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Vaccinations and leaked figures Jason Walls (Herald): ‘Leaked’ document shows NZ vaccine rollout is ‘miles’ behind schedule, says National Party Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Government has vaccinated a third of its original target – leaked report Rachel Sadler (Newshub): How New Zealand’s vaccine programme will ramp up, why targets aren’t
Two Stuff journalists spent the inaugural slow train from Hamilton to Papakura proving what even the dimmest fool already knew, that the train is a whole lot slower than the versatile and ubiquitous automobile: We left five minutes after the train-catchers, as we forgot something at the office and
The Prime Minister has begun her sales pitch in an effort to attract Australian tourists when the trans-Tasman bubble opens. […] Yesterday, Ardern says she “carries the weight” of promoting the country and will consider travelling to Australia to do so. Who is the tourism minister? It looks like Stuart
Not only is New Zealand second bottom in the OECD for the number of Covid-19 vaccinations but in information leaked to National we are nowhere near where the Government planned for us to be back in January, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “Leaked data shows
It’s been a matter of some debate whether or not the right – or, more accurately, those who are not-insane or far-left – should engage in the same boycott tactics as the left. After all, the endless boycotts and social media hysterias of the left have been devastatingly effective
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “New Zealand has been left terribly exposed as a slow vaccinating outlier among developed countries, unable to let vaccinated travellers into the country because the Government doesn’t yet know enough about how infectious those protected travellers might be,” says ACT Leader David Seymour.
Today Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly has recommended to the Finance and Expenditure Committee that an inquiry take place to assess whether Government agencies and banks are sufficiently providing services which allow for vulnerable people to continue to manage their financial affairs independently. “The loss of the ability to use cheque
This week two politicians, one on each side of both the Tasman and the political aisles, announced that they had been diagnosed with aggressive cancers. Both announced that they would be stepping back from their political duties while they sought treatment. But the very different reactions to each spoke volumes.
The 2020 Pacific Islands Forum might in retrospect be seen as an opening skirmish in China’s diplomatic and trade war against Australia. The forum hosted an unseemly display of “gibsmedat” Pacific tinpot panjandrums lining up to harangue Australia while Chinese “wolf warrior” diplomats cheerfully threw wads of cash into
ACT Party ACT Immigration spokesperson Dr James McDowall “It was heartbreaking to watch a media conference of Hawke’s Bay orchardists today revealing, as one put it ‘anxiety and desperation beyond belief,’ at the situation the Government left them all in this season by refusing to let more Pacific Island
National will seek support at the next meeting of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Select Committee to call in the New Zealand Super Fund and ACC Investment Fund to discuss the ethical investment parameters they work within, National’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson Gerry Brownlee says. “As a good international
IINZ israelinstitute.nz UK Lawyers For Israel have published an article that outlines a number of reasons why the New Zealand Super Fund (NZSF) decision to divest from Israeli banks is an apparent breach of legal requirements. International financial markets lawyer, Dan Harris, is cited as considering that the published
6th April 2021 We’ll start off today with a cartoon that sums up peoples’ feelings in Myanmar. The death toll in Myanmar continues to mount, but not quite in the way you would expect. Four soldiers died on Sunday afternoon when a grenade was hurled into a truck as
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John Rofe Dear David Seymour Perhaps after 4 months drop of average 0.1? per month, the time has come to seek the Prime Minister’s explanation for her declaration of a Climate Crisis? Dear Judith Collins May I remind you that you warned the PM to be careful during
John Rofe Dear Politicians, While the Great Global Warming scam is an OECD-wide problem, New Zealand is a special case for reasons that will be apparent in the document attached below. Formal Police Complaint by Juana Atkins For this reason and because of the vibrant, science-based opposition to
