Articles by Barry Soper
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Politics
MFAT draws up contingency plans to evacuate Kiwis from Hong Kong
Wednesday, 14 August 2019, 4:01pmAs the situation in Hong Kong worsens, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has drawn up contingency plans to evacuate...
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Politics
35 years since Muldoon's 'schnapps election' - what really happened
Friday, 14 June 2019, 2:28pmOn June 14th 1984, Robert Muldoon sent the country to the polls in one of the country's most shocking political moments ever....
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Opinion
Barry Soper: No love lost for China from the misguided
Thursday, 14 February 2019, 11:35amCOMMENT: If my mail's anything to go by, the souring relations with China will do this Government no harm at all. Since the...
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National
China puts up NZ wall: PM visit and tourism plan on ice
Tuesday, 12 February 2019, 5:57amEXCLUSIVE: Diplomatic links with China appear to have plummeted to a new low as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is given the...
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Opinion
Barry Soper: Jacinda Ardern's embarrassing dinner guest moment
Thursday, 7 February 2019, 6:25amCOMMENT: It was an embarrassing dinner guest moment, made worse because the guest pretended to know what she was talking...
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Opinion
Barry Soper: This year will be toughest yet for rookie Govt
Tuesday, 29 January 2019, 7:04amCOMMENT: This year's going to be the toughest one yet for this rookie Government. Last year Labour and the Greens were shell...
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Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive
Barry Soper: Media reporting in spotlight
Thursday, 2 April 2015, 5:49pmBarry Soper fills Rachel Smalley in on a move to make the reporting of suicide more open, there is concern over a fall in...
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Opinion
The Soap Box: Ardern picks up the John Key playbook
Monday, 17 December 2018, 6:34amCOMMENT: Commenting on politics isn't an easy task. The people you talk about and criticise, you deal with every day. Usually...
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Opinion
The Soap Box: Labour pains - strikes dog Govt in Parliament
Thursday, 13 December 2018, 6:43amCOMMENT: If politics is about perception, the perception is that the country's going to hell in a trade union hand basket. Parliament's...
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Opinion
The Soap Box: Medicinal cannabis law great for drug dealers
Wednesday, 12 December 2018, 6:47amCOMMENT: It should have been called the Helen Kelly Law. When the former Council of Trade Unions boss was alive she had to...
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Opinion
The Soap Box: NZ's politics look increasingly stable compared to rest of the world
Monday, 10 December 2018, 7:26amThe world order's become the world of disorder, particularly when it comes to politics and it's all happened within the past...
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Opinion
The Soap Box: Burning Bridges - hapless Nats leader is toast
Thursday, 6 December 2018, 6:42amCOMMENT The old political warhorse Rob Muldoon was once asked whether he was going to be a thorn in his successor Jim McLay's...
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Opinion
Soper: Snowflake NZ - Are we becoming a politically correct society of sycophants?
Wednesday, 5 December 2018, 7:17amCOMMENT: New Zealand's running the risk of becoming a politically correct society of sycophants. We'll all be cowered so...
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Opinion
The Soap Box: What can we expect from Govt's fuel price inquiry?
Tuesday, 4 December 2018, 6:30amCOMMENT: It's worth bearing in mind, when we complain about things like petrol prices, that we're a blip on the radar screen...
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Opinion
The Soap Box: Lees-Galloway needs to learn what it means to accept responsibility
Thursday, 29 November 2018, 8:55amCOMMENT: It's difficult to know what lines the Prime Minister had been reading between when she justified her Immigration...
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Opinion
The Soap Box: Cycling craze is getting out of control
Tuesday, 27 November 2018, 6:10amCOMMENT: While the Beehive's told the country's 48,000 primary and secondary school teachers to get on their bikes when it...
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Opinion
The Soap Box: Who's responsible if something goes wrong during Pike River re-entry?
Wednesday, 21 November 2018, 6:25amAndrew Little was asked if he'd resign, if the re-entry to the wrecked Pike River mine early next year failed and he ummed...
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Opinion
The Soap Box: Kiwis have right to know what our money is being spent on
Tuesday, 20 November 2018, 6:11amThere's some money being pumped into the Pacific that sticks in the taxpayers' craw and with good reason. You can't argue...
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Opinion
The Soap Box: Pence may regret asking Ardern to be his dinner partner
Thursday, 15 November 2018, 6:18amJacinda Ardern once confided that when she's nervous her mouth drains of moisture and her lip would get completely stuck...
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Opinion
The Soap Box: Pike River families to finally get closure
Wednesday, 14 November 2018, 5:56amThe burning question on the minds of the families of the 29 miners who perished at Pike River eight years ago next week will...
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Opinion
The Soap Box: Govt's quick, quick, slow decision making process
Friday, 9 November 2018, 6:07amYou could be forgiven for thinking that this young, trendy Government are ballroom dancing exponents, particularly when it...
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Opinion
The Soap Box: Immigration NZ used by experts to do dirty work
Friday, 2 November 2018, 5:59amCOMMENT: Immigration New Zealand will be feeling short changed. They're being used by the experts, the coalition Government,...
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Opinion
The Soap Box: Karel Sroubek residency case a shambles
Thursday, 1 November 2018, 7:46amThe Prime Minister's got a habit of flicking her head away from a questioner who annoys her in the hope of getting a more...
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Politics
All smiles for the Government one year on
Thursday, 25 October 2018, 4:49pmWinston Peters' announcement of his Coalition partner on television just over a year ago, rather than telling the leaders...
