Willie Jackson has leapt to the defence of Jacinda Ardern after she was excoriated by Mike Hosking on Tuesday. Bizarrely, he has suggested that though the government welcomes scrutiny it really only wants “reasonable” scrutiny. Labour MP Willie Jackson has hit out at “shock jock” Mike Hosking after the Newstalk
This Government welcomes reasonable scrutiny! But that’s not what Mike Hosking was doing with Jacinda this morning on ZB. His framing of every issue he challenged Jacinda on was skewed towards the most negative possible assessment of her intentions. Hosking began by trying to blame the pandemic on the
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John Rofe John Rofe is an experienced Fraud Investigator. Albert Einstein is reputed to have said: “The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.” Please take the time to think this through for yourself: Is it logical to
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Questions to Ministers 1. Hon JUDITH COLLINS to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by her statement that the reason the Government will not extend the wage subsidy to cover the additional four days of lockdown is because “it would require an entirely different process and regime”? 2. GREG O’
Danielle van Dalen maxim.org.nz A side effect of New Zealand’s election delay is that every political party now has an extra four weeks to campaign. This means an extra four weeks to capture the public’s attention, but also means every political party has to scramble to
Information Satire Earlier today the police moved quickly to arrest large numbers of experts, editors, reporters and academics – all accused of the most unprincipled dissemination of fake news in the history of Aotearoa. Examples of the fake news headlines. Image credit HangonaMin. The BFD A spokesperson for the justice department
Transcript from 07:16, 25 August 2020, NewstalkZB Mike Hosking Do you look to take over in some way shape or form either the Tauranga City Council or the Invercargill City Council? Jacinda Ardern Why on earth are you making such a suggestion? MH Because the Department has written to
Jacinda Ardern experienced considerable push back from Mike Hosking on his morning show yesterday. What is abundantly clear, is that she has no idea what her ministers are up to, especially in regard to the Tauranga situation. Further to that, she really doesn’t like to get surprised with non-
You have got to be joking? This is totally contrary to what the government has been telling us. On 23 June 2020 the Prime Minister answered a question from Todd Muller about this: 1. TODD MULLER (Leader of the Opposition) to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by her statement,
Some of the points made in the video are: 1. The government should have extended the wage subsidy for the four extra days that the restrictions will be ongoing. 2. National’s health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti has written – for the second time – to the health committee chair asking for
I’ve never been a fan of Bronwyn Bishop, not least for her blatant trougherism when she was caught using a government-funded helicopter to go from Melbourne to Geelong for a party beano. That said, though, even people we ordinarily despise can be right sometimes. And when Bishop says
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Dear Editor Ever heard the story of Emperor Nero burning down Rome? The story goes that he fiddled while it fell to ashes. They say he set it on fire himself. A myth on the fiddling part maybe, but Rome did burn. New Zealand’s government is effectively willfully burning
