David Seymour ACT Party Leader Jacinda needs to start answering questions about what advice she has received about whether mandates should continue. Jacinda Ardern has always been the master of avoiding questions and answering with waffle, but she took that to the next level, even for her, on AM this
Daniel Hirst amateurreviewspace.com Information Opinion Within the health policy literature, the preferred approach to managing the competing tensions between individual liberty and collective good has in recent times been “nudging”. This approach involves persuading, or influencing, people to act in a certain way by making use of their cognitive
Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy Hatchard PhD was formerly a senior manager at Genetic ID a global food testing and certification company (now known as FoodChain ID) Information Opinion Unless rampant genetic experimentation is regulated, the whole population of the world will continue on a risky journey towards an unknown
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. “A society becomes totalitarian when
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson intends to set out plans next week to remove self-isolation requirements for people infected with COVID-19, his office said on Saturday (local time). Britain would become the first major European country to allow people who know they are infected with COVID-19 to
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A remarkable trove of documents has been created in NZ by an organisation called Te Punaha Matatini—Covid-19 Modelling Aotearoa hosted by the University of Auckland but funded directly by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Covid-19 Modelling Aotearoa is headed by the wildly inaccurate Covid
It is quite disappointing that you have made a decision to not meet with those protesting outside parliament. I would like to ask you to consider the following: I am hearing two very different reports about the protestors: 1. That they are violent and breaking the law. 2. That they
[…] in the last four to five weeks, the situation has changed dramatically with Omicron, which is not Delta – it’s much more like a common cold, flu-like illness. And I think we need to move into a space very rapidly of thinking we’re going to live with this
Mike Highland New Zealand politicians are notoriously tone-deaf, but the recent statements from National’s new leader Chris Luxon on their Covid-19 strategy are beyond ridiculous. Luxon’s positions can be boiled down to: “I’m just like Jacinda, but without the pesky hair.” National has a chance
Laura Rosen Cohen brownstone.org Laura Rosen Cohen is a Toronto writer. Her work has been featured in The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, National Post, The Jerusalem Post, The Jerusalem Report, The Canadian Jewish News and Newsweek among others. She is a special needs parent and also a
As is grimly familiar with public health systems, some years ago the Tasmanian health system went through a round of “downsizing”. That is, sacking staff. The funny thing was, though, that while nurses and orderlies were first for the chop, the number of clipboard-tickers never seemed to diminish. This
Dear Editor I am a Covid Exile, having returned to my birth country (USA) due to the closed borders in NZ preventing us from being able to see relatives here for the past 2 years. I miss my home (NZ) very much, but current government plans make it look like
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“Fancy having one of them lovely things, with its Heat-Ray wide and free!” — H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds. While Trevor Mallard makes a goose of himself with childish tactics like turning on sprinklers and playing Barry Manilow, the Australian Federal Police are not playing such silly
New Zealand First Media “The government’s Covid modelling being used to enforce restrictions on kiwis must be released in its entirety for public scrutiny,” says Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First. “How can the government ask us to ‘trust the science’ if we aren’t shown what the
