Michael Baker Amanda Kvalsvig Nick Wilson University of Otago Matire Harwood University of Auckland Two years ago today, the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was reported in Aotearoa New Zealand. Few of us could have imagined the huge impact this pandemic would still be having two years later. As
Ian Miller brownstone.org Ian Miller is the author of “Unmasked: The Global Failure of COVID Mask Mandates.” His work has been featured on national television broadcasts, national and international news publications and referenced in multiple best selling books covering the pandemic. He writes a Substack newsletter, also titled “Unmasked.
After the High Court handed the regime their collective arses regarding mandates for Police and the Armed Forces it should have been a wake-up call for them to stop illegally breaking the Bill of Rights Act. I hazard a guess that many business owners who put in place their
What do the Wars on Drugs, Climate Change, and Covid all have in common? Answer: they can all be expressed as follows: We must do X in order to prevent Y where Y is a threat of biblical proportions and X is taking extreme action to prevent the threat, most
Canada’s Mounties have long enjoyed a reputation as Dudley Do-Right upstanding, reliable heroes. Beside the cartoon hero, 90s crime series Due South, premised on a Mountie sent to show the roughneck American coppers a lesson in Canadian politeness and square-jawed honesty. That image is unlikely to survive
Brighid In October 1915 the NZ Parliament passed the Discharged Soldier Settlement Act which gave returned servicemen the opportunity to own some land and apply for cheap finance so they could develop it into productive farms. The government emphasised that success in the Soldier-Settlement scheme would ultimately depend on
Three Drams Full Sunday 20 February. A 7.45am phone call from my Castle Street student daughter. Whispery voice: “Mum, my tonsils are up, I’ve hardly slept.” Ah. “Good morning,” I say, “you probably have Omicron.” “Yes, Mum, I know,” she hisses, “but I don’t want my flatmates
Laura Van Luven brownstone.org Laura Van Luven is a Registered Nurse living in the Twin Cities, MN. She has also practiced nursing in East Africa and Pittsburgh, PA. She and her husband spend most of their energy trying to give their 4 young children as normal a childhood as
In a move straight out of a dystopian fiction like V for Vendetta, hackers targeted crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo and published the personal details of every single person who had donated to the Ottawa truckers protest. With scarcely-concealed glee, the Canadian government-funded media set about publicly outing them. The
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,
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,
So why are those crazies in Wellington still keeping the mandates along with the isolation and mask-wearing? Each day these restrictions continue is evidence that those in Wellington are a pack of charlatans not wanting to give up the power they believe they have over each of us. If
The High Court’s decision that vaccine mandates for police officers and defence force personnel are unlawful and not justified must be a wake-up call for the Government over every other vaccine mandate given Omicron is in the community, says Opposition Leader Christopher Luxon. “With the vaccine mandates ruled
The Police and Defence personnel who sued the Government over the vaccine mandates have won the case. The mandates have been deemed unlawful. What has happened? A group of police officers and Defence Force members applied to the High Court for judicial review of the government vaccine mandate that was
Suddenly, the most loved prime minister of all time, the one who was gifted an absolute majority at the last election, can find nowhere to go without protesters. This process started last year, after she put the entire country into Level 4 lockdown for a single case, but has accelerated
The elites who have been lording over us for two long years have always had the mantra ‘follow the science’. Perhaps it is time that they starting doing as they preach. Yesterday saw a continuation of inconvenient truths, that we have been saying for months, that Omicron is and will
