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A ‘Human Rights’ Group Assaults Both Rights and Hopes for Peace

A ‘Human Rights’ Group Assaults Both Rights and Hopes for Peace

Judy Maynard aijac.org.au Judy Maynard is a policy analyst at the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council The very first line of Human Rights Watch’s recently released report, titled “A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution”, gives an inkling of the manipulation

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Andrew Bayly – Kiwis Need an Alternative to Online Banking
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Andrew Bayly – Kiwis Need an Alternative to Online Banking

Labour has voted against an inquiry that would look into how banks and government agencies are making sure vulnerable people are still able to manage their financial affairs independently, despite moves to stop accepting cheques, National’s Treasurer Andrew Bayly says. “We have heard from numerous organisations that as many

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Freedom of Expression on Campus Must Be Protected

Freedom of Expression on Campus Must Be Protected

Dr James McDowall ACT MP A Bill introduced to the UK Parliament this week shares the same goal as my Member’s Bill and should be debated here in New Zealand. Free speech on campus is critical. Fostering the ability of students to discuss and debate ideas is an essential

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Weird Times in Oz Politics

Weird Times in Oz Politics

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: these are crazy times we’re living in, readers. It’s not just the nuttiness of Frankenfemmes pretending that men can have babies, or a goodly slice of the political class pretending that gibbering teenage dropouts are scientific experts,

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Government Makes a Grab for State Control of Fish and Game

Ben Hope Waikanae watchers waikanaewatch.org A recently released Government-instigated review of Fish and Game that manages trout, salmon, duck and game bird resources sets out changes that are a major step towards full state control say critics. Dr Peter Trolove, chairman of the NZ Federation of Freshwater Anglers,

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Stoker Takes Stand against Late-Term Abortion

Stoker Takes Stand against Late-Term Abortion

The governing conceit of the left’s now-default ideology, identity politics, is that a person’s identity determines everything about them. Most especially what and how they should think. So, naturally, when one of the left’s favoured identity groups steps out of line, the denunciation is as punishing

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Why Golriz Ghahraman Is Right Even When She Is Wrong

Why Golriz Ghahraman Is Right Even When She Is Wrong

Golriz Ghahraman has no idea how right she is when she makes her many factually incorrect claims about the Israel – Palestinian territories conflict. My favourite claim of hers is her claim about Apartheid, and she is so so right: it does exist. Yes, there is a place where one race

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Enough with Your Bee-Shit Bullshit, New Zealand

Enough with Your Bee-Shit Bullshit, New Zealand

Listen, New Zealand: I know we’re sibling rivals and all, but, jeez, you lot can be precious sometimes. You know, we let you win the rugby because it’s a sport hardly anyone in Australia actually cares about. (Instead of copying the Poms and buggering each other as a

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Ardern’s Talk of Partnership Is Delusional

Ardern’s Talk of Partnership Is Delusional

Jacinda Ardern appears to be under the misapprehension that her plan to give Maori separatism in most areas of government is a partnership.  I am undecided whether this use of the word came from a misinterpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, whether she misunderstood it from the dictionary or perhaps

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Daily News Roundup – 14 May 2021

Daily News Roundup – 14 May 2021

Inequality and poverty Claire Achmad (RNZ): A brave and bold Budget 2021 is needed Anna Whyte (1News): Child poverty report ‘grim reading’, says action group Thomas Manch (Stuff): Child poverty report shows no measurable improvement in housing conditions, hospitalisations, food security Michael Neilson (Herald): Child poverty: High housing costs, poor

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Dodgy Donations: the Labour Party Version

Dodgy Donations: the Labour Party Version

The Serious Fraud Office has charged six people over donations to the Labour Party: The Serious Fraud Office has filed charges after an investigation into donations made to the Labour Party in 2017. The criminal charges are against six people in relation to a donation made to the Labour Party

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