Budget, economy John Armstrong (1News): Jobs, jobs jobs or spend, spend, spend? Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Political Roundup: A homecoming or still adrift – how radical is Labour’s budget? Audrey Young (Herald): National’s uphill battle on a Budget for a crisis (paywalled) Peter Dunne: An extraordinary but pedestrian budget
I knew that any contract tracing app could not be forced onto me due to my right to privacy so I was very surprised to encounter Retail shops refusing to serve customers if they didn’t fill in all their personal details in a contact tracing book. It turns out
Today Bronze Subscribers get a free taste of what they are missing out on. Welcome to the Insight: Politics podcast, Episode 3. Today I’ll kick off with a bit of fun at the expense of Michelle Boag then get into the nitty-gritty of National’s coup that is
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The NZ Herald recently highlighted the suicide of a young self-employed butcher who saw his life’s work go down the drain by the utterly insane edict that meat could only be purchased at supermarkets. The farcical rule was subsequently wiped but here’s
How often do you get the opportunity to get your caricature drawn by a professional cartoonist? The BEST thing about ordering a caricature online is that it can also be delivered online. There are so many things at the moment that we cannot buy because they cannot be delivered but
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My good friend Brian Edwards is one of the best media trainers there is. He’s made an observation about Jacinda Ardern that will probably earn dear old Brian a good scolding from Helen Clark for daring to utter the truth about the new Dear Leader of New Zealanzuela. TIME
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For BFD readers irritated by the apparently endless fawning of the global mainstream media over Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, this week’s Spectator magazine contains a welcome breath of fresh air. New Zealand’s own Amy Brooke has penned a damning critique of Ardern’s so-called “kindness”. Undoubtedly we
Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org “the most dangerous bill that’s ever been placed in Parliament“, Brian Tamaki, Destiny Church “This Bill places unprecedented limits on rights and freedoms of association and movement” Nicola Willis, MP, speaking to the Bill. “This is a great failure of our democratic process. The new
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The gloves are off and the race is on to make up for all the time lost in fighting the virus foe. Ardern’s daily health announcement has now become her soap box to promote her party ahead of September’s election. If that is going to continue, Simon Bridges
National MP Michael Woodhouse described Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as “Robert Muldoon with slogans and kindness” during the heat of a Parliamentary debate on Tuesday afternoon. Parliament was urgently debating the COVID-19 Public Health Response Bill 2020, which allows for alert level 2 to be put in place but
