Jacinda Ardern experienced considerable push back from Mike Hosking on his morning show yesterday. What is abundantly clear, is that she has no idea what her ministers are up to, especially in regard to the Tauranga situation. Further to that, she really doesn’t like to get surprised with non-
Economic response to Covid Kate MacNamara (Herald): Government mulls use of $400m fund to buy stakes in firms hurt by Covid 19 (paywalled) Debrin Foxcroft (Stuff): Companies refusing to apply for Government sick leave subsidy to cover workers David Fisher Herald): The Road Ahead: The missing piece in our Covid-
You have got to be joking? This is totally contrary to what the government has been telling us. On 23 June 2020 the Prime Minister answered a question from Todd Muller about this: 1. TODD MULLER (Leader of the Opposition) to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by her statement,
Some of the points made in the video are: 1. The government should have extended the wage subsidy for the four extra days that the restrictions will be ongoing. 2. National’s health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti has written – for the second time – to the health committee chair asking for
I’ve never been a fan of Bronwyn Bishop, not least for her blatant trougherism when she was caught using a government-funded helicopter to go from Melbourne to Geelong for a party beano. That said, though, even people we ordinarily despise can be right sometimes. And when Bishop says
Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org/article A mystery for months is how it is that so many governments in so many different places on earth could have adopted the same or very similar preposterous policies, no matter the threat level of the virus, and without firm evidence that interventions had
Dear Editor Ever heard the story of Emperor Nero burning down Rome? The story goes that he fiddled while it fell to ashes. They say he set it on fire himself. A myth on the fiddling part maybe, but Rome did burn. New Zealand’s government is effectively willfully burning
Finance Minister Grant Robertson says for the most part Auckland businesses have coped well with the lockdown. How would he know that living in his bubble in Wellington? What about all the Mums and Dads trying to balance life at the moment?
PM’s levels announcement, govt management of coronavirus Henry Cooke (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern faces little opposition to alert level extension Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): A nervous week ahead for a suddenly vulnerable government (paywalled) Richard Harman (Politik): Covid “here for some time” say Ardern and Collins Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Experts
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P.J. Gladnick papundits.wordpress.com A Republican governor who lifts a ban on the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 would understandably not be big news. However, what would be a major news development would be if a Democrat governor lifted such a ban. In fact,
We are now subject to regional lockdowns, town by town. These are increasingly ignored by an untrusting population, especially the young who appear to think that lack of age gives them immunity. They are possibly right in that COVID-19 doesn’t seem to affect them anywhere as near as
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