Questions to Ministers 1. DEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER to the Minister for COVID-19 Response: Does he accept that Maori are a population group particularly vulnerable to COVID-19; if so, can he confirm that there is a specific vaccine roll-out plan for Maori? 2. Hon JUDITH COLLINS to the
ACT Party “The Prime Minister’s post-Cabinet press conference yesterday was a nauseating stream of self-congratulation when what she should have been doing was apologising,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Make no mistake, our biggest city is in a three-day lockdown because someone who worked in close
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ACT Party The Politics of COVID has shown how desperately New Zealand needs honest conversations. The Prime Minister failed, requiring a third of the country to go under house arrest, and is reported as a hero. Here’s some real chutzpah: She triumphally announces that enough vaccine for 30,000
Many commenters here on The BFD have raised valid questions following the release of the recent Climate Change Commission report. This report suggests that the way forward for New Zealand is for everyone to switch to electric vehicles and for all gas cooking, gas water heating and gas home heating
National Party Simeon Brown This soft-on-crime Government has only filled one-third of additional police positions focused on organised crime despite gang membership increasing at an alarming rate, National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “Of the 700 promised positions focused on targeting organised crime, only 239 have
ACT Party “The Government needs to front up and reveal why Police have set up a key checkpoint between Auckland and Northland at Brynderwyn, which is in the Kaipara District, outside of Auckland’s level 3 boundary, and why,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Schedules 4 and 5 of the
Covid outbreak: Lockdown decisions Michael Morrah (Newshub): New Zealand’s new COVID-19 outbreak ‘detected later than it could’ve been’ – expert Audrey Young (Herald): Political focus turns to whether lockdown was caused by border failure (paywalled) Stuff: Editorial – Keeping the border secure is paramount RNZ: Lockdown could last weeks
Seven o’clock on a Sunday night and there she was, Jacinda, looking suitably frowny faced and dressed in black. Always an ominous sign. She had had to forego one of the highlights of her year – the Big Gay Out. Three people, all from the same family, had been found
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says we are going hard and early, but I say “big gay out” to that. They knew of these cases on Sunday morning, so why didn’t Ardern do the unpopular thing and cancel Auckland’s Big Gay Out carnival on Sunday afternoon? Thousands and thousands
Caroline Daley University of Auckland Research interests: New Zealand social and cultural history, with a special focus on the history of gender relations; Australasian history; history of leisure; history of the body. Associate Professor Daley has just completed a book-length study of twentieth-century New Zealand society, viewed through
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Shortly after the 1975 election, won by the National Party, Rob Muldoon announced that New Zealanders should stop contributing to the compulsory superannuation fund which the previous Labour Government had put in place. The law still stated that contributions were compulsory. The Prime Minister didn’t
13 February 2021 It may appear that events in a foreign country 10,000 km away have no relevance to New Zealand until we take a geopolitical view of things. The following are extracts from an article, dated November 2020, by G. Parthasarathy, a former high ranking Indian diplomat.* The
In China, North Korea and Russia they have state-controlled media which, as a result, are obliged to report only what is sanctioned by the State. New Zealand once had an independent media which would investigate events and report their findings without State intervention or censorship. Tragically, no longer. Our
