Mary, Mary – why you bugging?
I agree with Mary English’s concerns about euthanasia, but to equate that to youth suicide is ugly.
New Zealand Politics
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – This is not who we are?
If we want to be a more tolerant society we need to demonstrate our willingness to achieve that goal by at least legislating for a fairer distribution of the nation’s wealth.
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It is Christians like Destiny Church who give God a bad name
Jokes aside, how insecure do you need to be in your faith if you have to turn up at the site of an atrocity against another religion to proclaim your God rules this land?
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Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: This week – tech summit, Prince William visit, Scots college Principal Graham Yule and Katie Hopkins
This week – tech summit, Prince William visit, Scots college Principal Graham Yule and Katie Hopkins
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Waatea News Column: At some point Labour have to step up
I like how every Labour party apologist attacks any criticism of this Government’s lack of progress on any of the real issues with ‘how can you expect them to fix a decades worth of National damage in 18months’ – sure, but at the very least I expected them to have an actual plan to fix those problems, not constant excuses and half promises.
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Labour and Capital Gains Tax – Is it a surrender if you fail to fight?
None of Labour’s arguments to explain their failure to deliver a Capital Gains Tax stack up.
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ANZAC Day 2019 – searching for the meaningless in horror
For a juvenile culture and immature country like NZ, attempting to comprehend the magnitude of our slaughter; the contemptible way Māori were treated on returning from war; the lack of support services for those mentally scarred; the sacrifice of pacifists and the pointless murder of our own brutal invasions is more akin to unblinking sheep nervously stepping into the Lourve Museum to study contemporary Art.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – Terrorism is best fought Internationally
I may well be time for our policy makers involved in strategic planning for the best security possible for New Zealand, to consider sending some of our people to complete courses in Russia – rather than send then to FBI courses and end up with raids on Dot Com being perpetrated on behalf of a foreign power.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – The complete take down of NZ Labour & No Matthew I have not been ‘sleeping’ or ‘deliberately misleading’
Yesterday Matthew Craig challenged on Facebook a sentence in my last blog in which I stated the current Labour led coalition ‘has no intention whatsoever of doing anything significant to reduce the gap between haves and the have nots’ . He then offered “ an incomplete list of just some of the things this Labour led coalition has achieved/is working on, in order to ‘reduce the gaps’, and help make this country a better and fairer place to live in”
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Holding the government to account
Someone on 5% Preferred Prime Minister has a credibility issue.