To the Beach!
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Health
This Government Couldn’t Run a Bath
To put the headline into context they have yet to locate the tap. If they found it you can bet it would be the cold one. Their next problem would be wondering how to turn it on. In their four years in office the only things they’ve come close
Rational Thinking as Dead as the Dodo
Mary Regional Victoria is now back out of lockdown after a cluster of covid cases in just one regional town, Shepparton. My town was bustling today with the carpark at the local Bunnings crammed with cars. While getting a few things at the supermarket, I had a quick look at
Face of the Day
Compare and contrast. Tony Abbot has been fined in Australia for not wearing a mask while Siouxsie Wiles has both media and politicians run interference for her. Read the article in full here. Comment on it on The BFD.
‘I Tell Everyone I Love Being on My Own, but I Hate It’: What Older Australians Want You to Know about Loneliness
Barbara Barbosa Neves Alexandra Sanders David Colón Cabrera Narelle Warren Monash University Barbara Barbosa Neves is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Monash University. She is also an elected board member of the International Sociological Association. Alexandra Sanders is a sociologist at Monash University whose research focuses on social isolation
Hypocrisy 4 Dummies
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Do as I Say, Not as I Do, Because I Know More Than You
It is very tempting to just criticise Siouxsie Wiles for her weapons-grade hypocrisy for going to the beach outside her local area, with someone outside her bubble, without masks and without social distancing. Believe me, as I had to queue (with mask) to get into the supermarket in a South
Face of the Day
Listen…can you hear that? It is the sound of Siouxsie Wiles throwing her good friend Dr. Nicola Gaston under the bus! Interesting. She didn’t feel the need to tell her friend what to do, yet feels compelled to lecture everyone else on what to do. Oh…and one
The World Is Desperate for New Antibiotics, and New Zealand’s Unique Fungi Are a Source of Promising Compounds
Siouxsie Wiles University of Auckland Dr Siouxsie Wiles is an Associate Professor at the University of Auckland. She studied medical microbiology at the University of Edinburgh, followed by a PhD in microbiology at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Oxford and Napier University in Edinburgh. While we’re all
Will the Minister Now Take Responsibility for the Crisis at Middlemore Hospital?
Middlemore Hospital is in the highest risk area in the current Covid outbreak and needs leadership from the Minister of Health – not abdication of responsibility, says National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti. “Instead of rebuking me in the House for asking if he takes responsibility for the situation at
James Shaw Shows Staggering Hypocrisy
David Seymour ACT Leader Just last week Greens co-leader James Shaw said Parliament sitting was “putting lives at risk” by sitting in Level 4, and yet this week he’s prepared to fly to the COVID hot spot of Glasgow for climate talks. “James Shaw jumped on his moral high
Media Repeat Obvious Lie about Ivermectin
I’ve gotta hand it to the mainstream media: every time I think they couldn’t possibly outdo themselves with the sheer brazenness of their lies, they go right ahead and prove me wrong. “Russian collusion”, “Muslim ban”, Brian Williams’s hair-raising scrapes in Iraq, “a rape on campus”, armed
No Mention of Delta Strain in Government Plans
The Government’s lack of planning for a Covid-19 Delta outbreak is starkly illustrated by the fact that it is not mentioned even once in its two most recent Covid-19 plans, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “The Government’s Aotearoa New Zealand Covid-19 Testing Plan and the
How Many Close and Casual Contacts at Middlemore?
Despite questions in Parliament Tuesday, intense media interest in the matter yesterday, and advanced notice that I was going to return to the issue yesterday, Minister of Health Andrew Little still hasn’t bothered to find out the most important details about the Covid-positive patient at Middlemore Hospital, National’s