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Your Vax Status Is Not Private

Your Vax Status Is Not Private

The official propaganda arm of the government encourages the double vaxxed to brag about their fully vaxxed status on social media and demand everyone within shouting distance also be jabbed. Naturally, your vax status is everybody else’s business. Service providers may demand your vax status before visiting your home,

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Forget Building a House You Can’t Afford the Land!
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Forget Building a House You Can’t Afford the Land!

Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 The Government and the National Party recently announced agreement about the need to make it easier to build more homes on residential sections in our major cities, presumably

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Third Poll Confirms Labour’s Slide

Third Poll Confirms Labour’s Slide

Last night saw the third poll in a week confirm the slide in support for Labour as they continue to burn support through their hopeless handling of the Delta outbreak. The 1News poll also shows that the strategy of undermining leader Judith Collins by the sad-sack losers in Simon

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Tell Us about the Border

Tell Us about the Border

David Seymour ACT Leader The Government’s announcement on boosters showed how all announcements should be done. Cabinet made the decision; the Prime Minister immediately shared the information with the public. People now know what the Government will do, and when. We now know that if you had your vaccine

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Government’s COVID Confusion the New Virus Variant

Government’s COVID Confusion the New Virus Variant

The Government continues to make up its Covid response on the fly, randomly and publicly pondering changes to the traffic light framework announced only a few weeks ago and providing absolutely no certainty to Aucklanders or the rest of the country, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. Three weeks

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Lessons from the Anti-vaccine Protests

Lessons from the Anti-vaccine Protests

Branko Marcetic Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Branko Marcetic is co-host of the podcast 1 of 200 and a staff writer for Jacobin magazine Thanks to the disruptions of the last year and a half, I’ve had the debatable fortune to experience the pandemic

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A Message to COP26 Attendees

A Message to COP26 Attendees

CLINTEL clintel.org. At COP26, the wealthy global elite arrived in Glasgow on 400 private jets to lecture those attending. They said that our technological achievements have caused a global “climate emergency”, that it was “one minute to midnight” and that if we failed to stop this supposedly disastrous trend

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Shifting Sands No Way to Enjoy Summer

News that the Government is considering restricting travel into some regions over the summer holiday period is just the latest of many signs Jacinda Ardern’s Government failed to plan for Delta and is working out its response as it goes along. Aucklanders who have now spent 90 days in

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Make Up Your Mind Jacinda

Make Up Your Mind Jacinda

David Seymour ACT Leader Today’s a great opportunity for Jacinda Ardern to show some leadership, by giving clear commitments on borders, boosters, and Freedom Day. The Prime Minister should set out what will happen and when, then state clearly if there are any scenarios that could get in the

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Lobbying Revolving Door Just Keeps on Turning

Bryce Edwards Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. On Thursday it was announced that the recently departed Green Party Chief of Staff in Parliament, Tory Whanau,

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Reality of Mandate Monday Sets In, Testing Alternative Needed

Reality of Mandate Monday Sets In, Testing Alternative Needed

David Seymour ACT Leader As the reality of teachers and nurses walking away from their jobs sets in today, ACT is again calling for the mandate to allow regular testing as an alternative to vaccination. ACT is pro-vaccination; we are frustrated by those who are refusing the vaccine. But

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The Beating of Butterfly Wings
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The Beating of Butterfly Wings

Look back to April 20, 2020, when Uri Friedman, in The Atlantic, reported that “Jacinda Ardern’s leadership style, focused on empathy, isn’t just resonating with her people, it’s putting the country on track for success against the corona virus.” Well, not now. Jacinda Ardern’s leadership style

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Letter to the Editor: It’s not about COVID

Letter to the Editor: It’s not about COVID

Dear Editor I think that the first Red Flag for me, or possibly the first disconnect in logic regarding the Government’s whole “One Source of Truth” and that it’s all about “Keeping NZ Safe” is this. Having done a fair bit of reading and having discovered Dr Peter

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Why Robertson Needs to Knife Ardern

Why Robertson Needs to Knife Ardern

Today I am going to do the opposite of what the media are doing and NOT focus on the National party leadership. It makes no sense to me that, in a time of the worst protests this country has seen since 1981, the government’s propaganda arm is more focused

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