Questions to Ministers 1. Hon JUDITH COLLINS to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by her statement that the reason the Government will not extend the wage subsidy to cover the additional four days of lockdown is because “it would require an entirely different process and regime”? 2. GREG O’
Danielle van Dalen maxim.org.nz A side effect of New Zealand’s election delay is that every political party now has an extra four weeks to campaign. This means an extra four weeks to capture the public’s attention, but also means every political party has to scramble to
Information Satire Earlier today the police moved quickly to arrest large numbers of experts, editors, reporters and academics – all accused of the most unprincipled dissemination of fake news in the history of Aotearoa. Examples of the fake news headlines. Image credit HangonaMin. The BFD A spokesperson for the justice department
Jacinda Ardern experienced considerable push back from Mike Hosking on his morning show yesterday. What is abundantly clear, is that she has no idea what her ministers are up to, especially in regard to the Tauranga situation. Further to that, she really doesn’t like to get surprised with non-scripted
You have got to be joking? This is totally contrary to what the government has been telling us. On 23 June 2020 the Prime Minister answered a question from Todd Muller about this: 1. TODD MULLER (Leader of the Opposition) to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by her statement,
Some of the points made in the video are: 1. The government should have extended the wage subsidy for the four extra days that the restrictions will be ongoing. 2. National’s health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti has written – for the second time – to the health committee chair asking for
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Dear Editor Ever heard the story of Emperor Nero burning down Rome? The story goes that he fiddled while it fell to ashes. They say he set it on fire himself. A myth on the fiddling part maybe, but Rome did burn. New Zealand’s government is effectively willfully burning
It is not often I refer to Stuff as a source of integrity but I will make an exception this morning. There is an excellent opinion piece by Damien Grant headed, PM’s abuse of power during lockdown a warning to us all. It is a must-read. I have lifted
It will come as no comfort to Jacinda Ardern that her obfuscations of the last seven days haven’t gone un-noticed and yesterday’s piece by Bryce Edwards on The Democracy Project is a very good pastiche of the obvious holes in her handling of the border problems fall-out. Much
On 2 August I wrote an article for the BFD called, ‘Kiwis do not want a jab’. About 30% of New Zealanders said they would not want a COVID-19 vaccination. I also heard from friends who would not accept one either. I wrote in my guest post … New Zealand has
