As I wrote yesterday, Australian PM Scott Morrison is finally finding some domestic backbone and is pushing back against the recalcitrant Covid dictators in the state capitals. Morrison has laid out a “roadmap” to re-opening Australia, ending the rolling lockdowns, and learning to live with what is now just another
With the Delta variant of Covid-19 having well and truly arrived in New Zealand, the National Party is calling on the Government to supercharge the vaccination rollout throughout the country with a new strategy, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. “New Zealand has been the slowest in the OECD
The Police Minister’s admission to the Justice Select Committee this morning that she did not raise the issue of low vaccination rates among frontline police officers with Cabinet is shameful, says National Party Police spokesperson Simeon Brown. “Poto Williams’ failure to raise the issue of low vaccination rates of
We humans are a funny lot, especially our weird sentimentality towards animals. We may sniff and shake our heads at the worst atrocities committed against our fellow humans but nothing stokes the flames of outrage like enormities committed against animals. Especially our closest animal companions, dogs. There is something about
Nicole McKee ACT Justice spokesperson The Police Minister has today confirmed that Police are not a priority to be vaccinated for COVID-19. When Poto Williams was asked specifically whether she had lobbied Cabinet to prioritise Police for vaccination she would not directly answer the question. Only 38 per cent of
David Seymour ACT Leader Today’s Education and Workforce Committee was a perfect example of why we need the Epidemic Response Committee back. Opposition MPs were repeatedly shut down by Labour Party Chair Marja Lubeck, while Workplace Relations Minister Michael Wood was able to repeatedly attack the Opposition without any
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I took one for the team so you wouldn’t have to. I watched Ryan Bridge interview the Prime Minister on Newshub Breakfast at about 7.45 on Tuesday morning (August 24). Covid has been a major worldwide news story since March last year. That would make it 18 months.
covidplanb.co.nz Introduction 18 months on from the world’s fearful response to the arrival of SARS-CoV-2, we provide an alternative to New Zealand’s elimination strategy to one of ‘living with covid-19’. We are now back in level four lockdown indefinitely with escalating PCR positive ‘cases’. We urgently
Confirmation that the Crowne Plaza passed all its infection control audits, including as recently in June, beggars belief, National’s Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop says. MIQ officials before the Health Select Committee this afternoon confirmed the last infection control audit for the Crowne Plaza was in June this year and
The Government’s admission it isn’t using an obvious lever to increase uptake of the Covid-19 vaccine demonstrates its failure to recognise the need to ramp up our vaccine rollout, National’s Social Development and Employment spokesperson Louise Upston says. “Social Development Minister Sepuloni admitted at Select Committee today
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett appealed to the public on his Facebook page and detailed in a press release the national plan to fight the Delta wave. Good evening. I would like to share with you our national plan to fight the Delta wave that is engulfing the world. I will
No fishing at level 4, unless it’s Maori customary fishing. (Clearly, it is such a tricky virus it can tell the difference between Maori and Non-Maori). With your help Discrimination of the Day will become a regular segment on The BFD. A reader drew our attention to this racist
