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- Red, Green and Purple
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- Respect
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- Waitangi Tribunal’s authority in Chhour case is upheld – but bill’s introduction to Parliament gazumps the ruling
- TVNZ is loss-making, serves no public service due to bias, and should be liquidated
- The conflicted Covid Chair
- Attacking the smartest and most resilient people in the room is never a good idea
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- Having an enrolment date is not depriving anyone of a vote
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- Time for some perspective
- Lindsay Mitchell
- Time for some perspective
- Meanwhile “… the disturbing trend of increasing violence towards children continues to worsen.”
- Is Oranga Tamariki guilty of child neglect?
- Babies and benefits - no good news
- The case for cultural connectedness
- Welfare: Just two timid targets from the National government
- Cuts will only scratch the surface
- What media bias looks like
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- Child poverty - complex or simple?
- Cactus Kate
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- Valerie Davies
- Oamaru Life
- Dawn over Oamaru Harbour
- The Night Sky in North Otago
- Another New Oamaru Attraction Opens
- Fire and canapés awaiting our guests.
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- New Book on Oamaru and the Waitaki Released
- The Town Bike Opens for Business
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- Karl du Fresne
- Howling at the moon
- The case for objectivity in journalism
- My little spat with Philip Matthews
- The John Campbell question
- The striking outpouring of media empathy for Golriz Ghahraman
- The Crewe murders revisited
- An epic display of dummy-spitting
- A grotesque irony in the honours list
- The gentle whirring of ebikes on the Timber Trail
- Peter Bush: one of the greatest of a great generation
- Stephen Franks
- Who’s calling the shots on co-governance? Lawyers or MPs? Will the Court of Appeal order disclosure?
- How to repeal Labour/Green entrenchment of Water Services control by iwi elite
- Outcomes of the Parliamentary occupation
- Vax resistance and the snobbery of the PMC
- Free Speech Union against name suppression for alleged Wanaka escapees
- Are “local boards” and “community boards” real democracy?
- Continuous Disclosure Folly
- Two good judgments for our times
- Is voluntary reduction of Councillor pay prohibited?
- Minister of Health gets it right – with MTB trip
- Bassett Brash & Hide
- Eugene Doyle: Is New Zealand slurping the AUKUS Kool-Aid?
- DON BRASH: PERHAPS HOUSE PRICES DON’T ALWAYS GO UP
- LINDSAY MITCHELL: Time for some perspective
- MICHAEL BASSETT: WELCOME TO THE CURRENT WELFARE MESS
- WINSTON PETERS: On remarks by Māori Party MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi
- DON BRASH: Letter sent to the Vice Chancellor AUT
- GARY JUDD KC: A law school to be avoided - Auckland University of Technology
- LINDSAY MITCHELL: Meanwhile “… the disturbing trend of increasing violence towards children continues to worsen.”
- OWEN JENNINGS: Radio Spectra and Methane
- MURIEL NEWMAN: Mana or Money
- Not PC
- "You're free to build, but ..."
- "Debt is tax."
- "How did Hipkins, Ardern and Robertson manage to make Kiwis less productive over the six years they were in office?"
- MILEI EXPLAINS: 21 Quotes to explain prosperity and economic freedom
- "The point, today, is that we must reject the categorical 'coloniser' argument. With mockery, whenever possible."
- MMT and Boiling Frogs
- How many journalists understand the 'Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect'?
- The Greek legacy ...
- Predatory Bureaus and Sunset Commissions
- "Lately journalists have been behaving more like lawyers, marshalling evidence in favour of their own view and ignoring anything that doesn’t help their argument."
- WHatSheSaidNZ
- Nobody said it would be easy.
- My toddler will break me before you do.
- Listen to your farmers New Zealand.
- You know you have a toddler 2.0…
- Why I’m ALWAYS late
- There is no Perfect, only Perspective
- 5 Things To Consider Before Going Back To Work…
- Family Planning Anxiety
- Does thinking positively actually work?
- Let’s talk about our mental health
- No Punches Pulled
- Croaking Cassandra
- Barbar’s meaty issues
- Project will identify marketing potential of regenerative agriculture
- Decades of dietary advice misguided
- Meat industry continues to do a superb job
- Long way from being out of the woods yet
- Time for sector to find united voice
- Falling co-product prices prompt changes
- Regulation risks hindering innovation
- Taste Pure Nature one year on
- ANZCO achieves a huge turnaround
- Agility and innovation essential for meat exporters
- Rivetting Kate Taylor
- Uptown Farm
- Barrie Saunders
- Open letter to Hon Paul Goldsmith
- NZTA does not know how much it spends on cones
- Utopia and government
- TV layoffs not a threat to democracy
- Reading deal – rare media bouquet
- Treaty Principles – will the ACT Bill achieve its objectives?
- Labour one of two election losers
- The Australian paradox
- The Australian shows us how.
- How to exit an ethnic rabbit hole – contrast with Australia
- Quoteunquotenz
- Blog the Globe
- Three days in Sydney, celebrating 30 fabulous years
- The Queen Charlotte Track – New Zealand
- Biking the West Coast Wilderness trail
- Salmon fishing at its best
- Panning for gold
- Stopover in Dubai or Oman and arrive in Europe fresh and ready to go
- An active relaxers guide to Arrowtown, NZ
- Sydney – what to do in 48 hours?
- ‘Alps to Ocean’ 5 day cycle
- Secrets you need to know before visiting Tuscany
- Armstrong on Politics
- The Democrats’debacle: some lessons from Donald Trump’s triumph and Hillary Clinton’s humiliation
- Australia’s 60 Minutes; one long hour of tabloid trash
- Gareth Morgan’s Opportunities knocks
- Pheonix rising? Part One. Same old Aussies, always cheating.
- A Little goes the wrong way
- A man in a big hurry
- Craig comes an awful cropper (twice); National counts its blessings it never struck a deal with the Conservatives’ flawed leader
- Something’s in the water; something’s astray in the Bay
- Fox on the run: Marama miscues
- Auckland housing Part One: Not everything is big in Texas
- Breaking Views
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- David Farrar: Jumped up idiots
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- Andrew Dickens: Auckland Transport is proof you can't control a CCO
- Sir Bob Jones: The art market
- Ele Ludemann: “We must be more robust than this”
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- 7 Red Flags That Show You Can’t Trust Your Sales Trainer
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- My New Blog: Sounding Out Dyslexia
- So long, and thanks for all the clicks :)
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- “Choose Your Battles” (and dealing with those who didn’t get their copy of the battle plan)
- Understanding the cuts to IDEA autism services * UPDATED *
- Revelations
- What to look for when choosing a school for a child with special needs, in NZ
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- Seclusion versus Time Out, and Alternatives
- visible hand
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- How did our 2023 forecasts go?
- Where have all the good Boxing Day sales gone
- Unrealised losses, high interest rates, and financial market distress
- What can a new lawnmower tell us about labour markets?
- Cost of job loss: Wage scarring
- Was the New Zealand 2023/24 Budget inflationary?
- How much does benefit abatement influence labour supply?
- Stats Chat
- United Rugby Championship Predictions for Week 17
- Top 14 Predictions for Round 24
- Super Rugby Predictions for Week 13
- Rugby Premiership Predictions for Round 18
- NRL Predictions for Round 11
- AFL Predictions for Week 11
- Super Rugby Predictions for Week 12
- NRL Predictions for Round 10
- AFL Predictions for Week 10
- United Rugby Championship Predictions for Week 16
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- Finding the best solicitors in Sydney
- The importance of insurance for small businesses in New Zealand
- What you need to keep in mind before hiring family lawyers in Sydney
- High-Quality Screen Repairs for Samsung Phones
- What Makes Tax Accountants Important in Every Small Business?
- 4 Major Reasons Why New Businesses Fail
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- How to Organize Your Medicine Cabinet
- NZ’s Got Talent
- My Work Here Is Done - by Mark Weldon
- Self-indulgent Spoiled Brats of the World Unite! - by V for Verity Johnson
- Out There In The Arena - an exclusive extract from Diane Foreman's Biography
- What About Me? - by Jeeves Clifton
- Alex Hazlehust: You've Never Been Loved - by The City of London
- At Least I Am Not on Ashley Madison - by Alex Hazlehurst
- Singing Home The Whale - a Children's book by Nicky and Mandy Hager
- I Will Return - by Dita De Boni
- I Don't Have a Penis, Hear Me Raw - by Rachel Smalley
- Mike's Minute (transcript) - by Mike Hosking
- interest.co.nz
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- Bowalleyroad
- Winding Back The Hands Of History’s Clock.
- Sweet Moderation? What Christopher Luxon Could Learn From The Germans.
- Listening To The Traffic.
- Comity Be Damned! The State’s Legislative Arm Is Flexing Its Constitutional Muscles.
- Ending The Quest.
- Who’s Going Up The Media Mountain?
- The Folly Of Impermanence.
- Apposite Quotations.
- No Longer Trusted: Ageing Boomers, Laurie & Les, Talk Politics.
- In Whose Best Interests?
- Dim Post
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- Election results
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- Story People
- Exercise 2: 5 Days of Practicing Love (for the Real World)
- 5 Days of Practicing Love (for the Real World): Exercise 1
- It's the Middle Things
- Stuff We Just ... Say
- Ingredients of Writing
- Getting That Namaste Going
- Healing Our Creativity
- Buy Like There's a Tomorrow (and it's magical)
- What The Cool Kids Are Doing
- Talking about Peace without Shouting
- Liberty Scott
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion is a fundamentally low-grade, Orwellian anti-liberal project
- Wellington is in a funk
- It might be farewell Newshub, but intelligent TV news disappeared over 30 years ago
- Mining companies, white supremacy, Zionism, neo-colonialism, libertarianism and education vouchers: The fascist programme to establish a racist, oppressive state that will wreck the planet
- A Revelation
- New Zealand politics in 2024
- Some questions for those protesting for Palestine
- Let's talk about international law, Hamas and Israel
- The tolerance for hatred from some MPs
- 2023 General Election what you wont hear
- Open Parachute
- What happens after the war – Mariupol
- In journalism facts should be verifiable
- Elections in Russia and Ukraine
- Why has journalism, and Tucker Carlson, become so controversial?
- RIP Gonzalo Lira
- How could this happen?
- Free Gonzalo Lira!
- A neutral Ukraine would have prevented this mess
- All governments lie – so does the media. Who should you trust?
- Following the war in Ukraine – yeah, right
- Sciblogs
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- Liberation
- Cartoons about Budget 2021
- Cartoons about public sector worker and CEO pay
- Cartoons about the National Party in 2021
- Cartoons about National Party leader Todd Muller
- John Moore: Podcast on the Politics of the Coronavirus crisis
- John Moore: Podcast on International Working Women's Day
- John Moore: Podcast on FGM
- Cartoons about the politics of law and order in NZ
- Cartoons about the NZ First donations scandal
- Cartoons about #MeTooLabour
- YourNZ
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- Imperator Fish
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- Life Behind the Iron Drape
- Signing off - My Last Blog Post | Nicky Hager; Heather Du Plessis-Allan; Deborah Hill-Cone; Giovanni Tiso - Individualism & the Tyranny of Each Other.
- National’s Anti-Money Laundering & Countering Financing of Terrorism Monster - iPredict the State Gulag
- Paris Has Changed Me – Logic Bombing the Left on Multiculturalism.
- Today’s Letter to the Editor | For Anthony Green, Muslim Association of Canterbury.
- I Have the Answer: Individualism … #Paris
- $1 Billion To Tinker With a Bit of Out-Of-The-Box Stasi Software | Women MPs Go Walk About
- If You Support The Voluntary Transactions of Capitalism, Avoid NZ Banks. #Privacy
- Today's Letter to the Editor - Christchurch Press | Euthanasia
- Mils Muliaina and Reversing the Burden of Proof in Sexual Assault Cases.
- Health Minister Jonathan Coleman Stand Down Please – Obesity to the Police State.
- PM of NZ
- Far North councils ready to waste ratepayers hard earnt taxes
- Well, that worked...
- NZ frigate to back Philippines?
- NZTA to give monthly updates on Brynderwyn bypass
- Te Reo Luxon misreads the room
- A random impertinent question...
- Bog Irish stand up for family values
- How's your TDS?
- Comment of the day...
- Air Farce to get new planes?
- Something Should Go Here
- The Ardern Files
- Crickets
- Labour chooses to be fair to beneficiaries
- Morgan Godfery, and the mystery of the inflated job title
- Fact Checkers
- Another church Farrier could raise concerns about
- David Farrier – “churches are the problem (and let me throw in some racism too)”
- No Right Turn – how disgusting that National defends me!
- Suspended from twitter
- Still Around
- Pundit
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- kiwipolitico
- Media Link: “A View from Afar” on the moment of friction, and more.
- The Israel/Palestinian metastasis.
- Policing protests.
- Again, hate crimes are not necessarily terrorism.
- Arguing about a moot point.
- A moment of friction.
- Reminder: “Frenemies” are not friends.
- Unnoticed guests.
- Two offenders, different treatments.
- The boy is home.
- Watching Brief
- Stellar Cafe
- Oamaru Opera House
- Mad March
- A message from OoH Director
- What a Start!!!
- So this is Christmas...
- Aoraki Polytechnic Oamaru Campus Graduation
- Shows at The Oamaru Opera House in 2011
- Oamaru Victorian Heritage Celebrations Programme
- Trash n Treasure This Sunday!!
- Tim Beveridge at The Oamaru Opera House this Saturday night.
- The Great Trash n Treasure Garage Sale November 14th
- Keeping Stock
- Dave Gee life from right field
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- Latitude 44
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