The wheels of justice turn slow, it is said, but they grind exceedingly small. But bad laws throw a spanner in the works – at least, that’s what bad lawmakers hope. Victoria’s Occupational Health and Safety Act is very bad law. It was enacted by former Labor premier, Steve
David Seymour ACT Leader It turns out the Prime Minister’s announcement about this week’s announcement won’t be an announcement at all. Jacinda Ardern has been talking up the release of the Skegg report this week, but under questioning in Parliament admitted nothing tangible will be announced. Ardern
The Government needs to explain why it hasn’t acted sooner to increase the uptake of vaccinations against Covid-19 at our ports, National’s Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “The Prime Minister says ‘there has always been a sense of urgency’ about vaccinating port workers, but her Government is not
Judith Collins has said what many of us are thinking about Ashley Bloomfield and his persistent obfuscations followed by abject apologies when he’s busted: National leader Judith Collins has dubbed Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield a “deified”, “one-trick pony” who’s “good at standing up and talking about
It’s deeply concerning that 60 per cent of port workers in the Bay of Plenty haven’t had a single vaccine especially when there are 11 cases of Covid-19 in a ship off Tauranga, National’s Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop says. As at 22 July, of the 530 frontline
Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz Law and Order We’re working hard to hold the Government to account and ensure New Zealand remains a safe place to live, work and raise a family. To National, that means making sure victims are at the heart of our justice system,
Free Press ACT Party The Haps ACT had another great week on tour with a record 300+ crowd packing Classic Flyers in Mt Maunganui on a Friday night as the Honest Conversations tour rolls on. There are still meetings to come, in Canterbury this week and Auckland next. The Government’
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One of the most startling things — in hindsight — about economic collapses is not just how long the signs were ignored, but how quickly the inevitable collapse hits. In his memoirs, Groucho Marx recalls how he’d grown steadily uneasy with the giddiness of the stock market through 1929, but his
Glenn McGillivray Western University Glenn McGillivray is Managing Director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction. An institute of Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, ICLR is the oldest university-based disaster risk reduction/climate change adaptation research institute in Canada. COVID-19 has laid bare many uncomfortable truths regarding society’s overall
Human beings are social creatures. We go out, we mingle with others, we visit friends, we socialise. We may even reach out to other people to dull the pain of loneliness. We also use substances that change our consciousness. We take caffeine to wake us up and to give us
Ashley Bloomfield has been caught telling fibs to the Health Select Committee. Like all good little civil servants he has ‘fessed up, yet again, to misleading Members of Parliament: Director general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield has apologised to Parliament’s health select committee for providing them incorrect information. On
TV3’s pregnant Samantha Hayes was admitted to hospital last month for a “scary few days spent in hospital fighting a mystery infection, facing worries her baby might be arriving two months early”. Hayes and her unborn baby recovered from a fever thought to be caused by an unknown virus,
