In seven days, the Government intends to move the Country into the traffic light system, but Grant Robertson is still refusing to reveal the details on how Business Financial Support will work, says National’s Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly. When asked today about some of the vague definitions he has
The Government’s Bill to give effect to the Traffic Light Framework shows a Government that is contemptuous of Parliament, contemptuous of the New Zealand people and contemptuous of the rule of law, says National’s COVID-19 Spokesperson Chris Bishop. Respected public law scholars like Dr Dean Knight have
Brooke van Velden ACT Deputy Leader and Health spokesperson Health Minister Andrew Little yesterday confirmed that almost half of all COVID positive patients isolating at home have not been given pulse oximeters. Until questioned by ACT in Parliament yesterday, the Government has been unable to say whether all COVID positive
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Yesterday’s move by the Reserve Bank to raise the Official Cash Rate by 25 basis points to 0.75% is what most commentators were picking given the worrying direction that the cost of living has taken, says National Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly. “Kiwis across New Zealand will have noticed
David Seymour ACT Leader Labour needs to stop milking gratitude for giving citizens any freedom at all and start explaining why restrictions are justified. It has the relationship between citizens and government back to front, and it’s covering the fact the Government’s systems aren’t ready. When the
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Winston Peters Leader NZ First NZ First Media The case of an elderly couple being abused, threatened, and intimidated by feral gang members at a next-door state house this week unfortunately is not an uncommon event,” says Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First. “The frequency of these types
Despite opposition from a large number of authors and publishers around New Zealand and overseas, this government is pushing through a deal with the Internet Archive to clean its hands of 600,000 books from The National Library’s Overseas Published Collection on the ‘deadline’ of 1 December 2021, says
The Freedoms & Rights Coalition Information Opinion How bad do things have to get before Kiwis wake from their COVID coma? While most were putting their feet up Tuesday night after a long day at work, or perhaps celebrating after another successful protest at the Mt Eden Prison Remand Centre,
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Inflation is now with global warming, the big international news story to worry about post Covid. Most commentators see it as a one-off burst which I believe will be the situation in America, Asia and Western Europe. But in the developed world no country
The MSM considers it has the insider low-down on information and, on the Government’s behalf, automatically brands sources it doesn’t agree with as either dis-, mis- or mal-information – the triplets of trouble. It is a sorry mess we currently find ourselves in: of dangerous leadership and
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In a shameful episode of Government incompetence and arrogance, they have rammed new discrimination laws through parliament in just 24 hours. Legislation that will curtail freedoms of hundreds of thousands of unvaccinated New Zealanders has been passed under urgency amid outrage from Opposition MPs that it has avoided normal levels
Melissa Lee National Spokesperson for – Broadcasting & Media| Digital Economy and Communications | Ethnic Communities Last week I and my Rural Caucus Colleagues Louise Upston and Maureen Pugh called out the Government’s abysmal, and frankly unacceptable neglect of rural New Zealand’s connectivity needs. It is ridiculous that tens of
