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
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 has
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 the
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
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 the
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 when
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
Jeremy Harris Jeremy Harris is a businessman and investor from Auckland, New Zealand. Last Tuesday morning I had a very difficult conversation with my staff. With tears in my eyes, I told them that due to the likely renewed lockdown there was a good likelihood I would eventually have to
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 denied
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“Papers!” The heel-clicking functionary barking demands to see the official papers of terrified citizens is a stock image of WWII movies. As is the desperate scramble to get official travel documents. But this is the reality of 2020 for many Australians. Melbournians are not only under curfew for the first
I’ve said it more times than I wish I had to, but the grim fact is that Jacinda Ardern has, for the foreseeable future, locked New Zealand into a bleak cycle of infections and lockdowns. The plain fact is that SARS-CoV-2, the Wuhan virus, is not going away. A
Prof Worzel Information Satire It has been said that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. It may be true, but in my own defence, I would posit that any form of wit is worthwhile in an increasingly witless world. With that in mind, I would offer you my Diary
It has started up again! Nastiness is back. It has only taken a day or so of level two restrictions for nasty behaviour between people to start again. Ardern’s plea for Kiwis to be kind is not working. On Saturday, only a few days into level two, there was
