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Unlike Pontius Pilate, Hipkins can’t just wash his hands of it. It matters not what word salads he dishes up or how much he claims not to remember. The facts show he knowingly withheld safety warnings from the New Zealand public, mandated young people get injected and then repeatedly and deliberately wasn’t truthful about it.
The man who is offering himself for prime minister in November has been caught out taking liberties with the truth.
This isn’t a small or minor misunderstanding, and those in the Mainstream Media who are not actively and vigorously pursuing it and ensuring all New Zealanders are aware of just how deceitful his little tale actually is, should hang their heads in shame. They do all New Zealanders a terrible disservice.
This is not a minor matter. People died. Others have ended up with permanent disabilities. ACC has forked out nearly $19 million according to OIA response GOV-045943 obtained by researchers Sue Grey and Aly Cook and we all know, including the health authorities, that this problem has been wildly under reported. Hipkins ignored the warnings, assured us all that the vaccine was safe, and now denies he knew that it was not.
Simple question: Confronted by a genuine mistake of this nature, what would you do?
Most New Zealanders would put their hands on their hearts and begin by unequivocally accepting responsibility. They would sincerely apologise for getting it wrong and hope that people would see that it was a genuine mistake.
Except that in this case it’s not a genuine mistake at all. It’s a dishonest, irresponsible cover-up and all of the parties responsible are showing ZERO integrity.
The nitty gritty for Hipkins:
· He knew the truth
· He intended that we rely on his false statement
· We did rely on it
· Our reliance on it caused injury or death.
If you or I did something like that, here’s how it might look and depending on the precise facts. A prosecutor could argue:
· Criminal negligence or recklessness if serious injury results
· Manslaughter (or an equivalent homicide offence) if someone dies
· In some jurisdictions and extreme circumstances even murder if the deception is viewed as intentionally causing the death
So let’s be crystal clear about this:
The facts are not in dispute. They come from the government's own documents, obtained under the Official Information Act, which means they’re official Ministry of Health records on ministerial letterhead, signed Cabinet papers and the minutes of the government’s own scientific advisory body: The Covid-19 Vaccine Technical Advisory Group.
On Friday 13 August 2021, Hipkins chaired a vaccine ministers’ meeting on Zoom. This is confirmed in writing by the Ministry of Health. The official agenda lists him as chair alongside Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Finance Minister Grant Robertson, Health Minister Andrew Little and three associate health ministers.
The meeting was convened specifically to discuss vaccinating 12 to 15 year-olds.
Twenty three minutes before that meeting began, the government’s own scientists finalised a briefing document for that meeting.
The briefing document is titled “Draft Bullets: CV TAG discussion on DTU for 12–15-year-olds, 13 August 2021.” It was prepared by Fiona Callaghan, lead science advisor at the Ministry of Health’s Covid-19 Science and Insights team, and emailed to Ian Town, chief science advisor to the Ministry of Health. Ian Town forwarded it to Director General Ashley Bloomfield with the note “Heading to MOH now.”
This matters because Town and Bloomfield were the two most senior health officials in the country.
Point 7 of that document recommended removing from public communications any reference to the potential cardiac protection that extended dosing intervals might offer young people against myocarditis, stripping out the safety dimension of a decision that was then presented to the public purely as a logistical measure.
Four days later the official minutes of the same advisory group confirmed the outcome. References to myocarditis protection had been removed from public communications. The minutes record it in five words: “This has been actioned.”
Three days after chairing that meeting, Hipkins signed a Cabinet paper recommending vaccination of 12 to 15 year-olds.
That paper contains no mention of myocarditis. None. The single dose alternative, which his own scientists had raised as a safer option for young people is not there. The extended dose interval specifically discussed in terms of cardiac risk, was instead described to Cabinet as having “no additional safety issues”.
His official ministerial diary for 13 August records one entry – a school visit in Wanaka.
The vaccine ministers’ meeting he chaired that afternoon does not appear. It's not misfiled. It's Not in a different time slot. It's...Gone. That same meeting is absent from Ardern’s diary and Little’s diary. In Robertson’s diary it appears with the date changed and out of chronological order. Now there's a real coincidence!
This was not administrative sloppiness. Ministerial diaries don’t accidentally omit meetings chaired by the minister himself across multiple diaries simultaneously. Darn – I'd like to believe it – but it's like believing in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy isn't it??
Bad enough. But wait, there’s more.
When researchers formally requested records of the meeting from the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, the agency that directly supports the prime minister’s office, they were told that Hipkins and Little “did not meet to discuss Covid-19 matters” on 13 August 2021, and pointed to the ministerial diaries as evidence. Oh gosh – these are the same diaries that had been stripped of the entry in the first place.
And then, the Ministry of Health provided the agenda which proved the meeting did occur, with Hipkins as chair.
Two arms of the same government. Two irreconcilable official positions. The diaries were not just used to conceal the meeting from the public: they were used to conceal it from the law.
The concealment didn’t end in 2021. The Ministry of Health has only just confirmed Hipkins’ role as chair of that meeting in an OIA response obtained on Friday 29 May 2026, nearly five years after the fact.
· The meeting was left entirely un-minuted
· No notes were kept
· For a meeting at which the prime minister, finance minister, health minister and three associate health ministers gathered to make decisions about vaccinating the nation’s children, there is no official record of what was said or decided
· That’s is not an oversight. Ministers’ meetings of that significance are minuted as a matter of course.
· The absence of minutes from this particular meeting, combined with its disappearance from multiple ministerial diaries, tells its own story.
The paper trail that does exist: The agenda, the briefing document, the Cabinet paper and the advisory group minutes, were all assembled from separate OIA requests filed by researchers Sue Grey and Aly Cook. Had they not pursued those requests, none of it would be public. The government did not volunteer any of this. It had to be extracted, piece by piece, under legal compulsion, four years after the fact. (Details at: https://nzofp.co.nz/media)
By the time Hipkins chaired that meeting, the government already knew a woman had died from probable vaccine-induced myocarditis. That death was referenced in the correspondence that preceded the meeting. The cardiac risk by then was documented, yet the decision taken was to remove it from what the public was told.
Three months later Rory Nairn died. He was 26 years old: a Dunedin plumber who got vaccinated so he could front up at his own wedding. He developed chest symptoms within hours of his first dose. He didn’t seek help because he didn’t know the symptoms were a warning sign. He wasn’t told because the people who knew had decided the public didn’t need to know.
He died in his bathroom in the early hours of 17 November 2021, 12 days after his vaccination.
The coroner found his death was caused by myocarditis due to the Pfizer vaccine. The Health and Disability Commissioner found he was never given informed consent because the cardiac risk was never disclosed to him.
Amanda Smees was 42. She was a Wanaka barista and mother of two young children. She was (like many of us), genuinely afraid of the vaccine. She got it anyway because of government mandates, assurances that it was OK, legislation introduced personally by Chris Hipkins which gave her no choice: get vaccinated or lose your job.
She died of sudden cardiac arrest on 4 January 2022, 17 days after her second dose. Her autopsy listed myocarditis as a cause and the underlying condition as “Post Covid-19 vaccination period”.
A healthy, fit, active 13-year-old boy from Wellington went to bed on the night of 27 October 2021 saying he felt warm. He never woke up. He had received his second Pfizer dose 10 days earlier. The coroner found myocarditis killed him. The vaccine could not be ruled out as the cause.
These are not statistics. These are New Zealanders with names and families who were never given the information they needed to make an informed choice because Chris Hipkins and his colleagues decided in un-minuted Zoom meetings that somehow never made it into ministerial diaries that they didn’t need to know.
When the royal commission findings emerged earlier this year, Hipkins constructed his word perfect defence carefully. He didn’t know. Officials failed to brief him. It was a massive failing of the system. He told Ryan Bridge he didn’t recall the relevant Cabinet paper. Just a busy minister overwhelmed by a crisis...
Sorry – call me pedantic, but a minister of the crown has certain responsibilities. Knowing what the f**k is going on is part of the job. Anything less is gross incompetence. If someone dies – it's criminal. It's called personal responsibility in my neck of the woods.
The NZ Herald then found a March 2022 Cabinet paper in his own name that referenced the myocarditis risk directly. His response: memory lapse. And of course pigs can fly – just as men with penises can be women!
The August 2021 documents speak for themselves.
Hipkins wasn’t a minister who missed a memo in March 2022. He was the minister who chaired the meeting in August 2021 at which the warnings were removed. He signed the paper that buried them. He introduced the legislation that mandated the very thing he knew carried undisclosed cardiac risk.
On 21 December 2021, the day after his own government had publicly confirmed Rory Nairn’s death was linked to the Pfizer vaccine, Hipkins stood before cameras and told New Zealand that Covid-19 far outweighs the risk of myocarditis.
He announced that, knowing what his own scientists had told him in August. He said it, knowing what his own Cabinet paper had omitted.
The government has paid out nearly $19 million in ACC vaccine injury claims. ACC is not a soft touch. Successful claims require established causation. Those are real people with real documented harm.
Six fatality and permanent injury payouts were omitted from the proactive release of those figures and only surfaced when a separate OIA forced them out. Even in accounting for the damage it caused, this government didn’t stop hiding things.
Medsafe’s own records show 500 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis within 30 days of vaccination by August 2022. ACC accepted 77 cardiac injury claims alone. Every expert acknowledges these figures significantly understate reality due to under reporting.
Chris Hipkins is not a minister who was let down by his officials. He is not a busy man who forgot a paper. He chaired the meeting. He signed the paper. He stripped the warnings. He mandated the injections. Selective amnesia doesn't cut it!
He watched people die and told the country the risk was negligible. He has since misstated his knowledge repeatedly – to journalists, to parliament and to the New Zealand public.
He is unashamedly still in parliament and is about to ask the electorate to make him prime minister.
Pardon the pun but we should all be saying ‘Over my dead body’ to that.
Rory Nairn had the right to know. Amanda Smees had the right to know. That 13-year-old Wellington boy’s family had the right to know. All of us had the right to know.
We were intentionally never told.
Chris Hipkins, in collusion with his colleagues, made sure of that.
Does resignation suffice? Not in my book. If you agree to be a Member of Parliament, that comes with a very serious responsibility to be informed. This is not just ill informed response under pressure. It looks increasingly like dishonesty in public office by politicians who we entrusted with our health care. THey got it wrong. People make mistakes. But when it comes to this issue, the decisions and motives remain unclear.
All equal under the law.
The only fair and equitable position is to prosecute all of them and let justice take its course.
All in favour please say aye!
Carried!!!
