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Labour must have seen some bad polling because until yesterday the Prime Minister was expressing confidence in her hapless Health Minister. Now Jacinda Ardern has weakly accepted his resignation, just in time for David Clark to head home for the school holidays. Beleaguered Health Minister David Clark has resigned as
How spiteful is Trevor Mallard that he wants to name the man he smeared with appalling accusations in court proceedings? An ex-parliament staffer suing Trevor Mallard for defamation after a sexual assault claim is fighting to keep his details secret. He was stood down by the closed shop Parliamentary
First we had two women who left quarantine early on compassionate grounds kissing and cuddling their way from Auckland to Wellington when they had not been tested for COVID-19 but, as it turned out, they did have the disease. Then it turned out that those in quarantine were not
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In a reshuffle the National leader has awarded Soimon the Foreign Affairs Shadow Ministerial role, replacing Gerry Brownlee. Gerry told the media he was happy about that. Where’s the Tui billboard when we need it with such rich pickings? It’s known that Soimon
Todd Muller really hasn’t gotten a handle on this leadership thing yet. When he took over Simon Bridges wanted demanded Foreign Affairs. Muller said no. It turns out that if you are vacillating and under attack for not being woke enough, and you need some brown faces in your
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Something that’s been a glaring constant in the Wuhan pandemic is that the worst outbreaks can all be sheeted home to official incompetence. Whether it’s the Chinese Communists’ original lies and cover-ups, Bill de Blasio’s disastrous order to house COVID patients in aged-care homes, Australia’
It is said that every drop of tap water in London has been through at least seven people. When I flush my Hamilton toilet, I think about the poor Aucklanders who have to take Waikato river water downstream at Mercer. But it is the Waikato Regional Council that is really
Labour MP David Clark has stepped down as Health Minister. The embattled MP for Dunedin North said he had become a “distraction” and that the “time is right” for someone else to fill the role, but he will stand as an MP in the upcoming election. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. An Act of stupidity The passage of the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act will be remembered as one of the most shameful episodes in our Parliament’s history.
Questions to Ministers Hon NIKKI KAYE to the Prime Minister: Is she confident the Government is delivering on its infrastructure commitments, particularly its commitment to light rail from the city to the airport in Auckland? MARAMA DAVIDSON to the Minister of Education: How many children does he expect to benefit
Amateur hour as the Government’s biggest legislative screw up in about 6 weeks means MPs have to debate the prisoner voting law a second time. Last month, the Government passed the wrong law. This month, it just stuffed up part of a law. Maybe that’s progress for Labour.
“A national security law was imposed on Hong Kong through a process nobody in Hong Kong had any control over, with content nobody in Hong Kong was privy to. That should put an end to the notion that Hong Kong remains autonomous in any meaningful way” – Alvin Cheung. Ever since
