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Dan Andrews’ Own Boss-Bashing Laws Come Back to Bite Him

Dan Andrews’ Own Boss-Bashing Laws Come Back to Bite Him

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

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Diversity and Death in Australia’s Failed State

Diversity and Death in Australia’s Failed State

“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

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Pay No Attention To the Facts Behind the Hysteria!

Pay No Attention To the Facts Behind the Hysteria!

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

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PM Sat on Critical Information for Nine Days

PM Sat on Critical Information for Nine Days

Press Release: ACT Party “The Prime Minister has today admitted that she sat on information for nine days from health officials that people working at the border didn’t want to be tested,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “I asked Jacinda Ardern in Parliament today when and where she got

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A Conspiracy of Incompetence?

A Conspiracy of Incompetence?

New Zealand won the Lockdown World Cup at its inaugural event, crushing all opposition. So successful were we, the ‘team of five million’, that we find ourselves, post-match, confined to the locker room, still in our briefs, and unable to progress with the bigger game called Life. The captain

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Government Response to COVID-19 is a Complete Shambles

Government Response to COVID-19 is a Complete Shambles

And there’s more to come When the Prime Minister put the whole country into lockdown back in March, even those among us who thought it was a gross over-reaction were willing to take it on the chin and go along with it. Most of us cooperated and suffered

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Government Believes It Is Above the Law

Government Believes It Is Above the Law

Press Release: ACT Party “The Government’s response to a ruling on the Level 4 lockdown suggests that it believes it’s above the law,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. The High Court has ruled that the first nine days of the Level 4 lockdown wasn’t mandated by law

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COVID on the Hoof

COVID on the Hoof

I listened on Tuesday to Heather du Plessis-Allan interviewing Health Minister Chris Hipkins on the testing at the border. Chris started off confidently enough but when Heather started to drill down he was at sixes and sevens. He was finding it hard to stay on message. Then we got

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Daily News Roundup – 20 August 2020

Daily News Roundup – 20 August 2020

Border testing, quarantine facilities, alternative plans from NZ First, National, ACT Thomas Manch (Stuff): The Covid-19 border testing saga that’s going septic amid ministers’ muddled accounts Karl du Fresne: Incompetence is one thing, misinformation another Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Government was advised testing all border staff wasn’t viable

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Govt Didn’t Read Testing Strategy or Lied About It

Govt Didn’t Read Testing Strategy or Lied About It

Press Release: ACT Party “Either the Government didn’t know what was in its national testing strategy, or it lied to New Zealanders about the extent of border testing,” according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Prime Minister and the Health Minister have insisted that the Government expected the Ministry

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First Nine Days of Lockdown Unlawful, Court Finds

First Nine Days of Lockdown Unlawful, Court Finds

You may well remember when The BFD first broke the story that the legal advice given to Police showed that the first lockdown was illegal, at least for the first nine days. We were then subsequently leaked more details to back that up. At the time Attorney-General David Parker

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