The Government’s sheer incompetence on rolling out saliva testing is staggering, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “In September last year the Government’s expert advisors told it to introduce saliva testing as soon as possible. Saliva testing is still a form of PCR testing, but
Labour MP Kiritapu Allan Returns to Parliament Three Months after Cancer Diagnosis Labour’s Conservation Minister Kiritapu Allan has returned to work at Parliament, three months after a cervical cancer diagnosis. […] “I want to acknowledge in particular the overwhelming amount of support that I’ve received in my time off.
David Seymour ACT Leader Chris Hipkins’ celebration of 150,000 doses of vaccine arriving is like hooting and hollering for a drop goal while the team of five million is 50 points behind on the scoreboard. Most of us are happy to get an email or text notification when a
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government has once again sneakily changed the dates that vaccines will be available. Originally the Government said that Group 4, the last group to be eligible for vaccines were “being vaccinated from July 28.” That language would make anyone think there would be needles in
It’s a sign of how far post-Marxist ideology has subsumed every aspect of the academy that even science has succumbed. Science was once, theoretically at least, about the fearless pursuit of truth. If that were ever true, it certainly isn’t any more. The assault on science is
Mark Komrad mercatornet.com Dr Mark S. Komrad is a psychiatrist on the clinical and teaching staff of Sheppard Pratt Hospital and the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland; clinical assistant professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland; and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Tulane University in New Orleans.
Another day, another story of staggering COVID incompetence in Victoria. No matter what the “IStandWithDan” fanatics might say, there’re damn good reasons why Victoria is far and away the COVID capital of Australia – and they all lead straight to the government and the state bureaucracy. Hiring quarantine staff over
Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz This week I am focused on our democratic right to free speech and our need for this government to take action on a number of other fronts and not just promise a budget for something that won’t happen like rolling out better
Mike King has claimed that the Government’s decision not to fund Gumboot Friday was ‘personal’ and driven by Dr Ashley Bloomfield. Mental health advocate Mike King has apologised for lashing out at director general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield, calling him a “nasty little man” who is “killing our
Just over a year ago, I dubbed the policy response to the Chinese virus “the Moloch option”. The West had chosen to sacrifice its children to placate the plague demons. Worse, I said, COVID policies resembled the horrifying practices of the Aztec Tlaloc cult. In that cult, children were tormented
Dear Editor It’s easy to see that this Labour Government is in charge of the Covid vaccinations as the easy way to organise them was ignored and, as per usual, a complete mess has emerged. Like Jacinda ‘I will fix child poverty’ Ardern and Megan ‘I will fix the
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under
The below video seems to have been missed when it came out back in April this year. Probably because it was of John Campbell slavishly fawning over our three ‘award winning scientists’ and nobody with half a brain or any shred of dignity watches Campbell anymore, or indeed, could even
Nicholas Steyn Shaun Hendy University of Auckland Michael Plank University of Canterbury Nicholas Steyn is a Research assistant at the University of Auckland Shaun Hendy is Director of Te Punaha Matatini, a New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence hosted by the University of Auckland. Michael Plank is a Professor in
Brooke van Velden ACT Health spokesperson Yesterday I successfully triggered an urgent debate in Parliament about the cyber security breaches at Waikato Hospital. It follows documents from Waikato District Health Board being released onto the dark web after the ransomware attack that crippled five hospitals’ IT systems in May. What’
Andrew Little needs to stop making excuses and take ownership on mental health, says National’s Mental Health and Suicide Prevention spokesperson, Matt Doocey. “All we’ve heard from the Minister is how everyone else is to blame for his government’s utter failure to deliver on its promises on
