Michael Dowling Chairman Council of Licenced Firearms Owners Yesterday afternoon Justice Cooke issued his judgment on our High Court Judicial Review case. While this is not a clear win Justice Cooke’s comments are a significant endorsement of many of our principle-based arguments. The Judge was clearly sympathetic to our
It’s been a week since problems at the New Zealand border first emerged, but the cloud hanging over Health Minister David Clark’s career hasn’t lifted. It’s a big deal calling for someone to resign. Despite much jeering and jibing, the Opposition doesn’t often call for
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Stop the press! One of the sectors thrown into considerable chaos by the government’s coronavirus choices is the media. First, consider the difficulties that the Fourth Estate faced
Auckland light rail, coalition tensions Henry Cooke (Stuff): Phil Twyford, minister of embarrassing failures Audrey Young (Herald): Pressure on Transport Minister Phil Twyford over light rail being ditched (paywalled) Richard Harman (Politik): Political utu in the coalition Jason Walls (Herald): The Government’s handbrake: What else has New Zealand First
Information Parody I beat Covid19 but the National party let it back in. pic.twitter.com/CefmAFy49v — Jacinda Ardren (parody) (@JacindaArdern_0) June 20, 2020 I will be resigning this afternoon. The Team of 5 Million let me down. I have not been on a holiday for over 3 months.
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Are you certain? And now for another excellent point that the New Zealand Law Society made about the government’s approach to the rule of law being so inexcusably
Editor’s Note: The speech is over 12,000 words so I have read through it and put in bold key and interesting aspects of it for those of you who do not have the time to listen to or read the entire speech. Donald Trump: (01:11) Thank you,
Border, quarantine Katie Scotcher (RNZ): Rigorous border system ‘matter of life or death’, public health expert says Hannah Kronast and Delphine Herbert (Newshub): Siouxsie Wiles defends Government’s decision not to test for COVID-19 at border 1News: Health expert calls for New Zealand to change the way new Covid-19 cases
[Editor’s note]: There have been questions raised about the original source of the following letter doing the rounds on Facebook. For the purposes of discussion of the points made in the letter, I have reproduced it below. Given the rude tone of the letter, I think that it is
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Ignorance of the law It’s pretty important that the laws of our land are easily enough understood to be obeyed. The system breaks down rather, if that’s
Border, quarantine Chris Trotter (Interest): When ‘light-handed regulation’ turns out to mean ‘no regulation at all’ Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Political Roundup: Fallout from the Covid border blunder Richard Harman (Politik): The Covid-19 culture clash Stuff Editorial: Breach may have come at critical time for containment Andrew Dickens (Newstalk ZB)
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. What becomes of the “non-essential”? A government whose chief virtue is PR can normally be relied on to have “good optics”, as they say in spinning circles. The current
Border restrictions, quarantine Tracy Watkins (Stuff): The only way to restore confidence is to order an urgent inquiry into our border failures John Armstrong (1News): David Clark is Minister of Health in name only after calamitous Covid-19 testing bungle Andrea Vance (Stuff): If there must be anger, direct it at
Gab is a free-speech alternative to Twitter. They have been undermined and attacked ever since they launched with payment platforms taking away their ability to access reader subscription payments and the Apple App store refusing to list for sale their apps. Now even banks are turning on them. Imagine as
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the country by publishing an extract every day. Disconcerting developments It is worth remembering throughout all of this that the unbelievably cavalier attitude of the government right up to (and including) mid-March had got our country into
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. None of your business Perhaps the most telling remark on either side of the argument about the lockdown’s length came from Labour’s minister for employment, Willie Jackson.
