If James Shaw was giving consolation gifts to Kiwis desperately trying to get home this Christmas he’d likely give them a lump of coal, having confirmed he plans to take 14 staff with him to the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, National’s Climate Change spokesperson Stuart Smith says.
Brian Tamaki Information Opinion Enough is enough! Come stand with us in Auckland on Saturday the 2nd of October! We demand our freedoms back! NO MORE LOCKDOWNS! We want to be… • Free to Choose • Free to Work • Free to Farm • Free to Trade • Free to Parent • Free to Travel • Free
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The above, a recent opening line in the New Zealand Herald by its Science reporter, Jamie Morton. Plainly Jamie doesn’t read the foreign press. All year New Zealand has been a laughing stock in the British media over its closed off society and vaccine
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 That was the headline on an excellent article by Audrey Young in yesterday’s Weekend Herald – except that there was no question-mark at the end of the
Panic Porn expert and Chicken Little, Michael Baker is yet again predicting terrible calamity will befall us all if we don’t listen to him. Never mind that many of his fanciful claims have never eventuated, like the Tokyo Olympics will kill thousands or that the UK’s Freedom Day
Chris Penk First published by The BFD 21th June 2020 The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the country by publishing an extract every day. Disconcerting developments It is worth remembering throughout all of this that the unbelievably cavalier attitude of the government right up to
The Government must explain exactly what it will do to sort out Transmission Gully’s transmission problems before the expressway opens, says National’s Transport spokesperson David Bennett. “Transmission Gully is the most expensive roading project this Government is responsible for at the moment but Transport Minister Michael Wood clearly
This morning’s debut of the new ‘virtual lobby’ system for MIQ allocation was both depressing and a debacle, National’s Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “The virtual lobby system used for the first time this morning solves nothing and has just created even more angst amongst the thousands
David Seymour ACT Leader If the Government moves Auckland to Level 3 today then it needs to be clear with New Zealanders that it has given up on the elimination strategy. During the first lockdown, the Government kept New Zealanders in Level 4 based on the four-day average of
familyfirst.org.nz Watch the head of the Pediatric Society Dr Andrew Marshall confirm, under questioning from Simon Bridges MP, that yes – 12 year olds are being given puberty blockers by some doctors. (Fortunately many doctors don’t – and kiwi parents should find these doctors rather than be referred to
David Seymour ACT Leader More than 22,000 New Zealanders in the MIQ waiting room within hours of it opening have shown why locking down and locking out is unsustainable. The demand for MIQ is now clear for the first time. Twenty-two thousand is 110 times more than daily
David Seymour ACT Leader Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson’s excuse that a man with COVID-19 crossing the border to the Waikato was “a decision for the courts” simply doesn’t wash. Most of us thought if you crossed the border illegally, you’d get arrested. Who knew that
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hobsonspledge.nz The three waters are drinking water, wastewater and stormwater. The Three Waters Plan (that you may have seen advertisements for) is a tricky co-governance plan for central government to get control of our assets which are managed by our local councils. After more than 60 iwi-only
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