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Traffic Lights to Become Law without Any Scrutiny
The Government’s intention to ram through the traffic light framework legislation under urgency this week with no opportunity for public consultation is an outrageous abuse of power, says National’s Covid spokesperson Chris Bishop. The Prime Minister announced the traffic light framework on Friday, October 22 but, exactly a
Vaccine Choice: Freedom, Liberty, and Personal Responsibility
Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First “The manner of the slow vaccine rollout will not help our society if the current legal and constitutional overreach ends up removing New Zealander’s freedom of choice,” says Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First. “All the international evidence and best practice
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View from Your Window
**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell me about this photo? Yesterday’s photo was taken when visiting an old neighbourhood. The view is from Gordon Rd, Plimmerton, looking back over the inner harbour to Porirua,
Things That Make Me Go Hmm
[Redacted] downloaded his/her Covid vaccine certificate and discovered that the usual Government logo “New Zealand Government” has become “Te Kawanatanga o Aotearoa New Zealand Government”. Under the cover of Covid, the Government is steadily moving forward with their radical, cultural revolution. If you enjoyed this please share it so
Why Is Auckland Still Restricted?
David Seymour ACT Leader While people ask whether the Government will ‘let’ Auckland go to Alert Level 3 Step 3, a better approach is to cast off the Stockholm Syndrome and ask why hairdressers and hospitality should stay shut. The restrictions are not there to help social cohesion. People follow
Rates of NZ Immigration Are ‘Unsustainable’
The Productivity Commission says pre-pandemic rates of immigration are “unsustainable” with migration outstripping the ability of public infrastructure to cope with it, adding to “burdens for the wider community”. It wants a law change to require governments to “explicitly consider how well New Zealand can support and settle more
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Gangs and Guns Run Riot
Darroch Ball Leader of Sensible Sentencing Trust. There is a bit of an inside joke doing the rounds in some circles about the reporting of gun crimes in the media. Most of the articles that have involved a firearm incident say that it is ‘gang linked’ – the joke being that
The Ministry of Health Released This – But Hoped You Wouldn’t Notice
familyfirst.org.nz From bobmccoskrie.com When a public service doesn’t want people to see a publication, they release it late on a Friday when the media are celebrating the end of the week and have all but checked out. It’s a common well-known practice. On Friday,
Retraction of Paper Related to the Risk of Miscarriage in Pregnancy after COVID-19 Vaccination
Simon Thornley Aleisha R. Brock covidplanb.co.nz Re: Brock AR and S Thornley. 2021. Rapid Communication Spontaneous Abortions and Policies on COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Use During Pregnancy. Science, Public Health Policy & the Law 4:130-143. As the authors of the above paper, we have asked the