While governments on both sides of the Tasman are loudly backslapping themselves for their response to the Wuhan virus, hard economic reality is starting to quietly bite. The Australian federal government has acknowledged the gaping hole its response has opened in public accounts: $320bn, or 16.4 percent of GDP,
While the Legacy media (with an eye on government handouts) might swoon over the New Zealand government’s response to the Chinese virus, the actual record is one of indecisiveness, ad hoc panic-button-pushing, non-stop evasion and deceit. Jacinda Ardern dithered for weeks over border closures and social-distancing measures, then panicked
Writing for the Spectator in the UK Dr John Lee explains his ten reasons why he believes the lockdown must end immediately. Writing in this magazine a month ago, I applauded the government’s stated aim of trying to follow the science in dealing with Covid. Such promises are easier
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Live meetings of the Epidemic Response Committee of the New Zealand Parliament. The Epidemic Response Committee was established on 25 March 2020 to consider and report to the House on matters relating to the Government’s management of the COVID-19 epidemic. Learn more about this committee and browse committee documents:
As more and more researchers accumulate data which appears to show that lockdowns have done nothing to prevent the spread of infection and death from the Chinese virus, the inevitable response is, “but New Zealand locked down and look how well we’ve done”. While this might seem like a
Budget, economy Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): A budget with Labour’s future on the line Jenée Tibshraeny (Interest): Thursday’s Budget to be huge, but not revolutionary Sandy Lau (Stuff): What levers can the Government pull to increase its tax take? Norman Gemmell (The Conversation): The pandemic budget: moving New Zealand
Lindsay Perigo solopassion.com The old adage that what doesn’t kill you will only make you stronger may never be truer in our time than in the case of the Corona Virus that is currently throwing almost everyone into hysteria and panic. First, even if “Islamo-Marxist” Angela Merkel’s
Bridges last week challenged Bloomfield, the director general of health, during a meeting of the Epidemic Response Select Committee last week, saying the Ministry of Health had failed to answer written questions from the committee. “Why don’t you answer simple health questions, to the one parliamentary committee on this
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Dane Giraud Spokesperson Free Speech Coalition This week we have a new episode of the Free Speech Coalition podcast. Patrick Corish sat down with Dr Steve Elers, professor of communications at Massey University. Dr Elers recently published an article criticising some of the claims made by Jacinda Ardern during her
Do we really need any more evidence that lockdowns are perhaps the most pernicious snake-oil sold to a panicked citizenry since the Millennium Bug? At least the Millennium Bug panic left behind some upgraded computer systems. The Chinese virus panic seems to bequeath us nothing but ruined economies and generations
“Sexism: the belief that the members of one sex are less intelligent, able, skillful, etc. than the members of the other sex” Cambridge dictionary The left-elite certainly seem to have a problem with women. Namely, that they are unable to frame a single, coherent, logically-consistent argument regarding women. At every
One of these women is the darling of the world media and has delivered a “masterclass” in the fight against COVID-19, Jacinda Ardern. The other you have probably never heard of, Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen. It appears that Tsai Ing-wen has smashed the COVID-19 virus by every measurement one
Unfettered by anything approaching accountability or the rule of law, we have seen during this crisis the underbelly of ‘kind’. Kindness speaks of morals and empathy but has been actioned through the suspension of liberty, democracy, and individual opportunity. The kindness-enforcer has stopped me visiting my mum in hospital today.
