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Information Satire Government Thinking Explainer Editor: Megan Woods’s announcement of a joint environmental and aerospace project to ‘lift off’ on the Kaitorete Spit has progressed. The Project, Tawhaki, a partnership between Te Taumutu Runanga and Wairewa Runanga and the Crown, will continue to develop an aerospace research and development
Dear Editor New Zealand is becoming a ‘Snitch Culture’ (or perhaps it is ‘Aotearoa’ that is the snitch culture?), in ways that go beyond Covid. Many aircraft now transmit digital position and altitude information, and there are websites that display the IDs, tracks and altitudes of aircraft. All good for
As this will be my last column for 2021, I want to end on a positive note for my much-preferred political party, National, under its new leadership of Chris Luxon. He’s started well, hasn’t he, and not before time, as our country drifts downward to new depths
Arthur Reimagining Wellington: What can we learn from Berlin’s nationalisation of housing? Stuff. Ethan Te Ora Dec 04 2021 The first bad hint I spotted in the above article was the popular socialist weasel term ‘reimagining.’ It sounds nice and fluffy but it is really a euphemism for a
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The latest Taxpayers’ Union Curia poll was released yesterday and it has seen National throw off the shackles of the 20s and leap nearly 7 points into the 30s. It has come at the expense of ACT though, as voters come home to National after dabbling with the ACT Party.
HR Hi everyone. The BFD is humming even more than usual with 1.7 million or so people being in lockdown until recently and highly likely to be locked down again. The hot topics are, of course, covid, the government and the media. Emotions are high and commenters obviously want
Heather Du Plessis-Allen speaks with Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson on Newstalk ZB on Monday 13 December at 6pm. The BFD Transcript starts 7:25 minutes in. Heather: The whole country except Northland has found out today that they will be in the orange traffic light setting from Friday
Parents were not allowed to attend a Christchurch school’s Christmas concert after some family members objected to the vaccine proof requirement for the event. […] plans were scrapped after some parents asked for the school’s legal basis behind the decision to require proof of vaccination. The concert went ahead
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familyfirst.org.nz So it appears that unvaccinated kiwis will now be allowed to travel over the summer holiday season with the use of rapid antigen tests provided by pharmacies. While we think this is a sensible decision for travellers, why can’t the rapid antigen tests be used for
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Harry Hunt If you’re like the rest of us, you are sick and tired of reading the same load of self-congratulatory drivel every day that you open social media. If you are a professionally-minded writer this could be your opportunity to get your voice heard. With audience
