Jo Holmes Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance www.ratepayers.nz With the Super City plunged into yet another Level 3 lockdown, we are already hearing Councillors trying to argue that this justifies more increases to rates. It’s time Mayor Phil Goff and his colleagues faced the reality that this pandemic isn’
Bryan Leyland The NZ Climate Commission claim that they provide “evidence based” information on their website and in their 2021 “Draft Advice for Consultation”. The fact is that many of the recommendations they make in the advice report are not backed up by the evidence, are technically and economically unachievable
National Party Chris Bishop With the Pullman Hotel receiving MIQ returnees again, it’s important the Government immediately releases the reports into how COVID-19 was caught by three people in the facility, National’s COVID-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “The Government has indicated it will release the
Covid: Auckland outbreak decisions Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Contact tracing ‘Ferrari’ will be enough to contain future outbreaks Jamie Morton (Herald): Shift to Level 2 ‘not cautious enough’ – expert Science Media Centre: Auckland jumps down to Alert Level 2 – Expert Reaction Jason Walls (Herald): Auckland’s lockdown exit comes with a
Does the Chinese Virus rot the brain? Surely nothing else can explain the collective outbreak of mass lunacy that’s struck a great deal of the Western world – including the entirety of its media-political elite. They’ve all gone completely insane. Utter, stark-raving, barking mad. Collectively lost their
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Yesterday, New Zealand time, wrecked and ruined Lebanon and Zimbabwe begin injecting their people with anti-coronavirus vaccines. Hang on a minute. How’s that possible given our Health Minister said not once, but twice back in October, that we’re at the head of
Questions to Ministers 1. BARBARA EDMONDS to the Minister of Finance: What recent reports has he seen on household incomes? 2. Hon JUDITH COLLINS to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all of her Government’s statements and actions related to the COVID-19 response? 3. GINNY ANDERSEN to
Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz It was great to be back in Parliament last week following a successful weekend for the Waitangi Day celebrations. I will be looking forward to speaking next year and I am grateful for that. There are many other issues for us to bring
Information Satire Hollywood Correspondent: The 1979 American satire movie “Being There” starring Peter Sellers is to be remade with a strong female lead. Instead of Chance the gardener, the plot will have Cindy, a simple-minded ex fish-and-chip-shop assistant who lived all of her adult life in
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Earlier this month the Climate Commission released their draft report to the Government. It is so extreme that even typically conservative economists are expressing alarm. Without any exaggeration, if implemented, the Commission’s plan would radically transform New Zealand, from a country which is still
We are currently in the grip of not one but two, virus-like predicaments. One, COVID-19, is very obvious because of the way it is constantly drawn to our attention by our prime minister and her minions, the news (or should that be views) media. COVID-19 is a
I was out chatting to some friends when the news filtered through that we had been handed our latest dose of house arrest. I have been handed this sentence for the crime of living nominally in Auckland even though I can not even see another house from my property. One
Our Covid story is a story about the insidious creep of expert advice, unremarkable at first, but eventually turning lives into living nightmares simply because our Covid experts fly in the face of common sense. No amount of pleading will get us off the PM’s recurring cycle of lock
Yesterday in Parliament there were two distinctly different statements about who knew what, when, about the new community cases. First up was Jacinda Ardern: Hon Judith Collins: At what time did she learn of likely recent community cases of COVID-19 in the Auckland area? Rt Hon JACINDA ARDERN: It
Is Jacinda Ardern going to play Lucky Dip with her Climate Change Commision’s lunatic proposals, or is Ardern herself the luckiest dip of all? While the left-media in Australia particularly credit Ardern with everything short of walking across the Tasman Sea, the inconvenient truth is that Ardern is
