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Today is demand day! It’s decision day! It’s deadline day! The Freedoms & Rights Coalition continue to consistently apply pressure to this government and raise public awareness of the magnitude of frustrations brewing across New Zealand. Many Kiwis connecting with us are relieved to finally have a community
Darryl Betts Beneath the devastation the New Zealand government has wrought on businesses, jobs, and schools is the looming threat to large parts of what remains of people’s lives outside of work. Vaccine mandates threaten to permanently deprive many people of things that make life worth living. This isn’
Today we look at the MSM messages about the latest polls. The first one comes from Matthew Hooton who in his article Poll slide a warning to PM Jacinda Ardern – and it could get even worse hits Judith Collins hard (despite an increase in National’s numbers) while stating what
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The problem with democracy is its participation is most attractive to people who cannot attain any meaningful level of achievement in the outside world. This hard reality is constantly exhibited, most recently by an Auckland City Councillor Cathy Casey, aided and abetted by two other
Alwyn Poole Things have been trending very badly in our education system for the last twenty years. Through an increasingly simplistic and low bar NCEA system we have been able to pretend that progress is being made. However, the gaps between low decile, Maori and Pasifika students as compared to
taxpayers.org.nz We can reveal the results of the third monthly Taxpayers’ Union Curia Poll that shows a 6 point drop in support for Labour, while National and the Greens are up. Here are the headline results: In short, the gap between the centre-left and centre-right has
Several media people are expressing outrage that media, all of a sudden, are experiencing open dislike for them in public. Mihingarangi Forbes is one such liberal media hand-wringer: And Henry Cooke: And Jason Walls tweeted up a storm about the tennis ball attacks: Then followed that up with a
It is deeply troubling that the Auditor-General has identified “serious concerns” about aspects of the Government’s saliva testing procurement process this year and the need for an urgent independent inquiry has never been greater, says National’s COVID-19 Spokesperson Chris Bishop. “As I have said for months,
Darroch Ball Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust “The move by the government to repeal the Three Strikes law is based purely on a left-wing, soft-on-crime, political ideology that puts criminals ahead of victims,” says Darroch Ball, leader of Sensible Sentencing Trust. “Minister of Justice Kris Faafoi stated
The Minister of Finance has once again shown he is not willing to be transparent about how he spends taxpayers’ money, says National’s Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly. New Zealanders should be very worried about how Grant Robertson is spending their money and how that spending is being disclosed. Last
Nicole McKee ACT Justice spokesperson Justice Minister Kris Faafoi has given the middle finger to victims of serious and violent offending by not even bothering to consult them about repealing Three Strikes. In Parliament, I questioned Faafoi about what consultation he did before deciding to get rid of Three Strikes.
The Government’s failure to set targets or implement proper reporting measures for rabbit control as part of its $1.3 billion Jobs for Nature programme shows poor oversight and wasteful spending, National’s Conservation spokesperson Jacqui Dean says. Rabbits are an ecological disaster. They’re running rampant across large
Suit and Tie Sports can sometimes be such a great analogy for life, which is why sports movies often make compelling watching. This week Jacinda Ardern decided to treat us to her very own spin on a much-loved classic. There is that famous scene in the 1996 movie Jerry
Marie Loretta In March 2019 when New Zealand was reeling from the horror of the mosque terror attack, Jacinda Ardern won the world over, proclaiming emotionally that “They were New Zealanders. They are us.” New Zealand agreed. We are a nation fiercely proud of our diversity, our independent spirit, but
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