Today’s face of the day NZ First leader Winston Peters has some positive things to say about New Zealand post the lockdown. "We can come out of this far more superior…" #Covid_19nz #COVID19 #NewZealand @winstonpeters speaks to @MagicTalkRadio pic.twitter.com/nWp0k3egeM — New Zealand First (@NZFirstNews)
David Farrar Free Speech Coalition In a matter of days the Government has reconsidered its definition of “essential media” so that it will now include those publications which meet the following criteria: serves a need for hard to reach rural communities, with reduced connectivity, and/or serves non-English speaking
BFD Political corner: Election 2020 is a series that will feature political speeches, political ads and political campaigns on Social media from a range of different political parties in the lead up to the New Zealand election. Today we have the Labour Party: Please send us links to any speeches,
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Press Release: ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour is questioning whether the Finance Minister has enough information about COVID-19 to know when New Zealand should come out of lockdown. “Every day of this lockdown is costing a fortune. Livelihoods are being lost as businesses burn up their working capital
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent” is a favourite quote of the character Salvor Hardin, in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation. Hardin is an agile politician who runs rings around bigger foes without resorting to blunt force. In the battle against COVID-19, lockdowns are the blunt force approach
This 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. It meets on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 1000-1230.
Here we all are in week two of an event that is unprecedented in our lifetimes. Our country closed down by the Government and everyone quarantined at home. While the Prime Minister claims that putting us under an effective state of house arrest is the only way to stop the
Claire Trevett in the NZ Herald reports: “PM Jacinda Ardern gets blood out of a stone from Australia – this time.” Again I’m forced to read between the lines (and BS). I understood that when Australia’s PM Scott Morrison announced his Government’s “Job Keeper” package, it was a
“Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin We’re a nation of ANZACs, our leaders like to remind us, every April 25th. They like to remind us just once a year. They don’t like to remind
Press Release: ACT Party “The Finance Minister must commit, as far as is possible, to returning New Zealand to pre-COVID-19 economic settings, rather than using the current crisis to make permanent ideological changes”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Grant Robertson told the Epidemic Response Committee yesterday morning he’
Press Release: New Conservative This is the question burning in most New Zealanders’ minds: What are the key indicators for decision making? How many new cases are required for the lockdown to continue? How many deaths? What is the plan when the lockdown ends? We understand that the government is
David Theobald As we enter Day 7 of the current minor inconvenience, how are things going? On a selfish front, short term, I can report that the only thing I am really brassed off about is the inability to see my grandchildren; and no, Skype/Facetime/DUO or whatever is
Since we went into lockdown doctors have started coming out of the woodwork. After all, it’s not often that medical doctors write opinion pieces in national newspapers. Pathologist Dr John Lee has written a second article for The Spectator in which he is at great pains to point out
Well, you’ve got to give Jacinda Ardern credit for her chutzpah, if nothing else. Just a month after she publicly berated Australian PM Scott Morrison, she is holding out the begging bowl. New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has asked Scott Morrison to temporarily lift the ban on
