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The Media Are Trying to Prove Us… Right!

bobmccoskrie.com Last week we did a McBLOG on the mainstream media’s obsession with the coalition agreement between National and NZ First which scraps and replaces the controversial and radical RSE curriculum. If you think that what we’re saying is all conspiracy theory, think again. The media are

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Should Maori Have Sovereignty Over New Zealand?
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Should Maori Have Sovereignty Over New Zealand?

John Porter Bay FM Hello, it’s John Porter on Bay FM and today I’m asking: Do you agree that Maori should have sovereignty over New Zealand? Because that is the publicly proclaimed agenda and goal of Maori activists, leaders and their separatist supporters. Find that unbelievable? Well, look

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We Must Get Our Children Back to School

Richard Prebble The Honourable Richard Prebble CBE is a former member of the New Zealand Parliament. Initially a member of the Labour Party, he joined the newly formed ACT New Zealand party under Roger Douglas in 1996, becoming its leader from 1996 to 2004. bassettbrashandhide.com It will not matter

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A Letter to Alumni About Grant Robertson

February 21st, 2024 Given the comments regarding the appointment of Grant Robertson as Vice Chancellor of the University of Otago, I have published below a communication sent to Otago Alumni. Tena koutou, I am pleased to let you know that today we announced the appointment of Former Deputy Prime Minister,

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Let That Be a Lesson to You
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Let That Be a Lesson to You

The person who leaked the tobacco tax information has been sacked from the Ministry of Health. This should be a salient lesson to anyone contemplating leaking: there is a new Government and they take this stuff seriously; if you leak, you’ll be sacked. The Ministry of Health says a

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Caution Over NZ’s Disturbingly Low Fertility Rates
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Caution Over NZ’s Disturbingly Low Fertility Rates

Family First NZ warns that the declining fertility rate should be of significant concern to our Government. According to statistics just released, the total fertility rate for 2023 was 1.56 births per woman, down from 1.66 in 2022 – the lowest on record. New Zealand’s fertility rate continues

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Airbus Albo to Do Nothing About Boats

Airbus Albo to Do Nothing About Boats

As I wrote yesterday, the Albanese government is a parliament of headless chickens. His entire term to date has not just been about lighting fires of his own (the Brittany Higgins affair, the Voice referendum), but running around, clucking and squawking, as spot fires erupt all around him. The latest

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Can NZ Be on Good Terms With Both the US and China?
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Can NZ Be on Good Terms With Both the US and China?

Don Brash Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 bassettbrashandhide.com A week or so ago, Helen Clark and I argued that New Zealand would be nuts to abandon the independent foreign policy which has been a characteristic of

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Hamas Must Surrender or Be Eliminated

Hamas Must Surrender or Be Eliminated

Stephen J. Harper aish.com A two-state solution will not emerge while so many Palestinians still reject the existence of a Jewish state. During the night of Oct. 7, my wife Laureen woke me to show horrifying images from Israel appearing on her cellphone. Like millions in Israel and around

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Thank Goodness Hate Speech Laws Are off the Agenda
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Thank Goodness Hate Speech Laws Are off the Agenda

bobmccoskrie.com In a recent interview on TVNZ”s Q&A, a promoter of hate speech laws – Green MP Chloe Swarbrick – proved to us just how flawed & dangerous hate speech laws would be. This is because ‘hate speech’ is generally defined by the promoters of such a law,

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A Nationalist Politician Who Wants What Is Best for Kiwis
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A Nationalist Politician Who Wants What Is Best for Kiwis

The right honourable Winston Peters has declared numerous times, including this month’s interview with Leighton Smith that he is a nationalist. The leader of the New Zealand First (NZF) party, now deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, for the third time in his career, reiterates he is a Kiwi

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How Thick Is Ginny Andersen?
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How Thick Is Ginny Andersen?

Ginny Andersen always struck me as being stupid and thick. Yesterday morning she proved she is also thoroughly nasty. Have a listen to this audio from Mike Hosking’s show: Labour’s police spokeswoman, Ginny Andersen, claims Police Minister Mark Mitchell was “paid to kill people” and has asked him

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Yes to More Breast Cancer Screening, but What About the Blokes?

The Prostate Cancer Foundation congratulates the coalition Government on delivering its promised extension of free breast screening, the most common cancer among New Zealand women. The extension will save lives. But Kiwi men are wondering why it’s taking so long to see a focus on reducing the number of

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Albo Steps on Another Rake

Albo Steps on Another Rake

When he hasn’t been flitting around the world on taxpayer-funded holidays, Anthony Albanese seems to have spent his entire time in office stepping on one rake after another, and trying to convince everyone that “I meant to do that!”. Sometimes, as was the case with the disastrous “Voice” referendum,

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Five Reasons Why

Five Reasons Why

Thomas Gift Associate Professor and Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL Donald Trump’s inexorable march to the 2024 Republican presidential nomination has sparked plenty of second-guessing. What could his opponents, including former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley and Florida governor Ron DeSantis, have done differently to topple

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