Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz Petition to Open the Trans-Tasman Bubble I am overwhelmed by the wonderful response I have had from people contacting me in support of our National Opposition petition to get a travel bubble opened between Australia and New Zealand as soon as possible. By
March 24th, 2021. Yesterday was the anniversary of the imposition of the first lockdown in the UK. I went on a visit to St Austell, a market town and centre of the once thriving china clay industry. St Austell, with a population of 20,000, is one of the larger
Last week I wrote that Covid Is Not What We Thought It Was/Is. I had previously written a comment on the last lockdown in Auckland and across the country wondering why, if Covid is the fearsome spreader and killer it’s purported to be, the authorities, having discovered the
A letter from a Wellington psychiatrist. Dear Dr. Bloomfield, I write to you as a physician colleague and a fellow Eastbourne resident to express my perplexity and dismay over New Zealand’s COVID policy, of which you, as I understand, have been the spearhead. Allow me respectfully to submit to
Jonathan Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
Patrick Carroll fee.org Patrick Carroll has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is a Eugene S. Thorpe Writing Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. A pastor put out a humorous Twitter poll a few months ago asking how people interpreted “15 days to
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “One year on from New Zealand plunging into level four lockdown, we need some honesty about the Government’s COVID Response – it must get smarter or we’ll go broke,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “If anyone thinks the COVID show is over, I
Today a tale of two ‘wokestans’, one global and one local, the term ‘wokestan’ indicating a place dominated by woke weirdos and their strange ideas, this time in the financial sphere. First the global wokestan: Read this from our Climate Science Coalition chairman Barry Brill, also a distinguished lawyer and
Dieuwe de Boer rightminds.nz It’s been about a year since I published my one and only bit of commentary on the plague of 2020. I have written many pages about Covid since then, especially during lockdowns, but none made it to print as I tend not to publish
Watch the Prime Minister smile and grin when asked about Rael Kwasnik’s case, where he has spent almost a week battling to get home from Sydney to see his 87-year-old father Sam, after finding out he had just two days to live: Disgusting. A litany of failures at the
Brad Polumbo fee.org Brad Polumbo is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Opinion Editor at the Foundation for Economic Education. Most young people are at little risk of dying from the coronavirus. But a new Pew Research survey shows that they are disproportionately bearing the consequences of heavy-handed pandemic lockdowns and
From early on in the Wuhan Plague, anyone who expressed even the slightest suspicion that the virus might have escaped from the virology institute next door to the “wet market” was loudly denounced as a crazy, right-wing conspiracy theorist. Dare to suggest that it might be the result of a
What a difference some bad economic news makes. Earlier last week Scott Morrison was blaming our government for holding up the trans-Tasman bubble, saying if they don’t want Aussie tourists in Queenstown then Cairns will happily have them. This, as it was designed to do, raised the hackles of
