Chris Baillie ACT Small Business spokesperson The pressure and uncertainly placed on small businesses this lockdown has been enormous and the Government needs to do more to offer certainty. Restaurant and cafe owners will be beside themselves wondering whether to order food or not. If the level changes at 3
The Australian PM has hit back at New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern over her continued pursuit of Covid elimination, rather than opening up and “learning to live with” what will become just another seasonal virus. Scott Morrison’s rare attack on his trans-Tasman counterpart (in contrast to the continual sniping
Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 The good news is that the government has sought independent advice on Covid Policy. The bad news is that the advice is abysmal. Back in June Associate Minister of
It is wonderful to watch the mighty fall… not that either Joe Biden or Jacinda Ardern can be in any way classed as ‘mighty’, but until very recently both were the darlings of the world media. It breaks my heart to see how journalists in the US and elsewhere are
Free Press ACT Party The nationwide lockdown has revealed a lot, mainly about the Government’s complacency before it happened. It has also shown how obsessed this Government and much of New Zealand society is with identity politics. Free Press traversed this ground in its review of Cynical Theories several
The epidemic response committee set up during lockdown last year and chaired by National’s (then) leader Simon Bridges had much more power than Parliament’s Q & A led by Speaker Trevor Mallard, and ministers and public servants were petrified of having to front. The reason being they actually
David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party yesterday welcomed news that the Government is now wastewater testing in 95 locations, up from 26 at the start of the outbreak. It has softened on saliva testing, and even said it was open to home test kits, a technology it has so
On Friday the residents started transforming face cloths into bunnies. By Tuesday they hadn’t lost any of their enthusiasm and were turning hand towels into teddy bears. NZ Herald Read the article in full here. Comment on it on The BFD.
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Claire Breen University of Waikato Dr Claire Breen holds a BCL from the National University of Ireland (University College Cork). She also holds an LLM (International Law) and a PhD from the University of Nottingham. Her research focuses on international human rights law with a specific interest in children’s
Is Scott Morrison’s new-found determination to push ahead with the “living with covid” strategy a sign o’ the times? “Scotty from Marketing” cuts both ways, I guess. At worst, it means that Morrison can too often, on domestic issues especially, seem weak. Too ready to bend to the whims
