David Seymour ACT Leader Today’s Education and Workforce Committee was a perfect example of why we need the Epidemic Response Committee back. Opposition MPs were repeatedly shut down by Labour Party Chair Marja Lubeck, while Workplace Relations Minister Michael Wood was able to repeatedly attack the Opposition without any
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Harry Hunt We are living in a world where people would prosecute you for thought crime if they could figure out what you were thinking. Remember that old joke your dad used to tell you? It’s sexist and derogatory. What about that time your grandad told a raunchy joke
I took one for the team so you wouldn’t have to. I watched Ryan Bridge interview the Prime Minister on Newshub Breakfast at about 7.45 on Tuesday morning (August 24). Covid has been a major worldwide news story since March last year. That would make it 18 months.
Judith Collins has taken a sledge-hammer to the Government and has scored hit after hit after hit. Here is her take on Chris Hipkins: Covid-19 Minister Chris Hipkins should resign over the sluggish vaccine rollout – but can’t because Labour cannot find a good enough minister to replace
Taimutorabera In the weeks leading up to the current level 4 lockdown many New Zealanders had a gut feeling that something was brewing. The government Covid propaganda machine had been cranked back up to full, complete with stern warnings that any outbreak of the delta Covid variant would be met
As BFD readers will be aware, PM Jacinda Ardern recently implored the Taliban to respect women. Her government also forked out a cool few million in taxpayers’ money to Afghanistan. But it seems that the Taliban are likely to give up their misogynistic cruelty some time after another beneficiary of
The other day I wrote about Stuff journalists turning snitch and how you can’t trust a snitch. Then on Wednesday we get a story in the NZ Herald about some anti-vax pamphlets being delivered during lockdown and find out that their so-called journalist, David Fisher, has turned
The National Party is calling for the reinstatement of the Epidemic Response Committee following the disgraceful behaviour of Labour MPs in select committees this week, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “We have launched a petition to send a message to Jacinda Ardern and her Government that their undemocratic,
Confirmation that the Crowne Plaza passed all its infection control audits, including as recently in June, beggars belief, National’s Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop says. MIQ officials before the Health Select Committee this afternoon confirmed the last infection control audit for the Crowne Plaza was in June this year
The Government’s admission it isn’t using an obvious lever to increase uptake of the Covid-19 vaccine demonstrates its failure to recognise the need to ramp up our vaccine rollout, National’s Social Development and Employment spokesperson Louise Upston says. “Social Development Minister Sepuloni admitted at Select Committee
No fishing at level 4, unless it’s Maori customary fishing. (Clearly, it is such a tricky virus it can tell the difference between Maori and Non-Maori). With your help Discrimination of the Day will become a regular segment on The BFD. A reader drew our attention to this
