The announcement today of a hurdle of 90 per cent vaccination for each and every DHB in New Zealand condemns every Kiwi to months of more lockdowns and uncertainty, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. Millions of New Zealanders have done the smart thing and gone out and got
The business support package announced today by the Minister of Finance comes too late for many businesses, says National’s Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly. We have seen no immediate action to give cash to struggling businesses now. The increase the Resurgence Support Payment is welcome, but will come too late
E L Bloomfield I can’t wear a mask – well, I can, but after about five minutes of breathing in my own filth, my atrophied, pneumonia prone lungs become angry. I end up ripping the damn thing off, gasping for air in front of perplexed people and trying to hide
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government has given an impossibly complicated version of the Freedom Day that ACT, and later National, have advocated. We hoped that the Government would admit its errors and give a clear way forward based on building resilience against endemic COVID. That has been half delivered
“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” These words were said in anger by Henry II at his castle in Normandy in 1170 about his friend Thomas Beckett, who had been Chancellor but was now Archbishop of Canterbury. Four knights crossed the channel and dispatched the ‘turbulent priest’
John Rofe Private Investigator Dear Politicians, You must bring an end to the deceptive and misleading information about Covid-19 which is leading to multiple deaths and destroying many thousands of small businesses and jobs. If you open up the economy without changing your failing policy then based on overseas
Free To Be Church Logan Hagoort freetobechurch.nz As lockdown mandates and worship restrictions drag on throughout Aotearoa, a group of Christian Pastors and Leaders have formed an alliance to challenge the Government’s continual restrictions on places of worship. “Free To Be Church is a nationwide effort by a
Louis Houlbrooke taxpayers.org.nz So far, thirty two projects have received $6.2 million from the fund. The questionable taxpayer funded projects include: • $585,000 to develop a te Reo Maori virtual reality game. • $20,000 on “a digital storytelling platform using the vaka as medium for navigating and
Later today the Prime Minister will present her latest announcement. It will likely be an announcement of even more announcements, which she will call a roadmap or maybe even a plan. It will of course be none of those and will be met with utter dismay at the lack of
More than one million fully vaccinated Aucklanders are stuck at home because the Government has been unable to deliver a simple website, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. Since New Zealand got its hands on a proper supply of Covid vaccine in late August, Aucklanders have been quick to
Registered Master Builders chief executive David Kelly has called on the Government to extend its vaccinations mandates to the construction sector […] […] “We now call on the Government to front foot broadening mandates to the building and construction workforce. “Our members are facing a complex situation in the residential sector where
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This week’s Lack of Self-Awareness Award goes to a Victorian vaxhole publican. The white, South African-born hotelier rails against vaccine passports being compared to apartheid — by reminiscing about the Apartheid system in his native land in terms which sound almost identical to what he’s promoting in
