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Pay Equity: Polls up or Balls Up?

Pay Equity: Polls up or Balls Up?

With one week to go until the next budget, the coalition appears to have gained some momentum while their polling numbers improve. The challenge for Nicola Willis is to ensure the numbers in the books do the same next week.

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The Trump Blame Game

The Trump Blame Game

To prepare you for such an eventuality and smooth your path to social success, I have set out the rules to the game. Drink should be taken of the alcoholic sort: the better to enable participants to vent their anti-Trump animus free of sober restraint.

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We Need Adults in the Room

We Need Adults in the Room

NZ will not move towards a new economic dispensation unless it is convinced the politicians offering it are serious, responsible and competent individuals. Men and women who know what men and women are and refuse to divide their fellow citizens along ethnic lines.

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Hopes for a New Pope

Hopes for a New Pope

There are 1.4 billion of us Catholics and unlike the world’s Muslims, our doctrines, religious practices and moral priorities are theoretically decided by one man.

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