Scott Morrison is at least showing that he is the bigger person in the trans-Tasman relationship, by throwing Jacinda Ardern a bone she has done little to merit. At every turn in their relationship, Ardern has sniped, cry-bullied and hectored Morrison and Australia. Realistically, Australia is naturally going
A newspaper reported “Oliver Christiansen’s dad lay dying and asking: “Where is my boy? Where is my boy?” Oliver Christiansen was prevented access to his dying dad by the Ministry of Health. The Director General fronted on the AM show Tuesday morning to apologize for getting it totally wrong
We all have different ways of protesting when something upsets us. Some of us tell the person where to go verbally, some start a petition, some silently ignore rules they see as dumb, and some just start writing for an online news and views sites ;0) Some people though are
Since the world wide COVID-19 farce started, we’ve been subjected to a variety of weird and wonderful opinions from many who, if we are to be realistic and pragmatic, really should know better. We all know about the ‘Original Sin’ perpetrated on the entire world by the Chinese
Level 2 – What’s To Decide? Media reports that the Cabinet is meeting to decide how Level 2 would work. This morning the Prime Minister said there was lots to work out. So we consulted the Government’s table of COVID-19 Alert Levels, published on 16 April. To summarise,
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Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com The police are running around ordering people off Christchurch beaches. Their message: “If you’re not exercising, clear out.” So you can skip on a beach but not sit on it. It’s a revolting and indefensible state of affairs. But it set me off
Jacinda Ardern told Mike Hosking that she had seen no evidence of gangs being involved with illegal roadblocks. She is clearly wilfully blind. Mike Hosking challenged her on this but she still denied there was any evidence. Her darlings at Newsroom and NewstalkZB last week documented this exact occurrence: Volunteers
Yesterday Chris Trotter’s Insight: Politics article, ‘Why Aren’t Those People Being Arrested?’ looked at iwi checkpoints, the reaction to them by the public and the context of the actions of the iwi who set them up. THE CLAMOUR for the Government and the Police to “do something” about
Alex Davis theemperorsrobes.blogspot.com When the government compelled New Zealand into lockdown on March 24th most New Zealanders, desperate for any kind of decisive action, were relieved. Whether you believe the government’s decision to lock down the country was justified (I argue here and here it was not)
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
Economy Robert MacCulloch (Herald): A time for trickle-up economics (paywalled) Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Sir Roger Douglas – Let big firms ‘fend for themselves’ Bruce Munro (ODT): Recovery for all Liam Dann (Herald): How bad will unemployment get in New Zealand? New data to show start of the job crunch (paywalled)
The PM rolls out this statement frequently during debate so here’s a selection of Ardern statements made during the COVID-19 lockdown that we can totally reject. Weeks in lock down prevented waves of devastation. “’We have stopped a wave of devastation‘, the prime minister said on Monday as
Immediately after we published our story about the leaked Police emails, which revealed that the initial two weeks of the lockdown were probably illegal, Jacinda Ardern appeared on Mike Hosking’s show to discuss this and other matters. Mike Hosking did not let her off the hook lightly: The government
Today’s face of the day, former Green MP Catherine Delahunty, is tone-deaf to her own racism. She happily diagnoses it in others but fails to see the log in her own eye. 1. She promotes a petition asking the PM to continue to allow illegal checkpoints run by
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