West Australia’s McGowan Labor government may be patting themselves on the back for apparently heading off Big, Bad Clive Palmer at the legislative pass on one front, but they can’t legislate away the Constitution. Palmer may have lost his bid for compensation over his Balmoral South iron ore
Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news The peak government body for health advice and information in the United States of America is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC has just published a report observing a mere 6% of ‘COVID-19 deaths’ had no other comorbidities (serious underlying conditions)
Audi alteram partem (or audiatur et altera pars) is a Latin phrase meaning “listen to the other side”, or “let the other side be heard as well” The World-wide deaths attributed to COVID-19 up to date according to worldometers.info/coronavirus/ are 860,266. Out of a population
Economic inequality Susan Edmunds (Stuff): New Zealand’s trillion-dollar wealth gap: Who are we leaving behind Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): The Government likes to say it follows expert advice – that’s not quite true Susan Edmunds (Stuff): 185,000 workers expect to lose their jobs within next year, Stats NZ
Green private school funding row, education Stuff Editorial: Shaw’s Green School shambles risks his party’s future Claire Trevett (Herald): Will James Shaw’s endless sorry save the Greens? (paywalled) Tova O’Brien (Newshub): NZ First and Greens fighting for survival, trying to kill each other off amid Green
The Government still says that there is no link to the border for the resurgence of the Chinese plague, despite the fact the B1.1.1 genome comes from Australia. We discovered last week that 179 people left isolation with no tests, and now we find that more than 100
An event planner has slammed the Health Minister for telling Aucklanders not to attend a conference – advice which went against official guidelines. During the daily coronavirus update, Health Minister Chris Hipkins said “no” when asked whether he was comfortable with Aucklanders attending a conference in Queenstown this weekend. However, guidelines
The reaction of governments on both sides of the Tasman to the Wuhan pandemic has been near-hysterical overreaction coupled with the most bizarre wishful thinking. Panic – and an innate taste for untrammelled power – drove the unacknowledged shift of the pandemic goalposts from “flatten the curve” to “elimination”. Bear in
New Zealand’s national carrier is well on the way to emulating its national symbol: a flightless bird at risk of extinction. Like the kiwi, Air New Zealand’s possible demise is the result of predators and the loss of its natural habitat – international air travel – due to human interference.
Information Satire A discussion document leaked to The Woke Examiner shows that state control of all farms is now complete. It details how a long term plan using Health and Safety measures, the Resource Management Act, principles of Te Treaty, the zero-carbon target, COVID lockdowns and now, freshwater reforms
I have a question. I know I’ll be accused of being a racist for asking it but frankly, those who think I’m a racist may feel free to do so. I know who I am and I’m comfortable in my skin regardless of its colour and I’
Green private school grant row Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Green co-leader James Shaw refused to sign-off on $3bn of infrastructure projects unless Green School was included Jane Patterson (RNZ): Treasury opposed Green School grant over lack of approvals Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): James Shaw has a bigger
I’m back in Wellington, having spent a few weeks in the South Island. Last time I was here, we were in Level 1, and life was pretty much as normal, but not now. In spite of there being no cases in Wellington, and absolutely none in the South Island,
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Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org Why watch COVID press conferences and briefings by politicians? They are just upsetting. These people seem to have no clue about why the virus is ignoring them. They keep issuing strange and arbitrary rules that they make up, change by the day, all enforced by
