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Gordon Lightfoot whakatakitimes.nz BACK ON THE TOOLS After a heavy election defeat on Saturday night, outgoing Prime Minister Chris “Chippy” Hipkins has dragged himself out of bed and is now looking on the bright side. With the gruelling days of being prime minister behind him, Chippy has now turned
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Is it just a coincidence that the Hamas flag is green? Was it a coincidence that the Nazis were the first environmental party? Forget the brown shirts and black boots, the West’s most hateful anti-Semites today are far too likely to be wearing Green. Either the poisonous green
As I wrote for Insight yesterday, the weekend’s referendum result might not be immediately fatal to Anthony Albanese’s leadership and indeed government, but it’s a wound that will continue to bleed out over the coming months. Albanese is the lamest of ducks. Elected on just 32% of
Elai Rettig BESA Center Perspectives Dr. Elai Rettig is a lecturer and assistant professor in the Department of Political Studies and a senior research fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University. besacenter.org As part of the ongoing “Swords of Iron” operation in Gaza,
bobmccoskrie.com With special votes yet to be counted, we can confidently say that we have a new Government. As we await the final count and watch the make-up of the National-led Government under Christopher Luxon’s leadership and the new ministerial portfolios, not a lot will change
John Denton Oh, the irony. Post-election, Winston Peters, in his usual “I’ll do the talking sunshine” mode, railed against being “marginalised and shut out” by the “corrupt media”, despite it being they who were totally responsible for his comeback this time around. We know our mainstream media are
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One of the curious things about the last couple of days is the high I am on. Unlike previous elections, this is the first New Zealand one (I also felt the same after voting for Donald Trump in 2016) I am ‘feeling’. It is the first one where I am
Of all the silly, preposterous nonsense in the Godfather movie – which is nothing more than a slur on people (ahem) of Sicilian descent – no scene is more silly and preposterous than when Kay asks Michael if he really is a mob boss and has just had Carlo, his brother in
Memo to Jenna Lynch, Amelia Wade, Jessica Mutch McKay, Tova O’Brien, Maiki Sherman, Simon Wilson, Luke Malpass et al: If the election result told us one thing it is that you are irrelevant. The vast majority of the country took no notice of what you had to say. Your
Bryce Edwards Dr Bryce Edwards is the Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. The Labour Party has crashed from 50 per cent of the vote in 2020 to around 27 per cent in 2023. The election loss has been
It is traditionally thought that New Zealand has a three-year term for governments. While strictly true, in reality, it isn’t. Matt McCarten was the guy who explained to me that our real term of parliament is actually six years, split into two three-year halves. If your government
Andrew Little – who first entered Parliament in 2011 – has confirmed he will not take a list seat and will retire from politics. Read more here. Discuss it on The BFD. If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more
The only thing really surprising about Australian voters’ rejection of the “Indigenous Voice to Parliament” referendum was its scale and brutal swiftness. Within less than an hour of polls closing, it was clear that the referendum had been emphatically rejected in every state. There was no need to even bother
Imagine if, when General Eisenhower released the horrifying footage of the liberation of Dachau and Auschwitz, left-wing “progressives” had marched in their thousands across the Allied nations, proclaiming their allegiance to the Reich? That’s what has happened this week. The mask is off for all to see: if
