Election date Bryce Edwards (Guardian): By delaying the New Zealand election Jacinda Ardern appears magnanimous and conciliatory Audrey Young (Herald): Full marks to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for the way she delayed the election (paywalled) Matthew Hooton (Herald): October 17 choice masterful by Jacinda Ardern (paywalled) Stuff Editorial: Election postponed:
On Monday at the 1pm COVID stand up, the media appeared to have finally grown a spine. And I was transfixed. Led by Herald political reporter Jason Walls, whose repeated questioning of the Director-General showed he would not be denied, he and others were relentless in searching for those elusive
You’ve got to love how civil servants fight back when they are being maligned by their political masters. When faced with mounting embarrassment and public discord over the failures at the border both Chris Hipkins and Jacinda Ardern said that their “expectations weren’t met.” Ignore for a moment
As is the desire of our socialist Government, I have a similar urge to rewrite history, but the difference is that my observations will correct history with evidence. April 03 2020, Newshub headline: “Health boss stands by COVID-19 border measures as National blasts ‘not good enough’ response”. Four months later
You have problems. The lack of credibility and honesty of your administration, and of those you choose to work with, has been exposed this week. There is so much more for the populace to be concerned about than the pandemic, even more than a crumbling economy. What has emerged over
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Ananish Chaudhuri Simon Thornley covidplanb.co.nz The authors are members of the Department of Economics and School of Population Health respectively at the University of Auckland. The views expressed are their own. During the Vietnam war, the well-known (and Kiwi-born) journalist Peter Arnett is supposed to have quoted a
Talkback hosts have been fielding hostile calls all week. Little wonder that they’ve been damning in their weekly columns. Heather du Plessis-Allan is scathing of the government in her column: The Government’s decision to extend Auckland’s level 3 lockdown is a massive disappointment. Worse, it is a
In a week dominated by enormous blunders by the government in their handling of COVID-19 and one where they inflicted lockdowns on the population, does anyone see anything missing from this week’s Herald cartoon roundup?” August 16 illustration Peter Bromhead Herald on Sunday August 10 illustration Guy Body August
Election date Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Decision day looms for Jacinda Ardern as Winston Peters threatens retaliation if election not delayed Richard Harman: Peters hints at constitutional challenge to PM Jane Patterson (RNZ): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to announce decision on election date today Claire Trevett (Herald): Return of Covid-19 tilts
We don’t know much about the South Auckland family at the centre of the latest COVID outbreak, except that they are of Pacific Island descent. This is hardly a surprise in South Auckland, where a large part of the Pacific Island and Maori communities reside. But their ethnicity is
Kate Hawkesby points out what is becoming increasingly obvious. The government is taking advantage of COVID to avoid having to be held accountable for its incompetence. I know of four families who lost teenagers to suicide these past school holidays. […]Our suicide rates in this country should be of no
