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New Conservative Leadership Announcement
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New Conservative Leadership Announcement

New Conservative Kevin Stitt New Conservative Board Chair New Conservative is pleased to announce the appointment of interim Co-Leaders, Helen Houghton and Ted Johnston. For the year to date we have been led by the Board. It has been encouraging to see we have maintained our results in the

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Dear ACT Party, Hello Goodbye

Donald Digby The 2020 election was the most important election in my life so far. I am an expat with friends living in China and was hearing what was going on there: mass forced vaccinations, vaccine passports supported by facial recognition, incarcerating citizens based on their health status, and red,

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Labour’s Health System Failure

Labour’s Health System Failure

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Government is now stumbling from one failure to the next. While the abandoned $800 million cycle bridge across Auckland Harbour cost more than $50 million on consultants when it comes to the changes being planned for health, their ineptitude will cost

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One Year On

One Year On

It is almost exactly a year since the last election, when the country gave Jacinda Ardern and her government the largest mandate ever recorded under MMP. It was a testimonial to what most people thought was a successful pandemic response that had saved us from having thousands dead. Clearly, those

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The End of Daily Press Conferences?

The End of Daily Press Conferences?

After 18 months of nearly daily press conferences, the Prime Minister has decided that at the very time case numbers are rising and spreading to other regions, she and her team will no longer front, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. New Zealanders will be unsettled by the news

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How Siouxsie Wiles Misled Dr. Ashley Bloomfield

How Siouxsie Wiles Misled Dr. Ashley Bloomfield

When we broke the story of Siouxsie Wiles breaking level four stay at home rules and presented a video of her beach and swimming escapade, the media finally had to do their jobs. At a daily press conference held on 10 September, Dr Ashley Bloomfield made a statement that he’

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Tweet of the Day
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Tweet of the Day

I resigned my membership to ACT. Having been a member, having worked as a volunteer to support MPs over the last 2017 – 2021 period and donating a fair bit of money to them, I can no longer countenance their slide to authoritarianism. pic.twitter.com/T6o9MVXive — The New Zealand Rocketeer

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The Bourgeois Greens and Their Class War

The Bourgeois Greens and Their Class War

Have you ever noticed that the climate strike kiddies are so overwhelmingly middle-class? Watch any school’s climate protest and note the neat blazers and brand-new iPhones. Listen, if you can without surrendering to the urge to shove knitting needles in your ears, to Poppy, Hyacinth and Viola

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NZ’s Alcohol History on Repeat
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NZ’s Alcohol History on Repeat

Stuart Smith MP for Kaikoura Spokesperson for Climate Change, EQC and Viticulture Information Opinion In 1918, they closed bars across the country at six o’clock, in an attempt to curb the drinking problem. The idea was that if we shut the supply of alcohol off, people simply won’t

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A Morally Wrong Slap in the Face?

A Morally Wrong Slap in the Face?

Charles Wright About a week ago, Brian Tamaki announced that he wanted to do a protest against lockdowns. I thought it was a great idea, and I even sent a quick “good on ya” email to Brian because I too believe that all these lockdowns have gone on for far

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A Cocky Government Full of Cock-Ups

A Cocky Government Full of Cock-Ups

4pm last Monday and the big announcement. Well, what we thought would be a big announcement. Instead, we were informed that Auckland would remain at level three. The real news was that the government had eliminated their elimination of Covid strategy. Another giant cock-up by this government. The elimination

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Our Great Leader

Our Great Leader

Information Satire Has New Zealand been transported to a parallel universe resembling the old New Zealand but renamed Aotearoa and redefined by the rapid growth of the Covid Cult? A cult must have a charismatic leader, and the wildly popular Jacinda Ardern is ours. Our Great Leader, the source of

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