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Dan’s Ship Is Sinking Fast

Dan’s Ship Is Sinking Fast

Rats and sinking ships come to mind: no less than four senior ministers, including the deputy premier, have suddenly announced their resignations from the Victorian government. This all just five months out from an election. Dictator Dan’s little rowboat is taking on water and listing even further to the

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Do Christian Lives Matter to the Media?

Do Christian Lives Matter to the Media?

There seems to be a strangely masochistic pathology afflicting much of the West. Every enormity of Islamic violence inspires a rush to positively coddle Muslims against an imaginary “backlash”. The white, Christian targets of Muslim terror are sternly admonished to shut up about all those bodies torn to pieces by

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Why Dark Emu Was Nixed by Academics

Why Dark Emu Was Nixed by Academics

In a further blow to the already-shredded credibility of Bruce Pascoe, Australia’s wokest state has added a scholarly rebuttal of his pseudo-history, Dark Emu to school reading lists. Of course, Victoria being Victoria, they couldn’t just dump Pascoe’s work of imaginative fiction from school reading

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New Zealand’s New Civil Religion
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New Zealand’s New Civil Religion

Bruce Logan Sonya Bateson’s response to Bethlehem Christian College’s statement (New Zealand Herald 17 June 2022) that marriage is between a man and a woman answers some questions but creates more. Ms Bateson is right. Marriage is not a Christian creation. Whoever said it was? Polygamy and polyandry

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Masks Even Where There Is No Mandate

Masks Even Where There Is No Mandate

Mark Freeman Many Wellingtonians believe that wearing a face mask outside will protect them and others from Covid-19, according to a survey on mask use. Another survey has found that many people wear masks inside even though there is no government mandate to do so. Why people continue to

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the government used lies and smears against Charlotte Bellis

Since When Did Kindness Include Lies and Smears?

So much for this Government’s trademark kindness. Matthew Hooton writes about the lies and smears of Chris Hipkins and his eventual forced apology to journalist Charlotte Bellis that came as a result of those lies and smears. Hipkins has now apologised to Bellis, but only after threats of defamation

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Name One Thing ‘Experts’ Have Got Right

Name One Thing ‘Experts’ Have Got Right

We live in an age of the Tyranny of Experts. Which is, of course, something the elite have wanted ever since Plato declared that the hoi polloi were too stupid to be allowed to meddle in the business of government and that the state should instead be ruled by a

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Can NZ Keep the Lights On?
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Can NZ Keep the Lights On?

The excuses are flying thick and fast as Australia’s energy network trembles on the verge of collapse and residents of the supposedly global city of Sydney are begged not to use appliances overnight, lest the whole place be blacked out. It’s the Russians, it’s the gas companies,

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St. George Gets the Woke Treatment

Wallace White newsbusters.org Wallace White works as an intern at the MRC culture section. He is a Student at American University studying Political Theory and Economics. His interests include philosophy, weight training, and theology, and playing his guitar. He is a member of AU College Republicans and will serve

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Chris Hipkins Takes on New Role

Chris Hipkins Takes on New Role

Gordon Lightfoot| Politics Warning Satire SORRY! Former Covid response Minister Chris Hipkins has been doing so much apologising lately that PM Jacinda Ardern has made him the new Minister of Apologies. Following his apology to Charlotte Bellis for comments about her MIQ application, Hipkins is now being called on to

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The Common Sense of the Common People

The Common Sense of the Common People

Just 15% of Australian workers are in a union. Nearly all of those are public servants or other white collar workers. The only real redoubt of blue collar unionism left is the building trades, where being a union member is often simply a necessary evil of being allowed to work

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There’s a Lot of It Going Around

There’s a Lot of It Going Around

When mainstream media journalists all start singing from the same hymn sheet, using literally the same scripts, your bullshit detectors should flip right into the red. Ditto, politicians. So, when both journalists and politicians (not to mention their bureaucratic lackeys) around the Western world are all suddenly parroting the same

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Govt Now without a Leg to Stand On

Govt Now without a Leg to Stand On

Guy Hatchard PhD hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. Information Opinion This study raises

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Speaker’s Farewell Tour Cost around $40,000 per MP

David Seymour ACT Party Leader Most New Zealanders could only ever dream of a $40,000 two-week trip to Europe but that’s what five MPs, including the Speaker have just completed and are charging back to the taxpayer. While New Zealanders are being squeezed from every direction by

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The Matariki Big Mac
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The Matariki Big Mac

Dieuwe de Boer rightminds.nz Information Opinion You can follow Dieuwe de Boer on Telegram or Twitter. The introduction of a new public holiday comes with a battle as old as time. Public “holy days” have generally arisen through either religious observances or national achievements. Christmas and Easter come from

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