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Unkind Face of the Day

Unkind Face of the Day

Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Or any dollars at all. That’s the message from Southland’s mayor to Destiny Church leaders Brian and Hannah Tamaki who he says are not welcome in his region. The only reason why today’s unkind face of the day Southland

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Put in, Pulled Out and Put in Again

Put in, Pulled Out and Put in Again

From memory, it’s about ten days since I last wrote an article and since then rather a lot has taken place. Auckland was put in and pulled out of a pointless three-day lockdown and now we are in a seven-day lockdown which will prove to be equally pointless. These

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Obedience

Obedience

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Where Is New Zealand’s Vaccine Rollout Plan?

Where Is New Zealand’s Vaccine Rollout Plan?

National is calling on the Government to provide more detail on the schedule for vaccinating the entire population so that New Zealanders – particularly businesses – have the clarity they need to plan for the post-Covid future, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “It is great that border workers are being

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Ardern a Success at ‘Sustained Propaganda’

Ardern a Success at ‘Sustained Propaganda’

Boss-Lady’s gaffe: “We drum in that messaging around the dangers of Covid pretty diligently for a full two-week period of sustained propaganda” on Monday was just too big, and too public to ignore. So her sycophants did as sycophants do, and went in to bat for her: “The tin-foil

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Our ‘Kind’ PM Versus a School Girl

Our ‘Kind’ PM Versus a School Girl

A few months after taking office the PM withdrew from duties to attend to her six weeks of maternity leave. During this time she was undoubtedly on full pay, which proportionally amounted to about $57,000. This absence from work was hailed both locally and internationally as a shining example

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Before We Introduce Vaccine Passports We Need to Know How They’ll Be Used

Before We Introduce Vaccine Passports We Need to Know How They’ll Be Used

Tim Dare University of Auckland Tim trained and worked as a lawyer before completing his PhD in philosophy. His publications include books and articles on the philosophy of law, legal ethics, immunisation programmes, the significance of judicial disagreement, parental rights and medical decisions, the proper allocation of the burden of

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Foot and Mouth and Flashbacks

Foot and Mouth and Flashbacks

Today in Things That Didn’t Age Well: the great foot-and-mouth scare of ’01, starring a very familiar face. Australia is rushing specialist veterinarians to Britain as countries across the world move to contain the catastrophic outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that began there. And amid warnings that Australia could lose

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Other Prime Ministers Have Apologised

Other Prime Ministers Have Apologised

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “New Zealand Prime Ministers have on a number of occasions realised their comments or behaviour were ill-judged, gotten over their own egos and apologised to people for doing them wrong,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern should climb down from her

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COVID mRNA Vaccines Re-Write Your DNA?

Marc Grey In a previous article, the various COVID vaccines coming to New Zealand were discussed. While examining the mRNA (Pfizer) vaccine it was stated that: …it is RNA, it can be used immediately by the cell’s molecular machinery to make the protein (so does not enter the cell

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Lots of Law, Not Enough Order

Lots of Law, Not Enough Order

Alexander Gillespie University of Waikato I work primarily in international law, with specialties in international environmental; and the laws of war/international humanitarian law. New Zealand’s COVID-19 response might be the envy of the world, but that hasn’t stopped New Zealanders themselves getting angry about it this week.

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