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If passed, MP Simon Court’s member’s bill would abolish all alcohol licensing trust monopolies. He says the current system is a mess, with confusing inconsistencies, monopolies and inflated prices.
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A Masterclass in Politics from Winston Peters
Winston Peters showed Labour how to orchestrate a hit that hurts.
NZ Politics Daily: 25 October 2024
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This Is What Happens When You Bite the Hand That Feeds You
Joanne Kidman, the head of New Zealand’s National Centre of Research Excellence for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism, called the Government a “death cult”...and 233 days later her organisation was defunded.
Green Scam of the Century
Adding huge wind turbine blades and solar panels to generate electricity occasionally is the ‘green’ scam of the century, as ‘renewables’ are increasing fossil fuel demands, but those so-called renewables CANNOT make any products that are the basis of our materialistic world.
NZ Politics Daily: 24 October 2024
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Maybe He Could Stop Playing Pocket Billiards?
Luxon comes across as inauthentic, insincere and glib. He speaks a bit like a whoopsy, has girly small hands when he flops them around... and he’s a bit of a dork. Oh and he’s bald, which often doesn’t play well in politics or with the ladies.
NZ Politics Daily: 23 October 2024
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL, LOCAL GOVERNMENT Giles Dexter (RNZ): Will the Wellington City Council intervention set a precedent? Luke Malpass (Post): The $700 million case for intervening in Wellington City Council (paywalled) Glenn McConnell (Stuff): What’s so bad about Wellington? Pressure on to see
They Still Want Us to Take Them Seriously
The Greens are the most sanctimonious and hypocritical of any party currently in parliament. Their record speaks for itself, yet they still want us to take them seriously.
NZ Politics Daily: 22 October 2024
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards GOVERNMENT, PUBLIC SERVICE Guyon Espiner (RNZ): Auditor-General asked to investigate Costello decision to slash tax on heated tobacco products Jo Moir (RNZ): Bayly complaint: Email disappeared from Labour MP's inbox Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): The unanswered questions in the Andrew Bayly
RefuGeeGee Loses Appeal
The forlorn hope of her appeal has failed: her convictions stand. Justice Venning was having none of her womble excuses.