Kerry Grant The further we stumble our way through this Pandemic thingy the more obvious it becomes that life will never return to how it was before the lockdowns. New ‘norms’ are being established, as the old ones are reluctantly left in the past to be slowly forgotten, like a
Simon Thornley covidplanb.co.nz A curious phenomenon has developed in the race to beat COVID-19. Advisors to the government have recently become anti-anti-bodies. Before I explain what that means, let me provide some context. While we’ve weathered the initial COVID-19 storm, we now have a more challenging set
Fresh water reforms, environment, conservation Richard Harman (Politik): Swimming together; the coalition agrees on freshwater reforms Collette Devlin (Stuff): NZ First claims win as Government softens freshwater reforms Jamie Morton (Herald): New Govt water reforms miss mark on nitrogen pollution, advocates say Science Media Centre: Action for Healthy Waterways – Expert
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Due to our nation’s fortunate isolation, our COVID-19 situation was a small demographically isolated ‘outbreak’ and not a pandemic or an epidemic. Together my darling wife (40 years plus in the medical profession) and I discussed the daily data. We acknowledged that our hospitals were never overloaded, and taking
Clearly some pigs are more equal than others in Jacinda Ardern’s New Zealand. Ordinary New Zealanders were forced to endure weeks of Level 4 lockdown, including being barred from the bedsides of dying family members. But well-heeled foreigners were secretly allowed to slip in through New Zealand’s supposedly
National Party Tova O’Brien (Newshub): National sets up ‘intelligence unit’ to dig up info on political opponents during 2020 election campaign Claire Trevett (Herald): Todd Muller’s sink or swim introduction to Leader of Opposition (paywalled) Mark Longley (Newshub): Dear Todd, the honeymoon is over – welcome to political leadership
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has broken rank with Labour over coronavirus restrictions, saying the country should be at level 1 now. Peters also said that the trans-Tasman bubble, allowing quarantine-free travel, should also already be operational. […]Peters told Newstalk ZB on Wednesday morning that it was his party’s
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On Monday I was enlightened by Siouxie, ‘cos Siouxie does facts, and this week she informed us that “Videos like these are endangering lives”. What videos, you may ask? Videos recommending the use of power saws for haircuts, perhaps? Videos with instructions for making gunpowder in your bedroom? Well; no.
Memo to Jacinda. Wakey wakey dearie. The bubble has burst. The country has moved on. Virtually nobody is observing your silly rules. You are welcome to kid yourself that all and sundry are bowing down to your every directive but evidence shows otherwise. Perhaps you need to get out and
Welfare Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Former Green Party leader Metiria Turei puts Government on blast over new payment scheme Stuff Editorial: Question marks over new relief package Thomas Manch (Stuff): Government defends unemployment payments, says it’s considering ‘social insurance’ RNZ: Welfare advocates not happy with Covid-19 umemployment benefit Sarah Robson
Redundancy scheme Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Opinion: Unemployment payment scheme shows Govt knows benefits insufficient Rachel Sadler (Newshu): Auckland Action Against Poverty says Government’s Income Relief Payments create ‘two tiers of unemployed’ people Steven Cowan: Two-tier welfare David Farrar: Two tiers of unemployment benefit Craig McCullough (RNZ): Green Party ‘won’
