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Sheriff Collins & the Stuff-Up Gang
Information Satire The Empress has no clothes someone tell her. I couldn’t help notic’ that on Tuesday’s AM show the corners of the RED QUEEN’S mouth were down, rather than up like they usually are. She was asked if there had been ‘STUFF-UPS’ at the border
Daily News Roundup – 28 August 2020
Brenton Tarrant sentenced to life without parole Tim Brown (RNZ): Terrorist sentenced to life in jail without parole Kurt Bayer and Anna Leask (Herald): Brenton Tarrant will never be released from jail Newshub: Terrorist Brenton Tarrant to spend the rest of his life in prison, without possibility of parole Thomas
Daily News Roundup – 27 August 2020
Election, voting age Henry Cooke and Luke Malpass (Stuff): Public still backing Government and Jacinda Ardern despite second outbreak, new poll shows Liu Chen (RNZ): Poll shows large majority of Chinese New Zealanders still favour National over Labour Claire Trevett (Herald): Judith Collins, Jacinda Ardern and the virus blame game
Daily News Roundup – 26 August 2020
Economic response to Covid Kate MacNamara (Herald): Government mulls use of $400m fund to buy stakes in firms hurt by Covid 19 (paywalled) Debrin Foxcroft (Stuff): Companies refusing to apply for Government sick leave subsidy to cover workers David Fisher Herald): The Road Ahead: The missing piece in our Covid-
Daily News Roundup – 25 August 2020
PM’s levels announcement, govt management of coronavirus Henry Cooke (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern faces little opposition to alert level extension Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): A nervous week ahead for a suddenly vulnerable government (paywalled) Richard Harman (Politik): Covid “here for some time” say Ardern and Collins Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Experts
Things That Make Me Go Hmm
There was an anti lockdown protest in Auckland on the weekend. On the ysb.co.nz website, they posted the following photos from the march and reported that a police officer had been taking photos of those in the crowd. I would be very interested to know if the BLM
Daily News Roundup – 24 August 2020
Border failures, criticism Hayden Donnell (RNZ): Mediawatch: A backlash over tough questions for Dr Ashley Bloomfield Bryce Edwards (Herald): Political Roundup – How serious are the Govt’s border botch-ups? Andrea Vance (Stuff): Big little lies: Getting to the facts in New Zealand’s border failures Michael Morrah (Newshub): Conflicting