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Quarantine Chaos Is Costing Us

Quarantine Chaos Is Costing Us

New Zealand’s borders remain closed to the world, with returning residents forced into managed isolation facilities. The government’s 26 temporary quarantine facilities – which are essentially commandeered hotels – have the capacity to accommodate 6,849 people. They are almost full. Several residents are reported to have behaved badly. Some

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Pandemic Stocktake

Pandemic Stocktake

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com At Labour’s annual conference last weekend, COVID-19 dominated Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s speech: “Our strong health response now gives us an economic head start, the ability to move from responding to Covid-19, to recovering and rebuilding… So today my ask of you is

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National’s Chinese Spy Announces His Retirement

National’s Chinese Spy Announces His Retirement

The National Party’s Chinese spy, Jian Yang, has announced he has been recalled to Beijing is retiring from parliament. National MP Jian Yang, who once admitted to training Chinese spies, has announced that he will retire from politics at the 2020 election. Dr Yang said in a statement on

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How Ready Are We for “Shovel-Ready” Projects?

Julian Wood maxim.org.nz As the numbers of people made redundant as a result of COVID-19 rises there is ever increasing pressure on the Government to fix it. The Government started strongly by throwing $12 billion dollars of wage subsidies at the problem, but this massive expenditure only sees

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Toxic Michelle Boag RESIGNS from National

Toxic Michelle Boag RESIGNS from National

The cancer on the National Party, Michelle Boag is gone, excised, cut out, cauterised…dead. She has resigned her membership, presumably before being cancelled by the board. As is usual with her the resignation is utterly self-serving. She needs investigating. How often has she used her position on Boards to

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Jacinda Issued Warning

Jacinda Issued Warning

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon has written to our political parties urging them to lay off racism in the coming election campaign. His letter has been joyfully spread by its recipients around the capital and for all I know, elsewhere. Inexplicably half of it

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Zip It Sweetie!

Zip It Sweetie!

You’d think Paula Bennett would be self-aware enough to know when it’s best to shut her prodigious gob. Turns out, no. National MP Paula Bennett has called the actions of her colleague Hamish Walker “deplorable” after he confessed on Tuesday that it was him who leaked Covid-19 patient

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Taxpayers’ Union ‘Aroha’ Posters Deemed To Be Labour Party Ads The Electoral Commission has confirmed that the ‘Aroha’ posters of Jacinda Ardern, promoted by artists Weston Frizzell and advertiser Phantom Billstickers, does indeed constitute a party advertisement for the Labour Party. This judgment comes after the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union

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