Do you remember all those years ago when Jacinda Ardern was promising everyone that she would “govern for all New Zealanders”? Do you remember when she said to “know us by our deeds”? Do you remember when she said she was leading “the most open and transparent Government in history”
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This morning I tested COVID positive, a few days after becoming a household contact and isolating – and two days after gnarly symptoms kicked in. (Thread) — Chlöe Swarbrick (@_chloeswarbrick) March 19, 2022 Chloe Swarbrick has caught Covid which is very strange because firstly she wears a mask wherever she goes and…
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Government has staged a quiet, Friday afternoon backdown on vaccine mandates, updating the MBIE website so that unvaccinated citizens and residents can re-enter the country without isolation. As recently as Thursday, unvaccinated citizens and residents were required to go through MIQ upon returning to
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When Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pontificated to the world that, “Canada will… stand against authoritarianism”, it was astonishing that he managed to keep a straight face. After all, this was the same PM who, barely a week earlier, was not just arresting and detaining hundreds of Canadian citizens without
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Capitalist Many moons ago, when but a stripling of 18, I first moved to Auckland and found a flat in Glendowie; a week later Sir Robert Muldoon retired and the Tamaki by-election ensued. This caused me and 35,000 other Tamaki electorate residents no end of annoyance. I was deluged
We recently travelled from the West Coast (Westport) to Christchurch for a friend’s wedding. It is a few years since I had been to Christchurch, and the bride and groom had a lot of guests coming from out-of-town, so they approached a local hotel and provisionally reserved about 12
Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 New Zealand has unravelled. The values and knowledge that underpin a free and prosperous society have been turned inside out, upside down and trashed. It has happened overnight without
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Labour’s poll fortunes have taken a dramatic and precipitous fall in recent polls, the latest being the Taxpayers’ Union/Curia poll. Labour has slumped 6.1 points and is now essentially neck and neck with National, who also slumped a little in this poll. PartySupportChange from last monthLabour36.2%
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