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Jacinda Ardern is steadily chipping away at the trans-Tasman alliance. Ardern’s incessant fish-wife scolding of her Australian counterparts might play well to her cronies and lickspittles in the NZ media, but she is relentlessly alienating New Zealand’s most important ally – at the same time that she
Questions to Ministers 1. CHRIS BISHOP to the Minister for COVID-19 Response: Does he stand by all his policies and actions relating to COVID-19? 2. GREG O’CONNOR to the Minister of Finance: What financial support will be available to businesses affected by the COVID-19 alert level
Louis Houlbrooke Campaigns Manager New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union Broadcasting Minister Kris Faafoi – a former TVNZ reporter – has announced a new $55 million fund that NZ on Air will distribute to media companies for “public interest journalism”. This is scary. Instead of following an Australian or Canadian model of tax credits,
Louis Houlbrooke Campaigns Manager New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union Teasers for a new play about New Zealand’s COVID-19 response suggest it will be nothing more than taxpayer-funded propaganda. The play, named “Transmission”, received a $57,000 grant from Creative NZ taxpayers, and according to its co-director Miranda
Information Satire I, your intrepid eyewitness, usually have no problem with dreams during the night hours. My normal practice is for my head to hit the pillow, a few vague thoughts of improvements to my fly spy device to flit through my mind, and then to be swallowed up in
Family First New Zealand familyfirst.org.nz Official advice to the Minister and Associate Minister of Health regarding ‘conversion therapy’ has revealed that a ban is not recommended. Official Information Act requests show that in 2018, Associate Minister of Health and Green MP Julie Anne Genter was advised by the
17th February 2021 In Mandalay, railway workers joined the CDM (Civil Disobedience Movement) and refused to man a train taking troops and supplies up to the Tatmadaw in Myitkyina in Kachin state. The roads to Myitkyina are still dangerous because of a possible ambush by the KIA (Kachin Independence Army)
We have a duty to ourselves and those who will come after us to do whatever we can to put the earliest possible stop to the economic and lifestyle carnage that Dr Rod Carr and his Climate Change Commission (CCC) threaten us with in their recent report. The sheer nonsensical
17th February 2021 Followers of my updates from Myanmar will be aware of my comments on the changing nature of the protest movement from one of mass demonstrations to a campaign of civil disobedience. Even though yesterday saw hundreds of thousands out in force in Yangon the campaign is taking
On almost every ‘culture war’ controversy in New Zealand politics, I find myself feeling deeply frustrated. We live in a pseudo-democratic country. The loci of power and information, purportedly in service to the New Zealand public, are dominated by a class of persons who are ideologically invested in a
Jo Holmes Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance www.ratepayers.nz With the Super City plunged into yet another Level 3 lockdown, we are already hearing Councillors trying to argue that this justifies more increases to rates. It’s time Mayor Phil Goff and his colleagues faced the reality that this pandemic isn’
Bryan Leyland The NZ Climate Commission claim that they provide “evidence based” information on their website and in their 2021 “Draft Advice for Consultation”. The fact is that many of the recommendations they make in the advice report are not backed up by the evidence, are technically and economically unachievable
National Party Chris Bishop With the Pullman Hotel receiving MIQ returnees again, it’s important the Government immediately releases the reports into how COVID-19 was caught by three people in the facility, National’s COVID-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “The Government has indicated it will release the
Covid: Auckland outbreak decisions Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Contact tracing ‘Ferrari’ will be enough to contain future outbreaks Jamie Morton (Herald): Shift to Level 2 ‘not cautious enough’ – expert Science Media Centre: Auckland jumps down to Alert Level 2 – Expert Reaction Jason Walls (Herald): Auckland’s lockdown exit comes with a
