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Poll Reveals What New Zealanders Think of Three Waters
Nztu Media taxpayers.org.nz Newly-released data from the Taxpayers’ Union Curia Poll reveals opposition to the Government’s Three Waters reform plans outweighs support by three to one. The poll of 1,000 New Zealanders reveals 56% oppose the reforms, with just 19% in support. 24% are unsure.
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It’s Life, Jim, but Not as We Knew It
KSK The rain continues in my neck of the woods. So far, four days and nights of non-stop rain and thick fog that blankets the area, and I cannot see the boundary. It could be a metaphor for the confusion and uncertainty that are obscuring the country. The landscape
Is Japan Really Puzzling over Virus Success?
Eye Patch Jack Mari Yamaguchi treats Japan’s latest valley in coronavirus cases like it is some kind of miracle and goes searching for answers in this propaganda piece. Ignoring some other obvious factors like seasonality and ivermectin, she cherry-picks some ‘experts’ who thank vaccines, masks and teetotaling. Yes,
Jab Mandates: Not So Much about Jabs as about ‘Papers’?
Dear Editor Saturday’s Government Jab Mandate Order says you need to be jabbed…. but actually no you don’t. You DO need to be registered, however. “Papers” anyone? The wide-ranging exemption is indeed a whopping win and there will be thousands of educators and healthcare workers breathing considerably
Letter to the Editor: Time to Review the Use of Ivermectin
Dear Editor The article by Thomas Coughlan notes (NZ Herald October 22) that the former Maori Party President Pem Bird has been quoted in Parliament as calling for more vaccine choice in his community rather than just the Pfizer vaccine. Perhaps this is because re-infection can occur with this
A Bridge Too Far
If you ever wondered, as I once did, how the Nazis took control of Germany so easily, now you have your answer. People just comply. They don’t think, they don’t question… they just comply. First it was lockdowns, to save the health service (while nurses produced Tiktok videos
Dividing Our Nation
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com In his iconic book Free to Choose, Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman provided an insight into human aspiration: “A free society releases the energies and abilities of people to pursue their own objectives. Freedom means diversity but also mobility. It preserves the opportunity for
You Can’t Vaccinate Your Way to Freedom
This Government and the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern are causing a mass delusion to visit itself upon the nation. The delusion is that somehow, by doing exactly what other nations around the world have done to battle Covid-19, that New Zealand will somehow get a different and better result.
‘If You Want Summer, Get Vaccinated’ – Jacinda Ardern Sets the Target for Re-Opening New Zealand
Michael Plank University of Canterbury Shaun Hendy University of Auckland Michael Plank is a Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and Principal Investigator at Te Punaha Matatini, New Zealand’s Centre of Research Excellence in Complex Systems and Data Analytics.
A Request from the Moderation Team
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
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