Andrew Geddis Professor of Law University of Otago Disclosure statement Andrew Geddis does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. The return of COVID-19 community
Jeremy Harris Jeremy Harris is a businessman and investor from Auckland, New Zealand. Dear Prime Minister, I supported the initial national lockdown and move to quarantined borders. Over the last 5 months the situation has changed markedly in four respects: * Firstly, the Infection Fatality Ratio can now be calculated to
This was going to be a boring little article about the government’s new rules about provisional tax penalties. I was going to recommend you read it after 11.00 tonight, particularly if you are having trouble sleeping. But I am going to have to leave that for another day
It was said that the New Zealand public won’t accept another lockdown, and here we are with Auckland back in lockdown. As night follows day, other regions will revert to curfew too. Like a case of Stockholm Syndrome, where the abused bond with their abusers, we the people never
Election date, parliament Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Judith Collins’ dangerous constitutional game Audrey Young (Herald): Jacinda Ardern holds all the cards in Covid election (paywalled) Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Let’s delay the election Andrew Geddis (The Conversation): By delaying the dissolution of parliament Jacinda Ardern buys time on
Jacinda Ardern used her second press conference yesterday to criticise the Opposition for daring to ask valid questions about her and her government’s decisions. We are currently in what is traditionally a period where governments must not make major decisions without consulting with Opposition parties. Locking down 30% of
At the beginning of the adjournment debate the Prime Minister made a mistake…or did she? She opened with: I move, That the House do now adjourn until 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 18 August 2020. That never made sense especially if you look at the proposed timetable for conducting
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There are tentative signs that Victoria’s disastrous COVID-19 failure may be running its course as infections appear to plateau, but the political failure in the state rages unchecked. It’s fair to say that almost every aspect of Victoria’s fiasco can be sheeted home to the Victorian
Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news It’s remarkable to me how many lockdown apologists in the Mainstream media and armchairs around Australia are seizing upon mere conjecture as support for their argument to destroy the healthcare, natural freedoms and economy of 25 million Australians with the clumsily blunt response to yet
It’s almost certain that, despite Daniel Andrews’s constant mantra of “I don’t know”, nearly every case in Victoria’s surge in COVID-19 infections is linked to the state’s bungled hotel quarantine regime. But it’s only now becoming clear just how badly the programme was
Dr Eric Crampton nzinitiative.org.nz Presented as an engineering or operations management problem, it would seem almost impossible to solve. Thinking about it as that kind problem is now part of the problem at New Zealand’s border. In the decade before COVID-19, two to three million Kiwis
Information Satire CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org They’re here! No, not the pod people from Invasion of the Body Snatchers. We’re not being colonized by giant alien fruit. I’m afraid it is a little more serious than that. People’s minds are being taken over by a much
It appears Ardern is nothing more than a puppeteer. As such she should probably be in the Guinness Book of Records for having the largest number of puppets on a string – five million of them. The team of five million is the slogan she likes to use. It’s beyond
