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Labour’s New Transport Promise Made on Top of Previous Broken Promises

Bernard Orsman takes a break from his stint of reporting in glowing terms every utterance from Phil Goff and instead highlights Labour’s ongoing mendacity with transport promises…without actually saying as much. A new cycle and walking bridge across the Waitemata Harbour estimated to cost $685 million has sparked

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Crybaby of the Day

Crybaby of the Day

Matthew Tukaki is a Maori activist who uses divisive rhetoric. He is a polarising figure who is agitating for Maori separatism and apartheid in New Zealand, fomenting racial discord while accusing those who oppose his agenda of being the ones causing a racial divide. While he is quick to accuse

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Vaccine Hesitancy? That’s Jail Time for You!

Vaccine Hesitancy? That’s Jail Time for You!

Are Australians ready to go to jail for expressing opinions which displease the government? Popular, even if maybe wrong opinions? Because that’s exactly what the bonkers bureaucrats at Australia’s drug regulator are hinting at. Australia’s drug regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), is considering referring Facebook posts

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‘Fauci Under The Bus?’

‘Fauci Under The Bus?’

Daniel McAdams Executive Director Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity A little over a week ago I honestly was not sure whether my Fauci-as-Icarus metaphor would bear itself out. The attention-seeking bureaucrat, lionized and canonized by what has become essentially a religious cult centred around a

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Sporting Champions Ask Government to Intervene in Closed Consultation on Inclusion of Transgenders in Sport

Ro Edge NZ Spokesperson Save Women’s Sport Australasia Former Olympic champions and New Zealand representative athletes are calling on the Government to extend and widen Sport New Zealand’s consultation on the participation of transgender athletes in sport. The group of 43 athletes include former Olympians Barbara Kendall, Lorraine

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Driving Us Crazy
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Driving Us Crazy

The New Zealand Transport Agency, rebranded as Waka Kotahi, is using our taxes to mess up our streets without public consultation. A fund of nearly $30 million is being given to councils to come up with crazy changes to city roads, such as painting polka dots in the middle of

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Letter to the Editor: Auckland Harbour Biking Lane
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Letter to the Editor: Auckland Harbour Biking Lane

Dear Editor I live in Greenlane and watched as the Auckland Council took perfectly usable footpaths and turned them into cycle lanes. These footpaths were used daily by walkers walking to and from Cornwall Park. They were also shared together with cyclists who respected each other’s right to use

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Will Tikanga Law Include Cannibalism?

Will Tikanga Law Include Cannibalism?

Hobson’s Pledge Trust Will Tikanga law, that a High Court justice cited in a coastal area ruling, include inter-tribal warfare, cannibalism, slavery, and other primitive customs, or will it just be a modern version, historian Dr John Robinson asked this week. Dr Robinson, who wrote Dividing the nation:

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The Real Issue Is Expenditure Not Emissions

The Real Issue Is Expenditure Not Emissions

New Zealand is badly in need of a government that understands good decision making and the economic consequences of those decisions. We have not had one since late 2017. The current lot of reprobates are 69 individuals, playing at being in charge and having no idea of how to go

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Water Reforms Off to a Bad Start

Labour has announced a need for a $120-185 billion programme over thirty years to fix the country’s water infrastructure. This is a crippling amount of money. To put it in perspective, the total income tax paid in 2019-20 was $37 billion. It is fundamentally the result of

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Little Lashes Out

Little Lashes Out

You know when Andrew Little is feeling trapped by a more superior mind than his when he lashes out, makes personal attacks and gets red-faced to deflect from the issues at hand. That had been his modus operandi throughout Labour’s first term when (now retiring) National MP Nick

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Open and Transparent?

Open and Transparent?

Andrea Vance has cast aside the spin and given us all a glimpse behind the scenes of what actually occurs in the Never Never Land that Jacinda Ardern and her army of spin doctors have created and declared is the most open and transparent government ever: From the moment she

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ACT Congratulates Ministry of Education for Policy Change

ACT Congratulates Ministry of Education for Policy Change

ACT Party David Seymour ACT Leader “The ACT Party is congratulating the Ministry of Education for taking our advice and changing its policy to count school lunches going to waste,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ACT has repeatedly called on the Government to count how many school lunches are going

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