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Brooke van Velden ACT Deputy Leader and Health spokesperson The ACT Party says today’s decision to give 300 MIQ spaces to health care workers is months too late and they should be able to self-isolate. Health care professionals, who are double vaccinated and have tested negative to COVID,
**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 a view of SH3 heading west towards Maxwell – about to pass over the Okehu Stream with Kai iwi behind us. Red
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Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The tiny, indeed almost non-existent audiences, despite sunny days, at most provincial rugby matches provides further evidence of the game’s fading appeal. Personally, I find it largely unwatchable because of the incessant whistle-blowing, on my observation, at about one minute intervals, followed
National’s ‘Back in Business’ plan will lift the burden on businesses who are struggling through this extended lockdown, says Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly. There is light at the end of the Covid tunnel, but we can’t fall at the final hurdle. We need to do what it takes
The days of using Covid as cover for profligate spending must end, National’s Finance spokesperson Michael Woodhouse says. The Government has cynically used funding allocated by Parliament for the Covid-19 Response to fund items that can’t by any measure be considered Covid-related. So far at least
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National has today released our detailed plan to support the ailing tourism, hospitality and events sectors in the wake of the significant harm being done by Labour’s Covid restrictions, National’s spokesperson for Tourism and Small Business Todd McClay says. Our Back in Business plan contains a package of
Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins has today launched National’s detailed plan to save livelihoods and unleash our economy in the face of the huge damage being wrought by the extended Covid lockdown. National’s ‘Back in Business’ plan contains a package of urgent measures to ensure businesses survive
Information Satire Jacinda’s Wedding Planner Explainer Editor: Sources close to Jacinda Ardern have made a controlled leak to The Woke Examiner to put to bed the rumours swirling uncontrollably around our world-leading leader’s wedding. Due to pressure from Netflix, who are making a docudrama about the whole
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 The following article was first published in elocal October 16, 2021. By the time this column sees the light of day, the Labour Government – now freed of the
Dear Editor I wish to alert your readers to how far our medical system has been compromised. I have stage four cancer. I have been living with it for 20 years. I am still alive because I take responsibility for my own health and decisions. This has set me offside
