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Saline Cover-up a Scandal
David Seymour ACT Leader The Director-General of Health’s admission that the Ministry has known that five people may not have been fully vaccinated for weeks is completely unacceptable and leaves questions about whether this was a botched coverup. Radio NZ has revealed today that an investigation has begun
What Would Have Been ‘Incredible News’, Chris
David Seymour ACT Leader Eighty thousand vaccination doses in one day is good news. What would have been incredible news is if this rate was achieved, say, 100 days ago. That would have got the target 8 million doses done, and New Zealand might be in a very different situation.
Labour Uses Committee Majority to Block COVID Accountability to Maori
Labour’s move today to block a request for the Minister of Covid-19 Response to explain what is being done to address shockingly low vaccination rates among Maori is an appalling example of politics over people, National Party Maori Affairs Select Committee members Harete Hipango and Joseph Mooney say.
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Weather Eye with John Maunder
John Maunder sunlive.co.nz Rainfalls for the month of July have been recorded in Tauranga since 1898, except for 1904, 1907, 1908, and 1909. The graph for the period 1898-2021 shows the range of rainfalls from an extreme high of 348 mm in 1951, to a low of
We Could Power Households from the Scraps in Our Food Waste Bins – Here’s What Is Stopping Us
Dr. Ananya Mukherjee University of Surrey Ananya Mukherjee is a Research Associate with the University of Surrey. She currently works on a resilience and climate change adaptation project of socio-ecological systems (food and water systems) in the global South with the University of Cardiff. Imagine if you could power
Government Vague on Lockdown Education
As kids and parents face weeks away from school, the Government remains vague on the reality of education under lockdown, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “Education Minister Chris Hipkins admitted to a Select Committee this morning that the Government doesn’t have a clear idea of how many
Where on Earth Is Saliva Testing?
National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop is asking why we aren’t using saliva testing in the community as part of the fight against the current delta outbreak. “A week ago Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield told New Zealanders the Government would be talking to private
Some Simple Steps to Be More Transparent
David Seymour ACT Leader ACT is today calling on the Government and Ministry of Health to take some simple steps to be more transparent. They should release all the day’s data before or at 1 pm. This should be before, not after, the Prime Minister’s performance. The data
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 the view of Maxwell on SH3 heading from Wanganui west towards Waverley. It is halfway between the Wanganui and Waverley, being
Black Market Tobacco: The New Drug of Violence
Darroch Ball Co-leader Sensible Sentencing Trust. The existence of a tobacco black market isn’t anything new. What is new is the fact it has grown so massively that tobacco is now quickly becoming the new drug of violence in our community. In many ways, the black market has
Democracy Inaction
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