For a community as vulnerable as the Chatham Islands, the damage done by Eagle’s tenure demands a full reckoning – from the police, from Labour, and from a political class that has tolerated this kind of conduct for far too long.
Ardern dictated that all of us should be subject to lockdown, even though the majority of us were not at any risk, apart from a bad case of the ’flu.
A new low from New Zealand’s criminal injustice system.
Stuff does not give a toss that they have had to correct the record or that every other outlet is now laughing at them. The damage was done the moment the original story dropped. Most casual readers will never see the quiet little update at the top.
Until Hipkins finds the guts to say sorry properly, Labour can forget about regaining trust from the city that suffered most. Aucklanders remember the trauma.
“This is part of an unfortunately familiar pattern of local manufacturing shutting down across Aotearoa. We’ve seen it with Carter Holt Harvey at Eves Valley, Sealord in Nelson, Kinleith Pulp and Paper, and now Heinz Wattie’s.”
The Epstein Files document a plan to turn global health emergencies into investment vehicles so by the time Covid arrived on the scene, the mechanisms to manage and profit from the so-called crisis, was ready and waiting.
If we genuinely want a society that flourishes, the answer is not racial division, grievance politics, or endless attempts to save people from themselves. The answer is much older, much simpler, and far more powerful.
If one party in the coalition wants voting dominance then campaign on equality for all plus getting rid of the Waitangi Tribunal and the Māori electorates. Neither serves a useful purpose and both are well past their use by dates. It has to be ACT or NZ First, preferably both.
We need a people’s commission into the media during Covid-19.
The disgraceful dropping of the Te Papa vandalism case.
Just remember Chris Hipkins and the Labour Party need Te Pāti Māori to form a government. Imagine the shemozzle that will create.
The evidence still exists, someone is still responsible for the deaths and injuries that occurred, and the next theatre, the general election, is eight months away. We will continue to pursue every possible avenue to truth and accountability.
The report is a scientific failure and its recommendation to enshrine vaccine mandates in law should be vigorously opposed. Any such provision would nullify the protections of the NZ Bill of Rights, which is supposed to ensure a right to refuse medical interventions.
By trying to please everyone the Commission ends up pleasing no one.
