Jacinda Ardern was on Seven Sharp on Thursday night extolling the virtues of rolling out ankle bracelets for returning Kiwis in order to monitor their compliance with MIQ policies: She repeated this assertion on The Project as well: A trial will be held later this year. Ardern said it will
Michael Plank University of Canterbury Michael Plank is a Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and Principal Investigator at Te Punaha Matatini, New Zealand’s Centre of Research Excellence in Complex Systems and Data Analytics. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has
Not since Rousseau’s (probably apocryphal) “great princess” wittered, “Let them eat cake!” has there been such an ostentatious display of the disdain of the elite for the masses. It was as if the Capitol elite of The Hunger Games had decamped to party on the world’s most exclusive
New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern likes to witter about “kindness” and New Zealand’s “team of five million”. Ardern also likes to pontificate about New Zealand’s “international responsibility”, no matter its relative size. The international chattering classes love to heap praise on Ardern for her supposed “Covid leadership”
Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says the announcements from the Government around reconnecting New Zealand to the world are a step in the right direction, but speeding up and effectively rolling out the Covid-19 vaccination programme is the most important thing to do right now. “As we’ve
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There’s a meme doing the rounds of social media, with Star Trek’s Captain Kirk asking Dr McCoy when the pandemic will end. “Dammit, Jim!” snaps Bones. “I’m a doctor, not a politician!” In memo veritas, we might say: Queensland government documents show that the premier of that
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government’s announcement about New Zealand’s post-COVID future is a step in the right direction, but New Zealanders will be asking why it has taken so long. It has taken a series of damaging polls to spur the Government into action. The Government’
Once authoritarian governments have stripped away freedoms, they rarely, if ever, give them back without a fight. Anyone who thinks that the politicians who’ve ripped away our most basic human rights – freedom of movement, freedom to work, freedom to associate, freedom of speech – over the past 18 months are
I’ve got to say, I never thought I’d see the day where I’d be quoting a Joe Mercola article. But these are strange times we live in folks, and when the times turn weird, the weird too often turn out to be right. Alex Jones – Alex Jones,
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Australia today has the pathetic honour of being the only country in the world which currently prohibits its citizens from foreign travel (excluding visiting New Zealand during the spasmodic bubble periods) without specific permission. They’re doing this under the provisions of the 2015 Biosecurity
David Seymour ACT Leader Today’s big announcement will feel like Give Us A Clue: COVID Edition. After the highly disappointing Skegg report that was really just three letters, the Government needs to give us a clue on the big questions about our COVID future. The Skegg letters told us
On the AM show this week Sir David Skegg, chair of the Strategic Covid-19 Public Health Advisory Group on Covid-19 talked about a phased border reopening beginning next year, providing the government sees a successful vaccine take-up rate. The Strategic Advisory Group provides independent advice to “Hon
The government has moved from hushed whispers to out loud warnings that we will all be locked down again if there is just a single case of the much-hyped Delta variant in New Zealand: New Zealand will move into a “short, sharp” alert level 4 lockdown if the highly
A famous quote attributed to Winston Churchill says that, “The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists”. Despite the almost certainty that Churchill never said it, it remains a useful quote. Too often, those decrying some evil are themselves equally guilty of it. As Churchill did say, “Nazism
