Dear Editor I sent the following e-mail to the PM. You, Jacinda Ardern, Have Made NZ, My Country, an Unsafe Place for Me. I am a healthy, youthful in appearance, 66-year-old mother, grandmother and wife. I have a masters level degree. I worked for the last 26 years of my
The BFD transcript NewstalkZB at 10:45 am on Monday 20 September between Kerre Woodham and caller Nicola 3:20 minutes into the recording. Nicola: So, I’ve been trying to get my daughter, who left at the beginning of last year to go to dance school in Melbourne, back
Melissa Lee National Spokesperson for – Broadcasting & Media| Digital Economy and Communications | Ethnic Communities As I write this column I am thinking about the extra weeks of economic hardship still lying ahead for many Kiwi businesses in the Auckland region during Level 3 and Level 2 in the rest of
Thirteen days ago both Grant Robertson and Dr Ashley Bloomfield stood at the ‘Podium of Truth’ and excused away the rule-breaking actions of Dr. Siouxsie Wiles and Dr. Nicola Gaston. Bloomfield went on to say during questioning that “I don’t think that the person, that went to the water,
Using the Covid Response and Recovery Fund to increase Radio New Zealand’s operating budget by $7 million is yet another example of money borrowed on behalf of taxpayers to fund pet projects unrelated to the pandemic response, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. “Yesterday, the Prime Minister defended
Chris Penk First published by The BFD 23th June 2020 The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Ignorance of the law It’s pretty important that the laws of our land are easily enough understood to be obeyed.
Judith Collins says employers shouldn’t make vaccination against COVID-19 compulsory […] Collins appeared on The AM Show on Wednesday, and was asked if employers should have the right to not hire – or even fire – employees who refuse to be vaccinated. “I think that’s a bit too tough actually,” she
Brad Polumbo fee.org Brad Polumbo is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Policy Correspondent at the Foundation for Economic Education. San Francisco Mayor London Breed reinstated a mask mandate for her city on August 2 amid the rise of the COVID Delta variant. However, the mayor was just exposed for violating
One thing you can’t accuse the Australian or New Zealand governments of is quick thinking. Despite her retrospective claims of “hardernurly” lockdowns in 2020, the timeline shows that Jacinda Ardern dithered for weeks before announcing the first Level 4 lockdowns. Not coincidentally, the first lockdowns occurred around the time
The Government must clarify why it allowed thousands of Aucklanders to cross into Northland in the six hours prior to New Zealand’s Level 4 lockdown, National List MP based in Whangarei Dr Shane Reti says. Answers to written questions show 3316 vehicles with an Auckland residential address made their
There’s an old anecdote about a visitor to Maoist China noting all the workers toiling with buckets and spades to dig a massive dam. Why not get a couple of bulldozers? he asks. Because, the cadre replies, then we wouldn’t have full employment. It’s easy to laugh
John Scott Lewinski rt.com As a journalist, John Scott Lewinski hustles around the world, writing for more than 30 international news organization covering news, lifestyle and technology. As an author, he is represented by the Fineprint Literary Agency, New York. Information Op-Ed Despite the efforts of progressives spreading Covid
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government can’t answer the simple question, when will it deem the vaccination roll out to be complete, after Chris Hipkins appeared in front of the Health Select Committee this morning. The Government says it is relying on advice from Prof. Sir David Skegg. That
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