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Powerful Address to Nats Conference by Cool Change Founder

Powerful Address to Nats Conference by Cool Change Founder

It’s not that often we feature a video during the day but this is one that we think deserves a wider airing than our usual evening video slots. What we have here is a very powerful address that was given by Cool Change NZ co-founder Grace Curtis. Cool Change

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Labour Isn’t Taking Cancer Seriously

By removing targets to diagnose and treat cancer Labour is taking its eye off a very deadly ball, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Rei says. “The last National Government made smart use of DHB performance data and introduced targets for key public health outcomes to make sure accountability was

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Bioethicists Propose Implant That Would Automatically Trigger a Euthanasia Drug at the Onset of Dementia

Bioethicists Propose Implant That Would Automatically Trigger a Euthanasia Drug at the Onset of Dementia

righttolife.org.uk A recent article published by leading bioethics journal “The Hastings Center Report”, has proposed an implant that would automatically trigger a lethal drug at the onset of dementia. In the report, co-authors Margaret Battin and Brent M. Kious, proposed the introduction of an “advance directive implant” (ADI)

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It’s Elimination All the Way, Baby!

It’s Elimination All the Way, Baby!

On the AM show this week Sir David Skegg, chair of the Strategic Covid-19 Public Health Advisory Group on Covid-19 talked about a phased border reopening beginning next year, providing the government sees a successful vaccine take-up rate.  The Strategic Advisory Group provides independent advice to “Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall,

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Vaccinate, Vaccinate, Vaccinate

There is one clear message from the release of the Skegg report – it is imperative we vaccinate as many as people as possible, as quickly as possible, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. “New Zealand is the slowest in the OECD in rolling-out the COVID-19 vaccine, and ranked only

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COVID Treatment Discovered Right Here in Australia — Why Aren’t We Using It?

COVID Treatment Discovered Right Here in Australia — Why Aren’t We Using It?

In today’s Australian, Adam Creighton argues that Covid Derangement Syndrome, or “Covid Dumb”, creates “a shocking decline in critical faculties among intelligent people when Covid-19 is being discussed”. CDS is endemic among the political and “intellectual” elites. “Its sufferers,” says Creighton astutely, “assert and do things that are patently

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Government Blocks Bloomfield Recall, Again

Government Blocks Bloomfield Recall, Again

The Government continues to block transparency around its response to Covid-19, National’s Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop says. Government members voted against a motion to recall Dr Ashley Bloomfield to Health Select Committee so he could explain his incorrect statements over the Covid-19 infected UN worker who was transported to

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Is That It?

Is That It?

David Seymour ACT Leader The Skegg reports tells us the Government should reopen the border in stages, proportional to risk, using better technology, but we can’t yet due to low vaccination rates, and variants might undermine the vaccine. All of this was in ACT’s COVID 2.0 report

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The Impact of Changing Gender

The Impact of Changing Gender

Eliora New Zealand clinicians are not removing testes, making men watch pictures of men, giving electric shocks to their penis or brain, telling a man he is mentally defective, ostracising, or hating men if they are homosexual. No one is tied up and thrown off a high building, at least

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Maternity Funding Redirected to Health Restructure

The Labour Government should be valuing midwives more than their own ideology, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. Answers to written questions show $60 million of maternity money has been put aside for Labour’s health system restructure. “No wonder midwives are feeling undervalued, not only is Labour

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Judith Collins Calls Out Ashley Bloomfield

Judith Collins Calls Out Ashley Bloomfield

Judith Collins has said what many of us are thinking about Ashley Bloomfield and his persistent obfuscations followed by abject apologies when he’s busted: National leader Judith Collins has dubbed Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield a “deified”, “one-trick pony” who’s “good at standing up and talking about

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60 per Cent of Bay of Plenty Port Workers without a Jab

It’s deeply concerning that 60 per cent of port workers in the Bay of Plenty haven’t had a single vaccine especially when there are 11 cases of Covid-19 in a ship off Tauranga, National’s Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop says. As at 22 July, of the 530 frontline

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Collins’ Comments

Collins’ Comments

Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz Law and Order We’re working hard to hold the Government to account and ensure New Zealand remains a safe place to live, work and raise a family. To National, that means making sure victims are at the heart of our justice system,

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