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A recent NZ Herald headline gives the impression that Grant Robertson has ruled out the government enforcing rent control on already long-suffering landlords. If you look closely at what he actually said, his statement isn’t worth anything at all. Finance Minister Grant Robertson has this afternoon moved to

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The 45th President of the United States Donald J. Trump

The 45th President of the United States Donald J. Trump

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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Careening down the Slippery Slope in Record Time

Careening down the Slippery Slope in Record Time

The more the “progressive” left scream and bluster that there’s no slippery slope, the faster they shove us all down its greased rails. It took less than two years to go from a state-run mail-in opinion survey on gay marriage to radical transgender laws in Tasmania (the

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Expect Vaccine Hysteria to Ramp up to 11

Expect Vaccine Hysteria to Ramp up to 11

For all her faults, Gladys Berejiklian is emerging from the pandemic dumpster fire as perhaps the only Australian politician with even half a commitment to freedom. While the rest of Australia’s premiers keep their fingers hovered over the lockdown buttons, like so many bureaucratic swords of Damocles, and PM

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Texas Pro-life Victory Scares Desperate Blue-Check Abortion Fans
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Texas Pro-life Victory Scares Desperate Blue-Check Abortion Fans

Gabriel Hays newsbusters.org Staff writer for MRC Culture. Joe and Betty Anderlik Fellow. University of Dallas Class of ’16. Governor Greg Abbot (R-TX) just signed into law one of the nation’s most important abortion bans in history in the state of Texas and boy, are abortion lovers

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Minister Should Apologise to Patients’ Group

Minister Should Apologise to Patients’ Group

Brooke van Velden ACT Health Spokesperson Health Minister Andrew Little owes an apology to Patient Voice Aotearoa for accusing them of using “extremist rhetoric. Patient Voice Aotearoa is a group that is advocating for medicines for people who are sick or dying. For a Minister to accuse them of extremism

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More Than 11K Signatures in Less Than 48 Hours

More Than 11K Signatures in Less Than 48 Hours

Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust In the wake of the coward punch attack on Fau Vake over the weekend, a petition set up by the Sensible Sentencing Trust to bring in harsher sentences for these attacks has already reached well over eleven thousand signatures in less than

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5% Threshold a Labour/ National Monopoly
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5% Threshold a Labour/ National Monopoly

Ted Johnston Party Secretary New Conservative The Electoral Commission has impartially recommended a reduction of the 5% MMP threshold to 4%, to improve NZ’s voting system. Justice Minister Fa’afoi’s comment that it would have “significant implications,” amounts to tossing it away for another decade, much to the

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Budget 2021 Is a Major Shift of the Economic Dial to the Left

Budget 2021 Is a Major Shift of the Economic Dial to the Left

Jordan Williams Executive Director New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union Your humble taxpayer advocates and analysts spent Thursday morning working through the Budget 2021 papers. I’m afraid to tell you that from a taxpayer perspective there are no redeeming features of this Budget. It represents a major shift of the economic

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The Fightback Continues and Picks up Pace

The Fightback Continues and Picks up Pace

20th May 2021 Demonstrators are leaving the cities and secretly making their way to the ethnic conflict zones. They are looking at two options after training – either to swell the ranks of the EAOs or to develop guerrilla actions within the cities. The Myanmar regime has objected to the provision

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