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Kiwi Blog- Black Sea Security Forum Day 1
- Leave David Bain alone
- RIP Keith Locke
- Guest Post: 7 True Battleground States for US President 2024
- General Debate 21 June 2024
- We need a law change
- There are some incredible social entrepreneurs for adults with disability challenges.
- This is what taxpayers fund as health research
- Hilarious Green hypocrisy
- General Debate 20 June 2024
- Inquiring Mind
- RIP Keith Locke
- Guest Post: 7 True Battleground States for US President 2024
- Federal Court Rules Professors Can Be Punished for Disruptive or Uncollegial Speech
- No “Blank Check”: Dean Warns that Criticizing the School or its Leadership is Not Protected at Harvard
- Donald Sutherland – Dead at 88 – RIP
- Claytoonz: Commandments For Hypocrites – Topical Toon – Clay Jones
- Matt in the Morning | ElectionBets – Topical Toon – Matt
- Humour in the Morning – Tracey Ullman – Controversial Statue Review Committee
- Humour in the Morning – The Rev – Impressive Congregation
- Lasting Damage – Topical Toon – Peter Brookes
- No Minister
- MEOW!
- Could the Blues be nervous.
- Seems open and shut serious malfeasance,
- Two More Years Of Life
- A “Jake Dee Standard” Evidence Test.
- No inside Know but!
- Infrastructure Fail II. US Left Strikes Again – for $42 billion
- If “A” Equals “B”, then “C” is entirely possible?
- Eight Years Branding Trump a Racist and White Nationalist has produced this result…
- The Best News! Ever?
- PointOfOrderNZ
- World media report on our latest GDP stats – but RBNZ chairman’s reappointment was too trivial even for the govt’s website
- When unelected officials dominate the local democratic process
- Sheltered workshops and wage top-ups
- Are Maori not New Zealanders?
- Shane Jones and Tama Potaka invite Maori troughers to slurp into a $20m swill and Jones tells us his focus is on … guess what?
- Have Swarbrick’s Greens actually had zero environmental impact, and simply just thrown thousands into poverty?
- 95 days and counting
- We can’t afford cancer drugs – but can afford this?
- More money flows through the infrastructure pipeline – and Public Works Act changes aim to hasten the flow
- Inconvenient truths for eco-zealots
- Lindsay Mitchell
- Oranga Tamariki behind the scenes
- 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
- Is real change on the cards?
- 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.
- Whitestone City Opens in Oamaru
- New Book on Oamaru and the Waitaki Released
- The Town Bike Opens for Business
- So Much is New in Oamaru!
- First Annual Great North Otago Potato Race
- Oamaru’s Pen-y-bryn Lodge on TV
- Karl du Fresne
- A monumental piece of work
- 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
- 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
- JORDAN WILLIAMS: We can't afford cancer drugs, but can afford this?
- JOHN RAINE: Cultural High Noon in our Universities
- GARY JUDD KC: Tikanga Regulations advance a political agenda
- VERITY BLADE: The mess at Massey
- MICHAEL BASSETT: IS PAUL HENRY CORRECT THAT NEW ZEALAND COULD BE COLLAPSING?
- LINDSAY MITCHELL: Oranga Tamariki behind the scenes
- PAUL HENRY: Speech to ACT conference June 9, 2024
- NICOLE McKEE: ACT Conference Speech, June 9, 2024
- DON BRASH: What partnership?
- HAIMONA GRAY: The 'Car-koi' And Partisan Activation
- Not PC
- Only a decade left to save the planet ...
- Models
- Climate: Revealed preference
- "Relations between journalist media and government should always be bad and never on any account should be allowed to get better."
- "Envy was once considered to be one of the Seven Deadly Sins..."
- "There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system."
- "Their wealth is not at the expense of others – it is by providing things of value"
- Giving it the gas [updated]
- "Increased opposition to vaccines is a partial measure of how high a percentage this is."
- Thieving scum
- 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
- A Sahm-type rule for NZ? I think not.
- Foreign direct investment, the Governor, and governments
- The Governor said what?
- Comparing Treasury and Reserve Bank forecasts
- Underwhelming
- Excess demand and the Reserve Bank
- A puzzle
- Reading the MPS numbers thinking about the fiscal situation
- Some old documents (of no immediate interest)
- Two central banks
- 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
- A well reasoned article you won’t see in legacy media which has abdicated its responsibility
- 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.
- Quoteunquotenz
- Blog the Globe
- Tokoriki Island Resort – 20 photos to inspire you
- Beautiful Mallorca – where to stay and what to do
- 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?
- 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
- Heather du Plessis-Allan: Why Transpower's press conference backfired this morning
- Breaking Views Update: Week of 16.6.24
- David Farrar: Leave David Bain alone
- Jeffrey McNeill: Resource management is always political
- Mike Grimshaw: Buggered, knackered, no.8 – and she’ll be right…
- Peter Dunne: Health and Safety laws
- Untitled
- Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 21/6/24
- Dr Eric Crampton: Sheltered workshops and wage top-ups
- Dr Bryce Wilkinson: Good to see a workplace Health and Safety review
- Agrarian
- Rural Sales Managers: Why You Need To Stop Managing By Spreadsheet
- The Trouble With Being A “Trusted Advisor”
- The 3 Things You Have To Give Up To Be Great At Rural Sales
- 5 Ways To Sell Your Sales Team on CRM
- The One Critical Missing Ingredient That Is Robbing You Of Real Rural Sales Success
- Why Are You Watering The Concrete?
- “We Don’t Focus on Our Competition…”
- 10 Reasons Why The Traditional Sales Training Industry Is Broken & How You Fix It
- Elevate Rural Sales: It’s Not What You Sell, But How You Sell
- The 5 Most Effective Ways To Retain Your Top Rural Sales Talent
- Offsetting Behaviour
- Autism & Oughtimsms
- My New Blog: Sounding Out Dyslexia
- So long, and thanks for all the clicks :)
- Five (or Six) Diagnoses, Two Woo-tastic Communities, and an Eight Year Old Under a Pohutukawa Tree
- Drowning in Need: Autism and Swimming in New Zealand
- “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
- We Stand Together, or We Fall Apart
- Seclusion versus Time Out, and Alternatives
- visible hand
- What is an ATAR and what does this have to do with income?
- Pandemic preferences – the case of housing
- New Year, New Steam Sale
- 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 the Final
- Top 14 Predictions for the Semi-finals
- Super Rugby Predictions for the Super Rugby Final
- NRL Predictions for Round 16
- AFL Predictions for Week 16
- United Rugby Championship Predictions for the Semi-Finals
- Top 14 Predictions for the Quarter-finals
- Super Rugby Predictions for the Semi-finals
- NRL Predictions for Round 15
- AFL Predictions for Week 15
- Macdoctor
- 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
- You Can Heal Anything: You Are the New Medicine
- 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
- The Illusion of Power: How Local Government Bureaucrats Overawe Democratically-Elected Councillors..
- Numbers Game.
- Māori Cannot Re-Write New Zealand’s Constitution By Stealth.
- Nobody Move: Ageing Boomers, Laurie & Les, Talk Politics.
- In Search Of Unity.
- The Disease That Didn't Spread.
- Communication Breakdown.
- Communication Breakdown: Roy Orbison.
- Earning The Huia Feather.
- Paranoia On The Left.
- 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
- Flight of chance
- Removing bureaucrats from your next build [updated]
- Yes!
- Time to get off the fence Mr Luxon
- Winston's taxi service in air yet again [update]
- Rescue flights on again
- Over target!
- Far North councils ready to waste ratepayers hard earnt taxes
- Well, that worked...
- NZ frigate to back Philippines?
- 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
- Differentiating between democracy and republic.
- Media Link: AVFA on post-colonial blowback.
- Te Pati Loco?
- Thoughts about contemporary troubles.
- Media Link: AVFA on the implications of US elections.
- Setting things straight.
- 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.
- 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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