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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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
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
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
Byram W. Bridle University of Guelph Shayan Sharif University of Guelph The average times of the fastest sprinters in the 100-metre dash are in the ballpark of 10 seconds. So, what would you think if someone promised to run the race in one second? It typically takes a minimum
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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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It’s been a week since problems at the New Zealand border first emerged, but the cloud hanging over Health Minister David Clark’s career hasn’t lifted. It’s a big deal calling for someone to resign. Despite much jeering and jibing, the Opposition doesn’t often call for
