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ACT Releases Submission on NZ History Curriculum

ACT Releases Submission on NZ History Curriculum

Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson and former teacher The Government’s New Zealand history curriculum threatens to indoctrinate students in left-wing ideas and requires a radical rewrite. ACT has today released its submission on the draft New Zealand history curriculum and set up a petition calling for a complete

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What’s the Bet They Call It KiwiCar?

What’s the Bet They Call It KiwiCar?

Rumour are rife that the Government is looking to emulate their great successes in KiwiRail and KiwiBuild, by bringing in their own “KiwiCar”: MotoringNZ made contact with the MIA after being alerted by another industry involver, who said he had also heard the talk and believed it held water. His

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Collins’ Comments

Collins’ Comments

Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz A Budget for benefits not jobs The government has surprised everyone with their policies over recent weeks as they softened us up for their fourth Budget announced last week. It was interesting that we saw announcements that public sector employees would face a

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Public Libraries Join Cancel Culture

Public Libraries Join Cancel Culture

David Seymour ACT Leader Public libraries should be a place for all members of the community and public events shouldn’t be shut down because of political agendas. This week both Dunedin and Christchurch Libraries have cancelled events by the group ‘Speak up for Women.’ This group wants to have

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City Council Bans Feminist Group from Debating Proposed Law on Gender ID

City Council Bans Feminist Group from Debating Proposed Law on Gender ID

Dr David Cumin Spokesperson Free Speech Union After all we’ve been through – and our recent decision from the Court of Appeal confirming that freedom of speech obligations apply to council-owned speaking venues – Christchurch City Council has done a Phil Goff. They’ve barred a feminist group, “Speak Up

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Andrew Giuliani on Why He’s Right to Lead New York

Andrew Giuliani on Why He’s Right to Lead New York

The Joe Pags Show is a nationally syndicated talk radio show broadcast on stations all over the USA with an audience of around 5 million. Here in New Zealand you can listen on iHeart radio or as I prefer to do, view it on Twitch TV. The show is on

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Christchurch City Library Ban of Feminist Group Illegal

Christchurch City Library Ban of Feminist Group Illegal

Dane Giraud Free Speech Union The Free Speech Union is writing a ‘please explain’ to Christchurch City Council and its libraries after the feminist group ‘Speak-up for Women’ was banned from holding an event to discuss a controversial piece of legislation relating to sex identification. “This decision totally ignores

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Melissa Lee – Cyber Threats a Greater Risk under Labour

Melissa Lee – Cyber Threats a Greater Risk under Labour

Labour’s Broken Compass Budget has failed to address the growing critical threats to New Zealand’s digital infrastructure, National’s spokesperson for Digital Economy and Communications Melissa Lee says. “We only have to look at what’s happening to the Waikato DHB to know how important it is to

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Why Do Unemployed People Even Need Childcare?

Why Do Unemployed People Even Need Childcare?

You might wonder why two parents who aren’t working would even need childcare. After all, wasn’t the whole point of childcare to free up mothers to return to work? Ah, you see: that’s why you’re not an expert. You’re just not clever enough to understand

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Why We Need a Sensible Shooters Association

Why We Need a Sensible Shooters Association

Recently I received an email from the Antique Arms National President, Andrew Edgecombe. In the email, he has a crack at me (Note to Andrew: I don’t use minions) and my messages about the failures of COLFO. I will address his email in this article on the points that

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#TheyFleeFromDan

#TheyFleeFromDan

It’s like watching the start of just about every zombie apocalypse movie: a montage of ever-more-urgent news reports, graphics of growing numbers of infected, footage of lines of cars fleeing the city. Except that the zombies in this case are very real: they’re the politicians and

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