Charlotte Bedford devpolicy.org Charlotte Bedford is a Research Fellow with the Development Policy Centre and is based in New Zealand. At the start of July 2021, over 350 stakeholders in New Zealand’s Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) scheme gathered in Nelson for the 14th annual industry-led RSE conference under
Remember when forced vaccination was a “right-wing conspiracy theory”? Yet France is enacting laws to jail anyone who tries to do practically anything except cower in their homes without a passe sanitaire. Anyone who refuses to turn state snitch likewise faces jail. Britain is heading rapidly down the same authoritarian
The NZ Herald wins the BFD award for FAKE headline of the day with this doozy… Reading that headline objectively the average reader would expect the article to be about the deaths of six people from Covid-19. It is a deliberately misleading headline as not one of the six people
The very fact that the Australian government is bragging about “freedom incentives” shows just how far Australia has slid into the dark valley of authoritarianism. Unpack those two little words: Firstly, the fact that the government is even dangling “freedom” in front of us is an explicit acknowledgement that we
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government will today give itself a big pat on the back for delivering two million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, but it should hold off on its self-congratulations. To put this into perspective, that’s 40 doses per 100 people. That milestone was met in
When President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and use the US military to restore order in American cities burning from hundred of violent riots, the media-left lost their minds. Despite the fact that Insurrection Act has been invoked dozens of times in recent American history — as late as
Newly-released DHB plans show the Labour Government is planning to break its promise that everyone eligible in New Zealand will be offered a Covid-19 vaccine by the end of the year, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “Last night, the Ministry of Health quietly uploaded to its website
David Seymour ACT Leader The Australian Prime Minister has called the Delta variant a game-changer. Chris Hipkins agrees and told Parliament yesterday that contact tracing wouldn’t be able to contain it. But what sort of rethink has the Government done in light of the Delta variant? It appears nothing
When the goon squad handcuffed crying, pregnant Zoe Bruhler, in her pyjamas, in her own home and in front of her children, many people were shocked and outraged. How could this happen in Australia? All too easily. And it’s getting worse. Australia has, in just under two years, slid
Autumn Johnson newsbusters.org Autumn is a practicing attorney licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia. When not working, Autumn enjoys reading, writing, playing video games, and spending time with her cats. Sky News Australia is banned from uploading content to YouTube for seven days after
Brad Polumbo fee.org Brad Polumbo is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Policy Correspondent at the Foundation for Economic Education. If you judged the US’s current COVID-19 situation only by the headlines, you’d come away thinking that we’re spiraling back into pandemic disaster. Localities like Los Angeles County
CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org People can tell themselves that they didn’t see where things have been heading for the last 17 months, but they did. They saw all the signs along the way. The signs were all written in big, bold letters, some of them in scary-looking Germanic script.
1st August 2021 The following piece carries on the theme from yesterday’s piece about the UK ambassador to the UN. The covid epidemic is getting out of control and has the potential to devastate the region which in turn could spread it to the rest of the world. Not
