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Was Level 4 a Step Too Far?

Was Level 4 a Step Too Far?

Barry Brill nzcpr.com Barry Brill, OBE, JP, LL.M(Hons), M.ComLaw, is the Chairman of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. A former MP, Barry was a Minister of Energy, a Petrocorp director, and the Chairman of the Gas Council, Power NZ, ESANZ, and EMCO. On March 23

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Self-Isolation Self-Delusion

Self-Isolation Self-Delusion

Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Self-isolation self-delusion We’ve already looked at self-isolation in the context of the practically non-existent border controls.  This was another missing piece of New Zealand’

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Daily News Roundup – 30 June 2020

Daily News Roundup – 30 June 2020

Greens Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Taxing weath: a necessary step, or unachievable pipe dream? Dave Armstrong (Stuff): Greens’ wealth tax will appeal to Labour’s Left-wingers Richard Harman (Politik): Ardern shuns Greens’ wealth tax; Nats mount scare campaign Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Is the Greens’ poverty plan a flight of

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Are We Being Kind to the Cook Islands over COVID-19?

Gerhard Sundborn covidplanb.co.nz The Cook Islands is almost as much a part of New Zealand as the North or South Island. Like Niue and Tokelau, all Cook Islanders hold New Zealand citizenship. The Cooks is home to 17,500 people of whom about 2,500 (15%) are either

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A Lack of Contact

A Lack of Contact

Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. A lack of contact While the government was attempting to mask its issues providing PPE (yes, pun intended) it soon found that it had another shortfall to cover: contact

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Show Me the Kindness

Show Me the Kindness

Jacinda travelled to Queenstown last week to announce $85 million of government funding, aimed at assisting the town’s Town Centre project and also to help fund stage one of Queenstown’s Arterials projects. These projects are not of immediate assistance to the tourism sector, but will be funded partly

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Just a PPE Dream

Just a PPE Dream

Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Just a PPE dream As we’ve seen, the perception of widely available testing proved, on closer inspection, to be a mirage. A similarly elusive image appeared on the

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“Elimination” Nation

“Elimination” Nation

Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. “Elimination” nation No word sums up the government’s misplaced sense of self-congratulation as much as “elimination”. Let’s start with this perfectly reasonable observation about a certain

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Sheriff Muller and the COVID Gang at Large

Sheriff Muller and the COVID Gang at Large

Information Satire Some of the Wild COVID gang have escaped from The lock-up in Missie Ardern’s Saloon. Some of them have been rounded up but not all. Apparently there were earlier escapes as well. My Marshall Woodhouse has revealed this to the townspeople but they are still very

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Border Botch-Ups

Border Botch-Ups

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com New Zealand’s COVID-19 free status was short-lived. The team of 5 million is being badly let down by government incompetence at the borders. While bureaucratic ineptitude is nothing new, given the personal sacrifices that everyone was required to make during the lockdown,

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Victoria’s COVID Spike Is No Second Wave

Victoria’s COVID Spike Is No Second Wave

Don’t be fooled by the hysterical fear-mongering from the media and governments. The spike in COVID-19 cases in Victoria is a concern, but it’s nowhere near the feared “second wave” we keep getting threatened with. The panic-mongering from Daniel Andrews is particularly hypocritical. Victorian Premier

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Lessons Learnt?

Lessons Learnt?

Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Lessons learnt? The stresses and strains on New Zealand’s teaching fraternity must have been enormous.  As always, I take my hat off to those working hard in our

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The Carpenter’s Tale

It was October 2019. On a sunny spring day in Wellington, Richard, a builder, was doing some work in a house in the suburb of Seatoun. The renovations had been a bit erratic, as the lady of the house had just come back from a trip to the UK and

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Daily News Roundup – 26 June 2020

Daily News Roundup – 26 June 2020

1News – Colmar Brunton Poll Jason Walls (Herald): National’s poll bump – It’s too early for leader Todd Muller to break out the bubbly (paywalled) Henry Cooke (Stuff): Todd Muller staunches the bleeding, but Jacinda Ardern remains well ahead Selwyn Manning (Evening Report): Election Campaign Looms: Is It Time For

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