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When People Got Statues for a Good Reason

When People Got Statues for a Good Reason

People who’ve achieved little of note are often resentful of those who have. The same goes for cultures. It’s often embarrassingly obvious when one visits contemporary museums and galleries, where “indigenous” exhibits are given pride of place. The National Gallery of Victoria, for instance, has a world-class

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Nursing Council’s Commitment to the ‘Pride Pledge’

Deborah Cunliffe Nurses for Freedom NZ Dear Nursing Council Re: Nursing Councils Commitment to the ‘Pride Pledge’ Nurses for Freedom NZ agrees with the Nursing Council’s recent media release relating to the support of the ‘Pride Pledge’ which recognises the need to provide an inclusive, safe, and welcoming workplace,

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I Need a Cup of Tea and a Lie Down: Luxon Made a Good Point

I Need a Cup of Tea and a Lie Down: Luxon Made a Good Point

Not being an avid watcher of MSM news (to avoid verbally assaulting my TV), I accidentally stumbled on the following online interview. This is a pity because New Zealanders are motivated to curtail youth crime and the dialogue is hard to find being buried under an inappropriate title. The interview

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Who Will Drain Wellington’s Swamp?
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Who Will Drain Wellington’s Swamp?

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Wealthy vested interests have an oversized influence on political decisions in New Zealand. Partly that’s due to their use of corporate lobbyists. Fortunately, the

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Our Unstable, ‘Funny Money’ System

Peter J Morgan Peter J Morgan  BE (Mech.), Dip. Teaching – professional forensic engineer, retired economics, mathematics and physics teacher PART 2 of 18 In PART 1 readers learnt that there is a widespread – but false – belief that banks are financial intermediaries that take in money from savers, aggregate it, and

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If Labour Wins the Divisive Policies Will All Be Back
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If Labour Wins the Divisive Policies Will All Be Back

Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com The media became very excited when new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins announced some policy changes a few weeks back. Weak reporters like Claire Trevett were ecstatic. Even lesser lights talked of “bonfires” of unpopular policies and hailed the emergence of a new Ministry. In truth, all

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This Is the Issue That Costs Elections

This Is the Issue That Costs Elections

Yesterday morning the National Party announced that they were proposing to re-write the education syllabus if they win the election. I’ve provided you with a link because it is now hard to find, such is the interest in the policy. Bold or stupid? I pick stupid because education

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Things That Make Me Go Hmm

Interesting messaging – Trans acceptance, reproductive rights and all women’s rights. That covers all bases. So they are going to protest against someone who advocates for women’s rights and the rights of unborn women? *Note: The claim that she is opposed to the existence of Trans people is a

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Goodbye Girl Guides Hello ‘They’

Goodbye Girl Guides Hello ‘They’

Ann Farmer mercatornet.com Ann Farmer, mother of three, grandmother of five and permanently disabled, is based in Woodford Green, Essex. She is a poet, illustrator, writer and pro-life feminist devoted to defending the natural family and the weakest in society from abortion and euthanasia. She has published a

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What Is Keating on About?

What Is Keating on About?

As recently reported for The BFD, former Australian PM Paul Keating was back in the news last week. The very person who coined the phrase “Relevance Deprivation Syndrome” was doing his best to desperately try and claw back some relevance and at the same time earn his spot on the

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Oxfam Bans Mother and Father

Oxfam Bans Mother and Father

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg newsbusters.org Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff

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Wealthy Countries Take Advantage of Developing Countries

Ronald Stein cfact.org Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book “Clean Energy Exploitations.” The reality is that all the mineral products and metals needed to make wind turbines, solar panels, and EV batteries are

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Will NZ Join the Campaign against Women?

Will NZ Join the Campaign against Women?

If there’s one thing that women’s rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen’s current speaking tour is proving beyond doubt, it’s that policing in Australia and New Zealand has become so deeply politically compromised that both are rapidly becoming police states. Hyperbole? Consider what a “police state” is:

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