The Government that said it would be the most open and transparent ever has once again done the exact opposite, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. After the debacle of last month’s Health Select Committee hearing which saw it filled with endless explanations about the end-to-end user
Harry S Truman famously had a sign on his desk: “The Buck Stops Here”. Daniel Andrews, on the other hand, is obviously determined that the buck will stop anywhere and everywhere but his own desk. The roster of heads that have rolled over Victoria’s hotel quarantine disaster is beginning
David Seymour ACT Leader David Seymour The Health Select Committee’s refusal to have regular constructive debates about our response to COVID-19 is an indictment of this Government. The Government should be doing everything it can to foster open debate and continuous improvement of our response to COVID. Instead, it’
The Prime Minister’s comments today in Question Time that Chris Hipkins’ promise that New Zealand would be at the “front of the queue” for Covid-19 vaccines actually meant that we would be at the front of the queue in terms of signing contracts are baffling, says National’s Covid-19
When the going gets crazy, the crazy gets real. We live in crazy times, folks. Women have penises, men breastfeed, oops, “chest feed” babies, and black-shirted, violent, statist thugs call themselves “anti-fascists”. In these crazy times, yesterday’s nutty conspiracy theory is today’s news. QAnon nutters insist that there
The Government knew how long the security guard who tested positive for Covid-19 had been without a Covid test for six days before finally coming clean to New Zealanders, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. Reply 14693 (2021) has been answered Portfolio: COVID-19 Response (Hon Chris Hipkins) Question:
They hunted him down like he’s a terrorist. Police cars swarmed him as he drove home from his church. They ordered him out of his car and made him kneel down on a busy highway. Heavily-armed SWAT police arrested him. But he’s not a terrorist. He’s Artur
Celia Wolf-Devine mercatornet.com Celia Wolf-Devine is retired from her position teaching philosophy at Stonehill College. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, USA with her husband Phil Devine, who is also a retired philosophy professor. She has her B.A. from Smith College and her Ph.D. from the University
A mere 339 saliva tests have been carried out in New Zealand’s MIQ facilities since they began in January, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “The Government’s slowness to move on saliva testing for our border workers is staggering. “There could be up to 20,000
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If there’s been one constant in the Wuhan plague, it’s been the utter incompetence of so many governments and bureaucracies. The almost-unbroken rule is that the more authoritarian they’ve been, the more completely, disastrously, useless they’ve been. Every time, “COVID dictators” have pursued policies that have
One significant outcome of the Tasmanian election has gone barely without mention by the mainstream media: the apparent lack of a “COVID bounce”. Premier Peter Gutwein was surely banking on one, when he called an early election on the flimsy excuse of having been pushed into minority government. After all,
It is deeply disappointing that the Government has not agreed to National’s call for a new Covid-19 Select Committee, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. National’s proposal was to establish a committee, based on the Epidemic Response Committee, which successfully held the Government to account on
As we embark on Phase 3 of the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out plan, new data shows New Zealand is ranked as low as 116th in the world in terms of vaccination doses administered, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “New Zealanders were promised we would be at the front
