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In a recent Herald article Fran O'Sullivan asks a very pertinent question, what has happened to the investigation of the $100,000 donation made to National that was partitioned so that it did not have to be reported? The background was described in this way in…
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In what was very unfortunate timing for John Tamihere's launch of his Mayoral campaign the Roastbusters issue is back in the public eye. To recap the roast busters were a group of young predominately westie males who used to get young women drunk and then…
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This post is a place for positive discussion of the future. This post is prompted by TS regular Robert Guyton who suggested we have a dedicated thread where “the way forward can be discussed, within parameters such as doable suggestions, successful examples, contributions from readers…
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Pear shaped President Donald Trump has had a pear shaped day. Before dawn, armed FBI agents took Trump advisor Roger Stone off to court, where he arrived in handcuffs to face multiple charges of lying to the Mueller enquiry. Later in the morning, Trump caved…
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The secret is now out. A few of us on the left have known the identity for months but have chosen not to publish it. The next time that someone says the left is just like the right remind them of this. David Fisher in…
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I don't know what it is about the Taxpayer's Union (*not a real union) but they really annoy. Perhaps it is the use of the word "Union". You can imagine Jordan Williams, David Farrar and various other doyens of the right sitting around a table…
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Fark me. Last night when perusing twitter I came across a Stuff article which had this headline: Justice minister's UN speech compared to David Cunliffe apologising for being a man This bought up a flood of memories. I recall clearly the day David Cunliffe said…
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Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaidó has declared himself interim President in an attempt to force recently re-elected President Nicolás Maduro from office. The apparent coup was immediately welcomed by Donald Trump who said he would use the “full weight” of US economic and diplomatic power…
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There's an ad campaign that says "New Zealand is doing Australia better than Australia is", and recommends federation of New Zealand with Australia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUrliRmhiyA And proposes Jacinda as Prime Minister of them all. Imagine. Australia recompenses every single Aboriginal group and they get to tell…
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Jami Lee-Ross has resurfaced. Clearly he is not going to disappear. And National must be sweating. He has written this very personal facebook post which makes it clear he is not going anywhere. I just can’t be driven by hatred anymore, or the pursuit of…
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There’s something I’d like explained. Why is it that right now some countries can have weak governments and the economies just surge ahead? Why is political agency shearing away from economic change? New Zealand appears to be generally protected from the vicissitudes of economic instability…
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National started off the year doing what National does and launched into an attack on beneficiaries. Same old same old. But at a time when unemployment is low and things are going well it was somewhat predictable. Not to mention cynical. Simon Bridges kicked things…
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The privileged white kid who smugly insulted native American singer Nathan Phillips has put out a statement so Trump like in its self pitying tone that it may actually be parody. Nicholas Sandmann says that far from taking the piss out the Native American elder…
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Reprinted from gregpresland.com. Hugh Pavletich of Demographia has released its annual review of housing affordability. The results are not surprising. New Zealand continues to perform poorly on any matrix associated with affordable housing. From Radio New Zealand: The annual Demographia International Housing Affordability shows New…
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There's a post up on Whaleoil detailing the health status of Cameron Slater. In short, he's had a stroke and is pretty buggered. The rumours have been going around since late last year and it turns out he had two medical events in October, one…
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