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The news week has been off to a roaring start, with announcements that the oil exploration ban was not actually backed by any paperwork has been followed up by the Church of Climatology High Priest James Shaw requesting us to eat less meat.

After Ireland voted to change their abortion laws, the death lobby in New Zealand got all excited and decided to push for more dead babies over here too, with Jacinda announcing that might happen next year. The hapless Simon Bridges had to go on Red Radio and TVNZ to stick his foot in his mouth.

For those who do not yet know, anti-Islamisation activist Tommy Robinson was arrested and jailed a few days ago while livestreaming outside a courtroom where an "Asian grooming gang" was awaiting a verdict (that's PC for Muslim paedophile rape gang).

The latest poll provides some interesting insights into just what is going on in the political arena. While polls at this stage don't translate into actual results, they do show us just what is working and what isn't.

Everything is racist! Labour MP Tamati Coffey is upset that the Maori Ward referemdums all failed. It's almost like the democratic majority don't want separatism and race-based laws.

We at Right Minds routinely mock the quality of journalism, but it isn't often that we get a study exposing the reasons behind the poor quality. Business Insider reveals that journalists brains show a lower level of executive functioning, which affects the regulation of their emotions and biases.

After losing the general election, a few of the National Party old guard have been calling it quits.

The budget news is largely uninteresting: a few key promises have been delayed, funding for all kinds of the usual things are up, and unlike most of National's budgets, this one at least appears to be balanced. There is one funny bit though.

Golriz Ghahraman became a poster girl for the Green Party and a media darling, but she turned out to be a fake and is now routinely mocked outside of the elitist circles. Her most recent triggering incident was being asked if she was "kiwi enough" to speak for all New Zealanders.

Things went a little off the rails at ABC when they accidentally interviewed a patient who wandered outside of the confines of their intellectual mental institution. A pink-haired social justice warrior suggested that babies should be asked for consent before having their nappies changed.