The prime minister has expressed her anger at the fact that The Warehouse Group is about to lay off 1,080 workers. She is particularly angry because the company accepted the government wage subsidy in March, taking $68 million in government subsidies at that time. This week alone, we have
Election, cannabis referendum Jack Vowles (The Conversation): An election like no other: with 100 days to go, can Jacinda Ardern maintain her extraordinary popularity? Henry Cooke (Stuff): 100 days to go: How parties want to win Election 2020 Claire Trevett (Herald): Election 2020: 99 days out how are Act, the
Thanks a billion, “Black Lives Matter” morons. That’s the estimated cost of your weekend of copy-cat protests by Australian leftist rent-a-crowds jumping on the latest leftist fad imported from America. Black Lives Matter protests are expected to delay the easing of COVID-19 restrictions by at least a week, potentially
It seems to have dawned on even the dim wits of the elite that they overplayed their hand with last weekend’s copy-cat demonstrations. Australians are venting their pent-up fury after being subjected to months of unnecessary, devastating restrictions, and then seeing thousands of bandwagon-jumping rent-a-crowds jamming into cities for
Pauline Hanson is keeping up her inconvenient habit of saying the sort of things that ordinary Australians think without the approval of their masters in the political-media elite. One Nation leader Pauline Hanson says she finds it “frustrating (and) hypocritical of the government” that businesses were shut down due to
Police Duncan Garner (Newshub): Why I don’t believe Andrew Coster when he says he wants an unarmed police service Jordan Bond (RNZ): The Detail: Why Armed Response Teams struck the wrong note in NZ Newstalk ZB: Defence expert: New Zealand should avoid militarising police Vita Molyneux (Newshub): People Against
I read Cameron Slater’s excellent article about the possibility of a National-Green coalition after the election with considerable interest. His angle on the matter was that National voters, upset at the prospect of a post-election deal between National and NZ First should think again, as an even more unpalatable
They’re not even bothering to hide it any more. “Stay home, save lives” was a con. A power grab by grubby politicians and authoritarian bureaucrats. In case anyone was still gullible enough to doubt it, their blatant political cronyism has been laid bare. Victoria Police closed a popular Mornington
Peter Jackson Editor Northland Age A correspondent to the ‘Northern Advocate’ claimed last week that the enduring legacy of COVID-19 in New Zealand will be “the period of gratuitous authoritarianism it brought from the political left.” And he might well be right. This newspaper has no great criticism to offer
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Police * Zane Small (Newshub): Celebration or failed consultation? Police Association still at odds with Greens on armed cops * Vita Molyneux (Newshub): Green Party overjoyed at police decision to dump Armed Response Teams * RNZ: Petitioner urges police to talanoa after Armed Response Teams scrapped * Sam Sherwood and Collette Devlin (Stuff): Police
David Theobald Monday June 8th was the start of another week in the increasingly bizarre parallel universe in which I find myself living. A universe where all the logic and pragmatism that I was happy to have run the bits of the world I move in for nearly three score
So the last person with coronavirus recovered just in time for the Prime Minister’s announcement that we can move to level one but it was a close call. Or was it? The declaration of a full recovery was made with two hours to spare. Spare a thought for the
On the AM show this week Garner asked Jacinda Ardern how she felt about the last 75 days (it feels sooo much longer to me). Ardern was in her usual toothy form, saying it was “a massive team effort”. Give yourself a round of applause dear reader, she means you,
