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Discrimination of the Day

Discrimination of the Day

From a MOE e-mail sent to all staff yesterday by the Secretary for Education. […] [redacted] exemplified the importance and the strength of leadership when asked by the Committee, what stops other schools from not achieving for its Maori students, he said “they just need to make Maori achievement the

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Natural and Built Environments Act (RMA Replacement)
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Natural and Built Environments Act (RMA Replacement)

Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 Submission on Natural & Built Environments Act (Exposure Draft) August 2021 Overview 1. I would have liked to help refine a Bill that would comprehensively puncture our catastrophic

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Yet Again Ardern Plays Sergeant Schultz

Yet Again Ardern Plays Sergeant Schultz

It is amazing the things that Jacinda Ardern claims she never knew anything about. Yesterday saw yet another unbelievable claim, that she didn’t know about a special exemption being made for a billionaire Google mogul and his child to come to New Zealand: Billionaire Google co-founder Larry Page

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We’ve Hit Another Housing Milestone

We’ve Hit Another Housing Milestone

Labour Campaigns Team In 1937, Labour built the first state house, and since then our Party has worked tirelessly to provide more public housing, so more New Zealand families have a place to call home. Today, we hit another massive milestone in our public housing programme, and we wanted to

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Govt Blocks Opportunity for He Puapua Writers

Govt Blocks Opportunity for He Puapua Writers

Wednesday, Government Labour Party members, the Green Party and the Maori Party voted down my motion in the Maori Affairs Select Committee that the Committee receive a briefing on the He Puapua report from its authors, National’s Treaty Negotiations spokesperson Joseph Mooney says. “A Declaration Working Group (DWG) was

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Another Broken Government Promise on Tax
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Another Broken Government Promise on Tax

The Labour Government’s interest deductibility change is another broken tax promise that will cost mum and dad property investors $800 million, says National’s Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly. Budget documents released today show that Treasury estimates the revenue gain would be $800 million. “The Government claimed that removing the

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Waiting List Blowout Nothing to Do with COVID

Waiting List Blowout Nothing to Do with COVID

Health Minister Andrew Little can’t blame Covid for the shocking number of Kiwis overdue for specialist medical assessment and treatment because these wait lists had already blown out well before 2020, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti. We have targets to make sure Kiwis are receiving their first

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Another Amazing Coincidence

Another Amazing Coincidence

Honestly, do Newshub and the government think we are all stupid and can’t see their hand in glove co-operation in trying to dig the government out of a hole of their own making? For the third day in a row Newshub announces a perilous poll result followed by

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The BFD Nightcap

The BFD Nightcap

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Family Matters: Hate Speech Laws – And Why You Must Speak Up

Family Matters: Hate Speech Laws – And Why You Must Speak Up

The Government has released its plan for laws governing ‘hate speech’, and it is now vital that families and faith communities understand what is really at stake with these proposals. One of the most disturbing realities of criminalising “hateful” speech is that there is simply no agreement on the definition

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Secret NHS Plan Would Have Denied Care to Premature Babies & the Elderly

righttolife.org.uk Secret NHS plans, drawn up three years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, recommended that doctors deny care to premature babies, the elderly, and those with “life-limiting conditions” such as cerebral palsy. The NHS England report sent to Government advisers in 2016, laid out potential “patient

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Cuomo Is Being Hung Out to Dry for the Wrong Reasons

Cuomo Is Being Hung Out to Dry for the Wrong Reasons

In his classic The Prince, Macchiavelli has some advice for leaders: get someone else to do your dirty work and then ostentatiously hang them out to dry. That way, you’ll not only avoid being blamed for the repression, but celebrated as a saviour. This is the plot of the

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Vaccines: Give Us Straight Talk, Not Propaganda

Vaccines: Give Us Straight Talk, Not Propaganda

So, “vaccine hesitancy” is the latest witch being hunted by the global Ministry of Truth. For the past few years, we’ve been treated to an endless cavalcade of hysterical campaigns against every Goldstein imaginable, from “white supremacy”, to “denialists”, to “Covidiots”. But, if the media-political elite really want

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‘State of Fear’: Are We Being Manipulated by Behavioural Scientists?

Anna Farrow mercatornet.com Anna Farrow is Executive Director of the English Speaking Catholic Council, a lay organization which acts as a coordinating forum for English-speaking Catholics in Quebec. Long before David Attenborough brought his soothing voice to the explication of animal behaviour for the BBC Life series, the

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