Winston Peters
@winstonpeters
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Leader of New Zealand First. NZ Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, Minister of Racing. Authorised by H. Howard, 91 Makino Road, Feilding.
Joined August 2011
On Friday last week the Court of Appeal made a significant ruling that upheld a previous High Court judgement that the New Zealand Defence Force's workplace Covid-19 vaccination mandate is unlawful. Since then, just one online media outlet has reported this ruling. This.
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If the person who assaulted Posie Parker is not being arrested and charged by police for a clear assault, the question needs to be asked - why not?.
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Yesterday’s hikoi wasn’t grassroots – it was a Māori Party astroturf. What most in the mainstream media are not reporting is that the organiser of the hikoi is the son of the current sitting Māori Party MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi, is employed by the Māori Party, and stood as a.
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The media need to start asking serious questions about Green MP Benjamin Doyle and his “alternate” social media account “BibleBeltBussy” - what that really means and his posts - some of which have apparently been deleted. If it were any MP from a government party the media.
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If we start taking these calls to stop singing ‘swing low’ at rugby matches seriously then where does it stop? Getting rid of our All Black haka because it's too threatening or culturally inappropriate for non-Māori to perform? Get a grip.
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NZFirst Introduces Bill to Remove Woke ‘DEI’ Regulations from Public Service . New Zealand First has introduced a Member’s Bill that will ensure employment decisions in the public service are based on merit and not on forced woke ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ targets. This.
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It’s not difficult. Men’s toilets for men. Woman’s toilets for woman. If you want to use a unisex toilet you can. PS. Mr Hipkins,. Woman = Adult. Human. Female.
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New Zealand First has today introduced a Member’s Bill that would ensure the biological definition of a woman and man are defined in law. This is not about being anti-anyone or anti-anything. This is about ensuring we as a country focus on the facts of biology and protect the.
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The Ministry of Health has announced new rules that restrict the prescribing and use of puberty blockers. Those new restrictions come into effect immediately. The lack of any evidence about the safety and long term effects of puberty blockers on children has been gathering.
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Pleased to catch up with @Nigel_Farage in London yesterday, to discuss political developments in the United Kingdom and working with the incoming Trump Administration.
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A number of people have recently been asking what we mean when we say ‘woke’. Very good question. Definition of ‘woke’:.Adjective:.1. A state of awareness only achieved by politically correct fascists who are dumb enough to find injustice in everything other than their own.
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They are not ‘The Māori Party’ they are a ‘Party of Radicals’. They don’t want democracy they want anarchy. They purport to represent Māori even though the vast majority of Māori don’t vote for them. They deliberately attack individual Ministers with childish schoolboy slurs.
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The Green Party need to stop the pearl clutching and the faux outrage when confronted with the truth. When we have some Green Party MPs who have been here for five minutes lecturing us all on their woke globalist agendas New Zealand First won’t sit back and take it. The outrage.
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Why are we making a rod for our own backs being part of the Paris Accord, punishing our farmers and our taxpayers and our economy, when China or the US could sneeze and produce more CO2 overnight than we do in a year?.
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Arrogant wokester loser Corin Dan on RNZ asked me this morning how we would “force our members bill defining a woman in law”. News flash Corin. We can’t force you to stop being so delusionally woke. The sooner you and your mates wake up and stop being so out of touch the.
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Dear Helen, your constant commentary may well be appreciated by some but as Mark Twain once said “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you in trouble. It’s what you know for sure, that just ain’t so”. PS. How pointless was Hipkins state of the nation today?. @HelenClarkNZ.
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The Maori Party refusing to follow the rules of parliament, and now wanting to hold their own pointless stunt of a ‘privileges hearing’ shows just how much of a danger to our democracy they are. They are a bunch of radicals who can’t comprehend that they are undermining the.
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New Zealand is quickly turning into a country we no longer recognise. The Labour govt has had absolute power, with no handbrake, for the past 18 months and in that short time has implemented an unprecedented, calculated, and systematic paradigm shift of who we are as a nation.
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Hey Chief Executive Steve Jurkovich - how about you just do your job and focus on BANKING instead of trying to prove how woke and out of touch you can get. Instead of focussing on your ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ targets, start focussing on targets that get costs down
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It has been announced today that the Relationship and Sexuality Guidelines are being removed in Term One next year. We campaigned to get these woke out-of-touch guidelines removed from our schools and to stop indoctrinating our kids. Promise made. Promise kept.
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Why did the Green Party tell Doyle to take down his posts when he was a candidate, but they didn’t say that to media last week, and then proceeded to defend those very posts they now claim to have originally told him to remove?. The posts were “problematic” for their content -.
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This is why NZFirst fought for gender rules in sports to be in our coalition agreement - for fairness and safety in women’s sports. All the virtue signalling disintegrates when an Olympic female boxer takes two hits from an opponent who previously failed a gender test, abandons
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The Maori Party has today sent an open letter to the speaker complaining about me and my party standing up to their bully boy behaviour in the House. They deliberately blatantly lie about what I said and why I said it - which was "would students at te reo Maori lessons learn.
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1News has not reported once on the Covid Inquiry announcement that was made on Monday. Not one story, article, question, or comment on their website, social media, apps, or TV news. ZB, RNZ, Herald, NewsHub, and every other media outlet not only reported it on Monday, they have.
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How did we get into a situation where a Colombian refugee, who has been taken in by our country and only been here for nine years, has so proudly imaged New Zealand internationally as a country that is now intolerant to freedom of speech?.
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Many in the mainstream media have taken what was said in New Zealand First’s State of the Nation Speech in Palmerston North on Sunday and deliberately, deceitfully, and ignorantly misrepresented what I said and why I said it. The headlines and commentary on the news stated that.
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If it is true, then this is the seed of segregation. We have seen it before in apartheid South Africa, and the segregation days in the United States. There is no good that could come of this for our country. It is phenomenal that we not only would accept this as New
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New Zealand is deeply concerned following confirmation by China’s National People’s Congress of national security legislation relating to Hong Kong.
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What we are saying is there are many questions that the Green Party and Doyle need to answer as elected representatives including the appropriateness of his posts, his language, including what “Bussy” and “Bussy Galore” mean, what the symbols he uses mean, and in particular using.
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As expected, the Green Party are wanting to invoke and hide behind the “identify politics” card. This is how deluded the Greens are. “This morning, the Deputy Prime Minister has decided to double down on disinformation, fanning the flames of hatred towards the rainbow community.
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To those handful of anti-democratic, fascist, left wing losers who decided to disrupt the other over 800 people who turned up to our meeting today, we’ve got news for you and it’s all bad. You are the very manifestation of the war on woke that was outlined in my speech.
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The American people have spoken. New Zealand looks forward to working with their next President & Vice President. Congratulations to @realDonaldTrump & @JDVance on your victory. New Zealand and the United States are two great democratic, open societies - and our bilateral.
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If a middle-aged white man said this about Maori children: “They are NOT New Zealanders. They are Maori children.”. You know there would be screams of ‘racism’. But it wasn’t a middle-aged white man who said that - it was Maori Party MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi who said it today in.
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Tikanga is not law. It is cultural indoctrination. A senior, highly respected King’s Counsel with decades of experience in our law courts, Gary Judd KC, has filed a complaint about compulsory tikanga Māori studies for law students - highlighting the utter depths of absurdity.
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Chris Hipkins hid behind a press release yesterday and said that he was glad he ‘ruled me out’ before the election. Newsflash Chris. I publicly ruled out working with you and your woke Labour cronies twelve months before you stuttered the words. But you know that. And so do.
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On Wednesday last week Māori Party MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi gave a general debate speech in the House with this opening sentence, “No matter my words today, the Government will not waver in its mission to exterminate Māori.”. She went on to say, “The theory of the Minister is that.
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POLICY ANNOUNCEMENT: NO MEN IN WOMEN’S SPACES OR SPORTS. New Zealand First policy is that the government has no business in the nation’s bedrooms. But for a government to allow biological men access to women and girl’s restrooms, changing rooms, and other safe places, goes.
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New Zealand has recently lost the hosting rights of some major international sporting events including the America’s Cup, the Rugby Championship, Netball World Cup, and the Wellington Sevens. We are now at a huge risk of losing SailGP as well. And it won’t stop there. The.
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John Minto’s call to identify people from Israel holidaying in New Zealand via a ‘dob them in hotline’ is an outrageous show of fascism, racism, and encouragement of violence and vigilantism. New Zealand should never accept this kind of extreme totalitarian behaviour in our.
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If this is a ‘hate crime’ so is vandalising the Treaty exhibition at Te Papa.
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Marama Davidson should stand down as ‘Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence’ for the clear and outrageous statement she made at the Posie Parker protest that ‘white straight men’ are the cause of violence.
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The only people who use the term “imported culture wars” are marxists and globalists who want to avoid debate and scrutiny of their wacky woke ideologies. The rest of us use the term “COMMON SENSE”. The vast majority of New Zealanders want to get back to normality and have.
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Labour Leader Chris Hipkins’ comments on the weekend that the government’s coalition agreements are ‘racist and anti-Māori’ shows not only how myopic and out of touch his thinking is, but it puts in neon lights just how siloed his party is in their obsessive echo-chamber. Labour.
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How can someone ask a question about the ‘woman’s pay gap’ but can’t even define what a woman is?
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Yesterday there was a coordinated leftwing smear job against NZFirst by Andrea Vance in the Sunday Star Times. The article is so full of dubious falsehoods they should be embarrassed to print it and seriously worried about defamation. Andrea Vance and her leafy suburb green.
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New Zealand First campaigned on and fought for the removal of any and all remaining workplace mandates being enforced and we ensured it was included in our coalition deal with National. This ruling by the Court of Appeal is evidence that it is the right and just thing to do to
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The Green Party wanting to defund the police proves they are nothing but a bunch of ideologically driven anarchist losers. Sadly long gone are the days that the “Green Party” stood for the environment. They should change their name to the “DEI Party”. It would be more.
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There was a poll out tonight that showed 54% of kiwis think Hipkins should remain as leader of the opposition. We agree. On that question I would be one of those who voted for him in the poll. He’s doing a great job. Every time he opens his mouth their polls go down.
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Stuff has unsurprisingly published an opinion piece today by ‘Jehan Casinader’ who decided to give his ‘insights’ on NZ First’s stance that the public service needs to hire people based on merit not on woke ‘DEI’ ideology. Putting aside him spouting a number of lies, Casinader.
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The answer I gave?. “Woman = an adult female human being. Female = of or denoting the sex that can bear offspring.”. And just for the record - I didn’t need a preprepared answer for that. It’s not difficult.
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New Zealand First Member’s Bill to protect women’s spaces. Today New Zealand First will introduce a Member’s Bill that will protect women’s spaces. The ‘Fair Access to Bathrooms Bill’ will require, primarily in the interest and safety of women and girls, that all new.
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We should never be accepting of any irrelevant ill-informed shill from some other country to walk into New Zealand and try to tell us what to do. Here in New Zealand we respect something called a ‘country’s independent nationhood’. That principle seems lost on these people who.
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Green MP Ricardo Menendez March is clearly arrogant and ignorant enough to think NZFirst attacking him and his cultural-Marxist way of thinking means we are somehow attacking everyone else. It proves the inherent modus operandi of the Green Party and their identity politics.
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Thank you to all of those New Zealanders who have shown faith in our Party and voted us back into parliament to be your voice. And thank you to the NZFirst team around the country who worked so hard throughout a challenging campaign to make what others thought was the.
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NZ First Introduces Bill To Fight ‘Woke Banks’. Today New Zealand First has introduced a Member’s Bill aimed at preventing banks from refusing their services to businesses because of the current “Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Framework”. The ‘Financial Markets.
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New Zealand First Member’s Bill to protect Freedom of Speech . Today New Zealand First will introduce a Member’s Bill that will protect New Zealander’s right of free speech. The “Protection of Freedom of Expression Bill” will ensure that no organisation or individual, when.
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Chris Hipkins keeps claiming there are no examples of ‘DEI Hires’ in the public service and that it is ‘nonsense’ – yet he himself did it. When Hipkins was Minister of Police in 2022 he wrote a ‘Letter of Expectations’ to the Police Commissioner stating:. “‘Organisational.
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They have said the quiet part out loud. On a podcast published by RNZ, hosted by co-editor of Newsroom Mark Jennings he said this:. “There has been quite a lot of talk in the media - particularly among senior editorial people - about whether we should even report Winston
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New Covid Inquiry delivered. We promised to ensure a full scale, wide ranging, independent, and public inquiry into Covid. That promise we made to you is being kept.
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We have long held the view that the government has no place in the nation’s bedrooms, but how did we get to a stage where our Prime Minister can’t even answer the simple question “what is a woman?”.
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The Labour Party has already left middle New Zealand a long time ago - it’s evident just how shallow and impotent the once great Labour Party of Savage, Fraser, and Kirk has become. The few remaining more conservative Labour MPs must wake up at night in cold sweats thinking
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NZ First introduces a bill that gives democracy back to the people. New Zealand First has introduced a Member’s Bill today that will remove the power of MPs conscience votes and ensure mandatory national referendums are held before any conscience issues are passed into law. We.
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NZ First Introduces Fluoridation Referendum Bill. New Zealand First has today introduced a Member’s Bill which would restore decision-making power to local communities regarding the fluoridation of drinking water. The ‘Fluoridation (Referendum) Legislation Bill’ seeks to repeal.
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I’m not so surprised the Labour Party has felt it necessary to put a press release out reacting to our State of the Nation speech in such an insulting and ageistic manner. Shakespeare was right when he said ‘you doth protest too much’. It seems what I said about Labour.
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I was handed this by a young girl today who asked me to open it when I got home. This is who they are.
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The Hurricanes may well lose support and viewers because the CEO has a bunch of naive players damaging the brand by attempting to wade into partisan political activism without any concept of reality. They are trying to insult the government but are instead now just slapping the
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NZFirst campaigned warning this was what was going to happen and the media refused to report it - a dangerous future of cultural wokeness being forced upon people with threats of being cancelled and losing your job or promotions if you didn’t comply. This is the reality now.
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As predicted Chris Hipkins has tried to criticise and brush off our members bill which protects the definition of the term ‘woman’ in law. It’s no surprise given the fact he was asked in 2023 how he defined ‘what a woman is’ and he acted like a possum in headlights saying the.
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“The impartiality of media should be the foundation of reporting, but in the main, it has morphed over the past few years to rely on opinion, narrative, agendas and click bait.”.
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Yesterday a number of Mayors signed a letter to the government criticising our decision to give local voters the right to vote on whether they want Maori Wards or not - saying the government is ‘overreaching’. We are not dictating whether they should have Maori Wards - we are.
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Greetings from Parliament. Thanks to you, New Zealand First is ready to take back our country. Our New Zealand First team has assembled in Wellington and is busy getting down to business. Together this is our opportunity to thank all of you who supported New Zealand First.
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No matter what someone thinks about what Posie Parker says or believes, we cannot allow an assault, in any form, to be any acceptable action in our country. If you don’t like what she has to say then the answer is don’t listen.
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It’s not difficult to understand that we want to protect fairness and safety in sport for women. What is difficult to understand is that some people think this is a controversial concept. A few woke journalists might want to think their ‘interpretations’ hold weight.
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We have just lost a great friend today. And no matter how difficult the days have been over the years. There was always Beau’s welcome at the front door. RIP Beau.
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It is shocking to see an urgent debate in parliament today being taken on Kiri Allan. There are times when somethings should not be politicised - this situation with Kiri Allan should be one of them. It puts one in mind of the saying - “When a hero stumbles, the cowards.
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The Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta’s presence in New York today at the United Nations General Assembly is a contempt of New Zealand’s “caretaker government” convention. Despite the long-standing caretaker convention, Minister Mahuta is today at the UN to sign a highly.
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The fact that Labour has announced a $2b renewable energy deal with BlackRock - an international company that invests in fossil fuels worldwide - shows the desperation and naivety of a globalist shill government. BlackRock doesn’t want to make New Zealand or the world clean -.
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New Zealanders will be highly concerned that the World Health Organisation proposes to effectively take control of independent decision making away from sovereign countries and place control with the Director General.
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As Churchill once said “for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like someone standing in a bucket and trying to lift themselves up by the handle.”. Chris Hipkins’ irrelevance has been highlighted with his lack of understanding of this simple fact. His terminal plan.
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Today it has been announced that a letter of expectation has been sent to Sports NZ informing them they need to review and update their gender inclusion guidelines to prioritise fairness and safety. NZFirst campaigned on ensuring sporting bodies support fair competition that is.
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It seems the media care more about the Chumbawamba story than we do. We actually don’t care. There’s nothing to ‘cease or desist’. The song worked like a charm for our first public meeting after the election. The over 700 people in the crowd thought so too. We will be sure.
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If it is allowed to occur with no recourse, it will set a dangerous precedent that if you disagree with someone’s opinion violence is acceptable. Remember, next time it might be you who they don’t agree with.
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The following are quotes from John Tamihere, current President of The Māori Party, from a speech he made in parliament in 2005. The irony and hypocrisy are palpable. “It is Kiwi-centred because significant decisions have been made and implemented that we are driving right in,.
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Look at who the Green MPs have been coordinating and organising with. This is the “ginger nut” who was acting like a deranged moron at the NZFirst public meeting on Sunday. He just happens to be the guy who organised the ‘defund police’ meeting that the Greens police
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If ever there was a shining example of where certain media outlets sit on the ‘left wing delusional scale’ this is it. Yes. The Spinoff actually printed this.
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It’s time to remove these unnecessary mandates & give kiwis back their right to work. Kiwis who lost jobs due to mandates should be reinstated. This can be done safely with the high vax rate & use of RATs. We need balance & commonsense - not more scaremongering & enforcement.
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Louisa Wall published a diatribe on Newsroom today attempting to attack my previous post about the need for gender rules in Sports to ensure there was fairness and safety in women’s sports. Putting aside the fact that Wall’s article was full of self-opinionated drivel, she
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At a packed public meeting last night a question put to me - what is a woman? . Its incredible, that despite the cost of living, health system, economy, housing, education, & crime being in crisis, our political discourse has come down to needing to answer a question like that.
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It would be great if authorities were intent on getting police in numbers to crack down on and clear away gangs on our streets like they seem to be doing with the protesters at parliament.
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It has been reported that Labour has silently tabled legislation to lower the voting age for local elections down to 16. No press statement. No media. No announcement. Why? . They are clearly wanting to force this change through before the election without kiwis knowledge. This.
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No one owns water. Only a special level of delusion and narcissistic arrogance could allow anyone to claim ownership over a universal gift that falls from the sky - and likely an accompanying healthy appetite for taxpayers money.
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We support the right to protest & freedom of speech. We don’t support violent or offensive behaviour. That said, Trevor Mallard’s juvenile, undignified, & illegal behaviour by turning cold sprinklers on people, including children, & blasting loud music must be censored.
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The decision by Justice Francis Cooke today setting aside vaccine mandates for police and defence force personnel is exactly what we’ve been calling for. It shows us all that these individual rights and freedoms of every kiwi are inalienable in a free and democratic society.
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First we were told covid would overrun our hospitals. We were told to vaccinate - so we did. Many made that sacrifice. We were told that 90% vax gave herd immunity. So why is govt still forcing crushingly inconsistent thoughtless mandates attacking freedoms, businesses, & jobs?.
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On Monday a poll was released that was conducted by polling company Curia Market Research on the issue of Māori Wards. What may come as a shock to the out-of-touch dictators on the left, it showed that 58% of people believe that it should be the local ratepayers that decide on.
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Our House of Representatives has become a House of Chaos. For a long time we have warned that the standards have begun slipping in the House - as former Labour Minister Steve Maharey also wrote about in a Herald article last year. From relaxing the dress standards in our House.
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The Cabinet Manual means a minister cannot comment on the court sentencing of a man for a blatant assault - no matter how ridiculous and out of touch the sentencing is.
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Matthew 6: 5-6. “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen.”.
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