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How convenient, even cynically coincidental, that a UMR poll was released a few days after the somewhat disastrous Roy Morgan poll showing support for Labour had plummeted into the thirties. Given the idiotic announcements from the government over the last few weeks, the result was hardly surprising. Roy Morgan does
Another day and yet another example of the utter failure to deliver on the government’s much-vaunted housing promises: More than three years after the Government launched a huge development for up to 4000 homes on Unitec land to tackle Auckland’s housing crisis head-on, not a single
This week, ACT is up in the polls! ACT has started its Honest Conversations tour and is packing out halls around the country. In Parliament we’ve taken the Government to task on COVID-19, the inaction on housing at Ihumatao and Mark Cameron gave an emotional speech about mental
Thursday in select committee, Director-General Lou Sanson revealed that the Department of Conservation is in talks with the SPCA about establishing a cat curfew and a plan for dealing with feral cats, National’s Environment spokesperson Scott Simpson says. “I noted that DG Sanson pawsed before he admitted that
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8th July 2021 Last week we reported on the future of Telenor, one of the telecom companies in Myanmar. Telenor was wholly owned by Telenor of Norway and was independent of the Myanmar government. It wrote its investment down to zero and was considering selling it off. We forecast that
One of the enduring images of the Cold War was the defector. Communism was, after all, such a great system that communist nations had to actively stop their people fleeing. People wishing to travel outside communist countries faced a gruelling process to obtain an exit visa. What does it say
Alexander Gillespie University of Waikato Alexander Gillespie works primarily in international law, with specialties in international environmental; and the laws of war/international humanitarian law. Bruised by its divorce from the European Union, Britain is busy getting out more, making new friends and renewing old acquaintances. Serenaded with promises of
We’re grimly familiar with the sort in Australia and New Zealand. Every January 26 or February 6, they pop up, like so many whining, nagging groundhogs looking for the shadow of imaginary oppression. Naturally, America has them, too. Extraordinarily privileged people who ignore the astonishing gifts their nation has
As the Chinese Communist Party celebrates its 100th anniversary, it’s putting on a big show of strength. President Xi Jinping is scarcely hiding his ambitions any more, conspicuously dressing up in a Mao Zedong cosplay and ranting threats at Taiwan and anyone else who dares stand in Beijing’s
Brooke van Velden ACT Health spokesperson Pacific Peoples Minister Aupito William Sio has echoed the concerns of the ACT Party about the Government’s health reforms and we encourage the rest of his caucus to listen to his concerns. Sio has questioned the place for Pasifika in the reforms which
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This Labour Government is creating increasing dependency on the state and setting New Zealanders up for long-term welfare reliance and a poorer quality of life, National’s Social Development and Employment spokesperson Louise Upston says. “At estimates, I asked Minister Sepuloni how the Government’s employment programmes helped long-
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments If the current government wanted to stir up racial tension in New Zealand it has done a good
Newsroom journalist Marc Daalder appears to celebrate and support Cancel Culture. Deplatforming is a truly despicable act that not only silences citizens exercising their legitimate democratic rights, but often also involves slander and extortion of third parties… threats to business reputations and results in the devastation of peoples lives. Tim
