NZ Politics
Unjust Laws Should be Disobeyed. Stupid Ones Too
On the 16th of April, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr sat in a prison cell in Birmingham City jail in Alabama. He had been incarcerated for partaking in non-violent protest after ignoring Circuit Judge W. A. Jenkins Jr’s edict from on high, banning “parading, demonstrating, boycotting, trespassing and
Compare and Contrast
Yesterday saw the first post-COVID-19 parliament, and to kick it off there was a ministerial statement from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. We don’t need to torture you all with her speech. It was her usual speechify, sloganeering and fake news about how hard and early we went
Epidemic Response Committee | NZ Parliament – 29 April 2020
Live meetings of the Epidemic Response Committee of the New Zealand Parliament. The Epidemic Response Committee was established on 25 March 2020 to consider and report to the House on matters relating to the Government’s management of the COVID-19 epidemic. Learn more about this committee and browse committee
Scott Morrison and Jacinda Ardern in a Video Conference with Benjamin Netanyahu
An interesting article floated through our tipline overnight. Apparently Jacinda Ardern participated in a conference call with other countries leaders, including Bibi Netanyahu. It can’t have been much of a secret because the Israeli PM published a video of it: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participated in a
What Y2K and COVID-19 Have in Common
Justin Knight For anyone too young to remember Y2K, it was a very expensive non-event invented by IT charlatans to scare the world into paying them a significant amount of money to fix precisely nothing. The argument went that when the year 1999 ticked over to 2000, all the
New Zealand First News
Rt Hon Winston Peters’ first speech back today in parliament. Now is the time for New Zealand’s economic future “If New Zealand can grow it, or make it, then we should…” Our focus now is to rebuild our economy New Zealand has now moved from alert level 4 to
By Dodging the Question Todd Muller Admits He’s Been Plotting
National’s caucus has become a colander. Caucus meetings are now leaking moments after they’ve finished. Simon Bridges is now answering more questions about his leadership than anything else and what I’ve been saying all along has been proven true. National’s caucus hasn’t seen their internal
Bill English’s Mate John Armstrong Says Bridges Is Dog Tucker
You know you are screwed when the former leader’s mouthpiece and a pal of your deputy write articles about your imminent demise. John Armstrong has done precisely that: There are no attractive scenarios for the Opposition after a calamitous week from Bridges. Simon Bridges has to go. The moment
The Dismantling of Democracy
George A disturbing repercussion of this virus has been the dismantling of democracy. The current Government’s historical performance has been wiped clean. Its previous two and a half years of mismanagement have vanished without trace. All the relevant indicators that measure the Government’s performance through its term of
On Moving When You Don’t Want to Go.
Greg Moore It‘s always difficult to remain positive when everything that surrounds you seems to be taken away from under you. Today I am having one of these moments. In the Queenstown southern lakes area where we are, there were 19,345 people on the payroll at last census.
Oral Questions – 28 April 2020
Questions to Ministers Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s statements and actions? Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH to the Minister of Finance: Does he stand by all of his statements and policies? KIRITAPU ALLAN to the Minister of Finance: What actions is the
Now What?
George The soft stuff is over. Close our borders, shut the country down, enforce a police state and shower borrowed money amongst us creating the falsehood of security. Now what? Labour believes the country will start its recovery as soon as the dust settles. The dust won’t be settled
NZ’s Data as Reliable as China’s
According to the official figures, and those supplied to WHO, New Zealand has had a total of 1,122 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since data was collected. Of those cases, 19 have sadly succumbed to the disease. This leaves 1,103 still alive but who have tested positive and
The Secret Diary of Andrea Vance
Information Satire Dear Diary I have been assigned the most difficult task of my career as an award-winning senior journalist to date. To be frank I am not sure that I will be able to pull it off and I told my editor so when called into his office