NZ Politics
Auckland Council Calls on Residents to Snitch on Kids
Berend de Boer Overnight this sign appeared in Auckland Council playgrounds: It has the now common usual “warnings.” With the government’s new found duty to keep its citizens “safe” it’s an indignity we will have to suffer until we kick these people out of office I’m afraid.
Face of the Day
A grim new report has ranked New Zealand as one of the worst places to be a child due to its “terrifying” rates of obesity, suicide and illteracy. On Tuesday UNICEF released its annual Report Card which ranks wealthy countries on their child wellbeing – and the results are damning. Out
What Would Make You Change Your Vote?
Eliora Much has been said recently about the hapless James Shaw, co-leader of the Green Party. He is publicly pleading for forgiveness. Shaw signed off on a $11.7 million deal for a private green school in Taranaki. He looked sheepish as he begged and beseeched green voters not
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Daily News Roundup – 9 September 2020
Economic inequality Susan Edmunds (Stuff): New Zealand’s trillion-dollar wealth gap: Who are we leaving behind Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): The Government likes to say it follows expert advice – that’s not quite true Susan Edmunds (Stuff): 185,000 workers expect to lose their jobs within next year, Stats NZ
No Leaks at the Border. Hmm…
The Government still says that there is no link to the border for the resurgence of the Chinese plague, despite the fact the B1.1.1 genome comes from Australia. We discovered last week that 179 people left isolation with no tests, and now we find that more than 100
Face of the Day
An event planner has slammed the Health Minister for telling Aucklanders not to attend a conference – advice which went against official guidelines. During the daily coronavirus update, Health Minister Chris Hipkins said “no” when asked whether he was comfortable with Aucklanders attending a conference in Queenstown this weekend. However, guidelines
Trans-Tasman Bubble Is Just Wishful Thinking
The reaction of governments on both sides of the Tasman to the Wuhan pandemic has been near-hysterical overreaction coupled with the most bizarre wishful thinking. Panic – and an innate taste for untrammelled power – drove the unacknowledged shift of the pandemic goalposts from “flatten the curve” to “elimination”. Bear in
Air New Zealand’s Kiwi Impersonation
New Zealand’s national carrier is well on the way to emulating its national symbol: a flightless bird at risk of extinction. Like the kiwi, Air New Zealand’s possible demise is the result of predators and the loss of its natural habitat – international air travel – due to human interference.
A Faulty Batch of Genes
Information Satire Your intrepid eyewitness recently bumped into an old colleague whose path had not crossed his for some years. He was a scientist: a rather eccentric chap, being well-stricken in years, whose area of expertise was fiddling with DNA and looking for that breakthrough that might save the
State Control of Farms
Information Satire A discussion document leaked to The Woke Examiner shows that state control of all farms is now complete. It details how a long term plan using Health and Safety measures, the Resource Management Act, principles of Te Treaty, the zero-carbon target, COVID lockdowns and now, freshwater reforms
