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Another Vaccine Announcement, Still No Progress

Another Vaccine Announcement, Still No Progress

David Seymour ACT Leader This Government’s vaccine rollout is reminiscent of a losing test cricket team desperately trying to increase the run rate as the days go by. The Government is assuring us that we’ll all be vaccinated by the end of the year but we’re currently

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Labour Expects NZ to Believe Vaccine Rollout Is Successful

New Zealanders were promised that they would be at the ‘front of the queue’ but the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out continues to be behind schedule and poorly communicated, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “This was meant to be the ‘Year of the Vaccine’ but just like the ‘Year

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NZ Bottom of OECD for Vaccines

NZ Bottom of OECD for Vaccines

David Seymour ACT Leader After saying we would be at the front of the queue, New Zealand is now officially last in the OECD for the vaccine rollout. According to ‘Our World in Data’, New Zealand has fewer vaccinations per person than any other country. DHBs have now been told

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Psst, You Want to Be Exempt from Wearing a Mask?

Psst, You Want to Be Exempt from Wearing a Mask?

Logic, it seems, has never been a strong point of this government. Examples pop up every day to remind us that ‘joined up thinking’ is a completely foreign concept amongst our current ruling elite. Whether it be killing off any chance we had for surety of energy supply, boldly claiming

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Early to Rise? It Depends on What ‘Early’ Means to You

If you’ve ever experienced or known someone with depression, you’ll be familiar with the endless lying in bed. It’s not laziness or “drama”: it’s just the soul-crushing impossibility of emerging and facing another grind through a grey world. New research suggests that that’s just part

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Do Vegan Diets Make Kids Shorter and Weaker?

Do Vegan Diets Make Kids Shorter and Weaker?

Evangeline Mantzioris University of South Australia Dr Evangeline Mantzioris is the Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences at the University of South Australia. Evangeline has been working as an Accredited Practising Dietitian for over 25 years with experience in undergraduate and post-graduate teaching, clinical dietetics, clinical teaching and private

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Things That Make Me Go Hmm

Green party politicians are happily virtue signalling getting vaccinated but we are still waiting for PM Jacinda Ardern to publicly get vaccinated and set an example for the rest of New Zealand. Other world leaders have done it. I wonder why Ardern hasn’t? Hmm… If you enjoyed this please

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The Value of a Vaccination

Alwyn Poole What we are told by health professionals: The vaccine is well tested, safe and effective. stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/125386042/nzs-covidfree-status-relies-on-trust-in-the-vaccine Or this: “The researchers found that fully immunised participants were 25 times less likely to test positive for Covid-19 than were those who were unvaccinated.

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No Plan to Address Critical Health Workforce Crisis

No Plan to Address Critical Health Workforce Crisis

The Government is more focused on shuffling deckchairs than the critical health workforce shortage all DHBs are facing, National’s Associate Health spokesperson Simon Watts says. “New Zealand has a growing workforce shortage in our health system, some estimate it to be about 3500 workers across DHBs alone. As a

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Open Letter to NZ School Counsellors

speakupforwomen.nz Dear School Counsellors, We represent a group of women, including parents, grandparents, educators, social workers, and other professionals, who are very concerned about the effects of social and medical gender transition on young people. A powerful and fashionable narrative is increasingly convincing our youth, particularly young girls, that

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Indian Bar Association Serves Legal Notice upon Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, the Chief Scientist, World Health Organisation

Indian Bar Association Serves Legal Notice upon Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, the Chief Scientist, World Health Organisation

Adv. Nilesh C. Ojha National President Indian Bar Association indianbarassociation.in A legal notice is served by Indian Bar Association (IBA) upon Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, the Chief Scientist at the World Health Organisation (WHO) on May 25, 2021 for her act of spreading disinformation and misguiding the people of India,

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