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Politicians Who Think They Can Buy Your Vote
NZ

Politicians Who Think They Can Buy Your Vote

A curious myth sprang up ‘back in the day’, whereby politicians thought they could buy votes and emerge as a permanent government. They believed the man in the street was that stupid; believed people were so feckless and devoid of aspiration and self-reliance that a handout in return for a

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Five Years…
NZ

Five Years…

Five years ago on the 28th of October 2018 I awoke at 0600 unable to use my right arm, half of my face slumped and with a very wonky walk. After my brush with Bell’s Palsy two years prior (the symptoms are similar), I knew the tests that checked

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Questioning the New Zealand Govt COVID-19 Response

Questioning the New Zealand Govt COVID-19 Response

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Post-election the leader of NZ political party (and likely new government coalition partner) ACT, David Seymour, has said he would like to expand the Terms of Reference of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the COVID-19 response and also ask the

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Replay Radio: The Crunch

Replay Radio: The Crunch

Here are the replays of The Crunch. This week’s guests were Liam Hehir and Gary Moller. Nutritionist and endurance athlete, Gary Moller, talks with Cam about health, nutrition, faith, missed opportunities, and his hope for the future. Liam Hehir has always been a staunch National Party supporter. He now

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Join Us in Standing With Israel at This Critical Time
NZ

Join Us in Standing With Israel at This Critical Time

Join us in standing with Israel at this critical time. An Israel support rally will be held at Aotea Square, Auckland, 3:30 pm, on Sunday 29 October 2023. Juliet Moses has written a powerful piece for The Post, setting the 7 October pogrom in its essential historical context. Dozens

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How Can People Think This Way?

How Can People Think This Way?

Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.

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We Raised Our Voices but They Just Won’t Listen

We Raised Our Voices but They Just Won’t Listen

Labor may have wanted a Voice, but it doesn’t want to listen. Having been resoundingly rejected at the referendum, the Albanese government is carrying on as if the whole thing had never happened. As leftists will, they’re refusing to be told, “No!”, and going right on ahead and

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Enough of This Hateful Prattle From the UN and Its Idiots
NZ

Enough of This Hateful Prattle From the UN and Its Idiots

Is it time for the UN to go the way of the League of Nations? That body was disbanded in ignominy after it utterly failed to prevent the Axis nations from plunging the world into another World War. The UN may have helped steer the world through the Cold War,

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Urgent: An Israeli Strategy for a Post-Hamas Gaza

Urgent: An Israeli Strategy for a Post-Hamas Gaza

Prof. Jonathan Rynhold Prof Jonathan Rynhold is head of the Political Studies Department at Bar-Ilan University and a senior researcher at the BESA Center. Dr. Toby Greene Dr. Toby Greene is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University and a researcher at the BESA Center.

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So What About the ‘Gap’?

So What About the ‘Gap’?

Nothing was more guaranteed to drive the Aboriginal Industry and the left into a foaming, spittle-flecked rage than an Aboriginal Australian asserting that, in fact, they owed a debt of thanks to colonisation. When Jacinta Nampinjinpa Price acknowledged that colonisation had brought a balance of tremendous benefits to Aboriginal Australians,

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Getting the Country Back on Track
NZ

Getting the Country Back on Track

‘Getting the country back on track’ was the National Party’s election slogan: a good one, bearing in mind the perilous economic situation we find ourselves in. Achieving it means some slash and burn is required. This will include promises made prior to the election. The Public Service will be

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People Are Dying the Senate Doesn’t Care

People Are Dying the Senate Doesn’t Care

Transcriber B Transcribing missed information for the historical record since 2021. Hat tip: phillipaltman.substack.com transcriberb.substack.com TRANSCRIPT TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: Senator Ralph Babet (United Australia Party) represents Victoria in the Australian Senate. ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE: Senator Babet. SENATOR RALPH BABET: Thank you, Acting Deputy

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If You Support Palestinian Terrorism Guess What?

If You Support Palestinian Terrorism Guess What?

The social media platform X is awash with daily posts claiming Israel is targeting Palestinian civilians in its war on Hamas, despite daily assurances from the IDF that Israel is doing its best to avoid killing and injuring civilians whilst fulfilling its promise to Israeli citizens to annihilate Hamas to

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This Is Not What We Were Promised

This Is Not What We Were Promised

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com A Court of Appeal decision was released last week that will have a profound influence on the future of New Zealand. Poor drafting and a radical application of ‘tikanga’ by the judiciary has delivered the exact opposite outcome from what the public was promised. The

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Auckland Council Says No to Maori Seats
NZ

Auckland Council Says No to Maori Seats

Some sanity seems to have returned to politics in New Zealand after the rejection of the woke and divisive policies of the past six years. Auckland Council (eleven of the councillors, at least), seem to have read the room. Auckland Council has voted to reject Maori seats for the 2025

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Join Us in Standing With Israel at This Critical Time
NZ

Join Us in Standing With Israel at This Critical Time

Join us in standing with Israel at this critical time. An Israel support rally will be held at Aotea Square, Auckland, 3:30 pm, on Sunday 29 October 2023. Juliet Moses has written a powerful piece for The Post, setting the 7 October pogrom in its essential historical context. Dozens

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