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Showing posts with label New Zealand Parliament. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Zealand Parliament. Show all posts
Friday, October 10, 2025

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Did someone try to stop the Māori Party from hijacking Parliament?

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It's happened again, unfortunately - the Māori Party has hijacked Parliament once again with a haka. It played out like this: Oriini Kai...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Wendy Geus: Van Velden's action showed much needed frugality - why is the PM not listening?

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A desperate PM's latest ideas to improve the economy involve increasing tourism and house prices rising (sensible Bishop wants them to k...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2024

John Robinson: New Zealand nonsense (two). Voting by race - Unequal Maori seats

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I am a scientist, a mathematician. It always seemed obvious that the aim was to work with numbers to uncover the truth. That was impossibly...
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Frank Newman: Straight Talk - The Sovereignty of Parliament

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In 2021 three district councils initiated legal proceedings in the High Court against the Three Water’s proposal: Whangarei, Waimakariri, an...
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Thursday, February 3, 2022

Garrick Tremain: Ardern's Parliament

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  Here is Garrick Tremain's cartoon commentary on the power-base in Parliament!  
Saturday, August 7, 2021

Nicholas Kerr: Unleashing New Zealand’s Potential and Suppressing Washington State’s—Lessons for Texas

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This speech was delivered to the Dallas Chapter of the Bastiat Society on June 17, 2021. In 1847, French economist Frédéric Bastiat, this so...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Trevor Mallard has made things worse

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  If Trevor Mallard was hoping that appearing before the select committee today was going to make things better for himself, he misjudged th...
Friday, December 11, 2020

Barry Soper: Trevor Mallard should resign for his disgraceful behaviour

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  Trevor Mallard should resign from The Speaker's job before he faces a vote of no confidence when Parliament resumes sitting in Februar...
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Monday, November 23, 2020

Kate Hawkesby: John Key's appearance highlights National's current lack of leadership

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  The problem with Sir John Key speaking at the National Party AGM is that he looks, sounds, and acts like a leader. And all that does is sh...
Monday, October 19, 2020

Mike Hosking: Labour has the place to themselves - what are they going to do?

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The upside for Labour is they’ve got the place to themselves. Which is good for the markets. Markets don’t like the Greens, they don’t like ...
Friday, July 24, 2020

Karl Du Fresne: Collins must be well pleased

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Two leading figures on the left have given Judith Collins the most ringing endorsement imaginable. Matt McCarten  and  Nicky Hager...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Kate Hawkesby: Judith Collins is all business and takes nothing personally

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Been away for a couple of weeks, did anything happen? What a fortnight of news - and here’s what I’ve found refreshing about this time...
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Thursday, March 12, 2020

Bob Edlin: Here’s your chance to let Parliament know what you think of its curbs on Henry VIII (and other) powers

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We were about to pack up the office PC and spend the rest of the weekend relaxing when we were alerted to an exercise in Parlia...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Kate Hawkesby: Parliament's only real bully is Speaker Trevor Mallard - he needs to go

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What a shambles. As I said when he first did it, I am completely bewildered as to why Trevor Mallard chose to play judge, jury and tow...
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Saturday, September 23, 2017

NZCPR Weekly: A New Parliament and the Labelling of Food

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Dear NZCPR Reader,    Since this week’s newsletter is going out as the voting booths for the 2017 General Election are closing, w...