Covid-19
The Double Standards of COVID Dictators
Business owners in Queensland are ropeable that football players and their families are allowed to travel across borders when no one else is. I have a friend who has been trying for weeks to bring their partner to Tasmania. They’ve been stymied by red tape, every step of the
Muckraking Media Smear Mums Just Worried About Their Kids
No wonder Victorian premier Dan Andrews was so keen to sign up to Xi Xinping’s notorious BRI: he is clearly bent on reinventing the state as a cheap knock-off of the Chinese communist state. Complete with feral media bootlickers, ever-ready to denounce counter-revolutionaries. Mental health campaigner Patrick McGorry has
Labour’s Failure to Plan Means COVID Cases Isolating at Home
A lack of planning by the Government for a Delta outbreak has meant as of 1 pm yesterday 78 Covid-19 positive people were isolating at home, having not yet been moved into quarantine, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins revealed in Parliament yesterday
Do Vaccination Passports Take Away Freedoms? It Depends on How You Frame the Question
John Quiggin The University of Queensland John Quiggin is an Australian economist, a Professor at the University of Queensland, and a fomer member of the Climate Change Authority of the Australian Government. You may have already downloaded to your phone a digital certificate proving you have received one or two
It’s ‘Official’ – Poto Has Got to Go
The suggestion by the Minister of Police that media should use the Official Information Act to find out if the officers who arrested the MIQ escapee were vaccinated against Covid-19 is astounding, says National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown. Asked by NewstalkZB Christchurch host John MacDonald this morning whether frontline
Health System Unprepared for a Delta Outbreak
The Government must explain why the health system was so unprepared for a Delta outbreak and why no new ICU bed spaces were provisioned over the five months since Delta first appeared in our MIQ facilities, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “What’s worse is that the
South Island Should Drop Now to Alert Level 2
The Government needs to explain exactly why the South Island should not immediately drop to alert level 2, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. “There hasn’t been a positive case of Covid in the South Island for almost a year. None have been reported from the latest Delta
Critical Healthcare Workers Must Be Granted Residency as a Priority
The Immigration Minister must urgently reopen the frozen Skilled Migrant Category visa EOI pool and prioritise processing of residence applications for critical healthcare workers to keep them in New Zealand as we battle the Covid-19 outbreak, says National’s Immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford. “National is also calling on the Government
MIQ Escapee Proves Podium of Truth Just a PR Exercise
David Seymour ACT Leader Jacinda Ardern’s decision to keep under wraps that a man had escaped from MIQ and posed a risk to the community shows how far her Government is prepared to go to avoid scrutiny. Ardern stood at the podium at 1 pm yesterday and neglected to
Collins’ Comments
Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz It is wonderful to have support from across New Zealand for my petition to get the Epidemic Response Committee reinstated. It is also great to have heard from the people who have phoned and emailed in support of the House sitting from 31
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Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under
My Vision of a Post Lockdown Future
Lockdowns are what you call a necessary evil. Forcing people to stay at home, and kids away from school is a huge imposition on people’s rights of travel, association, expression etc. But they have been necessary as the deaths and hospitalisations from Covid-19 before vaccination would have been worse
Joe Rogan Defeats COVID with Ivermectin
Joe Rogan has announced that, following a trip to Florida, he contracted the CCP Virus. He also defeated the virus in just three days with a drug combination that included ivermectin. The NZ Herald still manages to smear both him and the treatment with their article by describing ivermectin as
Answers Needed over MIQ Escapee
Answers are needed quickly from the Government over how a Covid positive person escaped from the Ibis Novotel Ellerslie MIQ facility, National’s Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “This is obviously a very concerning situation and will cause many people to worry about the safety and security of our critical