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The Column Stuff Wouldn’t Publish

The Column Stuff Wouldn’t Publish

ACT Party Stuff.co.nz was happy to run a column from John Tamihere accusing David Seymour of an “insidious, sophisticated and covert form of race-based politics” but they wouldn’t publish David’s below response because they didn’t like the “tone” of the article. If you wonder

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Christian Symbols ‘Morally Wrong’: Defence

Christian Symbols ‘Morally Wrong’: Defence

In my series of Insight posts, Re-Christianising the West, I argued that, beyond mere secularisation, there is a vocal and influential segment of Australian society that is not just non-Christian, but implacably, aggressively anti-Christian. As if to prove my point, the Australia Defence Association has publicly stated

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Government’s Vaccine Rollout a Shambles

Government’s Vaccine Rollout a Shambles

The Government’s excruciatingly slow and chaotic vaccine rollout shows it has no idea how to get the lifesaving vaccine to New Zealanders, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “And this weekend’s mass vaccination event is indicative of just how much of a debacle the Government’s rollout

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Will COVID Panic Kill off the Country Show?

Will COVID Panic Kill off the Country Show?

There was a time when a country woman’s proudest boast was that her scones won the blue ribbon at the local show. For nearly 200 years, agricultural shows were the highlight of the rural calendar. In an extensively urbanised Australia, they also brought the country to the city for

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PHARMAC’s Priority List Lacks Transparency

Brooke van Velden ACT Deputy Leader and Health spokesperson The ACT Party welcomes PHARMAC recognising New Zealanders are asking for more transparency on which medicines it funds but today’s announcement falls short of providing the information needed. All of the information PHARMAC has released for ‘transparency’ is already available

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The Greens Threaten Us with Floods but Fail to Protect against Them

David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. The devastating European floods reveal an incredible hypocrisy in the green agenda. They want to spend untold sums, supposedly to prevent natural floods by cutting emissions. But they spend

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Are UK Hospitals Really Being Swamped by COVID?

Just how many lies have we been sold about the Wuhan pandemic? Not just the blatant lies from the Chinese Communist Party, but from our “sole sources of truth”? The daily shrieking of cases, infections, hospitalisations, blah-blah-blah. These daily doses of fear-porn have been used to keep

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Dear Office of the Ombudsman

Dear Office of the Ombudsman

Alwyn Poole Villa Education Trust Innovative Education Consultant Dear Office of the Ombudsman I apologise for elevating this to your level but I believe we have run out of other avenues and do not have anything like the financial resources to legally challenge the Ministry of Education for their ongoing

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Lack of Supply and Vaccine Mismanagement

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. The biggest problem so far for the vaccination programme has been the lack of supply of the Pfizer doses, and debate continues as to whether

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HART Week to Replace ANZAC Day

HART Week to Replace ANZAC Day

Information Satire Labour Government Explainer Editor The Minister for Kindness, Jacinda Ardern announced today that a new holiday, HART Week, would replace ANZAC day in Aotearoa as our national day of remembrance. “Most of the old soldiers from past wars”, she said, “have passed away and the idea of ANZAC

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Rollout Roadblock: Supply Sorted but Delivery Delayed

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. The journalist who has covered the vaccine rollout best is the Herald’s Derek Cheng. On Thursday he reported on the Government’s latest explanation

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A Motel Is Not a Home – Demand the Debate
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A Motel Is Not a Home – Demand the Debate

Kiwis deserve the debate on the Labour Government’s decision to spend $1 million a day on motels to house the homeless, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “For two elections Labour campaigned on building houses but instead they have been renting rooms for up to $2000 a week

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An Alternative to Labour’s Secret Plan to Divide Us
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An Alternative to Labour’s Secret Plan to Divide Us

In this week’s column, I crave your indulgence as you follow my convoluted thinking toward an agreeable alternative to the separatist plot being revealed in what we have been told so far, about this Labour Government’s He Puapua project. I’m taking it for granted from responses I’

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