Mike Hosking listened to the full Covid-19 presentation on Monday 13 September and yesterday commented on questions Jason Walls asked the Prime Minister regarding lockdown. Newstalk ZB on demand for Tuesday 14 September for 7:45 am beginning 3.59 minutes into the recording. The recordings played by Mike
The Maori Party has launched a petition to have New Zealand’s name officially changed to Aotearoa. Party co-leaders Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer are also petitioning for Te Reo Maori names of all towns, cities and place names to be restored by 2026. One News Read the
While National welcomes the Prime Minister’s recognition that lockdowns can be avoided if we get as many people as possible vaccinated, we continue to call on her to be honest with New Zealand and give us the conditions for when this can occur, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson
David Seymour ACT Leader If the Government really wants to get on top of the Auckland outbreak it needs to come up with new and innovative ways of testing the affected communities. Only around five thousand tests are being done a day. To know whether ‘mystery cases’ are just bad
Chris Penk First published by The BFD 15th June 2020 The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book by publishing an extract every day. Flattening the Country It was only supposed to be the curve that got flattened, not the whole country. This is the real story of
Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister Yesterday, we announced the next steps in our COVID response as together, we continue our efforts to stamp out Delta. If you missed the update, Auckland will remain at Alert Level 4, and the rest of New Zealand will stay at Alert Level 2, until Tuesday
As Mark Steyn once observed, “the airbrush is mightier than the sword”. Once upon a time, the mission of journalism was guided by Kipling’s “Six Honest Serving-Men”: What, Why, When, How, Where and Who. The first principle of the honest journalist is to identify each and report it
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Information Opinion By now it is clear that the government’s response to Covid is manifestly political. Although this government talks about “listening to experts” it does anything but. When you commit to listening to experts you need to honestly listen to all experts rather than cherry-picking those that
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Stuff’s Political writer Luke Malpass is one of our best. He’s always balanced, apolitical and intelligent. I treasure this extract from his article last week on the government’s abysmal covid vaccine record. However, it’s all very well laughing at this nonsensical
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Rene Guest post by Rene, owner of a small business with delightful staff and an appreciation of the beautiful things in life. One of these beautiful things, The Fallen Madonna, hangs on the wall and is a symbol of the resistance. Rene is an organiser and continually manages to stay
Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org Barbara McKenzie has a PhD in in German Literature. At its 2021 Annual Conference in August, the NZ National Party voted to include as point two of its ‘Values’, ‘Recognition of the Treaty of Waitangi as the founding document of New Zealand’. The argument in favour
Siouxsie Wiles has enlisted the support of Dr Ashley Bloomfield and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to cover for her appalling hypocrisy. And it is appalling hypocrisy. She’s been lecturing us all for 18 months about how we must all follow the rules. Hypocrites have the same problem that liars
The Government’s decision to extend the Level 4 lockdown in Auckland and Level 2 restrictions elsewhere in the country without additional urgent support will be the end of many businesses, National’s Economic Development and Small Business spokesperson Todd McClay says. “The number of business casualties expected in the
