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No Free Hospital Care For You!

No Free Hospital Care For You!

Stephen Duckett Grattan Institute When I went out in Melbourne for a coffee with a friend earlier this week, the waiter verified my vaccination status before allowing me to sit down. But for the unvaccinated in Victoria and New South Wales, it’s a case of no clubbing, no coffee

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Mandate Monday Should Have Testing Alternative

Mandate Monday Should Have Testing Alternative

David Seymour ACT Leader With the onset of widespread vaccine mandates about to create chaos in multiple sectors, it’s time for the Government to apply the approach of the Danish Government, Air New Zealand, and its own requirement for teachers to all mandates. That is, the mandate should allow

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Believe It or Not

Believe It or Not

Do you sometimes feel as if the world has gone completely mad? Let me assure you that it has. It really has. First let’s start with this. What? Medical exemptions have to be signed off by Reichsfuhrer Bloomfield himself, so there is no chance of this lady faking her

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The Tide Is Turning

The Tide Is Turning

Guy Hatchard Guy Hatchard PhD has expertise in the statistical management of risk. He previously worked for Genetic ID, a global company which tested and certified bulk food shipments as safe. For over a year the Ardern Government had successfully pursued a Covid elimination strategy through tight border controls. Then

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How Can I Trust Them?

How Can I Trust Them?

Peanut On Monday, many health and education employees and contractors will work their last day in their chosen career. I have friends and colleagues in health who are leaving, including a Maori midwife, a rural GP and a cardiac sonographer. These are roles that health has always crawled over broken

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A Marriage Made in Hell

A Marriage Made in Hell

Manly D. Hall. amateurreviewspace.com One of the greatest dangers to the future of democracy and cohesive society is the marriage of the political and healthcare systems. This union is as problematic as the previous bond between Church and State, which corrupted both institutions and took civil wars within State

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Why Isn’t Testing Enough?

Why Isn’t Testing Enough?

Confused Why isn’t testing enough? I thought I was a logical person but my ability to understand what is driving decisions here in NZ has disappeared. The UK has just been through 20 months of having Covid widespread in the community. Essential workers were carrying out their tasks before

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Vile NZ!

Vile NZ!

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ICU Bed Numbers Slump in Auckland

New information on ICU bed occupancy during the current outbreak shows the very slim margins district health boards are running with ICU beds, says National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti. On October 22, New Zealand’s largest number of ICU beds at Auckland DHB were down from 94 standing

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Government in a Spin as Delta Bites

Government in a Spin as Delta Bites

The Government’s lack of planning for Delta is being exposed as every day brings more confusion and evidence the Government is just making things up as it goes, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. The Prime Minister has admitted this morning that the whole country may go into

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What Will They Take from You Next?

Darryl Betts Beneath the devastation the New Zealand government has wrought on businesses, jobs, and schools is the looming threat to large parts of what remains of people’s lives outside of work. Vaccine mandates threaten to permanently deprive many people of things that make life worth living. This isn’

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