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Govt Must Release Contact Tracing Evidence

Govt Must Release Contact Tracing Evidence

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “The Government needs to release full details of the contacts made with the family of cases L, M, N and O at the centre of the South Auckland cluster,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Prime Minister is fighting an asymmetrical information war, drip

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IINZ Calls for a Freeze of MFAT Funding of Terror Incitement
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IINZ Calls for a Freeze of MFAT Funding of Terror Incitement

IINZ Israel Institute of New Zealand co-director, Dr David Cumin, is calling on New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to immediately freeze funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in light of a Human Rights Commission investigation into the use of New Zealand

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Collins’ Comments March 2021

Collins’ Comments March 2021

Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz As Parliament fully resumes, and despite the difficulties of another Covid-19 lockdown again this week, I think it is important to remember that our first responsibilities as New Zealanders are loyalty to our country, its democratic principles, and our Sovereign as Head

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Vaccine Roll Out Looking Messy

The roll out of the Covid-19 vaccines is looking messy with high priority workers like South Auckland GPs being turned away, while DHB workers are vaccinated on a reportedly random ‘first-in first-served’ basis, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “My understanding is that too

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Daily News Roundup – 2 March 2021

Daily News Roundup – 2 March 2021

Covid: Auckland community outbreak Crystal Wu (Newshub):  Jacinda Ardern refuses to apologise to KFC worker, says family was told to self-isolate 1News: Auckland KFC worker with Covid-19 says she was never told to isolate, wants apology from PM Mandy Te (Stuff): Questions raised over whether people are being

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Jackboot Jacinda Channels Her Inner Stasi

Jackboot Jacinda Channels Her Inner Stasi

Jackboot Jacinda Ardern has channelled her inner Stasi, something all socialists have built into their gene pool, and started to implore that we become a nation of Karens: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has urged people to call out family and colleagues who are not following the rules of the alert

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Wokester or Toothless?
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Wokester or Toothless?

Neville Dodd President SSANZ sportingshooters.nz National MP Simon Bridges has drawn a lot of political fire about calling the Commissioner of Police Andrew Coster, a “wokester” but others either agree or would even take it further. Neville Dodd, president of the Sporting Shooters Assn of New Zealand, SSANZ, says

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April Minimum Wage Increase Must Be Delayed

April Minimum Wage Increase Must Be Delayed

ACT Party Workplace Relations spokesperson Chris Baillie. “Having previously ignored advice and failed to take account of economic conditions, this year the Government must delay the 1 April increase to the minimum wage,” says ACT Small Business and Workplace Relations spokesperson Chris Baillie. “Last night’s announcement of another Auckland

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Wait, What? It’s Now Illegal To Not Self Isolate?

Wait, What? It’s Now Illegal To Not Self Isolate?

Following the latest in the ongoing, never-ending lockdown saga, the nominal leader of the opposition, Judith Collins declared by way of a press release that National not only would have held Auckland in lockdown 3.0 longer but that she was also very much in favour of making criminals

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The Dog Ate Rod Carr’s Homework
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The Dog Ate Rod Carr’s Homework

The dog ate Rod Carr’s homework, alas; poor thing. Refusing to release the Climate Commission’s miraculous modelling that posits costs from the Commission’s recommendations to government in reducing greenhouse gas emissions as de minimis, Carr has come up with several excuses, and now affected industries are seriously

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