familyfirst.org.nz How safe are puberty blockers for our children? As our Government goes full speed ahead into banning so-called ‘Conversion Therapy’ (while at the same time seemingly endorsing the use of puberty blockers on pre-teens), we must conclude that the use of puberty blockers is also a form
The Police Minister’s admission to the Justice Select Committee this morning that she did not raise the issue of low vaccination rates among frontline police officers with Cabinet is shameful, says National Party Police spokesperson Simeon Brown. “Poto Williams’ failure to raise the issue of low vaccination rates of
covidplanb.co.nz Introduction 18 months on from the world’s fearful response to the arrival of SARS-CoV-2, we provide an alternative to New Zealand’s elimination strategy to one of ‘living with covid-19’. We are now back in level four lockdown indefinitely with escalating PCR positive ‘cases’. We urgently
Confirmation that the Crowne Plaza passed all its infection control audits, including as recently in June, beggars belief, National’s Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop says. MIQ officials before the Health Select Committee this afternoon confirmed the last infection control audit for the Crowne Plaza was in June this year and
David Seymour ACT Leader The Director-General of Health’s admission that the Ministry has known that five people may not have been fully vaccinated for weeks is completely unacceptable and leaves questions about whether this was a botched coverup. Radio NZ has revealed today that an investigation has begun after
Remember when we locked whole states down and banned people from even gathering in their homes because of the ’flu? Yet more people die from the ’flu in Australia in a bad season than have from the China virus – and that without the obsessive over-counting of deaths and infections that
David Seymour ACT Leader Eighty thousand vaccination doses in one day is good news. What would have been incredible news is if this rate was achieved, say, 100 days ago. That would have got the target 8 million doses done, and New Zealand might be in a very different situation.
Labour’s move today to block a request for the Minister of Covid-19 Response to explain what is being done to address shockingly low vaccination rates among Maori is an appalling example of politics over people, National Party Maori Affairs Select Committee members Harete Hipango and Joseph Mooney say. The
National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop is asking why we aren’t using saliva testing in the community as part of the fight against the current delta outbreak. “A week ago Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield told New Zealanders the Government would be talking to private sector partners
David Seymour ACT Leader ACT is today calling on the Government and Ministry of Health to take some simple steps to be more transparent. They should release all the day’s data before or at 1 pm. This should be before, not after, the Prime Minister’s performance. The data
Warning The advice given in this article is anecdotal and makes no claim of clinically proven medical benefits. There are certain characteristics in men that change as we get older and one of them is to do with the prostate gland. Every one of us stale males should be having
Kiwis will be shaking their heads in disbelief at Chris Hipkins’ comments to the Health Committee today that he doesn’t think the vaccine rollout in New Zealand has been slow, says National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop. “The simple reality is that while things are only slowly ramping
David Seymour ACT Leader When asked yesterday what the Government has done to protect New Zealanders against Delta, COVID Response Minister Chris Hipkins fell back on N95 masks for MIQ workers. In an appearance that showed Hipkins was unlikely ever a boy scout, the motto “always be prepared” certainly doesn’
David Seymour ACT Leader The same day the Government pronounced out that ‘74 per cent of currently eligible people are booked or vaccinated at least once,’ a much more telling figure emerged. The Prime Minister has said it does not matter when the vaccine rollout starts, but when it finishes.
Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz Covid Level 4 Lockdown I hope you are safe and well at home as we continue this Level 4 lockdown. I can imagine that some of you may be feeling anxious, fed up, even angry! This virus is virulent, unpredictable and brings challenges
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 This morning I read a profoundly disturbing article by Karl du Fresne. He told the story of a little Maori girl who, for the sake of the story,
