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22nd May 2021 I have been commenting that this rebellion is unlike previous ones in Myanmar in that if it spread to the cities then the regime, even though it won’t lose, will be in trouble. Well, it is happening. Sanchaung township is a relatively well-off district and
A clear example of the astonishing and dangerous economic stupidity of Grant Robertson is his concern that accommodation supplements end up in the pockets of landlords and not the pockets of the bludgers who receive them. I’m not kidding! Grant Robertson says the Government is reviewing how it helps
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Grant Robertson has said that the Government has no plans for rent controls, despite the Housing Minister, Megan Woods, asking Treasury for advice on rent controls: Finance Minister Grant Robertson has this afternoon moved to end speculation his Government is gearing up to introduce a rent control policy. Although he
UPDATE: The petition was started by Tina Ngata and Anna McAllister. We in error thought that it was started by Debbie Ngarewa-Paker because our link to the petition had the following on it. Maori Party co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer started a petition to pressure a business to fire
Colin Rubenstein aijac.org.au It is easy when watching the latest bloodshed between Israel and Hamas to throw up our hands in despair, to blame both sides for the conflict, to call for both to pull back, with Israel as the stronger party expected to lead, and for the
One could not learn history from architecture any more than one could learn it from books. Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets – anything that might throw light upon the past had been systematically altered George Orwell, “1984” Boris Johnson’s “conservative” government has almost uniformly been about as
Masks have become the yellow stars, the keffiyehs and the awareness ribbons, all rolled into one, of the Wuhan plague. Despite the spurious appeals to “science” (the evidence has been and remains at best equivocal, most reliably negative), the real reason for mask mandates has at last been laid bare:
What is it about the climate-obsessed green-left that drives them to maniacally advocate the worst possible “solutions” for the least imaginable problems. Despite the reflexive screeching of “denier!”, very few people actually deny that climate change exists. The alarmist mantra, “climate change is real”, is an empty straw-
Judy Maynard aijac.org.au In a step hailed as “unprecedented”, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has been censured by the European Parliament (EP) for the use of school textbooks that contain hate speech and incitement to violence. The European
Time and again, the authoritian politicians and bureacrats pushing lockdowns have assured us that “it’s science”. Which is bullshit, of course. Their supposed “science” has in fact always been merely computer models – computer models which have never borne the slightest resemblance to reality. On the other hand, reality has
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David Seymour ACT Leader ACT Leader David Seymour has today announced a new Democracy Policy. This includes a new Member’s Bill which would introduce a four year term to Parliament from 2026, if the Government turns control of select committees over to the opposition. “We need to strengthen the
Budget 2021 showed little aspiration for the almost 200,000 New Zealanders without a job, National’s Social Development and Employment spokesperson Hon Louise Upston says. “Many people are doing it really tough right now. More than 70,000 people have moved onto the Jobseeker benefit since 2017. More New
Thursday’s Broken Compass Budget has revealed the impact the Government’s decision to radically restructure our health sector will have on the health of all New Zealanders, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “Labour has allocated almost half billion dollars to ‘begin the transition’ to its proposed
Labour has had to use urgency, yet again, to fix up a legislation cock-up of their own making. They seem to really have tits for hands: MPs have been forced back to the House to correct an error which may have seen hundreds of Australians incorrectly charged for staying
