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More Funding to Hawke’s Bay and Tairawhiti
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More Funding to Hawke’s Bay and Tairawhiti

Hon Mark Mitchell Minister for Emergency Management and Recovery Urgent work to clean-up cyclone-affected regions will continue, thanks to a $63 million boost from the Government for sediment and debris removal in Hawke’s Bay and Tairawhiti. The funding will help local councils continue urgent work removing and disposing of

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Do We Really Want to Go There?

Do We Really Want to Go There?

William L Anderson William L Anderson is Senior Editor at the Mises Institute and retired professor of economics at Frostburg State University. mises.org A Michigan jury this past week convicted Jennifer Crumbley of “involuntary manslaughter” after her then-15-year-old son Ethan shot and killed four of his classmates at Oxford

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ACT Surges in Latest Poll
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ACT Surges in Latest Poll

The latest Taxpayers’ Union Curia Poll was released over the weekend and shows ACT surging. National also gained some, while Labour, Greens and NZ First saw slumps in support. Contrary to the claims of the woke media, it seems that ACT’s Treaty Principles Bill is gaining support. PartySupportChange compared

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Assange, Elon and the News Not Fit to Print

Assange, Elon and the News Not Fit to Print

brownstone.org With the death of the daily paper, few notice that the New York Times still maintains its censorious stamp of “All the News That’s Fit to Print” at the top left corner of the front page. One can’t help but notice the stories deemed unworthy of

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Heavy EVs Tearing up California Roads

Heavy EVs Tearing up California Roads

Ronald Stein Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations. cfact.org Can it be true that California, in pursuit of reduced emissions from internal combustion engine vehicles, has mandated that heavier EV cars

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Science Denial: Lia Thomas’ Biological Edge ‘Is Not the Problem’

Sarah Parshall Perry Sarah Parshall Perry is a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation . http://www.heritage.org/ PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com Susan Shaw, a women’s and gender studies professor at Oregon State, penned a

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The New 1984: the Rise of the Security Industrial Complex

The New 1984: the Rise of the Security Industrial Complex

John & Nisha Whitehead Constitutional attorney and author John W Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His most recent books are the best-selling Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the award-winning A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, and a debut dystopian fiction

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The US Can Thwart the CBDC Onslaught

Peter C Earle Peter C Earle, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow who joined AIER in 2018. He holds a PhD in Economics from l’Universite d’Angers, an MA in Applied Economics from American University, an MBA (Finance), and a BS in Engineering from the United States Military Academy

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It Makes Sense If You Know the History

Augusto Zimmermann Augusto Zimmermann is Professor and Head of Law at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education. He is also a former Associate Law Dean (Research) at Murdoch University, a former Commissioner with the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia. Professor Zimmermann is the author of several books on Brazilian Constitutional

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The Six Documents that Made NZ
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The Six Documents that Made NZ

One New Zealand Foundation Inc Colonization did not destroy the tangata Maori’s way of life, it was Hongi Hika, Ngapuhi, who destroyed it when he returned from England in 1820 with over 500 muskets and went on the rampage south with 2000 followers, killing thousands of their unarmed countrymen,

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The Farmers Are Winning

The Farmers Are Winning

Joanne Nova A prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. She has given keynotes about the medical revolution, gene technology and aging at conferences. She hosted a children’s TV series on Channel Nine, and has done over 200 radio interviews, many on the Australian ABC. She was formerly an associate

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The Left’s Long March Through the Institutions

The Left’s Long March Through the Institutions

Simone Seymour Glossary * revolutionary agitators – all those (by whatever name) who would destroy what is called Western civilisation as it is known today. (Radicals, activists, extremists and seditionists might be other names for them.) * sedition – the act (often sneaky) of influencing or persuading people to disrupt or act against the

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

The Act party and its leader David Seymour appear to have reaped the dividends of a heated Waitangi Day period, rocketing up to 13.7 per cent in the latest Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll. […] On the poll results, NZ First would no longer be needed to form a government – Act and

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Can’t Be Right All the Time

Can’t Be Right All the Time

Two recent posts I’ve made for The BFD just go to show that you should never underestimate how far the Establishment will go to protect the venal and the predatory. First, I wrote about the upcoming Justice Department report into Joe Biden keeping classified documents after his term as

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SA Likely to Endorse Trans Inquiry

I have to say, I did not expect South Australia to be the first state to likely implement a parliamentary inquiry into the “transgender” madness. SA was, until Victoria stole its crown just like it stole the Grand Prix, the proud bearer of the “Australia’s Wokest State” mantle. But,

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Supreme Court Decision Astounding
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Supreme Court Decision Astounding

Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com Three years ago a friend of mine whose a District Court Judge asked me if I would be guest speaker

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