The scale of the disaster unleashed by the Andrews government’s botched hotel quarantine scheme just keeps unrolling, from one mind-boggling idiocy to another. After refusing Commonwealth assistance (especially Australian Defence Force personnel), the Victorian government handed the scheme to private contractors – something no other state did. Then, it selected
The Ardern Cult of Personality is steaming the undies of the media elite, from Melbourne to London. But, then again, so did Hugo Chavez. Jacinda Ardern came along at just the right time, really: cashed-up lefties who once cheered on the Venezuelan socialist desperately needed a new idol. After all,
A memorable line from Ron Howard’s Apollo 13 comes when lead flight director Gene Kranz learns that the CO2 scrubbers for the Command and Lunar modules use different-shaped cartridges. “Tell me this isn’t a government operation,” he mutters in exasperation. The Australian and New Zealand responses to the
It may be a disaster for most of us, but COVID-19 – or, more correctly, government responses to it – has been a big winner for a chosen few. I’m not talking about the bennies being gifted a windfall of double payments for keeping on doing what they were (sitting on
Press Release: Plan B The serology tests on Wednesday being demanded by experts as necessary to track the mystery resurgence of COVID-19 have been banned by the Ministry of Health. Simon Thornley, epidemiologist with the Covid Plan B group, has criticised health commentators as hypocritical in calling for serology testing
Govt’s coronavirus response, border policy, political fallout Peter Dunne: Labour will be watching and checking everything and keeping its fingers crossed like never before Tim Watkin (RNZ): Test fail: Is Labour bordering on trouble? Keith Rankin (Evening Report): Epidemic Costs and Responses: Coronavirus and Tuberculosis Brent Edwards (NBR): The
Brooke van Velden ACT Deputy Leader Did you watch David Seymour’s speech in Parliament on Tuesday? It’s been viewed more than 35,000 times and had Mike Hosking and Peter Williams raving. Here it is in case you missed it. David forensically examined the many failures of the
Sadly Green co-leader Marama Davidson did not read my recent informative post on the different types of mask wearers and what the way they wear their mask tells us about them. I have now updated the slideshow inside the article to include a photo of Marama. (You’re welcome). According
There are few things that bring down governments faster than incompetence, arrogance and hubris. When all three are in evidence the downfall is assured. We’ve now had a second week of spectacularly bad headlines for the government. Never before has this Government had such a long streak of bad
“When a tsunami appears, skip the paperwork and ‘get out of the way” Chris Hipkins Health Minister Chris Hipkins has not apologised to New Zealanders for the Government breaking the law for 9 days by locking them down and forcing businesses to close illegally. Instead, today’s face of the
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Victorian premier Daniel Andrews looks set to be hoist on his own petard in the most spectacular fashion. In 2004, the Bracks Labor government enacted strong occupational health and safety legislation. The Bracks legislation made it easy for individuals to trigger action for breaches of OH&S – with the
“Diversity is our strength” is the robotic mantra of woke, multi-culti left. The Australian state of Victoria is a stark rebuttal of this “progressive” nostrum. In selecting who should run its critical hotel quarantine regime, Victoria placed “diversity and inclusion” far, far ahead of any other consideration. Now, nearly 300
Dhuni Information Satire On Tuesday night the Prime Ninnyster called a press conference to announce that New Zealand was going back into Stage 2 lockdown and Auckland into Stage 3. The cause was one family getting COVID-19. When this was pointed out by reporter Hypo Thetical the Prime Ninnyster replied
