Brad Polumbo fee.org Brad Polumbo is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Policy Correspondent at the Foundation for Economic Education. With President Biden’s federal vaccine mandate and local government employment mandates looming, the future of countless workers is up in the air. Yet new research undercuts the stated justification
The Government must front up and explain why its $75.8 million initiative to put more guidance counsellors in schools to cope with increasing mental health issues among children has seemingly achieved nothing, says National’s Mental Health and Suicide Prevention spokesperson Matt Doocey. I have been approached by school
On Sunday, we went to lunch at a local restaurant. This was the first time in months we had ventured out, as despite being in level 2, the masking requirements make any event less than satisfactory. But venture out we did, as it was a celebration. The stern sign at
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Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A Chinese migrant couple have been denied New Zealand residency, allegedly as “an enduring national security risk”, and because “they may seek to assist the PRCIS (People’s Republic of China Intelligence Service) again”, this according to the idiotic Immigration Department. With their two children
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Information Satire Labour Thinking Explainer Editor In a Tik Tok broadcast from his sickbed, The Minister for Health Andrew Little, announced today, major changes to the way surgical procedures will be handled in Aotearoa. “It has come to my notice”, he said, “that due to the world-leading lock-outs,
Graham Adams Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Graham Adams is a journalist, columnist and reviewer who has written for many of the country’s media outlets including Metro, North & South, Noted, The Spinoff and Newsroom David Lange is one of the most tragic figures of
Exhausted Aucklanders entering their 12th week in lockdown will be even more confused by yesterday’s messy and illogical announcement of yet further announcements to come about their future, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. Aucklanders are broken. They’re tired, grumpy and worried for their city’s future.
This week, a blunt instrument assault on my beloved National Party: stop pussy-footing, get down and politically dirty while we still have a country worth saving. Three events in the past few days have led to this. First, when a mildly conservative, long-established and community-respected daily newspaper,
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 In the middle of October, something astonishing happened: the Government and the National Party held a joint news conference to announce that they had agreed on the way
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Months ago I wrote about how you should look at polls, that they were like assessing the impact of a river on river banks and that depending on where you are standing it affects how you see the polls. Labour supporters have been cock-a-hoop for a long time
