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TV Series Reviews: 1 pm Daily Update (Part 1)

TV Series Reviews: 1 pm Daily Update (Part 1)

NZ’s favourite show is back for season 2, which I wasn’t expecting since the season 1 finale seemed to have wrapped up all the storylines. Stars of 1pm Daily Update the TV series 10/10 Season Two The first episode was incredibly gripping, although I must admit I

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Authoritarianism in Auckland

Authoritarianism in Auckland

Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and eight books in 5 languages, most recently The Market Loves You. He is also the editor

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It Takes A Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry

It Takes A Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry

I have just come back from the supermarket, in a South Island town that never had a single case of COVID the first time around, let alone now. This is my first trip since the second phase of the new normal started on Wednesday. There was no queuing outside. There

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Experts Slam Government’s Border Testing

Experts Slam Government’s Border Testing

Public health experts are slamming the debacle at the border: Auckland University Professor of Medicine Des Gorman rated the Government’s response as “somewhere between two and three” out of 10. “I’ve seen health systems manage medical emergencies worse than this but it takes some doing,” Gorman told Hosking.

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Covid Disruptions

Covid Disruptions

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The news that Auckland was being ordered into an Alert level 3 lockdown for three days, and the rest of New Zealand into Alert Level 2, came as a blow to a country that is still struggling to recover from a lockdown assessed as “the

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Know Us By Our Deeds – Bungling the Borders

Know Us By Our Deeds – Bungling the Borders

The Prime Minister has exclaimed that we should know them by their deeds. We’ve covered their deeds with housing, their deeds with flu vaccinations and the Prime Minister‘s lying. Now, with the community transmission outbreak sweeping Auckland, we should know them by their deeds at the border: Newshub

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A Free Taste of an Insight Politics Article

A Free Taste of an Insight Politics Article

Today Non- Subscribers get a FREE taste of what they are missing out on. Have a read of this Insight Politics article then decide whether or not you would like to subscribe to a Silver subscription or upgrade your existing Basic or Bronze level Subscription to Silver. The Polls and

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You Can Only Shout “Look! Over There! a Virus!” for So Long

You Can Only Shout “Look! Over There! a Virus!” for So Long

There is a spectre stalking Australia and New Zealand – no, not just the Wuhan pandemic but a killer even worse which is following in its wake. But while the media and politicians can’t stop yammering about COVID-19, they politely avert their eyes from its shadow. Probably because it’

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The Fallacy of New Zealand’s Pandemic Police-State

The Fallacy of New Zealand’s Pandemic Police-State

In contrast to the fawning adulation of the legacy media, venerable think-tank the American Institute for Economic Research has cast a jaundiced eye over the reign of Jacinda Ardern. Suffice to say, they’re not much impressed. For months we’ve heard the cry: oh how wonderfully New Zealand

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Labour Aims to Win This Election on a Lie: Part 2

Labour Aims to Win This Election on a Lie: Part 2

The second method by which the socialists achieve their aims is by packaging their leaders as ‘moderate’. The final destination for the left, its proper raison d’être if you will, is that of Trotsky and Lenin. But the Bolsheviks didn’t win elections. Although the result of our last

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