Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi has failed to act on reuniting highly skilled migrant workers with their families, but if his Government just opened a travel bubble with Australia then the issue could be resolved, National’s Immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford says. “New Zealand risks eroding our critical migrant workforce – our
The Government should make a unilateral decision to have quarantine-free travel with Australia now that we know talks between the two countries have collapsed, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. In Parliament on Wednesday, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins revealed that after 12 rounds of
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Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Nearly four decades ago, in 1984 I wrote a novel “The Permit”. Given its sales success, driven in part by 1984 being a super-charged political year, I imagine many folk have read it. Its salient theme was the pack-hunting behaviour of political journalists
David Seymour ACT Leader, MP for Epsom ACT has produced what the Government hasn’t been able to, and what New Zealanders have been asking for: a plan for the immediate, and longer-term, steps of New Zealand’s response to COVID-19. Not only did ACT release the most
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed the only thing holding up a two-way travel bubble with New Zealand is our Government’s lack of urgency, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. When asked by media today on how far away a full travel bubble with New Zealand
Jagadish Thaker Massey University JT or JAGADISH THAKER (Ph.D., George Mason University) is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing, Massey University. He is an affiliate researcher with the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, and
Information Satire TWE Jacinda Ardern Explainer Editor: Broadcasting from her Facebook Bunker, the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced today the transmogrification of her Facebook channel to a fully integrated news outlet. “Traditional news outlets are too negative,” she said, “and are continually asking me things which I know nothing about:
The government have developed a habit of having a review whenever they cock things up. It is just a delaying tactic to let things cool down, and like the last review, nothing will actually change. The government ignored the findings of the Roche/Simpson report, but now they have tapped
Edward Peter Stringham aier.org Edward Peter Stringham is President of the American Institute for Economic Research, Davis Professor of Economic Organizations and Innovation at Trinity College, and Editor of the Journal of Private Enterprise. He is editor of two books and author of more than 70 journal articles, book
AIER Staff aier.org Founded in 1933, the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) is one of the oldest and most respected nonpartisan economic research and advocacy organizations in the country. With a global reach and influence, AIER is dedicated to developing and promoting the ideas of pure freedom and
Macca Are the media in this country utterly stupid or knowingly lying by omission? I believe it is a combination of both. They have given up the right to be called journalists. That title long ago was given to people who were nonpartisan and gave the facts that were available
Luke O’Neill Trinity College Dublin Luke O’Neill is an immunologist in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin. His research area is the molecular basis of inflammatory diseases. He has written several popular science books including his most recent ‘Never Mind the B*ll*cks, Here’
A BFD reader recently received an email from their child who works in a funeral home in the UK. The email covers a number of things, but below are the most pertinent parts that I think will be of interest. As of now, we are still at the highest level
