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
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
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
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
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
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,
Free Press ACT Party The Haps ACT had another great week on tour with a record 300+ crowd packing Classic Flyers in Mt Maunganui on a Friday night as the Honest Conversations tour rolls on. There are still meetings to come, in Canterbury this week and Auckland next. The Government’
One year before the health system restructuring even starts, the health system restructuring unit in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet has already tripled in staff numbers, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. Answers to Written Parliamentary Questions shows management staff numbers in the unit went
ACC Minister Carmel Sepuloni needs to front up to New Zealanders and explain what she’s doing to fix the failing Next Generation Case Management system, National’s ACC spokesperson Simon Watts says. “The Next Generation Case Management was touted by ACC as a way to increase productivity, save costs,
Human beings are social creatures. We go out, we mingle with others, we visit friends, we socialise. We may even reach out to other people to dull the pain of loneliness. We also use substances that change our consciousness. We take caffeine to wake us up and to give us
So yesterday I went to my 3 monthly doctors checkup, (my doctor is a happy Muslim chappy and we quite often stray into politics and other non medical matters, he was saying he has just sold 3 out of 4 of his rental houses, due to the government’s regulations
Ashley Bloomfield has been caught telling fibs to the Health Select Committee. Like all good little civil servants he has ‘fessed up, yet again, to misleading Members of Parliament: Director general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield has apologised to Parliament’s health select committee for providing them incorrect information. On
TV3’s pregnant Samantha Hayes was admitted to hospital last month for a “scary few days spent in hospital fighting a mystery infection, facing worries her baby might be arriving two months early”. Hayes and her unborn baby recovered from a fever thought to be caused by an unknown virus,
It’s taken four years for Health Minister Andrew Little to recognise there needs to be some measuring and reporting on the performance of the health system, but indicators aren’t targets and will do little to improve health outcomes, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “Holding DHBs
Well, that’s another conspiracy theory that bites the dust. Not because it’s been disproven – quite the opposite. Because conspiracy theories – in the pejorative sense – thrive on lack of proof. Conspiracy theorists likewise thrive on seeing themselves as custodians of secrets known only to a few. The last thing
While the rest of the world orders hundreds of millions of extra Pfizer doses for 2022 and 2023 to be used as ‘booster’ shots, New Zealand hasn’t bothered, National’s Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop says. Answers to written questions reveal that ‘decisions are yet to be made’ regarding
