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Bruce Moon hobsonspledge.nz Bruce Moon is a former member of the staff of the University of Canterbury. He was a member of the Professorial Board with the same status (reader) as an associate professor. Information Opinion “No historian, however detached, works without an ideological framework.” Charles Freeman, “Egypt. Greece
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments Three polls in a row, all saying roughly the same thing. The public is tiring of this Labour government,
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The latest political opinion poll confirms support for Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Government is sliding. According to Colmar Brunton, Labour has fallen 3 points to 43 per cent, National has dropped 3 to 26 per cent, ACT has risen 5 to 14 per cent, the
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There can be no doubt now that the Prime Minister’s incredibly wasteful and expensive lockdown of Auckland has failed. Even Blind Freddy knew it was never going to work. But it seems the Prime Minister gets her advice from children’s stories and believes she is The Little Engine
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government has lost control of COVID-19 and is in dangerous denial. The Prime Minister stands at the podium looking shellshocked as the Government’s response crashes down around her, complaining that New Zealand’s vaccine roll out is too slow. You have to hand it
If you pay attention to the modus operandi of this Labour Government, you could be forgiven for thinking you were living in a land where democracy is dying. Jacinda Ardern is behaving like an amateur dictator. She is an amateur because, while she has found it easy to lock down
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Take the poll and also let us know in the comments below. “I do think there is a portion of the New Zealand population, who do not like Jacinda Ardern, and who are not being vaccinated because it’s her that’s been leading the response and it’s her
“There needs to be consequences, for those who make a personal choice to not get vaccinated. It’s around PPE and testing, or it’s around excluding them from the workplace.” Fyfe argues that domestic use of vaccine passports should be part of enforcing those consequences, denying those who choose
