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Mike Munro, writing in the Weekend Herald, as usual, did not fail to disappoint. To most people this government has been the worst in living memory, but not to Mike Munro. On Munro’s bucket list of people to criticise is one, not unsurprisingly, Christopher Luxon. Mike is convinced that
Rod K So that’s it is it? Round one of a very boring fight? I really expected the ref to come out with a nice cup of tea and a packet of round wines, then a lie-down. Actually, it was very much like a lie-down. On the
Suze Wilson Massey University theconversation.com The live TV leaders debate between Labour’s Chris Hipkins and National’s Christopher Luxon made clear the policy and leadership style differences between the two contenders to become New Zealand’s next prime minister. But as TVNZ’s post-debate analysts tended to
Graham Adams Graham Adams is a freelance editor, journalist and columnist. He lives on Auckland’s North Shore. This piece was first published at The Platform bassettbrashandhide.com Ministers are pretending the former PM has simply vanished. Late last week, Tova O’Brien asked Grant Robertson on her Stuff podcast
The media luvvies are starting to act all unhinged now that they’ve realised that Winston Peters is back. They are hollering for Christopher Luxon to say whether or not he will work with Winston Peters. So far the calls are falling on deaf ears as the media try to
Honourable Richard Prebble The Honourable Richard Prebble CBE is a former member of the New Zealand Parliament. Initially a member of the Labour Party, he joined the newly formed ACT New Zealand party under Roger Douglas in 1996, becoming its leader from 1996 to 2004. bassettbrashandhide.com There was a
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The incoming government will have such a huge majority as not to need New Zealand First. I believe New Zealand First will easily crack the 5% mark as Winston, being half Maori, alone feels safe addressing the big issue upsetting New Zealanders, namely outrageous co-government
More and more, it seems almost undeniable that schools are deliberately grooming generations of children who are righteously ignorant. Who cares if they can’t spell or do basic maths, so long as they can be relied on to “strike for climate”? Who cares if they don’t know that
Even if Australian PM Anthony Albanese survives the “Indigenous Voice” referendum, there’s an avalanche of political pain bearing down on him, courtesy of his government’s “Net Zero” obsession. Pollsters have noted that, as the Voice vote sinks lower and lower by the week, Australians are growing increasingly frustrated
If you think this year’s election involves lots of fun and games the video below shows the campaign trail nearly fifty years ago at the 1975 election. There are a few things which you may find rather interesting to view: 1. How awkward Sir Robert Muldoon was in “social”
Rt Hon Winston Peters The Pre-Election Fiscal Update Changes Everything Within an hour of this speech, there is going to be a debate between the political parties that the media, under MMP, still think are the only parties that matter in this campaign. Both of those parties are riddled
Führer Klouse (the K is silent) Swab; he of the WEF (Wicked Eugenicist Fascists), a group which pines to control the world as the self-appointed holy ones, sat regally in his office, apparently deep in thought. These people are such fine examples of righteousness, leadership and trustworthiness that there
Australia is renowned as the Land of Big Things. The Big Pineapple, the Big Banana, the Big Lobster. Here in Tasmania, we have the slightly less salubrious Big Potato, at Spreyton. It’s not Australia’s only Big Potato, of course — but even the one at Spreyton isn’t as
nzcovidresponse.substack.com There’s now been a few releases of what government’s around the world signed up to with Covid vaccine manufacturers. In mid-August the Health Justice Initiative won their case in South Africa and secured the release of all Covid vaccine contracts (in stages). So far
David Seymour has another Ministry to blow up, or to put it more kindly, dispense with. Oh, wait, no he hasn’t, it’s the same one he targeted last time. The Ministry of Pacific Islands Peoples. I have to admit it’s not needed, along with a number of
