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Do You Trust Stuff?

Stuff likes to think they are better than everyone else. Their doctrinaire stance on climate change is a case in point. So too is their abject grovelling to Maori and their support of the ‘maorification’ of everything. They are propped up by millions of dollars of Government money and so

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Dictator of the Day

Dictator of the Day

This past week: 1. The entire country was locked down under Level Four rules. 2. The Government passed regulations to enforce mandatory masking. 3. The Government passed regulations to require compulsory tracing. 4. The Government via the Police abrogated Health exemption cards to compulsory masking. 5. People who were protesting

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Prime Minister’s Suspension of Parliament Is Wrong

Prime Minister’s Suspension of Parliament Is Wrong

The Prime Minister has advised me that she is unilaterally suspending parliament, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “I have expressed that a one week suspension of Parliament is all the National Party will support. However, the Prime Minister has indicated that she expects it will continue longer than

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It’s Official, New Zealand Is Now a Dictatorship

It’s Official, New Zealand Is Now a Dictatorship

It is now official, we have New Zealand’s first dictatorship, Gauleiter Ardern has suspended parliament at the behest of the un-elected Dr Ashley Bloomfield. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will suspend Parliament as the Delta outbreak continues to infect more people. She will do so based on the advice

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Parliament Closure Diktat a Historic Low

Parliament Closure Diktat a Historic Low

David Seymour ACT Leader Jacinda Ardern is happy to have a socially distanced 1 pm stand up with a dozen journalists in a room but not a democratic parliament with elected representatives asking her questions. Ardern called me this afternoon to say she has decided that Parliament should not sit

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Vaccination Target Vital to Avoiding Future Lockdowns

New Zealand needs to set a 70-75 per cent target of vaccination of the eligible population to avoid future countrywide lockdowns, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. “It is now clear that the Delta variant of Covid-19 got into the country through Managed Isolation and Quarantine. It’

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The FBI’s Not-So-Little List

If we are to believe the FBI, apparently nearly two million Americans are “terrorists”. To put it another way, in an average NFL crowd, the FBI would have us believe that there’s a good 400 terrorists. Back in July, cybersecurity researcher Bob Diachenko found what seemed to be a

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Government Erodes Parental Role with Vaccine Advice

Government Erodes Parental Role with Vaccine Advice

Family First Bob McCoskrie National Director The latest Government advice regarding booking COVID-19 vaccinations for children is a real concern. It explicitly says: “as a 12 to 15-year-old, your parent or guardian’s permission is not required if your health care provider is confident you are deemed

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Israel in Jeopardy: A Consequence of Biden’s Afghan Bungling

Israel in Jeopardy: A Consequence of Biden’s Afghan Bungling

Dave Patterson libertynation.com Dave Patterson is a retired US Air Force pilot and the former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller. In addition to Liberty Nation, his articles have also appeared in The Federalist. As the U.S. retreats from Afghanistan, scrambling to get the remnants of American

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Revealed: Government Spends $183,000 Advertising ‘Clean Car Discount’

Revealed: Government Spends $183,000 Advertising ‘Clean Car Discount’

Louis Houlbrooke taxpayers.org.nz The New Zealand Transport Agency (Waka Kotahi) has spent $183,751 advertising its Clean Car Discount, reveals the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union. An official information response shows the advertising campaign was developed by Clemenger BBDO and ran for most of July including print, radio, posters,

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What the Government Needs to Consider Today

What the Government Needs to Consider Today

David Seymour ACT Leader The Government’s decision today around Alert Levels will come down to how prepared it’s been. It should be open and transparent about the numbers traced and tested, and what numbers it needed to make a decision. People want a Government that is accountable to

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