David Seymour ACT Leader The Director-General of Health’s admission that the Ministry has known that five people may not have been fully vaccinated for weeks is completely unacceptable and leaves questions about whether this was a botched coverup. Radio NZ has revealed today that an investigation has begun
David Seymour ACT Leader Eighty thousand vaccination doses in one day is good news. What would have been incredible news is if this rate was achieved, say, 100 days ago. That would have got the target 8 million doses done, and New Zealand might be in a very different situation.
Labour’s move today to block a request for the Minister of Covid-19 Response to explain what is being done to address shockingly low vaccination rates among Maori is an appalling example of politics over people, National Party Maori Affairs Select Committee members Harete Hipango and Joseph Mooney say.
As kids and parents face weeks away from school, the Government remains vague on the reality of education under lockdown, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “Education Minister Chris Hipkins admitted to a Select Committee this morning that the Government doesn’t have a clear idea of how many
National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop is asking why we aren’t using saliva testing in the community as part of the fight against the current delta outbreak. “A week ago Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield told New Zealanders the Government would be talking to private
David Seymour ACT Leader ACT is today calling on the Government and Ministry of Health to take some simple steps to be more transparent. They should release all the day’s data before or at 1 pm. This should be before, not after, the Prime Minister’s performance. The data
Darroch Ball Co-leader Sensible Sentencing Trust. The existence of a tobacco black market isn’t anything new. What is new is the fact it has grown so massively that tobacco is now quickly becoming the new drug of violence in our community. In many ways, the black market has
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I’m generally wary of focussing on politicians’ religious beliefs — most often because it’s invariably used as a cheap attack on conservatives. The same media who swooned at Kevin Rudd’s Sunday church doorstep pressers relentlessly pilloried Tony Abbott for his Catholicism. The left who viciously attacked Mitt Romney’
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For those of you who share my unconditional love for our country and deep concern for its future direction, and may be enduring the boredom of Covid lockdown, I have an immediate remedy: get on-line now and place an order for the book, “National Identity” by Hon Simon Bridges.
The Government is big on enforcing lockdown rules. They’ve even established a snitch line so busybodies can dob in their neighbours or family who won’t comply with the draconian lockdowns in place. They’ve also passed mask mandate regulations but exempted MPs and Ministers from the annoyance of
Kiwis will be shaking their heads in disbelief at Chris Hipkins’ comments to the Health Committee today that he doesn’t think the vaccine rollout in New Zealand has been slow, says National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop. “The simple reality is that while things are only slowly
ACT Party The ACT Party last night launched its new programme ‘ACT TV’ a limited series hosted by ACT Leader David Seymour. “With Parliament not sitting this week, ACT has found a unique way to connect with Kiwis,” says Mr Seymour. “The half hour show will run live on weeknights
David Seymour ACT Leader When asked yesterday what the Government has done to protect New Zealanders against Delta, COVID Response Minister Chris Hipkins fell back on N95 masks for MIQ workers. In an appearance that showed Hipkins was unlikely ever a boy scout, the motto “always be prepared” certainly doesn’
