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Honest News Team As the days tick down to voting day, it’s disheartening to witness the two leading parties, the supposed architects of our political future, already causing ripples of instability in our system. But in the grand scheme of things, this might be the least of our concerns.
The pre-election opening of the books read a bit like a Mills and Boon romantic fiction novel, and, in terms of not being able to confidently make predictions, they are to a degree, fiction. However, what predictions there might be were certainly not romantic. There is no doubt that
Peter Allan Williams peterallanwilliams.substack.com Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week The separatist health system has come to the fore again. A new cervical cancer screening programme has started whereby women
JH National has announced a plan for when they get the power of the purse: pay doctors up to $52m to persuade Kiwis to get vaccinated. The Immunisation Incentive Payments scheme would see GP clinics paid a lump sum for achieving immunisation targets, including full immunisation for two-year-olds,
Richard Shaw Professor of Politics Massey University Christopher Luxon is no slouch on the dance floor, it seems. As his wife Amanda told the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly, the two prepared for their university ball with a ballroom dancing class. The teacher said he had rhythm and I couldn’
Labour has copped an absolute shellacking in the polls over the past ten days. Newshub/Reid Research was the fifth bad poll for them, and now the Guardian has released a new poll, making it six bad polls for Labour. Neither a Labour nor a National coalition could form a
In May of 2002, US mob boss Joseph Bonanno died at the ripe old age of 97, having spent around seven decades avoiding death within the underworld. One of the things about Bonanno which has always intrigued me is how treacherous he was. His first major example of this was
Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins says he takes responsibility for his party’s poor result in the latest poll. The Reid Research Newshub poll puts Labour support at 26.8 per cent, its worst result in six years, with National on 40.9. This poll shows Labour’s support plummeting
Groucho Marx famously didn’t want to belong to any club that would have him as a member. For Australia’s political elites, it’s more a case of desperately wanting the perks of a club they publicly profess to loathe. Forget the Melbourne Club, the Atheneum, or the Tattersall’
Possibly my first encounter with genuine, hard-as-nails racism came on a trip to the Northern Territory in my teens. A publican in Alice Springs said to me, “I don’t ban anyone on the colour of their skin, I just have a dress code — and I’ve never
brownstone.org Censorship is not just an attack on the free speech rights of the speaker; it is a coordinated effort against you, the citizen, and your right to information. It aims to perpetuate power by silencing dissent and destroying opposition. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirmed this principle
Peter Imanuelsen Also known as PeterSweden | Swedish journalist | Political commentator | Supporter of freedom, kindness and liberty petersweden.substack.com The country of South Korea has announced that they will be compensating the families of ALL people who die within 90 days of covid vaccination, regardless if the vaccination itself has
Can Jacinta Nampijinpa Price please stop giving us reasons to like her? The first-term senator first made a name for herself vocally advocating for conservative Aboriginal politics in the Northern Territory, drawing attention to appalling rates of domestic violence in Aboriginal communities, including the role of traditional culture and
Susan St John University of Auckland Casual observers could be forgiven for thinking the National Party’s recently released Working for Families tax policy had been cut and pasted from the Labour Party’s own policy. The similarities are certainly striking. Both parties pledge to increase the “in-work tax
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