As I reported recently, Barack Obama’s 60th birthday party was possibly the most ostentatious display of elite arrogance since the glory days of Versailles. While ordinary Americans are vilified by the likes of Anthony Fauci for holding biker rallies in South Dakota, the Obamas are praised for surrounding themselves
David Seymour ACT Leader At current rates, the Government is on track to run out of Pfizer doses on September 2nd. It needs to either source more doses, or slow down on the ‘incredible news’ of 90,000 vaccines per day. Ninety thousand doses a day is 630,000 per
The Government needs to be much more upfront and release more comprehensive data about the current Covid-19 community outbreak, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “National, like commentators and public health experts, is calling on the Government and Ministry of Health to be more transparent. Journalists
David Seymour ACT Leader Campaigning by ACT has led to a change in the fishing and whitebaiting rules, making them fairer for all. Due to ACT advocating for fairness, the rules have now been changed. Had ACT not raised the issue, fishing would still be banned. On Saturday afternoon the
The Ponderer My sweet wife just came home from the supermarket in tears. On entering the supermarket, she was stopped by a big, bearded, intimidating man, who told her that by law she had to sign in. She refused because he was lying (or misinformed). There is no such law.
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young
Dawn Picken is a regular contributor to the Bay of Plenty Times and her columns are often worth a read, when she writes about family and everyday things. However, this week’s effort, Embrace science fact over science fiction, set my teeth on edge. The reason: she ran headlong into
Australian PM, Scott Morrison, is pushing hard on the federal government’s roadmap to “re-open Australia”, be done with lockdowns and border closures, and “learn to live with the virus”. Morrison’s plan is eminently sensible and is clearly based on the real-world experience of places like Britain
When does “absolutely free” not actually mean “absolutely free”? Apparently, when everyone is running around, Chicken Little style, panicking over a new virus from China. Australia’s Constitution states that “trade, commerce, and intercourse among the States, whether by means of internal carriage or ocean navigation, shall be absolutely free”
Dear Editor Call me a moron, but why can’t we vaccinate people who turn up for COVID testing at the same time as providing the test? Having completed my two vaccinations, I’ve observed how the process could easily be adapted to accommodate those seeking a test. The same
Taxpayers’ Union The Taxpayers’ Union has continued to expose how the Government has frittered away the $62 billion Cv response fund. The Cv response fund was 20 times larger than Shane Jones’s infamous Provincial Growth fund, and yet even before the current lock down, Grant Robertson had whittled it
David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party has today welcomed the Parliamentary Business Committee decision that a socially distanced Parliament will go ahead next week. Any ACT MPs who attend next week will already be in Wellington, be double vaccinated, masked, and taking all precautions. As Trevor Mallard has said,
Alwyn Poole Regeneron in NY state has developed a wonderful Covid therapeutic that no media in New Zealand is asking any questions about. I alerted the Ministry of Health (MOH) three months ago and they ignored it. It is highly effective and FDA approved and it has the clear potential
There’s a good reason that, despite the feathers it ruffled, I described New Zealand’s response to the Wuhan pandemic as lazy, complacent and selfish: because it is. Except that I forgot to add: delusional. The stated goal of the Ardern government is “Zero Covid”. This is a fantasy.
I have a good mate who contracted Covid while living in Indonesia. After nearly two weeks of being the sickest he has ever been he called a mate to ask what he suggested for treatment. He was told to get some Ivermectin, doxycyline and zinc into him. Fortunately for him
