Well, we are “allowed” to kick back into gear as of Tuesday. BUT, and it is a big but, the compliance costs and rules are almost unworkable, made up by people in a committee who have never worked on a building site in their life (spoiler alert: I own a
George If ever a person has had her shortcomings superseded by major events, it is our PM. The performance of her government over the last two and a half years has been appalling with her leadership being exposed as weak and ineffective. But amazingly this same person when confronted with
Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org Below is a TV commercial designed to promote the New Zealand Police as a force for good that is protecting the public by ‘shooting-down’ the COVID-19 virus. The advertisement shows a scene based on the spaghetti western ‘The Good, The Bad and the Ugly’
Dr Grant Morris is Associate Professor in Law, Victoria University of Wellington. covidplanb.co.nz New Zealand has changed dramatically in response to COVID-19. Fundamental rights and liberties have been curtailed to assist in suppressing the virus. From a legal history perspective, this is similar to what New Zealand
Simon Thornley Senior Lecturer Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Auckland covidplanb.co.nz After sparking the first serious debate in New Zealand about the best way of beating COVID-19, Simon Thornley, a member of the Plan B group, explains why he has hope for a safe and swift
Anthony B Kim PA Pundits – International Anthony B. Kim researches international economic issues at The Heritage Foundation with a strong focus on economic freedom. Kim is the research manager of the Index of Economic Freedom, the flagship product of the Heritage Foundation in partnership with The Wall Street Journal. From
Alexander Gillespie University of Waikato Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced details of the next stage of lockdown, but New Zealanders won’t know until today when the country moves out of strict level 4 conditions. Once in level 3, people will have to remain within their household bubble, but
Mark How is it that people throughout history have allowed themselves to be conned into following ideas that have devastated their nations? Let’s have a look at one way that can happen. Imagine I am a high school social studies teacher (or whatever it is called now), and I
Reported in the NZ Herald 19 April: “Health Minister David Clark said that in the next eight weeks, the Government expected 75 million items of PPE to be delivered into New Zealand, including 17 million masks, more than two million gowns and coveralls, and 13.8 million gloves”. Wow! That’
Mark The question is this: If the lockdown continues, how many more people will die as a result of severe economic collapse rather than from the coronavirus, even if we had not made an attempt to contain it? I’m not talking about secondary deaths due to poverty-related illnesses
Nicole McKee Spokesperson Fair and Reasonable Campaign I’ve spent the last 24 hours extremely disappointed with the news that the Government is continuing the ban on hunting under Alert Level 3. Based on the anger I’ve seen in my emails and on social media, I’m not alone.
Davo42 Has COVID-19 now guaranteed Labour an election win? With New Zealand entering a new phase of poverty thanks to “The COVID” as I like to call it and the power of incumbency we must now accept that the next government as a Labour/Greens coalition without the need
David Theobald 7 am on Thursday 16th April 2020 and I am more nervous about this whole bloody mess we find ourselves in than at any time since it all started. We are six hours away from an announcement which will (might?) detail what will be imposed on our lives
Paul So I was looking for a work-related project now that the painting is all done – and I checked the COVID-19 “Business Finance Guarantee Scheme” list of banned activities just to see if any of my ideas were banned. I noted these items near the top of the
George It is obvious the Labour Party propaganda wing has motivated their perpetual “Letters to the Editor” scribes into action. You can always tell who they are simply because they use the same cliché-littered dialogue as their paymasters. The latest, of course, is “saving lives”. “How can you put
George There are five countries which are communist states. They are China, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam and North Korea. (The government of Russia is a federal semi-presidential republic). But I will include it in this analysis as it is, to all intents and purposes, a communist state. Earlier this morning
