpointnz.substack.com 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. Some may find it extraordinary to think that New Zealand’s largest trading partner thought it perfectly

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Is Hipkins to Be Trusted on Tax Reform?
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Is Hipkins to Be Trusted on Tax Reform?

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.substack.com I am Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington, where I run the Democracy Project, and am a full-time researcher in the School of Government Former Finance Minister Grant Robertson and former Prime Minister Chris Hipkins have been conveying how unhappy they are

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