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New Zealand First Media The last thing the Queen would expect is for us to have another day off when our economy and businesses are in such a fragile state. The cost of yet another holiday would be over $400 million to the economy. New Zealand had one of the
David Seymour ACT Party Leader In a cost of living crisis, the ACT Party cannot support yet another public holiday. It would amount to the Government making small business pay for pageantry. New Zealanders are feeling the loss of the Queen, she was a true leader who selflessly served the
Information Opinion On Wednesday I attended a morning tea hosted by Paul Goldsmith at which the National Party’s deputy leader was the guest speaker. VERY IMPRESSIVE. Nicola, as many will be aware, is National’s finance spokesperson, so her presentation mainly concerned financial and economic matters, but other matters
September 11th, 2022. It’s now the third day following the death of Queen Elizabeth II and things are settling down. Charles has officially become Charles III following his proclamation after the accession council meeting of the Privy Council. Away from the stifling atmosphere of the television and print media
An important story dropped on Friday, just as Kiwis were waking up to the sad news that Queen Elizabeth II had passed away. The author of the story must have been gutted, but this story is important and must be addressed, rather than swept under the rather lumpy carpet that
Duggan Flanakin cfact.org Duggan Flanakin is the director of policy research at the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former senior fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas.
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura Next week, Cabinet will review the Covid traffic light setting, and, if they are sensible, they will drop the vaccine and mask mandates and return New Zealand to normal. As I travel around the country, I notice more and more people are not wearing masks,
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You can always rely on the Greens to be the worst people in the room — and they haven’t disappointed, as the world wakes to the news that Queen Elizabeth II has passed away. Australia’s living past prime ministers and current leaders, even adamant Republican Anthony Albanese, were united
In the late 19th century, Melbourne was dubbed “Marvellous Melbourne” due to its extraordinary, gold-rush-driven expansion from a frontier village to a sprawling Victorian metropolis in just a few decades. But that expansion came at a cost: Melbourne was also “the City of Dreadful Stinks”. It wasn’t
Forget QAnon, Stolen Elections or even the Flat Earth: the most dangerously lunatic conspiracy theory in America right now is Black Lives Matter. Of course, nobody would deny that black peoples’ lives matter as much as (but no more than) anyone else’s — but that’s not what BLM is
Stephen Berry Author: Absolutely Biased Guide to Auckland Local Elections 2022. Former Auckland Mayoral candidate Stephen Berry is proud to announce he has completed writing An Absolutely Biased Guide to the Auckland Local Elections. “Fifteen articles covering the Portage and Waitakere Licensing Trusts, every Ward and Local Board contest as
With the 2023 elections starting to gear up, you may have noticed a shift in the political sphere. We appear to be increasingly moving away from the left/right culture wars toward an uprising against the political establishment. This has provided the freedom movement with choices of different political parties.
Laura Clancy Lancaster University Laura Clancy is a Lecturer in Media at Lancaster University, UK. Her research explores the cultural politics of the British monarchy, considering the role of the monarchy in producing consent for global inequalities and class power. When Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne in 1952,
Remember the Northland lockdown? Two women do after they were hounded and abused as a result of what we now know were calculated and desperate lies and slander by Chris Hipkins. Lies and slander that weren’t even remotely true, which means that the Minister was responsible, not for misinformation,
