The Government needs to explain why it’s allowing DHBs to discharge our elderly people from hospital in the middle of the night, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. In January alone, 156 patients aged 80 years and older were discharged from hospital between 1 am and 8
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “A Ministry of Health graph drawn by a graphic designer with no data to inform it is the perfect metaphor for this Government, all spin and no substance,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Like most things with this government, they present a nice picture
Countess Elizabeth Bathory was said to be obsessed with the notion that bathing in the blood of young girls was the key to eternal youth. To that end, legend has it that she murdered as many as 600 girls. It seems that Bathory was a pioneer for today’s wealthy
The phrase “mind over matter” actually works in practice. When a problem becomes an obsession, resolution can be found in logically examining the facts and allowing the brain to counter an unpleasant physical reaction. Our brain is a powerful problem-solving tool. Every night since the government began distributing the Pfizer
ACT Party ACT Social Development and Children spokesperson Karen Chhour. “New Zealand smokers will who can least afford it will spend more on their habit and in turn do harm to those around them if the Government mandates lower nicotine in tobacco,” says ACT Social Development and Children spokesperson Karen
Labour is failing New Zealanders struggling with mental illness, National’s Mental Health spokesperson Matt Doocey says. “This isn’t a matter of the Government failing in just one area of mental health management and services. There are failures and incompetency across the board. “Wait times have ballooned under Labour
Parliament’s Epidemic Response Committee must return to allow proper scrutiny of the Government’s Covid-19 Response, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins and National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop say. “The Government-controlled Health Select Committee has proven itself ill-equipped and ill-suited to the task of properly examining the
Remember “two weeks to flatten the curve”? Eighteen months later, we’re still being locked down, travel-restricted, mandatorily-masked and spied upon. Not even the large-scale roll-out of vaccines has done much to prise loose the claws of a panopticon state. This, we are endlessly told, is the “new normal”. In
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “It’s unacceptable the Government won’t play hardball with unions and force those employees unwilling to get a COVID vaccine to vacate MIQ premises for another 18 days,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Stop pussyfooting about and take the necessary steps to protect
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com With an economy much more dependant on tourism than ours, Thailand has done superbly on the Covid front. A rigorously enforced prohibition on foreign visitors and many other restraints, has resulted in 95 deaths compared with our 25. But, Thailand’s population is 14 times
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government is shutting out a standing army of vaccinators like pharmacists and General Practitioners (GPs) in a flawed model that will ensure the continued slowness of our COVID vaccination rollout,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “This may be because it has tied its
Owning their mistakes seems to be one of the most difficult things for this current government, and none more so than in mental health. Newshub reported on the government yet again trying to shift and deflect. A senior Government minister has accused a top mental health advocate of not telling
The Government needs to prioritise women and babies and take urgent action to resolve issues in New Zealand’s maternity system, National’s Social Investment spokesperson Louise Upston says. “Reports of women not receiving the care they need immediately after giving birth is exactly why the Government must introduce National’
In case you wondered if Germany thinks 60 year olds have had a pretty good innings so they can receive the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine, you are wrong. The fact is that immunity declines as we get older making the elderly more susceptible to serious illness and death from COVID than
rt.com The World Economic Forum is at it again. The globalist titans behind ‘the Great Reset’ are now promoting a “smart face mask” that tracks every breath its wearer takes. The masks received a frosty reception online. As the Western world inches slowly but surely toward full vaccination against
