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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

“You can expect to get the warmest reaction you can imagine” New Zealand Prime Minister @JacindaArdern says Kiwis are “so excited” to welcome tourists back from next month after two years mostly shut off from the world. pic.twitter.com/EvBuyAWfC0 — Sunrise (@sunriseon7) March 17, 2022 Could you imagine having

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Are Optics More Important than Kindness and Decency?

Are Optics More Important than Kindness and Decency?

Lenard Zanardi Chris Hitchens once astutely noted: “Very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.” The ongoing discrimination, exclusion, harassment, bullying, and dehumanisation of unvaccinated staff up and down the country has exposed the true nature and hypocrisy of

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Why Wait until April 13th?

Why Wait until April 13th?

David Seymour ACT Party Leader Newshub Nation this morning reported that vaccine passes will be gone by April 13th, why not just do it now? ACT was the first party to say it’s time to move on. Last month we released a cost benefit analysis on all of the

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You Are Not Welcome

We recently travelled from the West Coast (Westport) to Christchurch for a friend’s wedding. It is a few years since I had been to Christchurch, and the bride and groom had a lot of guests coming from out-of-town, so they approached a local hotel and provisionally reserved about 12

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Time to Get New Zealand Back to Normal

Time to Get New Zealand Back to Normal

With Auckland past the peak of Omicron and the rest of New Zealand approaching that point, Opposition Leader Christopher Luxon and Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop say the Government should take immediate steps to get New Zealand back to normality. “Life has been tough for Kiwis these past couple years.

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Govt Must Get Working Holiday-Makers to NZ

Govt Must Get Working Holiday-Makers to NZ

Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi must make New Zealand an attractive destination for working holiday-makers, National’s Immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford says. “New Zealand is experiencing massive labour shortages. If more isn’t urgently done to attract these workers, tourism and hospitality businesses in places like Queenstown will continue to struggle

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Five Reasons Why Prices Will Stay High

Five Reasons Why Prices Will Stay High

Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom,

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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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