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The Good Oil is a new media website focused on New Zealand and overseas political news and views
Auckland
Joined May 2019
#AUSPolitics Blowing a Fortune and Saving a Penny: As I wrote recently, hysterical claims by the public servant’s unions that the Albanese government is about to ‘slash’ the public service are about as convincing as Bruce Pascoe’s claims to be… https://t.co/jppzo6GCVU
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#USAPolitics #Business A Generous Gift: SnDMedia Sinne na Daoine Media: The people’s media network. *Breaking* local, national and international news. In a historic act of Giving Tuesday generosity, tech titan Michael Dell and his wife Susan have… https://t.co/bgWAZ2x1z5
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#USAPolitics The TSA’s New https://t.co/UaJaOKQC3V Tax: Adam Dick Adam worked from 2003 through 2013 as a legislative aide for Rep. Ron Paul. Back in March of 2014, I wrote about how the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) operates an extortion… https://t.co/LgNO2mB0qw
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#Crime Did Predators Hide in Plain Sight?: Sometimes, the predators hide in plain sight, with the aid of camouflage. Consider a pussy-hatted Harvey Weinstein protesting at a Women’s March in 2017. Or woke male feminist Neil Gaiman. Or any of a long,… https://t.co/r4tjmLgH5X
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UK Grooming Gangs: 385 Hidden Convictions Revealed: DTNZ Following intervention by Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick in April 2025 and a legal battle by Open Justice UK, the judiciary has begun releasing sentencing transcripts from 90 grooming… https://t.co/WJUTU70UKj
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#WorldPolitics #Israel When Anti-Israel Hate Crosses the Line: Greg Bouwer IINZ Last week, the world witnessed a chilling escalation in anti-Israel extremism. An anonymous English-language website calling itself “The Punishment for Justice Movement”… https://t.co/2ugfS24Nvq
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#AUSPolitics #Immigration Why Do Young Australians Vote Against Their Interests?: It’s called ‘pathological altruism’: a narcissistic need to be so seen to be ‘nice’ and ‘kind’ that they end up inflicting shocking harm. Think of the ‘refugees welcome’,… https://t.co/t58VLoktYW
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#Canada #Health Euthanasia Has Surged To Become One of Canada’s Top Killers: Family First writers Canada, famous for its ice hockey and maple syrup, now tops the global chart for euthanasia deaths. The 2024 Canadian report on medical assistance in… https://t.co/knSqC42BgO
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#Polls The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll: Take our Daily Opinion Poll and see how your views compare to other readers and then share the poll on social media. By sharing the poll you will help even more readers to discover The Good Oil. --- https://t.co/ZupX6KTFs0
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#NZPolitics #Business The Great New Zealand Switch: Peter MacDonald For more than a century New Zealanders built a railway system for the public good. Generations of taxpayers funded it, maintained it and relied on it: a national asset designed to… https://t.co/dofL5uJgKU
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#USAPolitics Now for the Excuses: Simon O’Connor Husband, step-father, foster dad, and longtime student of philosophy and history. Also happen to be a former politician, including chairing New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Committee. As… https://t.co/W0azMiCju7
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#NZPolitics #LabourParty Should We Trust Labour: Definitely not. There have been a few clangers recently. Some are hypocritical, some are laced with irony, some have both and some are straight out misleading. Labour’s spokesperson on local government,… https://t.co/CECoJxyH48
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#NZPolitics #Law This Matters for All Whistleblowers: NZDSOS media team On 11 December 2025, Barry Young will appear in Wellington District Court for a voir dire hearing that will determine whether his actions qualify as a protected disclosure under… https://t.co/5t73qQ8hbu
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#Politics #NZPolitics Health Select Committee Blows Up Over Nicotine Pouches, But Ayesha Verrall’s Hypocrisy Steals the Show: Costello is trying to balance harm reduction with protections for kids, but Verrall and her Otago mates are too busy protecting… https://t.co/d81DrBSW3q
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#Debates Good Oil General Debate: Good morning, welcome to our daily General Debate. Our evening General debate is called Backchat and will start at 6 pm. On General debate, you are encouraged as a commenter to share your own stories, discuss other… https://t.co/HzpeCs1Gyg
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#FaceoftheDay #NZPolitics Face of the Day: Te Tai Tokerau MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi is arguing that John Tamihere, the Pāti Māori boss ultimately responsible for her being booted from the party, is unlawfully in the role of party president. That claim… https://t.co/MHqJ7YXWTH
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#General #WordoftheDay The Good Oil Word of the Day: The word for today is… lout (verb, noun) - verb 1: to bow in respect 2: submit, yield noun : an awkward brutish person Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Lout belongs to a large group of words… https://t.co/GU8WeAUphX
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#DailyBibleVerse The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse: Lamentations 5 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. https://t.co/iGpDATjj7U
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