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If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles and politicasts. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer John Black. How to Spot the Unvaccinated – A Bigot’s Guide Information Satire Until vaccine passports arrive

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Misinformation

Misinformation

Let me take you back to September when the great Siouxsie Wiles was caught out breaking Level 4 lockdown rules by sitting on a beach with a friend, who then went swimming. In spite of there being a video of these very events, Wiles responded by warning people about ‘misinformation‘

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How Do NZ’s Vaccinated Teachers Have Those Hard Conversations with Their Anti-vax Colleagues?

How Do NZ’s Vaccinated Teachers Have Those Hard Conversations with Their Anti-vax Colleagues?

Paul Heyward University of Auckland Paul Heyward’s Research areas include: How teachers make ethically challenging decisions, The ethical nature of teaching, Teacher professionalism, The place of a Code of Ethics/Conduct in the lives of professionals, Drama as a pedagogical approach in tertiary education settings, Critical reflection, Gender dynamics

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Did Michael Show Jacinda His Cool Hat?

Did Michael Show Jacinda His Cool Hat?

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.

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All but One Are Vaccinated…

All but One Are Vaccinated…

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NHS Accused of ‘Lying’ about COVID Stats to Promote Vaccination

rt.com NHS chief Amanda Pritchard claimed that 14 times as many Covid-19 patients are in Britain’s hospitals as this time last year. However, even the NHS itself has admitted that Pritchard’s claim uses misleading figures. Multiple news reports on Monday told the same story: Britain’s hospitals

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Good News! Melbourne Has Beaten COVID!

Good News! Melbourne Has Beaten COVID!

Good news! There are just thirty active cases of Covid-19 in Melbourne, where cases have been plunging for the past month. There have been no deaths since the start of June. That’s Melbourne, Florida, by the way. Not Dan Andrews’ Melbourne, where the city’s third wave shows little

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Towards the Next Generation of COVID Vaccines

Kylie Quinn RMIT University Dr Kylie Quinn is an RMIT University Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow and leads the new Ageing and Immunotherapies Group. Her group is developing ways to improve immune responses in older individuals during infection, vaccination, and new cell-based therapies such as chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy

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PM Attracts Spoons in Five  Minutes of Mayhem

PM Attracts Spoons in Five  Minutes of Mayhem

Information Satire Another High Tea Interview with Her Royal Highness, Jacinda Ardern the Prime Minister of Aotearoa. After her special one-on-one interviews with both TV One and TV 3 the Prime Minister graciously sat down for a good natter with our recently transitioned assistant cub reporter (her, she, them, they)

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Letter to the Editor: The Evidence Is Piling Up

Letter to the Editor: The Evidence Is Piling Up

Dear Editor Ventavia dismissed employee, Brook Jackson blew the whistle on unsound practices by her employer who was under contract to carry out trials on the Pfizer vaccine. Two New Zealand researchers, Dr Simon Thornley and Dr Aleisha Brock, found glaring errors in CDC study on the safety of the

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The Media Is Running Scared

The Media Is Running Scared

It started with this, last week: And yesterday, we had an article from Jason Walls on the same subject: But recently, there’s been a stark and worrying change in the level of animosity directed at journalists.   Yesterday morning, for example, my partner woke me up to tell me someone’

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More than 230,000 People Have Never Secured MIQ Spaces

More than 230,000 People Have Never Secured MIQ Spaces

Never before released data shows the scale of the humanitarian disaster that is New Zealand’s MIQ system, says National’s Covid spokesperson Chris Bishop. The latest MIQ lottery lobby has just opened, with New Zealanders overseas desperately participating in a Hunger Games-style lottery to win the right to come

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