Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. The lack of any policy announcements at the weekend was a disappointment to many observers. Instead, Collins announced in her speech that a new process
Dear Editor why is it that the large number of New Zealanders who are becoming increasingly cynical and disenchanted by the deteriorating state of affairs feel unable to mount any effective form of resistance? One reason may be that the Labour government has very effectively used the COVID pandemic to
With great fanfare and much media mind manipulation, the IPCC has released its long-awaited AR6 report. Surprise, surprise it is all much worse than we thought – or is it? There are a couple of statements that our local and national politicians should think very seriously about. In general, no
National welcomes the opportunity for the public to have input on a proposed law change that will allow people to change their designated sex on their birth certificates according to how they self-identify, National’s spokesperson for Women Nicola Grigg says. “One of the proposed changes to the Births
I completely agree with the Energy Minister Megan Woods and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in their assessment of the blackouts on Monday as ‘not good enough,’ National’s Energy and Resources spokesperson Barbara Kuriger says. “It is a pity Labour is committed to proportioning blame to everyone but themselves. As
The release of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change report on the Physical Science of Climate Change highlights the importance of sound and efficient climate policy, National’s Climate Change spokesperson Stuart Smith says. “The IPCC report makes apparent just how hard it will be for New Zealand and
The government has moved from hushed whispers to out loud warnings that we will all be locked down again if there is just a single case of the much-hyped Delta variant in New Zealand: New Zealand will move into a “short, sharp” alert level 4 lockdown if the highly
There is one clear message from the release of the Skegg report – it is imperative we vaccinate as many as people as possible, as quickly as possible, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. “New Zealand is the slowest in the OECD in rolling-out the COVID-19 vaccine, and
The Government continues to block transparency around its response to Covid-19, National’s Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop says. Government members voted against a motion to recall Dr Ashley Bloomfield to Health Select Committee so he could explain his incorrect statements over the Covid-19 infected UN worker who
Taxpayers’ Union The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is challenging the value of the latest round of research grants funded by the Health Research Council. Comparing to last year’s grants, we’ve noticed a big shift towards ‘wellbeing’-centred research that is often, frankly, woke nonsense. Research in the hard
David Seymour ACT Leader The Skegg reports tells us the Government should reopen the border in stages, proportional to risk, using better technology, but we can’t yet due to low vaccination rates, and variants might undermine the vaccine. All of this was in ACT’s COVID 2.0 report
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Information Satire Labour Government Explainer Editor The Minister of Shovels, Michael Wood, speaking from Jacinda Ardern’s Facebook bunker in a Zoom briefing to media heads, explained the reason for the lack of progress on major shovel-ready infrastructure projects. “You might not have noticed,” he said, “to speed things
As expected the media were at their anti-National, anti-Collins best reporting on the National Party Conference. Tova was as toxic as ever repeating her effort from the aftermath of her Newshub poll, running around like a headless chook desperately trying to find an MP or conference attendee who
