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Now Everyone Wants in on It

Now Everyone Wants in on It

Here we go: everybody’s seen the “Voice” pot, and now they’re all lining up to pee in it. If one minority lobby group gets their own “voice to parliament”, well, the rest are going to screech for theirs, too. Why stop with Aborigines, after all? Sydney’s LGBT

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National Wants to Change How NZ Schools Teach Reading

Christine Braid Massey University theconversation.com If it wins the election, the National Party has vowed to shake up how children are taught to read and write. Part of this education overhaul includes a pledge to require the teaching of “structured literacy” in all year 0-6 classrooms. For many

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Addicted to Tax and Spend
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Addicted to Tax and Spend

Labour and the Greens, in fact, the political left globally, are addicted to two things: tax and spend. The more they tax, the more they spend. So we end up as a country like a dog chasing its tail because the tax take, no matter how much, is never enough

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ACT Wins First Leaders Debate

ACT Wins First Leaders Debate

David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Chrises squabbled about who gets how much of the pie, without articulating a vision for growing it. The Chrises went back and forth over issues which are very real to hardworking New Zealanders, without spelling out what real change would look like. That is

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The New Zealand Health Debate

The New Zealand Health Debate

Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior

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My Thoughts about Wasted Votes

Istvan The “wasted vote” is a concept that keeps popping up as we approach election day. I have had my own struggles with it and have come up with three conclusive thoughts: One. In my mind – even if I bring it down to the purely strategic (tactical?) level – it presents

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Labour’s Prison U-Turn Comes Six Years Too Late

Labour’s Prison U-Turn Comes Six Years Too Late

The Prime Minister’s admission yesterday that Labour will finally ditch its disastrous target to reduce the prison population by 30 per cent is too late for Kiwis who feel unsafe in their homes, businesses and communities, National Corrections spokesperson Mark Mitchell says. “For the last six years, Labour have

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Labour’s Put NZ in the Red

Labour’s Put NZ in the Red

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Back in 2017, when New Zealand’s economy was being described as a “rock star”, the opposition Labour Party railed against the role being played by immigration. Figures at the time showed that under National, annual net migration had grown from just 5,000 in

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They Can Hardly Stand on Their Record

They Can Hardly Stand on Their Record

Desperation is a stinky cologne, but now it’s all that Labour has got. They certainly can’t stand on their record, as they’ve achieved precious little other than a sea of red ink on the country’s balance sheet. All they’ve got is relentless negativity; the Nasty

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Boofhead Kicks a Nuclear Own Goal

Boofhead Kicks a Nuclear Own Goal

I’m not saying Australia’s Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen, is dumb, but if you want to keep him occupied, show him two shovels and tell him to take his pick. This is, after all, the guy who repeatedly asserts that wind and solar are the

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Study Finds Big Blackouts from Biden’s Power Plant Rules

Study Finds Big Blackouts from Biden’s Power Plant Rules

Isaac Orr Mitch Rolling Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling are policy fellows specializing in energy and environmental policy at Center of the American Experiment. cfact.org cfact.org In early August, four of the largest electric grid operators in America warned that President Biden’s proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

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Just the Once…

One of the reasonings behind MMP was the widening of democracy; it went something like ‘a new party or parties will emerge because so many people are sick of the Tweedledum and Tweedledee status quo, they will take hold, and a new political era will dawn’. It was all going

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