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Would You Queue for 9 Hours for a Nasal Swab?
Eliora Who in their right mind would queue for up to 9 hours for a nasal swab by a PPE attired nurse, working at a Testing Station? The answer is any New Zealander who needs to be tested for COVID-19. Kiwis must queue for hours to get a long
Disunity and Division
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com “The last American to leave Kabul won’t have to turn off the lights because there has not been any for some years now. It flickered occasionally… But by and large, Afghanistan descended into the dark ages of tribalism, where it has been largely rooted,
Our Most Serious Case of Judicial Misconduct?
Stuff has reported that the head of Oranga Tamariki and two senior judges intervened in a part-heard Family Court hearing over a five-year-old girl. Oranga Tamariki was trying to remove the girl from her foster family because they were not Maori, arguing they could not meet her
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ACT Proposes COVID Tracer-App Lottery to Incentivise Scanning
David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party is today proposing a COVID-Tracer app lottery to encourage people to use the app more. Instead of getting pinged to isolate, you might get pinged that you’ve won $1000. Today the Government announced compulsory app usage but the onus to ensure
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At Last a Sensible Suggestion
Finally, we have had a sensible suggestion from a politician, and it wasn’t from Jacinda Ardern either. Aussie Prime Minister Scott Morrison has suggested we stop talking about cases. A focus on case numbers was very important when we knew nothing about this virus and whether our hospital system
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Face of the Day
Where Melodrama was Lorde’s quintessential young-romance breakup album, Solar Power is partly about breaking up with pop stardom. It begins with that camera-nightmare scene and ends in “Oceanic Feeling” by foreseeing the singer removing the lordly robe she once sang she wore “like no one could,” throwing
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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
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Personal Responsibility Needed for Scanning
David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party is pleased to see mandatory scanning being put in place by the Government but the onus shouldn’t be on businesses to enforce it. Businesses have been through enough with multiple lockdowns, as well as a raft of other costs placed on them
Is the MSM Refusing to Publish Your Opinion Pieces?
Today, RNZ and both TV news channels lean well to the left, NZME and Stuff have both been captured by a radical interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, and the Otago Daily Times won’t touch a cartoonist like Garrick Tremain. Don Brash Conservative views are less and less welcome
Hipkins’ Vaccine Supply Claim Dodges Fact – We Could and Should Have Got It Earlier
Chris Hipkins’ claim there was nothing New Zealand could have done to secure Pfizer vaccines any earlier flies in the face of hard facts, says National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop. “Mr Hipkins might not like to admit it, but in his interview on Q&A this