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23rd June 2021 The resistance to the Junta grows. In Sagaing region, 1,000 civilian defenders took on troops deployed in a base and then had the nerve to ambush reinforcements sent to relieve the base. At least 30 junta troops were reportedly killed during two shootouts with civilian resistance
Try to imagine a wealthy, privileged white person being carried through the streets on a litter borne on the backs of starving black children. Your average green-left “progressive” would have fifty fits. Yet this is, metaphorically, just what the climate-bothering green left do, every time they get behind
Dave Witherow Information Satire Dave Witherow, who was a long time columnist with the Otago Daily Times, emigrated to New Zealand from Northern Ireland in 1971. He’s an author, script writer, and worked as a scientist for Fish and Game. Diversity, as all right-thinking people are now agreed,
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 Prime Minister, again and again, you and your Ministers refer to the “partnership” created by the Treaty of Waitangi. I wonder if you would be kind enough to
Labour reckons they know best in many areas, most notably in pandering to the whims of the lycra-wearing, road maggot brigade. They’ve decided to pour millions of dollars into a bike bridge and somehow believe the public will not only support it and them but also be willing
Rachel Poulain Free Speech Union www.fsu.nz My name is Rachel, I’m a member of the Free Speech Union’s Council, and one of our spokespeople. Further to Jordan and David’s articles over the last few days I’m writing to update you on our new case
Labour’s heavy, Willie Jackson, has let the cat out of the bag with regard to the dishonesty of Labour in hiding the divisive He Puapua report from their coalition partner in the last parliament: Maori Development Minister Willie Jackson says he is glad NZ First never saw the contentious
Let’s admit it: the UN is no longer fit for purpose and should be abandoned. The last remaining shreds of the UN’s relevance evaporated in the 1990s with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Since then, the UN has been little more than the plaything of despots, meddling
Groucho Marx would never join a club that would accept him as a member. On the other hand, certain women are determined to barge their way into any clubs that just don’t want them. HESTA chief Debby Blakey has added her voice to the growing chorus against The Australia
Hobson’s Pledge hobsonspledge.nz Some years ago, the Labour Government refused to take action to clear a channel so that the crater lake on Mount Ruapehu could drain safely, despite failure to do so risking the kind of disaster which destroyed scores of lives at Tangiwai in 1953. Why?
David Seymour ACT Leader If the Government knew at 7.30 pm last night that a Sydney tourist with COVID-19 had visited Wellington, why did it take nearly 12 hours to confirm this with the public? News started break last night about the COVID case but only because the
Louis Houlbrooke Taxpayers’ Union Polling commissioned by the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union shows that nearly two-thirds of Kiwis ‘oppose’ or ‘strongly oppose’ the Government’s planned $685 million cycle and pedestrian bridge for Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour. Meanwhile, just 18 per cent‘ support’ or ‘strongly support’ it. The full
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 Two bits of socio-economic news this last week collided. The first was that as many as 20%
