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 the
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 state
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 bungled.
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 would
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
Community transmission Ben Thomas (Spinoff): What the Covid resurgence means for the election campaign Luke Malpass (Stuff): In this new lockdown, Labour competence will be key Jason Walls (Herald): ‘Extremely disappointed’: National Party leader Judith Collins blasts Govt; says it let Covid-19 back into NZ Richard Harman (Politik): Covid’s
The Prime Minister and Dr Ashley Bloomfield will be holding press conference shortly. We’ve been softened up for this, with mask warnings and Bloomfield doing a show about getting tested. We were mocked for saying what has changed. Now we are about to find out. Clearly, we aren’t
