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MIQ No Longer Makes Sense

MIQ No Longer Makes Sense

The Government’s move to bring forward the reopening date to international tourists is overdue but welcome news, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop and Tourism spokesperson Todd McClay say. “It’s pretty simple – the risk isn’t at the border anymore and allowing fully-vaccinated travellers to come to

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Just Make a Decision, Prime Minister

Just Make a Decision, Prime Minister

David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Prime Minister is holding on to Covid-19 longer than the saga of whether Ross and Rachel were on a break. We know Jacinda Ardern loves standing at the podium and making announcements. We know she needs Covid-19 to keep voters in a state of

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Terry Dunleavy: a Man on a Mission

Terry Dunleavy: a Man on a Mission

Dear Reader BFD columnist Terry Dunleavy passed away this week. The article that he had planned to write for today was going to tell us “why Luxon’s speech was NOT ‘State of the Nation’ but was welcome as reaffirmation of the State of the National Party”. In the years

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Unvaxxed Staff Need Bosses to Say Sorry

Unvaxxed Staff Need Bosses to Say Sorry

I am putting my hand up and admitting that I never asked or wanted to know the vaccine status of any staff member.   I refused to be a ‘dickhead’ and follow such bad management and illogical policies put together by those so-called experts and then endorsed by that brain-dead cabinet.

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Supermarkets Win in the End

Supermarkets Win in the End

Bryce Edwards Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Labour went into the 2020 election promising to break up the supermarket duopoly and bring down the price of food. This policy is now essentially dead. The Commerce Commission’s final report into New Zealand’s uncompetitive supermarket sector

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No Respect for Employees’ Vax Status

No Respect for Employees’ Vax Status

Darryl Betts darryllrbetts.wordpress.com Darryl is a businessman and a post-graduate student in Philosophy at the University of Auckland, with particular interests in the philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, epistemology, logic, and AI. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a BA in Philosophy, Logic and Computation.

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The Feudal Symbolism of Restaurant Closures

The Feudal Symbolism of Restaurant Closures

Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of

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On the Hazards of Changing Your Telco

On the Hazards of Changing Your Telco

Karl du Fresne karldufresne.blogspot.com My advice to anyone considering a change of telco: look before you leap. Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know. So the cliché goes – and like most clichés, it has a core of truth. A couple of weeks ago,

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Womb Rental inside a Bomb Shelter?

Womb Rental inside a Bomb Shelter?

Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Burnt-out tanks in snowy landscapes, thousands scrambling across borders with their suitcases, soldiers handing out automatic rifles like lollies to civilians, young families huddled together in metro stations … These are the scenes being relayed

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Daddy Elon v Fauxcahontas, Round 2

Daddy Elon v Fauxcahontas, Round 2

Yeah, yeah, mega-rich corporation dudes are evil and all, but, seriously, how can we not be entertained by Daddy Elon? Sure, Tesla sucks, but SpaceX has done more for space travel in just the last few years than NASA has done in decades. Not only has SpaceX slashed the cost

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ACT Has Some Rapid Advice for Jacinda

ACT Has Some Rapid Advice for Jacinda

David Seymour ACT Party Leader With 12,000 cases in the community and just 19 at the border ACT has all the rapid advice the Prime Minister needs about isolation and MIQ. Jacinda told Newshub Nation this morning that “We’ve actually asked our team of advisers we’re using,

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End Mandates Now: the First Domino Falls

End Mandates Now: the First Domino Falls

After yesterday’s significant High Court judgment declaring the Ardern regime’s draconian vaccine mandates for Police and Defence Force personnel unlawful, there is now no legal reason to maintain the mandates. We already know that there is no scientific reason to maintain mandates. The judge was very clear, saying,

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Finally, the NZ Bill of Rights Is Worth Something

The Freedoms & Rights Coalition Team After seeing our NZ Bill of Rights kicked around like a trash can over the past two years, today gives us all hope that it’s actually worth something in the NZ Court of Law. Don’t know about you…but we could kiss

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We Pay for Elite Green Fantasies

We Pay for Elite Green Fantasies

The left like to blatherskite about their “compassion” for the poor, the underprivileged and the working classes. The gap between their rhetoric and reality is directly proportional to how far they have their heads jammed up their own digestive tracts. Because the harsh truth is that, time and again, the

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The Pandemic Exposes NZ’s Supply Chain Vulnerability – Be Ready for More Inflation in the Year Ahead

Rahul Sen Sadhana Srivastava Auckland University of Technology Rahul Sen brings a considerably rich experience of university teaching & learning, research and scholarship, as well as service to the profession in the field of international trade theory and policy, over his career spanning nearly 15 years. He is presently working

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