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Major Missed Opportunity on Pharmac Reform
ACT Party ACT Health spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “Pharmaceutical funding was totally absent from today’s health review, and that’s about where it is in this Government’s priorities,” according to ACT Health spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “The Government will, of course, point to the Pharmac review announced earlier
Tinkering around the Edges Won’t Cut It for Families Struggling to Survive
Green Party Green Party spokesperson for Social Development & Employment Ricardo Menéndez March. Research released today reinforces the need for significant changes to our social safety net, the Green Party says. “Everyone deserves to live with dignity, but our current social safety net doesn’t do enough for our most
Dr Shane Reti – Reckless Health Restructure Removes Local Voice
Replacing all District Health Boards across the country will see our regions and smaller communities lose their voice and their autonomy, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “Our regions know what works for them when it comes to keeping their communities healthy, and that isn’t always having
Standing Room Only – Te Huia a Roaring Success
Information Satire Michael Wood Explainer Editor Speaking from the government’s Facebook/Newshub broadcasting bunker, the Minister of Transport, Michael Wood, publicly congratulated Kiwi Rail on its magnificent achievements with Te Huia – the rapid train express from Hamilton to Auckland. While he said he didn’t want to take anything
Disappeared, No One Knows Where
19th April 2021 As reports are getting evermore difficult, it is a miscellany of incidents today. Today, Kyawt Kay Khine, a 17-year-old girl studying at BESH (3) Bahan was abducted by the Military from Thurein Aluminum, BoSeinHman Street. She is just one of many as the military has
The Mob, Not the Knee, Doomed George Floyd
As the Derek Chauvin murder trial draws to its end, it’s worth noting just how egregiously the mainstream media have lied about it. Yes, shocking, I know: the mainstream media lie. That’s why you need independent media, like The BFD, to try and get to the truth when
Sex Quotas and Gender
Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com The Green Party’s Constitution has left the Party marooned in 2012. The Party is now dated. Section 9.2.1 specifies “two Leaders (one male, one female)”. Oh the horror! The Greens are discriminatory. And worse, boringly binary. Only the cis-gendered may lead. The
Free Speech Round Up
Dr David Cumin Spokesperson Free Speech Coalition With the so-called “hate speech” debate heating up, we’re going to write more regular updates on our campaign activity. PM Takes Swipe at David Seymour, Denies Cabinet ‘Have Made Decisions’ At Monday’s Post Cabinet media briefing (skip to 31 minutes
Daily News Roundup – 21 April 2021
Ihumatao unlawful government spend Henry Cooke (Stuff): Auditor-General rules the $29.9m the Government used to buy Ihumatao was unlawfully spent Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Housing Minister Megan Woods promises to ‘tidy up’ unlawful purchase of Ihumatao 1News: Unlawful Ihumatao payment another ‘messy chapter’ in the saga, 1News political
Useless Police Causing Undue Delays in Firearms Licence Renewals
I have recently completed my firearms licence renewal process. Despite forethought and planning on my part, it turned into a nightmare. I have had a fireams licence since I was 15 years old, some 37 years. It has been renewed twice, once when our “lifetime” licences were unilaterally disbanded and
Ardern Intent on Smashing Free Speech
Olivia Pierson oliviapierson.org Great. Our Mother Country, the United Kingdom once was lucky enough to have Margaret Thatcher as their celebrated Iron Lady to alleviate the sick excesses of socialism in Britain during the 80s decade. Thirty odd years later, New Zealand gets lumped with Jacinda Ardern as our
Shonky Government Deal over Ihumatao Deemed “Unlawful”
Jacinda Ardern’s dodgy backroom deal paying off the squatters on private land at Ihumatao has been deemed “unlawful” by the Auditor-General: The Auditor-General has deemed the Government’s Ihumatao deal “unlawful” because Parliament did not approve a new spending category to purchase the land. The disputed south
