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Paedophile Keeps Laughing at Us

Paedophile Keeps Laughing at Us

Some months back, I reported on the case of John Millwood, a Tasmanian (former) millionaire and convicted paedophile. “Former” millionaire because, on the very day his victim lodged a civil claim for damages, Millwood instructed his lawyers to begin divesting his estimated $8m fortune. So, now Millwood’s family and

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Mo the Molester Gets a Free Pass

Mo the Molester Gets a Free Pass

Is it any wonder that horrors like Rotherham and Telford were allowed to happen? As Nigel Farage rebuked a smirking opposition panel at the 2016 Munk Debate, a century of women’s emancipation in the West had ended up with “migrant” activists telling European women not to go out alone

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Truss Can Expect a Fairly Easy Victory

Truss Can Expect a Fairly Easy Victory

Information Opinion Liz Truss is now the Prime Minister of Great Britain after comfortably beating Sunak in the ballot of Tory party members. She quickly ejected from the Cabinet a lot of dead wood who stabbed Boris in the back, hoping to personally benefit from doing so, and has accordingly

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‘What Do You Mean by Cost?’

‘What Do You Mean by Cost?’

It often seems as if the Australian left is always six months behind their bonkers thought-leaders in America, but in at least one case, our loony left was way ahead of their time. Americans might have AOC, but long before that dynamo of dumbassity, Australia already had Sarah Hanson-

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Review of Ankle Bracelets Needed

Review of Ankle Bracelets Needed

Nicole McKee ACT Justice spokesperson ACT has today renewed our calls for a review of who is eligible for ankle bracelets after an 18-year-old received nine months home detention for the rapes of four teenagers. As part of our Real Change: Law and Order paper released last month,

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Motels Are Not Homes

Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. The Labour Government has now spent over $1.2bn on housing people in motels and emergency facilities. This

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Hey Nikki, Where’s the Safety Data?

Hey Nikki, Where’s the Safety Data?

Information Opinion According to NZ Ministry of Health expert Dr Nikki Turner there is “lots of international data showing that the vaccination works really well with pregnant women. It’s got a really good safety profile.” During the NZ Covid-19 vaccine rollout last year one of my daughters was

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Things That Make Me Go Hmm

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2% Of New Zealanders Are Really Maori
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2% Of New Zealanders Are Really Maori

Information Opinion Are Maori really that disadvantaged in New Zealand? Hello, it’s All things Political with John Porter on Bay FM. You don’t have to search very hard to find plenty of articles on the net that will quite plainly quote stats saying Maori are very disadvantaged. Here

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They Are Just Taking the Mickey Now

They Are Just Taking the Mickey Now

Darroch Ball Sensible Sentencing Trust. In response to the smoke and mirrors ‘Youth Crime Announcement’ from the government, the Act Party has said that these youths need to be on electronic monitoring. Firstly there is nothing new about what Labour have announced – it just ‘expands’ the same old stuff they

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‘Critical to a Free Society’

‘Critical to a Free Society’

Like him or loathe him, Winston Peters has hit precisely the right note when discussing the failure of the mainstream media with Sean Plunket on The Platform.  He rightly says, “I’m sorry to say that because in the end whether you like journalists or not, a free media, an

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Ardern Returning to Her Mecca: The UN
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Ardern Returning to Her Mecca: The UN

CP Information Opinion We have been advised that our prime minister Jacinda Ardern is to make one of her regular trips to her place of worship, the United Nations in New York, this month. The public will remember her inaugural trip in 2018 when she took along her three-month-

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Face of the Day
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Face of the Day

Former Speaker, and soon-to-be ambassador to Ireland, Trevor Mallard’s decision to issue Winston Peters with a trespass notice from Parliament cost taxpayers’ more than $23,000 in legal fees. […] Chris Bishop says this is Mallard’s “final insult to taxpayers'”. “He’s cost the taxpayer another

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Why Has Liz Truss Replaced Boris Johnson?

Why Has Liz Truss Replaced Boris Johnson?

Nicholas Allen Royal Holloway University of London Nick joined Royal Holloway’s Department of Politics and International Relations in 2009. He completed his PhD at the University of Essex in 2008. The United Kingdom’s next prime minister will be Liz Truss. After a two-month contest, Conservative Party members

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Catholics Stand Up for Science and Gender

Catholics Stand Up for Science and Gender

As I wrote yesterday for Insight, science is undergoing its most severe crisis in centuries. Not at the hands of the churches, as so many internet atheists like to fantasise, but from a sustained ideological assault from within. Unto the breach has stepped none other than the Catholic Church — on

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