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• Kiwi Blog

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  • Guest Post: Twyford, Davidson and Socialist Aotearoa give comfort to Iran’s regime
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• Inquiring Mind

  • DS: “Is the end for Keir Starmer?” | David Starkey talks to Benedict Spence
  • How Jones passed the ball to ACT on co-governance – and watched them score – by trying to nobble a Far North councillor
  • Why boundaries matter in government
  • The FNDC debacle – Why democracy matters
  • Breaking the high-kicking rule on sports grounds around Queenstown could earn you much more than time in the sin bin or a red card …
  • The Republic of Spectators: How We Abandoned Local Democracy
  • Bring the noise! Or zone housing for choice
  • A transparent Governor
  • Guest Post:  Seeing the System: Why Government Struggles to Fix What It Can’t See
  • Is Starmer a liar or incompetent?

• No Minister

  • New Zealand Could Be A So Much Better Place One Year On. If Only!!!
  • Feminism and the Undercurrent of Misandry: A Genealogical Examination
  • General Debate Without Moderation
  • The Air New Zealand Pod Awaits You.
  • A Democratic Deficit!
  • Your Sunday Night History Video
  • The Week in Humor: The Art of The Pope
  • Trans-Sex and Covid-Drugs and Death
  • The Managerial Revolution: Burnham’s Prophecy and the Bureaucratic Priesthood
  • “pdm” Tapping Into Homepaddocks Post

• PointOfOrderNZ

  • How Jones passed the ball to ACT on co-governance – and watched them score – by trying to nobble a Far North councillor
  • Why boundaries matter in government
  • The FNDC debacle – Why democracy matters
  • The Republic of Spectators: How We Abandoned Local Democracy
  • Breaking the high-kicking rule on sports grounds around Queenstown could earn you much more than time in the sin bin or a red card …
  • Bring the noise! Or zone housing for choice
  • US Constitution provides for replacing an impaired President – but what happens in NZ?
  • IOC Restores Common Sense to Women’s Sport – Now It’s Time for New Zealand to Follow Suit
  • Useful idiots? The vegan astroturf organisation that has tricked Kiwi farmers
  • New Zealand’s media trust is still in crisis

• Lindsay Mitchell

  • Immigrants pull their weight
  • 'Brown Optimism'
  • Hipkins under-performing and underwhelming
  • Understanding the $50 boost for working families
  • Latest benefit numbers - beware the spin
  • National window-dressing on welfare
  • RNZ catches up on news reported here over a month ago
  • Get rid of the sole parent benefit
  • How the Sallies have evolved to become part of the problem
  • A litany of excuses

• Cactus Kate

  • Get Vaccinated Tomorrow Or Shut Your Pie Hole
  • Covid Zero Is Dead - Do Not Make Us Crowd Fund Another Protest To Kill It?
  • An Ode To The Best Leader New Zealand Never Had - Gladys Berejiklian
  • Jodi McKay Exits In A Blubberfest of Disgrace
  • Forget He Puapua - Your Aotearoa Is About To Be Governed By NSW
  • You **** One Goat - Gladys Berejiklian's (Near) Fatal Attraction

• Valerie Davies

  • The staff/stuff of life
  • The Cancel Culture
  • Triggered by Jemima Puddle Duck
  • The fog of war
  • The Light of the Sun
  • Other Men’s Flowers
  • Where is the future taking us?
  • What princes can learn from frogs
  • A life-changing accident
  • Truth does matter

• Oamaru Life

  • Dawn over Oamaru Harbour
  • The Night Sky in North Otago
  • Another New Oamaru Attraction Opens
  • Fire and canapés awaiting our guests.
  • Whitestone City Opens in Oamaru
  • New Book on Oamaru and the Waitaki Released
  • The Town Bike Opens for Business
  • So Much is New in Oamaru!
  • First Annual Great North Otago Potato Race
  • Oamaru’s Pen-y-bryn Lodge on TV

• Karl du Fresne

  • Luxon still hasn’t got the hang of politics
  • The Last Post
  • A masterclass in damage control, and Labour's PR flunkies didn't have to lift a finger
  • Stuff's operating model: cheap and lazy
  • Will a new RNZ board stop the rot?
  • RNZ's boss gives New Zealand the fingers
  • Death Wish 2025
  • What privilege looks like in 2025
  • Booze, smoke, psychopaths and sexual harassment: when journalism was fun
  • What privilege sounds like in 2025

• Stephen Franks

  • Is free speech a right wing conspiracy?
  • Parliament trumps the lawyer/clerics – blow against ‘heritage blight’
  • Allow easy firing of dud bosses
  • Maori understood geo-politics better in 1824 than Queenstown Lakes District Council now
  • Who’s calling the shots on co-governance? Lawyers or MPs? Will the Court of Appeal order disclosure?
  • How to repeal Labour/Green entrenchment of Water Services control by iwi elite
  • Outcomes of the Parliamentary occupation
  • Vax resistance and the snobbery of the PMC
  • Free Speech Union against name suppression for alleged Wanaka escapees
  • Are “local boards” and “community boards” real democracy?

• Bassett Brash & Hide

  • ANI O'BRIEN: I changed my mind on Luxon
  • ROGER PARTRIDGE: Still Admiring the Emperor’s New Clothes
  • BRYCE MCKENZIE: We're taking Gore District Council to court
  • ANI O'BRIEN: Useful idiots? The vegan astroturf organisation that has tricked Kiwi farmers
  • ROGER PARTRIDGE: Why Courts Cannot Determine the Scope of Their Own Authority
  • ZORAN RAKOVIC: The Tyrant Without a Face
  • ACT: A great idea for councils, from the Labour Party
  • LINDSAY MITCHELL: Immigrants pull their weight
  • Elizabeth Rata: NEOTRIBAL CAPITALISM AND CO-GOVERNANCE
  • Bryan Leyland and John Raine: THE ENERGY STORAGE ELEPHANT

• Not PC

  • "If you want to know the real meaning of work, read Frederick Douglass's account of his first time working as a free man."
  • "Taxes ... "
  • 'Who Deserves Our Support?'
  • Deregulation in Argentina: Milei Takes “Deep Chainsaw” to Bureaucracy and Red Tape
  • How regulation works
  • "And what we have now are English professors saying that, you know, Taylor Swift is as good as Mary Shelley."
  • "Observe the nature of today's alleged peace movements...."
  • The Vance Effect
  • TOFU Trump
  • How to get me into a voting booth

• WHatSheSaidNZ

  • Nobody said it would be easy.
  • My toddler will break me before you do.
  • Listen to your farmers New Zealand.
  • You know you have a toddler 2.0…
  • Why I’m ALWAYS late
  • There is no Perfect, only Perspective
  • 5 Things To Consider Before Going Back To Work…
  • Family Planning Anxiety
  • Does thinking positively actually work?
  • Let’s talk about our mental health

• No Punches Pulled

  • THE WORKING FROM HOME RACKET BY PUBLIC SERVANTS
  • TRUMP TRUMPED
  • LIZ GUNN
  • TAXPAYERS UNION UNDER THREAT

• Croaking Cassandra

  • Oil and monetary policy
  • A very poor start by the Governor
  • And that is that
  • Fiscal failure
  • Geoeconomics: fragmentation & the future of globalisation
  • Productivity growth (or lack of it)
  • A few charts updated
  • Scattered MPS points
  • Trade: NZ vs Australia
  • Treasury on tax

• Barbar’s meaty issues

  • Project will identify marketing potential of regenerative agriculture
  • Decades of dietary advice misguided
  • Meat industry continues to do a superb job
  • Long way from being out of the woods yet
  • Time for sector to find united voice
  • Falling co-product prices prompt changes
  • Regulation risks hindering innovation
  • Taste Pure Nature one year on
  • ANZCO achieves a huge turnaround
  • Agility and innovation essential for meat exporters

• Rivetting Kate Taylor

  • Where my mind wanders
  • Wow. September 2024. How did that happen?
  • It’s not raining!
  • Re-living my best self
  • Monday mornings
  • Getting back to basics
  • Spring in Eketahuna
  • Another week ahead
  • Changing seasons at Patoka Station
  • Five generations at the top of NZ Herefords

• Uptown Farm

  • Day Date at The Patch
  • The best four years of your life
  • Hey girls...
  • Smoked Leg of Lamb
  • Carbon Bank
  • Developing a Great Pyrenees into a poultry guardian
  • Pumpkin Crisp
  • Pumpkin purée
  • Fence
  • Lost rock.

• Barrie Saunders

  • TVNZ – a reassessment
  • Dunedin national scandal ignored by most mainstream media
  • Hormuz crisis may force government reform
  • Luxon and the head of a pin
  • Engineers – your country needs you
  • Cutting losses – governments too slow to learn
  • The BSA power grab: Post 2
  • The BSA power grab: Post 1
  • “Media” some dangerous proposals
  • Why is NZ stuck in the slow lane?

• Quoteunquotenz

  • Waikato Times letter of the week #92
  • Waikato Times letter of the week #91
  • A curated mix of artisans
  • Holding pattern
  • Bert Hingley
  • Waikato Times letter of the week #90
  • Mark Amery on Laura Solomon
  • Stephanie Johnson on Peter Wells
  • Waikato Times letter of the week #89
  • Hamilton Press Club #2

• Blog the Globe

  •  Hawkes Bay by Bike: Three Days of Coastline, Rivers & Vineyards
  • The Forgotten World Adventure – one of New Zealand’s hidden treasures
  • New Plymouth – highlights from my night in New Plymouth
  • Skiing in Sun Peaks – Canada
  • Queenstown New Zealand – new experiences to savour
  • The effortless Dubai birthday – my ultra-luxe celebration
  • Where to stay, dine, and indulge – your curated guide to Bordeaux’s finest
  • Paris of the South-Uncovering the history and grandeur of Bordeaux’s golden age with a two-day itinerary
  • Mastering French Cuisine – Boudeaux’s most exclusive, culinary school
  • How to experience the Dunstan Trail and neighbouring gorges in comfort

• Armstrong on Politics

  • The Democrats’debacle: some lessons from Donald Trump’s triumph and Hillary Clinton’s humiliation
  • Australia’s 60 Minutes; one long hour of tabloid trash
  • Gareth Morgan’s Opportunities knocks
  • Pheonix rising? Part One. Same old Aussies, always cheating.
  • A Little goes the wrong way
  • A man in a big hurry
  • Craig comes an awful cropper (twice); National counts its blessings it never struck a deal with the Conservatives’ flawed leader
  • Something’s in the water; something’s astray in the Bay
  • Fox on the run: Marama miscues
  • Auckland housing Part One: Not everything is big in Texas

• Breaking Views

  • Liam Hehir: Time to put up or shut up
  • Breaking Views Update: Week of 19.4.26
  • Tom Day: National and PM nosedive to new lows, left bloc would gain power
  • Dr Bryce Edwards: Democracy Briefing - Luxon in limbo
  • Colinxy: Are We at Heart Communists?
  • Dr Eric Crampton: Bring the noise! Or zone housing for choice
  • Dr Oliver Hartwich: Splitting power generators from their retail arms would not cut electricity bills
  • Dr Michael Johnston: Technology lessons
  • Roger Partridge: Why boundaries matter in government
  • Nick Clark: The census that counts more by counting less

• Agrarian

  • Why Rural Sales Teams Struggle: It’s Not Time, It’s Priorities
  • How to Drive Sustainable Growth in Rural Sales Markets (Proven Playbook)
  • Are Your Rural Sales Reps Chasing Prospects Instead of Closing Deals?
  • How a Structured Sales Process Can Increase Rural Sales Performance by 20%+
  • Rural Sales Professionals: You Should Never Ask These 7 Questions
  • Why Rural Businesses Often Wait Too Long to Take Action
  • How Rural Sales Professionals Develop the Ability to Think on Their Feet
  • Why Rural Sales Training Must Be a Long-Term Commitment
  • Why Rural Sales Success Depends on “Shots on Goal” and Qualification
  • How Multi-Channel Marketing Protects Rural Sales Pipelines

• Offsetting Behaviour

  • Access to Cash
  • Thank a migrant
  • The high cost of free parking: urban intensification edition
  • The case for considering fuel surcharges
  • Recursive technology, non-recursive adoption, and Schumpeterian displacement
  • I find it difficult to ignore the role of stupidity in human affairs
  • Surely a case for outcome-based contracting
  • The state of the books
  • Alas, it was not to be
  • Seamus and I were wrong

• Autism & Oughtimsms

  • My New Blog: Sounding Out Dyslexia
  • So long, and thanks for all the clicks :)
  • Five (or Six) Diagnoses, Two Woo-tastic Communities, and an Eight Year Old Under a Pohutukawa Tree
  • Drowning in Need: Autism and Swimming in New Zealand
  • “Choose Your Battles” (and dealing with those who didn’t get their copy of the battle plan)
  • Understanding the cuts to IDEA autism services * UPDATED *
  • Revelations
  • What to look for when choosing a school for a child with special needs, in NZ
  • We Stand Together, or We Fall Apart
  • Seclusion versus Time Out, and Alternatives

• visible hand

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• Stats Chat

  • Top five wealthiest?
  • Super Rugby Predictions for Week 10
  • NRL Predictions for Round 7
  • AFL Predictions for Week 7
  • Kōkako goneburger?
  • NRL Predictions for Round 6
  • AFL Predictions for Week 6
  • Super Rugby Predictions for Week 9
  • NZTA much better?
  • Briefly

• Macdoctor

  • Finding the best solicitors in Sydney
  • The importance of insurance for small businesses in New Zealand
  • What you need to keep in mind before hiring family lawyers in Sydney
  • High-Quality Screen Repairs for Samsung Phones
  • What Makes Tax Accountants Important in Every Small Business?
  • 4 Major Reasons Why New Businesses Fail
  • You Can Heal Anything: You Are the New Medicine
  • How to Organize Your Medicine Cabinet

• NZ’s Got Talent

  • My Work Here Is Done - by Mark Weldon
  • Self-indulgent Spoiled Brats of the World Unite! - by V for Verity Johnson
  • Out There In The Arena - an exclusive extract from Diane Foreman's Biography
  • What About Me? - by Jeeves Clifton
  • Alex Hazlehust: You've Never Been Loved - by The City of London
  • At Least I Am Not on Ashley Madison - by Alex Hazlehurst
  • Singing Home The Whale - a Children's book by Nicky and Mandy Hager
  • I Will Return - by Dita De Boni
  • I Don't Have a Penis, Hear Me Raw - by Rachel Smalley
  • Mike's Minute (transcript) - by Mike Hosking

• interest.co.nz

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• Bowalleyroad

  • Good News Story.
  • Rate-Capping Confirms National’s Impoverished Imagination.
  • A Different World: Laurie & Les, Ageing Boomers, Talk Politics.
  • Inconvenient Flags: Laurie & Les, Ageing Boomers, Talk Politics.
  • Recognising Palestine.
  • Vox Populi: Ageing Boomers, Laurie & Les, Talk Politics.
  • Fighting Monsters.
  • Legislating For Liberty.
  • Highway Twenty-Nine: Ageing Boomers, Laurie & Les, Talk Politics.
  • Making Deserts.

• Dim Post

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• Election results

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• Story People

  • Exercise 2: 5 Days of Practicing Love (for the Real World)
  • 5 Days of Practicing Love (for the Real World): Exercise 1
  • It's the Middle Things
  • Stuff We Just ... Say
  • Ingredients of Writing
  • Getting That Namaste Going
  • Healing Our Creativity
  • Buy Like There's a Tomorrow (and it's magical)
  • What The Cool Kids Are Doing
  • Talking about Peace without Shouting

• Liberty Scott

  • It's a victory!
  • What's the role of government in an energy crisis?
  • The climaxes of those who absolutely love expensive and scarce oil
  • Whether your agree with it or not, the US has to win in Iran
  • Luxon or not
  • Mourning the Ayatollah
  • Regime change in Iran should be celebrated.... if it happens
  • The abomination of Britain's Gorton and Denton by-election
  • Ukraine : A fight for civilisation
  • Herzog deserves to be welcomed

• Open Parachute

  • The Problem of AI-Generated Deepfakes – and a Solution?
  • Maybe it’s more sensible to hold summit meetings in private
  • The Science and Mātauranga Māori debate
  • A new paper challenges the consensus on the cost-benefit analysis of community water fluoridation
  • Ukraine war enters new stage – an anti-terrorist operation?
  • Ukrainian drone attack on Russian strategic bombers – why the concern?
  • Why is there no progress in Ukrainian war peace talks?
  • Can we now find out who the real Vladimir Putin is?
  • Nuclear Ukraine: Budapest Memorandum – what it says and is it relevant?
  • Trump, political partisanship, and world peace

• Sciblogs

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• Liberation

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• YourNZ

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• Imperator Fish

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• Life Behind the Iron Drape

  • Signing off - My Last Blog Post | Nicky Hager; Heather Du Plessis-Allan; Deborah Hill-Cone; Giovanni Tiso - Individualism & the Tyranny of Each Other.
  • National’s Anti-Money Laundering & Countering Financing of Terrorism Monster - iPredict the State Gulag
  • Paris Has Changed Me – Logic Bombing the Left on Multiculturalism.
  • Today’s Letter to the Editor | For Anthony Green, Muslim Association of Canterbury.
  • I Have the Answer: Individualism … #Paris
  • $1 Billion To Tinker With a Bit of Out-Of-The-Box Stasi Software | Women MPs Go Walk About
  • If You Support The Voluntary Transactions of Capitalism, Avoid NZ Banks. #Privacy
  • Today's Letter to the Editor - Christchurch Press | Euthanasia
  • Mils Muliaina and Reversing the Burden of Proof in Sexual Assault Cases.
  • Health Minister Jonathan Coleman Stand Down Please – Obesity to the Police State.

• PM of NZ

  • The no-to-apartheid message maybe is getting through
  • Shane Jones tries to retract...
  • Shane Jones says the quiet bit out loud
  • Clayton's apology from arrogance personified
  • Colour me surprised
  • Today's Wx lesson
  • Picking at the scab?
  • Are you listening Mr Luxon?
  • Far North councils about to waste more of my rates???
  • Job for citizen journalists?

• Something Should Go Here

  • Jacinda’s Foreign Policy – Even the fawning coverage isn’t good.
  • Charlie’s pledge meetup
  • The Week In Twitter 18/10/25
  • The Week In Twitter 11/10/25
  • How to sink your political career in one interview
  • Charlie’s Pledge
  • The Week in Twitter 4/20/25
  • The blog “look” is changing
  • Without lies, they have nothing
  • The Herald’s reply.

• Pundit

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• kiwipolitico

  • Media Link: Pablo on the Bradbury Group.
  • Rumble in a strategic jumble.
  • An analogy and an axiom.
  • Podcast Update: Latest “A View from Afar” is now available..
  • Counter-Force versus Counter-Value in Conflict.
  • US and Israel gone rogue.
  • Dark Parallels.
  • Media Link: AVFA season 6 episode 1,
  • Veil of hypocrisy, lifted.
  • Media Link: “A View from Afar” returns.

• Watching Brief

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• Stellar Cafe

  • Untitled
  • "You're weird." ""Thank you."
  • Protect Your Sparkle
  • Collaborating with Cat Stevens
  • International Dot Day
  • I AM PEACE
  • Thank You for Saving My Life
  • Inside the Mind of a Dreamer
  • Omran... #ThisIsStillAleppo
  • Rare Moments

• Oamaru Opera House

  • Mad March
  • A message from OoH Director
  • What a Start!!!
  • So this is Christmas...
  • Aoraki Polytechnic Oamaru Campus Graduation
  • Shows at The Oamaru Opera House in 2011
  • Oamaru Victorian Heritage Celebrations Programme
  • Trash n Treasure This Sunday!!
  • Tim Beveridge at The Oamaru Opera House this Saturday night.
  • The Great Trash n Treasure Garage Sale November 14th

• Keeping Stock

  • We're back, because it's a very special day
  • The last hurrah
  • What has Andrew Williams done to upset Winston?
  • Prefu; economy on track for surplus
  • DPF on the last week, and on changes
  • Working for Whanganui
  • Haere rā Tariana
  • A golden start
  • Well done Wellington Phoenix
  • A tale of two bowlers

• Dave Gee life from right field

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