In 2018 the reaction from the NZ mining industry to the Pike River recovery operation was to predict a budget blowout due to the compromised structural integrity of the mine after the explosions. Solid Energy had identified the most significant risk to manned re-entry as roof fall that could
Ms Ardern has been at pains to let us all know that we should only listen to information from official Government sources. Apparently everything else should be “taken with a grain of salt”. “We will share with you the most up-to-date information daily. You can trust us as
The BFD’s writers have one and all been opposed to the government’s ban on so called single-use plastic bags. We opposed them for a number of reasons: 1. Banning them does not save turtles or help the environment as New Zealand is not the source of plastic
The rest of the world is taking the Covid-19 pandemic a great deal more seriously than our Prime Minister. While Israel moves into full lockdown along with many other countries, Jacinda Ardern is performing PR stunts. The latest is a press conference specifically for children: New Zealand’s prime
Mike: David Clark ah couldn’t tell me before how many test kits are in this country, can you? Jacinda: We have 30,000 swabs as part of our testing ah… capacity… for up to 1,500 a day and of course as you can imagine the whole world, Mike,
Paula Bennett is having a massive sook about not being included in the Government’s Covid-19 outbreak discussions. National deputy leader Paula Bennett is firing back at criticism about Simon Bridges‘ and the party’s response to the coronavirus outbreak. It’s a hard time but the Opposition is
There is a slow-moving coup underway within the National Party. We can see it between the noise and static of the global pandemic and there are clues. The easiest way to destabilise the leadership is by leaking internal poll details. That is now happening, with key people in the
Welcome to this week’s show with Dieuwe de Boer representing New Zealand and Tim Wilms representing Australia. It’s going to be another Chinese Virus themed episode, but we’ll try to focus on other important news as much as possible.
BFD Political corner: Election 2020 is a new 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
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Read this thread. The maths will be the same for New Zealand: The Imperial College team plugged infection and death rates from China/Korea/Italy into epidemic modeling software and ran a simulation: what happens if the US does absolutely nothing — if we treat COVID-19 like the flu, go
Press Release: New Conservative Dismembering a live baby with or without sedation can never be classified as kind. Brutal? Yes. Repugnant? Yes. Inhumane? Yes. Kind? No! Leaving a living baby on a cold stainless steel bench to die does not qualify as kind either, yet this government has rejected requiring
If you don’t have a Silver level subscription yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by Chris Trotter that was first published 02 March 2020. Rueful of the Lost Western Dream WHY COULDN’T WE save
Cherry Paul I took my disabled six year old with me to my pregnancy ultrasound on Monday morning. It felt like an act of sedition. As the woman with the probe checked his unborn sibling’s anatomy, I explained to him— “Now we are looking at the baby’s heart,
