GUEST BLOG: Winston Peters – The 2017 Budget
Speech by New Zealand First Leader and Northland MP Rt Hon Winston Peters
Public Meeting,
Forbury Racecourse, Bart Winters Room,
45 McAndrews Rd,
South Dunedin.
10.30am, Wednesday, May 24, 2017
New Zealand Politics
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GUEST BLOG:: Willie Jackson – Time to turn the tables on the tobacco companies
We have a violent crime wave in our community and it is time we were honest about it.
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This Is Your [Former] Police Minister On Drugs
Earlier this week, somebody asked Judith Collins what she thought of Gareth Morgan. Ever the diplomat, her curt response was that if she wound up having to deal with him … she’d “probably take up drugs”. No word, as yet, on whether she’d also find this necessary working with Winston.
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Auditor-General Martin Matthews has now become a political lightening rod – Bill English has to sack him
If English doesn’t do something he looks weak, if he does do something now he at least cauterises the wound before Winston can barnstorm across the provinces with it.
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Alfred Ngaro never considered resigning for threatening social agencies who criticise National’s failed policies
The shallowness of National’s lies when they get caught being what we always suspect them of being are as craven as they are ugly.
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Well come on Judith – are you a crusher or a coward? Will you front for a cannabis debate or not?
…so come on then Judith, are you the great big bad Crusher or are you a Coward? Front the debate and argue your case as to why Cannabis should remain illegal.
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Paula Bennett’s call to tip is National’s new plan to subcontract out lifting wages without raising minimum wage
…so let’s get this fucking straight. Bennett wants to champion a system that is racist, sexist, ageist and xenophobic?
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So what Judith Collins is really saying is that she would have supported Apartheid
It doesn’t matter how unjust the law is, it doesn’t matter that it is needlessly locking up thousands and thousands of NZers in prison, it doesn’t matter if it gives the Police unreasonable search powers, it doesn’t matter that the law is a disgusting hypocrisy, all that matters is that it’s the law no matter how awful that law is.
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A Radically Reasonable Proposal For Cigarettes And Dairy Owners
The ongoing travails of our nation’s convenience store and dairy operators have grown to such a scale that even those perennial champions of Ostrich Economics in our Government are unable to ignore them.
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Dave Macpherson – Being part of the Health Establishment means never having to say sorry
A leading suicide prevention campaigner published a social media post on the weekend asking why the Southern District Health Board had yet to apologise to her family over the poor care for her son, who was a victim of suicide 4 years ago.