A new Ministry for Disabled People was announced on 29 October 2021. “Minister for Disability Issues Carmel Sepuloni and Health Minister Andrew Little announced the plans this afternoon, saying the government was delivering on its promise to reform disability systems. The planned reforms include: * Establishing a Ministry for Disabled People
Bryce Edwards Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. On Thursday it was announced that the recently departed Green Party Chief of Staff in Parliament, Tory Whanau,
The Government‘s decision to require tourism businesses to pay DOC fees will be the final straw for many tourism operators near closure and should be reversed, says National’s Associate Tourism spokesperson Joseph Mooney. “For the past two years, concession fees have been waived for tourism businesses operating on
Renaud Foucart Lancaster University Renaud Foucart is an applied microeconomic theorist. This means he trys to understand real world puzzles by modelling strategic interactions. This has led him to work on topics as different as smoking bans, Islamic finance, environmental agreements, Google is being fined €2.4 billion (£2.1
David Seymour ACT Leader With the onset of widespread vaccine mandates about to create chaos in multiple sectors, it’s time for the Government to apply the approach of the Danish Government, Air New Zealand, and its own requirement for teachers to all mandates. That is, the mandate should allow
A Geraldine pensioner was surprised to receive a visit from police late last month, after he forgot to wear his face mask while out shopping. Seventy-eight-year-old James Lang said he generally wears a mask when he goes out, but was on autopilot when he popped into the Geraldine Pharmacy to
Confused Why isn’t testing enough? I thought I was a logical person but my ability to understand what is driving decisions here in NZ has disappeared. The UK has just been through 20 months of having Covid widespread in the community. Essential workers were carrying out their tasks before
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,
Suit and Tie Sports can sometimes be such a great analogy for life, which is why sports movies often make compelling watching. This week Jacinda Ardern decided to treat us to her very own spin on a much-loved classic. There is that famous scene in the 1996 movie Jerry Maguire,
Our government claims to care about minorities and their rights yet it is actively encouraging businesses to discriminate against the minority of people who are not vaccinated, including those who have had Covid and have no need to get vaccinated because they already have superior natural immunity. We recently ran
November 9th, 2021. The view from afar of my country is changing rapidly. Gone is the egalitarian, socially responsible country where differences could be worked out by discussions, negotiations and the ballot box. The implementation of MMP helped to put a stop to that by granting minority parties unprecedented negotiation
Yesterday saw the royal progress of the ‘Queen of the Pestilence’ in Auckland, and her very first visit was to a business that has experienced zero impact from her draconian lockdowns: Ardern was shown around JMP Engineering in Avondale with the Employers and Manufacturers Association chief executive Brett O’Riley.
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,
David Seymour ACT Leader ACT is calling on the Prime Minister to visit those worst affected by the Auckland lockdown and not just carry out a stage-managed visit when she finally goes to Auckland today. If Jacinda really wants to understand Aucklanders’ situation, her visit needs to be real. She
rt.com US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has said that the White House is “prepared to defend” its controversial vaccine mandate from a recent freeze imposed by an appeals court. Asked if the mandate, which was set to be in place on January 4, could “survive” the recent court-ordered stop
Information Op-Ed Covid-19 targets people who are unvaccinated, and you only need to look at the evidence which shows that a large percentage of the current cases we have in New Zealand right now are unvaccinated. That being said, everyone does have a choice about whether they want to be
