Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com New Zealand is arguably the easiest country in the world to stomp out a virus pandemic, simply because of our small population and our islands remoteness. But after the often embarrassing small nation self-awareness, the back-slapping, self-congratulations and infantile “team of 5
Election date Bryce Edwards (Guardian): By delaying the New Zealand election Jacinda Ardern appears magnanimous and conciliatory Audrey Young (Herald): Full marks to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for the way she delayed the election (paywalled) Matthew Hooton (Herald): October 17 choice masterful by Jacinda Ardern (paywalled) Stuff Editorial: Election postponed:
On Monday at the 1pm COVID stand up, the media appeared to have finally grown a spine. And I was transfixed. Led by Herald political reporter Jason Walls, whose repeated questioning of the Director-General showed he would not be denied, he and others were relentless in searching for those
You’ve got to love how civil servants fight back when they are being maligned by their political masters. When faced with mounting embarrassment and public discord over the failures at the border both Chris Hipkins and Jacinda Ardern said that their “expectations weren’t met.” Ignore for a moment
You have problems. The lack of credibility and honesty of your administration, and of those you choose to work with, has been exposed this week. There is so much more for the populace to be concerned about than the pandemic, even more than a crumbling economy. What has emerged over
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Talkback hosts have been fielding hostile calls all week. Little wonder that they’ve been damning in their weekly columns. Heather du Plessis-Allan is scathing of the government in her column: The Government’s decision to extend Auckland’s level 3 lockdown is a massive disappointment. Worse, it is
We don’t know much about the South Auckland family at the centre of the latest COVID outbreak, except that they are of Pacific Island descent. This is hardly a surprise in South Auckland, where a large part of the Pacific Island and Maori communities reside. But their ethnicity is
In a statement released yesterday, Mr Peters said the Government’s health response must come before politics. “Since Monday evening, August 10, we have said that our health response must come first and politics second. That remains our view as the case numbers rise each day,” Mr Peters said. Mr
