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Government’s Plan as Clear as Mud

Government’s Plan as Clear as Mud

Stuart Smith MP for Kaikoura Spokesperson for Climate Change, EQC and Viticulture If you were hoping for some clarity about the Government’s COVID plan this week, you will have been disappointed. While I welcome the relaxation of the restrictions in Auckland, Delta is here to stay and it is

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Hey, Government! Leave Us Teachers Alone!

Hey, Government! Leave Us Teachers Alone!

Liberty Baker Hey, government! Leave us teachers alone! Up until two or three days ago, the mainstream media had published articles stating that the government was not considering vaccine mandates for teachers. Now, the latest news is that indeed, a vaccine mandate may be imminent. One teacher I have heard

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Lockdown’s Toll on New Zealanders

Logan Hagoort Pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church Editor of Founded in Grace Information Op-ed I am a pastor of a Presbyterian church in South Auckland, and I love my people more than I could express. In the last month or two, I have heard from a man who is struggling

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How Does a Pandemic End?

How Does a Pandemic End?

Now is the time for the believers of our PM’s miracles to hunker down for the rest of time.  Keep wearing those silly ineffectual masks and staying 2 metres apart. * You can have a BBQ but don’t go inside the hosts’ house even to use the loo. * You

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Authoritarian of the Day

Authoritarian of the Day

Newshub can reveal the mandate Hipkins is taking to Cabinet on Monday is a mighty big stick – every educator who works with a child will have to be vaccinated. Listen…can you hear that? It is the sound of jack boots stomping all over individuals right to choose what they

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New Premier Speeds up Ending Restrictions

New Premier Speeds up Ending Restrictions

As Treasurer and deputy Liberal party leader under Gladys Berejiklian, Dominic Perrottet was a constant gadfly urging the then-premier to err on the side of liberty when it came to Covid restrictions. As premier, Perrottet is set to make quicker easing of restrictions among the first acts of his new

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Ministry’s Block on Maori Health Info an Embarrassment

Ministry’s Block on Maori Health Info an Embarrassment

The Ministry of Health’s decision to go to court rather than handing over patient data to Maori health providers to help them lift Covid vaccination rates among Maori is an embarrassment, says National’s Whanau Ora spokesperson Harete Hipango. I support Whanau Ora Commissioning Agency’s chief executive John

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A Warning from Australia about Power of Government

A Warning from Australia about Power of Government

Jarrett Stepman PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com Jarrett Stepman is a contributor to The Daily Signal, and co-host of “The Right Side of History” podcast at  The Heritage Foundation . http://www.heritage.org/ He is also the author of the new book, “The War on History: The Conspiracy to

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ACT Provides Certainty around Vaccine Certificates in the Workplace

David Seymour ACT Leader Uncertainty about whether workplaces can require vaccination certificates under the status quo is creating great anxiety in workplaces. Government needs to deal with this uncertainty by giving clarity on how health and safety, privacy, and discrimination laws interact. ACT has a plan that would deliver certainty

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Are They Really Gene Therapies?

Marc Grey Many of the covid vaccines are made using completely new medical tech involving the use of genetic material instead of proteins from the appropriate virus. This has led to them being described as ‘gene therapies not vaccines’ in some circles. In this article, we discuss these new medical

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Will Jacinda Be Gone by Christmas?

Will Jacinda Be Gone by Christmas?

On his Bowalley Road blogsite, Chris Trotter raises the possibility that Jacinda will resign before Christmas. The reason he believes this is possible is obvious – COVID, particularly the Delta kind. Chris Trotter’s article is as well written and researched as we have come to expect of him, but I

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