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Government Must Ease Border Blockage for Critical Workers
NZ Initiative Wellington, 3 September 2020 – A chokepoint at the border is blocking entry of critical workers and suffocating the economy, according to a new paper from The New Zealand Initiative. New Zealand’s small size means both the public and private sectors often need international experts with niche skills.
Our Political Comedians
Jacinda, Grant, Chris, Megan and Phil, do me a favour and just naff off. I am sick to death of being told what instructions to follow on a daily basis. I wouldn’t mind quite so much if you could implement your own rules but you have shown consistently that
Elimination Goal Must Be Officially Ended
Plan B covidplanb.co.nz The Government’s objective of eliminating COVID-19 is at an end, due to advice from the WHO, challenges of the Auckland lockdown, and plummeting cases and deaths internationally. There were signals this week that elimination and lockdowns are over, as the Government moved to
Our “Single Source of Truth” Continues to Lie
For the life of me, I can’t work out why our “single source of truth” continues to lie about ‘that’ message. I have my hunches, but first, we need to consider why the message by “someone from comms” elicits only obfuscation from the great podium of porkies, which to
Auckland Council Calls on Residents to Snitch on Kids
Berend de Boer Overnight this sign appeared in Auckland Council playgrounds: It has the now common usual “warnings.” With the government’s new found duty to keep its citizens “safe” it’s an indignity we will have to suffer until we kick these people out of office I’m afraid.
Face of the Day
A grim new report has ranked New Zealand as one of the worst places to be a child due to its “terrifying” rates of obesity, suicide and illteracy. On Tuesday UNICEF released its annual Report Card which ranks wealthy countries on their child wellbeing – and the results are damning. Out
Kenosha Kyle, the Mccloskeys, & Standing Against Barbarism
Tho Bishop mises.org Last week we once again saw far too common sights of small businesses being burned to the ground and unarmed civilians being beat in the street. The epicentre this time was Kenosha, Wisconsin, where rioters and looters from around the area joined protesters in the city
Now Big Tech Censors Are Coming for the Left
The late Christopher Hitchens said, in defense of free speech, “Every time you violate or propose to violate the free speech of someone else, you, in potentia, you’re making a rod for your own back”. Because, as Hitchens argued, who gets to decide? Right now, it may be people
Victoria: The Death State
Victoria became the first state in Australia to legalise state-sanctioned suicide – or, to use the preferred bland euphemism, “Voluntary Assisted Dying” – last year. It’s also taking its first steps on the slippery slope that death-fanciers insist doesn’t exist. More than 300 people have applied to end
Border Laws Challenge: Round 1 to Palmer
West Australia’s McGowan Labor government may be patting themselves on the back for apparently heading off Big, Bad Clive Palmer at the legislative pass on one front, but they can’t legislate away the Constitution. Palmer may have lost his bid for compensation over his Balmoral South iron ore
What Would Make You Change Your Vote?
Eliora Much has been said recently about the hapless James Shaw, co-leader of the Green Party. He is publicly pleading for forgiveness. Shaw signed off on a $11.7 million deal for a private green school in Taranaki. He looked sheepish as he begged and beseeched green voters not
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