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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

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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”

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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

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Demolishing Dams for the Fish Gods

Demolishing Dams for the Fish Gods

An expert, it is said, is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until finally they know everything about nothing. We’re constantly lectured to “listen to the experts”: the problem is, though, that the experts have spent the last five years especially proving to everyone who’

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Keep Your Noses Out of Our Fridges

Keep Your Noses Out of Our Fridges

If only we could hook up turbines to the wagging fingers of the nanny statists, we’d have abundant renewable energy, forever. There’s nothing these taxpayer-funded nosey-parkers don’t see fit to hector and finger-wag us about. Especially food. “Food,” as blogger Skepchick said, “is for

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Satirical Image of the Day

Satirical Image of the Day

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Satirical Image of the Day

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Can We Trust the COVID-19 Royal Commission?

Can We Trust the COVID-19 Royal Commission?

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com The Role of Tony Blakely During Covid As the country gets a say, finally, on the shape of the new coalition’s promised inquiry into the entirety of the covid response, it is clear that commissioners appointed by the previous government

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A Peek Inside Parliament in 2024

A Peek Inside Parliament in 2024

“Order!” bellowed the bewigged cetacean who occupied the Speaker’s chair, and among other names was often referred to as Mr Speaker. “The house will begin its business soon, but first there are, as is now the custom, certain ceremonies which must be performed before we can move on to

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Is Maori Mana a Myth?
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Is Maori Mana a Myth?

The Te Aka Maori Dictionary defines Mana and Myth as: MANA – prestige, control, power, influence, status, spiritual power, charisma – mana is a ‘supernatural force’ in a person, place or object. MYTH – the modifier (adjective) “mythical” in this example is defined as “Some mythical tales of the Pakeha should be told

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