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Government Blanked Northland Mayors on Lockdown

Jacinda Ardern’s Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet consulted Northland’s three Labour MPs but not Northland’s mayors before extending the region’s level 4 lockdown. “This was a contentious lockdown for many Northlanders, especially when Northland had no positive cases and many businesses and communities suffered,

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Captain Planet and the First VX

Captain Planet and the First VX

David Seymour ACT Leader Captain Planet James Shaw is taking 14 officials to Glasgow with him, the first XV of climate change. Despite COVID-19 being out of control in Glasgow, Shaw has decided to dive in boots and all. This is not the first time the squad has gone

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Wage Subsidy Problems Must Be Sorted

Wage Subsidy Problems Must Be Sorted

Further reports of confusion about whether businesses are entitled to the wage-subsidy at alert level two shows the Government must urgently improve the scheme, National’s Social Development and Employment spokesperson Louise Upston says. “Government MPs have sent mixed messages about whether firms are eligible for the wage subsidy

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Government Strategy Rudderless

David Seymour ACT Leader Everything Jacinda Ardern based yesterday’s decision on was true two weeks ago, the only thing that’s changed is politics. Two weeks ago, there were about 20 cases each day, most new cases were within households, but a few new cases popped up to keep

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A Demented Dalek Screeching ‘Eliminate…eliminate’

A Demented Dalek Screeching ‘Eliminate…eliminate’

Jacinda Ardern chose to make this pandemic political: of that there is absolutely no doubt. At the very onset, in the first week of March 2020, a group of our senior epidemiologists whose names are all very familiar to us now: Prof Nick Wilson, Dr Lucy Telfar Barnard, Prof Michael

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Open Letter to the MSM

Open Letter to the MSM

Micky Turner Dear Newshub, Herald, TVNZ  and RNZ, This is a complaint about the lack of balance in your reporting about the drug Remdesivir: * newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/09/covid-19-new-zealand-evaluating-antibody-cocktail-ronapreve-for-treatment.html * nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-coronavirus-

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Frank’s Diary

Catherine Tait Frank’s Diary is a fictional account of a 16-year-old struggling with the decision of whether to have the covid vaccine. Information Fiction Week 1 I have taken up journaling again. It helps to put my thoughts on to paper. I am a bit worried about

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The Joker

The Joker

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You Stuffed September, Open up October!

You Stuffed September, Open up October!

Brian Tamaki Information Opinion Enough is enough! Come stand with us in Auckland on Saturday the 2nd of October! We demand our freedoms back! NO MORE LOCKDOWNS! We want to be… • Free to Choose • Free to Work • Free to Farm • Free to Trade • Free to Parent • Free to Travel • Free

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Pasifika Community Can’t Have It Both Ways

Pasifika Community Can’t Have It Both Ways

Robin Grieve The angry reaction by some Pacific Islanders to Ashley Bloomfield and the Ministry of Health informing the public that it was the Pacific community that was at the heart of the Covid cluster in South Auckland, demonstrates the problem of having a government and an overpopulation of social

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Vaccination Rates – Some Thoughts on Modelling

Vaccination Rates – Some Thoughts on Modelling

covidplanb.co.nz There’s been some hysterical modellers claiming that even with high rates of Pfizer vaccination, there will still be a large number of deaths. Ironically, their models have opened the way in New Zealand to questioning the value of Covid vaccines. We don’t need notoriously unreliable

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Inconvenient Mask Facts That Michael Baker Needs to Read

Inconvenient Mask Facts That Michael Baker Needs to Read

Panic Porn expert and Chicken Little, Michael Baker is yet again predicting terrible calamity will befall us all if we don’t listen to him. Never mind that many of his fanciful claims have never eventuated, like the Tokyo Olympics will kill thousands or that the UK’s Freedom Day

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Disconcerting Developments

Disconcerting Developments

Chris Penk First published by The BFD 21th June 2020 The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the country by publishing an extract every day. Disconcerting developments It is worth remembering throughout all of this that the unbelievably cavalier attitude of the government right up to

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