No Jail Time for Serious Offences The Government’s restorative justice programme Te Pae Oranga is taking preventing imprisonment to a new level with more serious offences sent to the Iwi Community Panel, National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “I don’t think many New Zealanders would consider the
The Government’s lack of urgency with a second harbour crossing for Auckland shows how misguided it is when it comes to the needs of the city and New Zealand’s economy. “Auckland desperately needs investment in a second harbour crossing but the Government has its priorities all wrong,” National’
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Do we throw the dice to choose between taking an experimental vaccine with unknown long-term side effects or risk an experimental treatment to lessen our chances of contracting COVID-19 and to reduce the symptoms if we do catch it? Or do we do nothing and risk becoming hospitalised
The government launched their ill-conceived school lunches programme and it already appears to have unintended consequences. We received this email on our tipline yesterday: Hey there get a load of this, my primary age daughter tells me the wastage of the taxpayer-funded free lunch at her school is
The saying is “Loose lips sink ships”, which is quite ironic given that the PM’s fiancee Clarke Gayford earns his livelihood by spending a lot of his time on boats. His blurting this out reminds me of the time that Bronagh Key tweeted about cabinet matters……oh that’s
For the second time in as many weeks, COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins has had to march backwards faster than a French Army: COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins has quickly walked back his words after saying Australia is “exporting its garbage” to New Zealand. Hipkins made the remarks
Covid Plan B covidplanb.co.nz The most comprehensive analysis yet, comparing Google movement data to Covid-19 deaths has found that lockdown (“stay at home”) had no role in preventing Covid-19 fatalities. The scientific report published in Nature says: “In ~98% of the comparisons using 87 different regions
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The Director-General of Health must have had a telling off from on high. Why else would he change his story, and make matters much worse for himself? Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield admits he should have refused being treated to a VIP cricket experience with the Blackcaps,
John Rofe Now that we know about the timing of vaccination for various at-risk cohorts it is time for the Government to provide statistics about the adverse reactions to what the public is to be given. There are obviously plenty of stats available. There are numerous articles regarding overseas
Policing and crime Robin Martin (RNZ): Facial recognition used on photos of unidentified suspects only – Coster Geraden Cann (Stuff): Police drones, body cameras likely to be scrutinised by new independent panel Jane Clifton (Herald): What about a long-term Level 4 for gang members? (paywalled) Te Aniwa Hurihanganui (RNZ): Police
Julie Iles, the press gallery journo from NBR tweeted that the Prime Minister’s Office has told the PM to pull her head in and shut up about individual cases: That tweet was subsequently memory holed as it was technically incorrect, but the general gist of the tweet was correct:
Reports that Tourism Minister Stuart Nash has said a travel bubble with Australia won’t happen until January next year if we’re lucky is creating confusion and will mean many more businesses face closure, National’s Tourism spokesperson Todd McClay says. “Our tourism businesses continue to struggle, they need
