Elon Musk This is a leak in your terms of service. 1News is skirting your advertising structures by disabling comments. X should be a protocol, not an option. If you're a media outlet afraid of criticism, then you're a propagandist. Set them straight.

Evidence points to systematic use of rape and sexual violence by Hamas in 7 October attacks theguardian.com/world/2024/jan… FINALLY - can't possibly imagine what took them so long, can you?

The assumption that spending more of the taxpayers' money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse.

At the heart of the liberal-left vision is the idea that the self-anointed saviors should be telling the rest of us, through the power of government, what we ought to do, what we can do and what we cannot do. They will define for us what is good and what is bad, remaking us in

Latest Curia poll – big increases for Act and National, Greens drop: National: 39.6% (+2.6) Labour: 27.9% (-0.4) Act: 13.7% (+5.6) Green: 9% (-4.8) NZF: 5% (-1) TPM: 2.3% (-1.1) TOP: 2.9% (+0.2)

SUPERBOWL AD TO BE SHOWN TOMORROW We thank billionaire businessman Robert Kraft who spent $7million of his own money just to run a single 60 second ad tomorrow.

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Tukaki’s CV released after Ombudsman intervenes 1news.co.nz/2022/12/06/tuk…

This poll is open to all. After the polling saga that came across media yesterday, I’ll run one here to see how honest they are. My account is open so anyone else can vote. If there was an election tomorrow, who would you vote for?

Must read, especially how no media coverage of such a hysterical and offensive speech.

The 2024 budget feeds over $800 million into Maori specific projects, including Whānau Ora, which received funding of $182.3 million. Whanau Ora is described as “a Māori approach to delivering social and health services to whānau, created to address systemic inequities that

We have to point out the absurdity that somehow because the wealthy have gotten richer they are responsible for those on the bottom rungs not making it. Wealth is not finite. Their increase has no effect on the others lack. Answer lies in lifting them, not dragging the top down.

One of the world’s best known scientists has been banned from Facebook for discussing scientific facts the tech overlords don’t like.

Phil Donahue died today at the age of 88. I never get tired of watching one of Milton Friedman’s greatest Donahue moments:

Pretty rich coming from the man responsible for s9 of the State Owned Enterprises Act, with its stupid reliance on undefined ‘principles’. It launched the courts into inventing their partnership metaphor for the Treaty. Lange raged to me in 1994 that Sir Geoffrey had assured him

Heard a power company guy on RNZ suggesting that electricity demand hasn't increased in the last decade. It isn't something I follow so was struck by this chart: no increase since 2006

In 1993, I was a Post-Graduate Intern working on preparations for the Drafting of what became the 1995 Waikato Raupatu Treaty Settlement (the first Treaty Settlement in NZ between Māori and The Sovereign The Crown). We negotiated our Settlement on the basis that The Crown was

How to win the argument that Maori ceded sovereignty Q1. Was the main purpose of Te Tiriti o Waitangi for Maori to cede sovereignty to Queen Victoria? A1: Yes. It is clearly stated in the Maori, English and translated versions of the Treaty such as: Article 1 The chiefs of the

Two reasons why new taxes aren’t the answer “In a predictable move, Labour are again talking about introducing new taxes. There are two clear reasons this is wrong. The data doesn’t exist to support it because we are already highly taxed, and the morality is all about taking