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Collins’ Comments
Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz Housing In the December 2020 Housing figures just released, the number of people waiting for social housing in Papakura has jumped to 661 people with a “severe and persistent” housing need. Sadly this is up by almost 500 people since National left the
What Will Vaccination Mean?
Free Press ACT Party Whether the Government will be successful in distributing the vaccine is an open question. We want them to succeed but there are reasons to be sceptical; remember the measles fiasco? A more urgent problem is telling New Zealanders what a vaccine will mean. This week Free
I Was Wrong, Lockdowns Were a Mistake Says Researcher
FEE Daily Newsletter fee.org Analyst Philippe Lemoine originally advocated for lockdowns to stop the spread of COVID-19. Now, he says he was wrong—and that lockdowns would fail any honest cost-benefit analysis. “A year ago I publicly advocated lockdowns because they seemed prudent given how little was known at
Porter Accusers Are Exploiting Mental Illness
The dangerous, illiberal witch-hunt being peddled by the left-media in their unconscionable pursuit of Attorney-General Christian Porter has been correctly labelled a threat to democracy and the most basic principles of the rule of law. But there is an even more objectionable aspect of the Press Gallery’s trial-by-media which
Things That Make Me Go…
Under the so-called “Equality Act” that Speaker Nancy Pelosi just rammed through the U.S. House, doctors and nurses who REFUSE to commit an abortion that a patient wants could be charged with “discrimination on the basis of pregnancy!” The Equality Act would force employers to cover abortion, and medical
The Great Experiment
Do we throw the dice to choose between taking an experimental vaccine with unknown long-term side effects or risk an experimental treatment to lessen our chances of contracting COVID-19 and to reduce the symptoms if we do catch it? Or do we do nothing and risk becoming hospitalised or possibly
Study in Nature Blows Lockdowns Out of the Water
Covid Plan B covidplanb.co.nz The most comprehensive analysis yet, comparing Google movement data to Covid-19 deaths has found that lockdown (“stay at home”) had no role in preventing Covid-19 fatalities. The scientific report published in Nature says: “In ~98% of the comparisons using 87 different regions of the
The Principle of Informed Consent
John Rofe Now that we know about the timing of vaccination for various at-risk cohorts it is time for the Government to provide statistics about the adverse reactions to what the public is to be given. There are obviously plenty of stats available. There are numerous articles regarding overseas experience
World’s ‘Best Budget’ – But Hospitals Collapsing
Only days ago, the West Australian state government was bragging that it had “the best budget performance in the world through the pandemic”. Leaving aside the dubious morality of making billions from a genocidal communist dictatorship, West Australians might be excused for asking why, if their government really is such
Two Years and Still No Medicinal Cannabis
A Member’s Bill that would make New Zealand’s medicinal cannabis scheme more affordable and more accessible to those that need it has been voted down by the Labour Government. “National first announced this legislation in 2018 and encouraged the Government to pick up the enormous amount of work
Gender Change Data Tucked Out of Sight
It’s an old adage in politics that you should never hold an inquiry unless you know the outcome. The corollary of this is that if you don’t know the outcome, don’t have the inquiry – and can it, quick-smart, if it’s already begun. Especially if the answer
More Than 1 in 3 New Zealanders Remain Hesitant or Sceptical about COVID-19 Vaccines
Jagadish Thaker Massey University JT or JAGADISH THAKER (Ph.D., George Mason University) is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing, Massey University. He is an affiliate researcher with the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, and