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Border Entry Can Be Safely Scaled-Up, New Report Says

Border Entry Can Be Safely Scaled-Up, New Report Says

NZ Initiative nzinitiative.org.nz Wellington, 23 July 2020 – New Zealand needs to ‘raft up’ with other COVID-free countries while building stronger border capabilities, according to a new report by The New Zealand Initiative. And a voucher programme for helping returning Kiwis cover the cost of managed isolation could help

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Bread and Circuses

Bread and Circuses

Prof Worzel It was a tactic used during the last days of the Roman Empire. The ruling powers provided free ‘bread and circuses’ to the people to distract them from the harsh reality that resources both moral and physical were running perilously low. Rome’s once renowned military might was

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Oxford Professor’s Deadly Prediction for NZ

Oxford Professor’s Deadly Prediction for NZ

COVID Plan B covidplanb.co.nz In a stunning interview, Professor Carl Heneghan from the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine at Oxford says: “If you follow the New Zealand policy of suppressing it to zero and locking down the country forever, then you’re going to have a problem… This

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Stay Obedient, Stay Muzzled

What is becoming undeniably clear in the Wuhan pandemic is that the worst depredations of the virus have been enabled by the stupidity and incompetence of governments and health bureaucracies. Besides the original epicentre in China, there’s the horror-show in New York, run by a Democrat governor and mayor.

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The Meltdown Begins

The Meltdown Begins

Sir Stephen Tindall signed a letter to governments, asking them to tax millionaires more. His timing in signing that letter could not have been worse. Now everyone that knows about it will call him out for the hypocrite that he is, asking to be taxed more while workers in his

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Why Is Food So Expensive for Kiwis?

Why Is Food So Expensive for Kiwis?

We face an economic disaster, the likes of which most have never experienced in their lifetime. The financial blowout is the result of Jacinda Ardern’s decision to lock down healthy people and businesses, as well as the policies of her socialist Labour Government’s out-of-control spending and borrowing. The

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How New Zealand Could Keep Eliminating Coronavirus at Its Border for Months to Come

How New Zealand Could Keep Eliminating Coronavirus at Its Border for Months to Come

Michael Plank, University of Canterbury Alex James, University of Canterbury Audrey Lustig, Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research Nicholas Steyn; Rachelle Binny, Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research and Shaun Hendy Stringent border controls and mandatory quarantine give New Zealand a good chance to remain free of COVID-19 for months to come, according to

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Is Florida Really Being Engulfed by Infections?

Is Florida Really Being Engulfed by Infections?

Conspiracy theories flourish where those in power lie and obfuscate. The Wuhan pandemic has been characterised by official lies and cover-ups from its very beginnings. But if the Chinese government and its cronies at the WHO lied and misled the world and generally screwed up royally, other governments and authorities

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Rule by Terror

Rule by Terror

I generally listen to Newstalk ZB, on the basis that they are slightly less wet and biased than the other news media. I am a big Hosking fan, but most of the rest of them leave me reasonably cold, or at best only lukewarm. So imagine my surprise when I

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COVID Patients Defend Dr. Bartlett’s ‘Silver Bullet’

COVID Patients Defend Dr. Bartlett’s ‘Silver Bullet’

ODESSA, Texas — The inhaled steroid Budesonide is being hailed by one West Texas doctor, Richard Bartlett, as the ‘silver bullet’ for COVID-19. Midland Memorial Hospital seems to disagree with him, telling us Tuesday that there is no such thing a ‘silver bullet’ for the virus. But Bartlett’s patients credit

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A Crack Appears in Daniel Andrews’s Great Wall of Denial

A Crack Appears in Daniel Andrews’s Great Wall of Denial

Victorian premier Daniel Andrews is clearly besotted with the Chinese communist party. Not only does he happily trouser their filthy lucre, he’s copied their response to the Wuhan virus slavishly. Lies, cover-ups, evasions, political cronyism, police-state authoritarianism, locking people up in their apartment blocks. So far, no journalists or

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Daily News Roundup – 17 July 2020

Daily News Roundup – 17 July 2020

National Party Henry Cooke (Stuff): Judith Collins looks to stabilise chaotic party in first reshuffle Richard Harman (Politik): Collins browns National Audrey Young (Herald): Impressive reshuffle by new National leader Judith Collins (paywalled) Luke Malpass (Stuff): The end of the triangle and National’s road ahead Jane Clifton (BusinessDesk): The

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Daily News Roundup – 16 July 2020

Daily News Roundup – 16 July 2020

Nikki Kaye and Amy Adams retire from politics Audrey Young (Herald): Live: Revolt – National Party MPs Nikki Kaye, Amy Adams quit politics RNZ: Nikki Kaye announces she is quitting politics Audrey Young (Herald): Exclusive: National Party MP Nikki Kaye quits politics Jamie Ensor (Newshub): Nikki Kaye to ‘make announcement about

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