David Seymour ACT Party Leader Former Education Minister and now Prime Minister Chris Hipkins must front up and explain the poorly communicated overkill decision to close every Auckland school. Mayor Wayne Brown has been smashed for late decision making and poor communication during the Auckland floods. The Prime Minister is
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Timothy Welch Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning University of Auckland We’ve built our cities to be vulnerable to – and exacerbate – major weather events such as the one we saw in Auckland on Friday. While almost no city in the world could fully escape the effects of four months’ worth
Dr Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior
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Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Last Tuesday week a non-descript politics lecturer Chris Wilson joined in the nonsense being written about the pressure on Jacinda through social media abuse and death threats. Specifically, he claimed in the Herald it was massively higher than other prominent political figures copped. That’
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Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. How much confidence should the public have in authorities managing natural disasters? Not much, judging by the farcical way in which the civil defence emergence
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Both 1News/Kantar and Newshub/Reid Research have released polls yesterday. Predictably they show a small rise in Labour’s fortunes, just a week after Chris Hipkins took over. But will these polls just be a dead cat bounce? He’s been prime minister less than a week, and so
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All schools and early childhood centres and tertiaries are to shut for a week in Auckland. Auckland principals say the Education Ministry has ordered a week-long shut down of all of the region’s education organisations. They say all Auckland schools, early childhood services and tertiary institutes must remain
