Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 The good news is that the government has sought independent advice on Covid Policy. The bad news is that the advice is abysmal. Back in June Associate Minister
Jim Cable Dear Peter Goodfellow I write to you as a longstanding National member who is now completely unhappy with both the state of, and lack of direction of, the Party and its organisation. I’ve been seriously involved with National since Roy Maclennan’s campaign for Nelson in 1969
It is wonderful to watch the mighty fall… not that either Joe Biden or Jacinda Ardern can be in any way classed as ‘mighty’, but until very recently both were the darlings of the world media. It breaks my heart to see how journalists in the US and elsewhere are
Do you trust The Spinoff and their polling company Stickybeak? Already we know that The Spinoff has received money from the government by way of subscriptions, NZ on Air and Creative NZ. Almost 2 and a half MILLION dollars from NZ on Air alone. In the last week, The Spinoff
If it were anyone else repeatedly breaking lockdown rules, they’d be charged with breaches but because it is the Labour Party, all we hear is that the Prime Minister is “disappointed”. Labour Party advertising delivered in breach of lockdown restrictions has appeared in the Prime Minister’s own Auckland
Free Press ACT Party The nationwide lockdown has revealed a lot, mainly about the Government’s complacency before it happened. It has also shown how obsessed this Government and much of New Zealand society is with identity politics. Free Press traversed this ground in its review of Cynical Theories several
The epidemic response committee set up during lockdown last year and chaired by National’s (then) leader Simon Bridges had much more power than Parliament’s Q & A led by Speaker Trevor Mallard, and ministers and public servants were petrified of having to front. The reason being they actually
David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party yesterday welcomed news that the Government is now wastewater testing in 95 locations, up from 26 at the start of the outbreak. It has softened on saliva testing, and even said it was open to home test kits, a technology it has so
GROUNDSWELL NZ In the lead up to November’s nationwide protest, a number of campaign actions will be undertaken. The second event is on today Friday 27th August 2021 under the banner of “CAN YOU HEAR US”. At 12:30 pm all around New Zealand, Groundswell NZ are calling for
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As I wrote yesterday, Australian PM Scott Morrison is finally finding some domestic backbone and is pushing back against the recalcitrant Covid dictators in the state capitals. Morrison has laid out a “roadmap” to re-opening Australia, ending the rolling lockdowns, and learning to live with what is now just
With the Delta variant of Covid-19 having well and truly arrived in New Zealand, the National Party is calling on the Government to supercharge the vaccination rollout throughout the country with a new strategy, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. “New Zealand has been the slowest in the
The Police Minister’s admission to the Justice Select Committee this morning that she did not raise the issue of low vaccination rates among frontline police officers with Cabinet is shameful, says National Party Police spokesperson Simeon Brown. “Poto Williams’ failure to raise the issue of low vaccination rates of
Robin Grieve Chairman of Pastural Farming Climate Research farmcarbon.co.nz “The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC, 6th assessment report finds there has been no increase in extreme precipitation and drought in New Zealand due to global warming”, Robin Grieve Chairman of Pastural Farming Climate Research, said today. “This
Nicole McKee ACT Justice spokesperson The Police Minister has today confirmed that Police are not a priority to be vaccinated for COVID-19. When Poto Williams was asked specifically whether she had lobbied Cabinet to prioritise Police for vaccination she would not directly answer the question. Only 38 per cent
