William McGimpsey🇳🇿
@TheZeitgeistNZ
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Public Policy Professional | Free Speech Advocate | Political Commentator 🎙️
Joined November 2021
“By using empirical arguments rooted in social science I wanted to demonstrate that it’s not just that woke ideology is unpopular, disliked, or perceived as oppressive or extreme by large parts of the population: I wanted to show that key woke beliefs are false, and key woke
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When the point of your “protest” is to shut down other people’s events and prevent their speech, then YOU are the authoritarians. Posie Parker was reportedly egged, prevented from speaking, and evacuated, as trans protesters stormed the stage at Albert Park.
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Here’s how the highest-rated news show in the US covered Kellie-Jay Keen’s event in Auckland - not good publicity for New Zealand.
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The violent mob shutdown of Posie Parker’s talk has now gone global. Video has spread like wildfire. Significant media figures with large audiences have highlighted the atrocious and violent behaviour. There are now calls to boycott travel to NZ, to no longer purchase our beef.
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GREAT REPLACEMENT UPDATE:. New Zealand Europeans dropped to 55.9% of the population at the 2023 Census according to Stats NZ’s data explorer tool, which was released today. New Zealand’s ethnic composition in 2023 was as follows:. European 55.9%.Maori 7.3%.Maori/Euro hybrid 8.2%
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Sean Plunket has been suspended from Twitter. He was one of the few Kiwi journalists to report fairly on Kellie-Jay Keen’s visit to New Zealand and the violent mob of trans activists that attacked her. @elonmusk - please reinstate his account.
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Candace Owens has been denied a visa by Immigration New Zealand, who cited as a reason her earlier exclusion from Australia. This is outrageous. She has done nothing wrong except voice opinions certain groups don’t like.
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Donald Trump: “I wouldn’t go to France. Because France is no longer France…This world better be very careful and they better get very tough and very smart.”.#FranceRiots
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First Australia cancels Candace Owens’ visa, and now NZ immigration officials are thinking of doing the same. That’s bullshit. Let her in, let her speak, and let people have a real debate about it. We are supposed to be a free country with free speech.
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WATCH: Tucker Carlson mocks Jacinda Ardern while speaking to an audience in Australia…
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I’m a supporter of New Zealand’s coalition government, but watching Trump make epoch-defining changes like ending DEI, affirmative action and birthright citizenship in his first couple of days while Luxon delivers a bland speech focused exclusively on economic growth (and the.
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WATCH: Nadine Strossen, former President of the American Civil Liberties Union, argues that Posie Parker SHOULD have been able to deliver her talk in Auckland, and that the radical trans activists did NOT have the right to shout her down.
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Trans activists beclowned themselves again today by attempting to shut down another ‘Let Women Speak’ event in Auckland. This time, to their credit, NZ Police turned up in force to protect the women and ensure the event went ahead.
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Clips of the Maori Party’s antics in Parliament yesterday are now trending worldwide - pretty embarrassing for NZ. The haka was piss-poor too - if you’re going to do a big publicity stunt like this, you need to put more work into the choreography.
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Matt King: “In relation to what happened yesterday with the protest with Posie Parker…In this country we support the right to speak freely. We support your right to say what you need to say…So for us at Democracy NZ it’s abhorrent what happened.”
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WATCH: Shane Jones discusses the new government’s approach to te reo:. “I speak the language. All of my children speak the language. But we don’t turn it into a religion. We don’t turn it into an obligation for every pakeha CEO or member of the bureaucracy…”
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LISTEN: Chris Hipkins doubles down on his statement that: “There were no compulsory vaccinations.”
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Muriel Newman: “What happened to Posie Parker was a disgrace. The inflammatory comments by Ministers of the Crown, the false reporting by the media, the Police failing to protect a vulnerable woman in extreme danger, verged on State-sanctioned activism.”.
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No Helen. The whole basis for DEI policies is a lie. Socio-economic disparities are not caused by systemic discrimination, they are caused by innate group differences across factors like average IQ. DEI doesn’t cure systemic discrimination, it IS systemic discrimination.
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Brendon Pascoe, former owner of Lone Star New Lynn.
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Some highlights from the coalition agreement:.- A full wide-scale inquiry into the COVID response, including vaccine efficacy.- An end to all remaining mandates.- An end to co-governance and race-based policies.- Gender and sexuality curriculum removed from schools.- No hate
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Five changes New Zealand’s government has planned for schools:.1. Remove gender ideology. 2. Ban cellphones. 3. Bring back charter schools. 4. One hour of reading, writing and maths per day. 5. De-wokeify the history curriculum. Sounds like a plan to get New Zealand back on
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Karl du Fresne: “We are in an extraordinary situation where the mainstream media are openly at war with an elected government. This has never happened before in my lifetime, and to my knowledge never in New Zealand history. Having adopted a nauseatingly sycophantic approach to
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GREAT REPLACEMENT UPDATE:. The two most common family names given to children born in New Zealand in 2024 were “Singh” and “Kaur” - not exactly traditional kiwi names are they…. Indians are the fastest growing ethnic group in NZ - we brought in 21,000 last year and 44,000 the
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WATCH: Jack Tame struggles through an interview trying in vain to understand why Kiwis don’t trust the news - I’m not sure how much louder we can say it Jack, it’s because you’re biased, you took the PIJF money, you propped up the tyrant Ardern, you call ordinary Kiwis bigots if
The JMAD Trust in News Report for 2025 has been released. Key findings:.- Only 32% of Kiwis “trust most of the News most of the time”, one point lower than last year. - Kiwis trust in news is significantly lower than the global average, and we have one of the lowest trust
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Muriel Newman - Goodbye Jacinda . “So how will Jacinda Ardern be remembered?…Maybe the answer is too confronting for Jacinda, as virtually every aspect of her administration has resulted in failure. But her most glaring disaster will be the way she has
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The reason someone like Ben Doyle can get into Parliament in the first place, then avoid negative mainstream media coverage when he’s busted for being a sicko, is that we live in an oppressive politically correct culture. This causes people to think twice about raising objections
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BREAKING: The Manawanui sank due to “human error” - they had the autopilot on, which steered them into the reef, but the crew were too dumb to realise why manual steering was unresponsive. The ship was fine, they just didn’t know how to operate it.
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WATCH: Posie Parker will NOT return to New Zealand due to concerns for her safety. She has slammed New Zealand’s Police, Government and media as corrupt and captured by woke ideology and so decided she cannot trust them to protect her.
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WATCH: Winston Peters declares a “War on Woke” at his State of the Nation speech in Christchurch.
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Richard Prebble has resigned from his position at the Waitangi Trubunal. He says the Tribunal has “turned the Treaty upside down” and made it into a “socialist manifesto”.
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WATCH: Young New Zealander of the Year Shaneel Lal spreads the most vicious and evil lies imaginable about Kellie-Jay Keen/@ThePosieParker.
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The protester who doused Kellie-Jay Keen with tomato juice - Eli Rubashkyn - has been charged with assault and summoned to appear in the Auckland District Court. However, at 11.51am today she tweeted a picture of herself on a plane en route to New York.
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Dr Muriel Newman: “We are witnessing a remarkable turnaround in New Zealand politics…putting together a reform agenda of such detail and importance in less than three weeks – to finally shut the door on the destructive Ardern era – is an outstanding achievement.”
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Big political scandal here - Stats NZ is investigating allegations that hundreds of census forms collected by Manurewa Marae staff were photocopied and retained, and data entered into an online database and sent to the Waipareira Trust. They believe that information was then used
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Since leaving politics, Jacinda Ardern has devoted her whole life to revenge against her online critics by censoring them off the internet. What a petty, vile and totalitarian little woman.
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Everything Jacinda Ardern did made New Zealand worse: she’s a failed leader by any metric, yet she gets awards left, right and centre - this time for “extraordinary individuals and organisations whose work embodies the values and purposes of the UN”.🤢🤮.
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Is Benjamin Doyle still an MP?. If the Greens refuse to fire him they’ll forever be known as the “Pedo-Party”.
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The Inflection Point NZ conference is about to get underway. There’s probably around 100 or so protesters outside - they’ve been throwing excrement at attendees. Smells terrible outside. Unbelievable degeneracy.
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Best wishes to Brian Tamaki who is in court today dealing with charges for organising and leading anti-mandate and anti-lockdown protests. Political persecution anyone?.
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WATCH: Winston Peters calls out the media for taking $55 million in bribes from the government in the form of the Public Interest Journalism Fund.
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WATCH: Sean Plunket speaks to Rita Panahi about recent events in New Zealand:. “We have changed the name of our country. English is no longer officially really our first language or encouraged. We are abandoning democracy for a thing called co-governance…we have a bureaucracy
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Former Broadcaster Peter Williams blasts the New Zealand media as “bought and paid for” because of COVID advertising and the Public Interest Journalism Fund. Amazing speech!
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Some progress in terms of mainstream media coverage here - covering the fact he posted pedo-related stuff, acknowledgment that gay people think it’s wrong too, and even some hints at the end that Doyle himself might be in the wrong, rather than merely being the victim.
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The Platform is fielding call after call from women who were at the Posie Parker event on Saturday, many are shaken, fearful, distraught at the violence they witnessed.👇. New Zealand’s mainstream media and politicians have gotten this horribly wrong.
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New Zealand is a country created BY British settlers and Maori, FOR British settlers and Maori. It was never intended to be a realm of diversity and inclusion for all the world’s peoples - that idea is a modern woke fiction only made possible by politically correct brainwashing.
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Ryan Bridge: “The problem here is that you look like the most chaotic Cabinet this country’s ever seen!”. Chris Hipkins : “Oh that’s ridiculous Ryan. I think that’s absolutely ridiculous.”. Ryan: “Really!?”
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We’re not going to be lectured to about the “limits” of democratic acceptability by Fabian Socialists that conspired to subvert and destroy Western Civilisation through cultural marxism and the Great Replacement.
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Newshub is going to close down at the end of June, with dozens of high-profile presenters and journalists out of jobs. There will be lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth over this, and cries about muh Fourth Estate and it’s importance to democracy etc. But this is really just
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Trump wins. Republicans will control the Presidency, Senate, House of Representatives and Supreme Court. It’s a historic mandate, and a rout of the liberal establishment. There are no excuses for not implementing the policy agenda he campaigned on. Let the deportations begin!
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David Seymour: “I think one of the bigger meta-problems we have as a society right now is that people are so worried about being offended, people are so worried about anything going wrong, that we become totally risk averse, we become totally fragile, and we fail to solve the
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Rodney Hide: “I am a single-issue voter. I will vote for anyone or any party promising a full inquiry into the safety of the covid-19 vaccine and the treatment of the vaxxed injured. I don’t care about their other policies.”.
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Peaceful protest is always best, but I’m not going to bash Brian Tamaki or his crew. They are one of the few groups making a meaningful stand against the rainbow madness. Promoting this stuff to kids is sick and evil and should not be tolerated in any sane and decent society.
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People at the UN we’re talking during Winston Peters speech, so he stopped and told them to “keep quiet” while he was addressing them.
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A court has found NZ Police used excess force against Alexander Lawrence and Laura Cassin during the Parliament protest. Read more -
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David Seymour: ���I think people are sick and tired of being told they can’t have a conversation about the future of their country by being shouted down and called a racist. People are over it.”
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It was a rabid, violent mob at Saturday’s protest against Posie Parker, and Marama Davidson’s comments bashing “cis white men” were despicable, racist, and more importantly, untrue. Why does New Zealand’s Prime Minister Chris Hipkins find it so hard to condemn this stuff?
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Ben Doyle used to work for the Burnett Foundation. The Burnett Foundation gets millions of dollars a year from Health NZ. It promotes a lot of sick stuff that ordinary Kiwis oppose. There are a whole bunch of so-called “rainbow” organisations like this that receive taxpayer
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WATCH: Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters excoriates the Maori Party in his first speech back in Parliament - basically calling them a bunch of woke poseurs who are “all talk, no action.”
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Chloe Swarbrick is one of Parliament’s chief backers of hate speech laws, yet here she is arguing: “it isn’t hate speech when it’s causes I care about”. This is the problem with hate speech laws - what counts as ‘hateful’ is completely subjective.
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Tourism New Zealand’s Twitter account has been overwhelmed by negative comments and calls to boycott NZ from people horrified at Posie Parker’s treatment. Our Government and media have done serious damage to our global reputation and tourism industry.
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Mike Hosking on the Ardern Government’s economic vandalism: “These wreckers are the worst Government we have seen in our lifetime…Who stands up from the Labour Party…and backs those decisions…We have rarely lived such chaotic…criminal negligence.”
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Gloriavale is being debanked because BNZ says it violates its “human rights policy”. I’m not here to defend Gloriavale (don’t know a lot about it), but I know that enforcing human rights is the job of the justice system, not banks - no more debanking!.
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The disgraceful scenes we saw in Auckland’s Albert Park today are the result of weaponised mainstream media narratives that whipped the transgender mob into a fury - your Public Interest Journalism Funding at work. It’s a day of shame for mainstream media, the Left, and the.
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Not sure why Hipkins thinks it’s ok to slur white people as “red necks” when equivalent slurs against other groups are off limits. Also “bringing people together”? The guy led one of the most divisive governments in recent history.
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More developments on the Manurewa Marae scandal - new allegations suggest that cellphone numbers, used as part of the COVID vaccination drive, were appropriated by the Waipareira Trust and used to send text messages to Maori voters during the election, urging them to vote for the
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WATCH: Winston Peters unloads on the biased and corrupt media for taking the Public Internet Journalism Fund money and then acting like “a bunch of fifth columnists.”
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Anti-lockdown protester Billy Te Kahika had had his prison sentence overturned on appeal. Merry Christmas Billy TK!.
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WATCH: Lord Jonathan Sumption, who has been called “the cleverest man in Britain”, criticises New Zealand’s “excessive” COVID response, which failed to take into account “the enormous collateral costs of locking people down”.
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Anti-white media bias from Newstalk ZB - pathetic!.
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Chris Trotter: “The reason I cannot bring myself to vote for either Labour or the Greens is very simple: it’s because they are joyless; because the logical end-point of the ideology they espouse is one of universal dissatisfaction and unending conflict.”.
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Winston courted the freedom community and now he’s over line we need to see policy gains in the coalition agreement:.1. Full COVID inquiry. 2. End co-governance. 3. No more censorship based on hate speech/disinformation. 4. Gender ideology out of schools & women’s sports/toilets.
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Rodney Hide: “It’s not about toilets or transvestites. It’s about demoralising men and women. Erasing the difference. It’s about the destruction of marriage and the family and care of women and children. It’s about men losing their ability to stand up and to fight. It’s the
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Another interesting sidebar to the Inflection Point NZ conference yesterday was the behaviour of the staff in the Takina Convention Centre:. When I arrived at the centre I asked at the reception desk on the ground floor where the Inflection Point Conference was being held. They
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Stats NZ has been caught fudging the census data to make the Maori proportion of the population look bigger than it is. According to analysis by Dr Muriel Newman at NZCPR, 723,051 respondents indicated Maori descent in the Census, but Stats NZ has gone through and added a further
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Here’s a little bit of a history lesson that helps explain New Zealand’s poor social cohesion. From 1840-1960 the bulk of laws New Zealand passed on immigration were about keeping Chinese, Indians and basically anyone not white British out of New Zealand. We passed no fewer than.
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David Seymour: “Where does this debate come from around transgender rights? …We have a tyranny of the minority, where the majority tremor in fear that if they even ask basic questions they will be ostracised, pilloried, cancelled and doxxed…it is completely wrong.”
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Maybe Americans just didn’t want their country transed into a woke third-world shithole.
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TRANSLATION: We’re getting owned in the comments so we’re ‘shutting it down’. Our media are cowardly and intellectually dishonest, and also just not that bright.
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In a big win for free speech, the Department of Internal Affairs has backed off the Ardern Government proposal to set up a “Ministry of Truth” to regulate the internet. The “Safer Online Services and Media Platforms” proposal would have forced social media platforms including
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Kiwi sporting legend and cultural icon Marc Ellis says he’s leaving New Zealand to live in Italy, citing the same malaise that many Kiwis are feeling after five years of Labour government…
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WATCH: New revelations in the Manurewa Marae scandal - John Tamihere and his crew are caught discussing collecting peoples voting forms and “ticking the box for them” on a Facebook live in October 2022 - when three people from the Marae - Tash Kemp, Rangi McLean and Hilda Peters
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First the Disinformation Project is shut down, now Jacinda Ardern’s ‘Violent Extremism Research Centre’ has been defunded. Good to see at least some of the previous Government’s woke bullshit being rolled back.
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Stuff have announced that they will no longer post their news stories to X (formerly Twitter), calling the platform a “cesspit” that is riddled with misinformation. This is a bit like telling your family that you’re no longer going to participate in the dinnertime conversation,
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From 15 June New Zealanders will be legally able to change the sex on their birth certificate, but a new poll shows that most Kiwis are against it. Why did our MPs unanimously pass this law in December 2021?.
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WATCH: A woke reporter asks Christopher Luxon if it “worries him” that his audience is critical of the Waitangi Tribunal, World Economic Forum and the overuse of Te Reo. Luxon, to his credit, tells the reporter he needs to get out of Wellington and listen to real people.
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Tired of being owned in the comments, 1 News has followed RNZ, Newshub and Stuff by withdrawing from posting news stories direct to X. What does it say about the news industry that they’re happy to lecture audiences from on high, but pack a sad and slink off when required to
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Dr Muriel Newman - Regime Change . “Under Labour, New Zealand had increasingly become a 1984-like dystopian society, where saying the wrong thing could get you ‘cancelled’ – fired, socially ostracised, even jailed. Former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was so obsessed with
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Shane Jones: “I want to be absolutely clear and honest: I don’t understand why the Waitangi Tribunal believes it has the power and authority to gainsay a newly elected government with an electoral mandate to change things.”
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The “MAORI GRIEVANCE COMPLEX” - the Manurewa Marae/Waiparera Trust scandal is symptomatic of a wider problem - successive governments on both the Left and Right in New Zealand have poured money into what I’m going to tactfully describe as “Maori bullshit”, encouraging the
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WATCH: A Sky News Australia panel savages Jacinda Ardern, calling her “a grandstander” and “not a leader” who left New Zealand as “a basket case.”
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Karl du Fresne - A Day of Shame. “Anyone who witnessed what happened to Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, aka Posie Parker, saw a mortal blow being delivered to New Zealand’s reputation as a civil, liberal democracy where the rule of law applies.”.
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Rather than doing their job and asking questions about why Ben Doyle was posting pedofile-related terms and symbols on social media, they are defending him and attacking Winston Peters. The media are the enemies of the people.
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Sanjana Hattotuwa: “[The trans community] are being hounded, harassed and harmed and hated upon online - to a degree we've never studied before." It’s “extraordinarily violent” and “genocidal.”. What hysterical nonsense - defund the Disinformation Project.
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1 News is trying to go after Paul Goldsmith for removing Maori from a Matariki invite to an Australian official. The name of our country is New Zealand, and that is what should be used on all official correspondence, not “Aotearoa New Zealand.” I think use of Maori salutations
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Karl du Fresne - The striking outpouring of media empathy for Golriz Ghahraman. “Rarely has the media’s all-pervasive pro-Left bias been demonstrated more emphatically than in the outpouring of empathy for Golriz Ghahraman. In the past 24 hours, the tone of media commentary on
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The $2 billion deal with BlackRock will undoubtedly come with strings attached - probably a commitment to regulate non-renewables out of existence to keep renewables competitive. What this means is that Kiwis will have to deal with higher power prices, less reliable electricity,
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@dbseymour Here’s my challenge to the media - just report the bloody news. It’s not your job to be calling people out or passing judgement on them. Simply tell kiwis the facts of what happened, then let them decide for themselves whether it was good or bad.
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James Shaw and Chloe Swarbrick are taking the position that advocating for a referendum on the “Treaty Principles” is equivalent to inciting violence. That’s untenable - we have to be able to have public discussions about controversial issues for our democracy to be meaningful.
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The latest from Andrea Vance on the Manurewa Marae scandal - videos have surfaced showing that voters were bribed with free hāngī, doughnuts, hot chocolate and coffee if they came down to the Marae and voted. This is an offence under electoral law called “treating”. Many
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