David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party is today proposing a Major Events Insurance Fund to ensure the industry can survive. The events industry, like many businesses, is facing turmoil thanks to COVID-19. They spend months preparing for major events, only for them to be cancelled at the last
Finance Minister Grant Robertson won’t say how much extra taxpayers will have to foot to pay for the current lockdown, says National’s Finance spokesperson Michael Woodhouse. Appearing before the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee yesterday, the Minister refused to say whether the Covid Response and Recovery Fund had
David Seymour ACT Leader Grant Robertson has today told the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee that it doesn’t matter how much of the COVID-19 Recovery Fund he’s blown on unrelated spending because he can always borrow more. Three months ago, there was only $5 billion left from
David Seymour ACT Leader The same day the Government pronounced out that ‘74 per cent of currently eligible people are booked or vaccinated at least once,’ a much more telling figure emerged. The Prime Minister has said it does not matter when the vaccine rollout starts, but when it finishes.
Sundance theconservativetreehouse.com The events surrounding COVID mitigation in Australia and New Zealand continue to astound me. The last several days in several provinces have shown brutal conduct and physical attacks by police, riot units and military deployments against the citizens within their respective regions. All of this activity is
Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz Covid Level 4 Lockdown I hope you are safe and well at home as we continue this Level 4 lockdown. I can imagine that some of you may be feeling anxious, fed up, even angry! This virus is virulent, unpredictable and brings challenges
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government’s inadequate testing and tracing have let us down, leaving us in lockdown for at least two weeks. The Prime Minister now tells us that ‘early modelling’ predicted cases would peak on day eight. Why did she promise a three and seven-day lockdown,
He Puapua may not mean what we have been told it means. The authors of He Puapua say that the name ‘puapua’ means ‘break’ but these sketches by Koch show a different meaning; protective padding. Born in Berlin in 1834, Koch died in Wellington in 1901. Koch produced the series
Eliora Here are two book reviews that are very different from each other, but equally good reminders that 40 years ago a Springbok rugby tour divided New Zealand. The violence that occurred has been at times labelled as eight weeks of “Batons, Brawls, Barbed wire and Boks.” Hold The Line
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Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 Back when I was a pinko I studied Policy Making 101. It was an attempt to improve government decision making by applying reason. The aim was to find
Yet again we have the insufferable sight of Dear Leader performing her amateur theatrics at the podium of misinformation! Her presentation consists of an entree reminding us we are a team of five million, a main course consisting of a good serving of fear, while dessert is a sweetener of
Nurses in New Zealand are poorly paid. There is a significant shortage which is only going to get worse as experienced nurses leave the profession through exhaustion or burnout. This puts those still left in the profession under more pressure, which will only result in more nurses leaving. It is
Remember when a former Klan leader endorsed Donald Trump for president? The media went ballistic: here was proof positive, they said, that Trump was a racist. After all, why else would the leader of a racist group praise him? (Never mind that a current Klan leader also endorsed Hillary Clinton.
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