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Unfettered by anything approaching accountability or the rule of law, we have seen during this crisis the underbelly of ‘kind’. Kindness speaks of morals and empathy but has been actioned through the suspension of liberty, democracy, and individual opportunity. The kindness-enforcer has stopped me visiting my mum in hospital
Questions to Ministers JAN LOGIE to the Associate Minister for Social Development: Will Budget 2020 make our communities safer by supporting family violence services in Aotearoa New Zealand; if so, how? Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s statements and actions? Hon
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Peter Cresswell pc.blogspot.com Remember the Trekka? Winston Peters does. David Parker does. Grant Robertson does. Or at least you’d think so, given their talk over recent weeks about how they’re going to be “picking winners” to get New Zealand back off the economic canvas — Peters to
In the ‘Health Responses’ section of the released documents, we see daily, or sometimes twice-daily, updates and reports, and why wouldn’t we, it was a developing health emergency, then suddenly – nothing, nothing at all between March 11th and 16th. How could that possibly be so? What was happening
Live meetings of the Epidemic Response Committee of the New Zealand Parliament. The Epidemic Response Committee was established on 25 March 2020 to consider and report to the House on matters relating to the Government’s management of the COVID-19 epidemic. Learn more about this committee and browse committee
In a tacit admission that the lockdown has been illegal, the government has promulgated a new bill that will correct that. The measures contained in the bill essentially create a Police state. The sneaky government has also drastically curtailed the ability of citizens to submit on the bill by limiting
Press Release: ACT Party “The Government’s phased introduction of Alert Level 2 will be welcomed by New Zealanders who want to get back to normality, but the lack of clarity for business means that, once again, the country is ready before the Government”, according to ACT Leader David Seymour.
Audrey Young writing in the weekend newspaper headlined her article – “Ardern’s AAA team has one member – and a vital one.” Grant Robertson is the vital one and her article discusses what he has done and what he has to do. Unfortunately, Audrey misses the point – and a vital one.
Bob Edlin pointofordernz.wordpress.com We are all getting older, but some of us (according to the Minister of Health) are getting older much faster than others “Older” New Zealanders have been defined for policy purposes in a press statement that emerged from the office of Health Minister David Clark
Nicole McKee Spokesperson Fair and Reasonable Campaign We’ve started to trawl through what is a pretty damning report by the Auditor-General into the Government’s firearm buyback scheme. The full report can be found here. Here are the key takes: * The cost for administering the system blew out
Kiwis are basically good people. We care about others and we care about our country. We’re what you could describe as empathetic and house proud, to put it in the simplest terms. We tend to be a bit politically naïve and it seems we’re suckers for doing ‘the
Press Release: ACT Party * Balancing the books: Back in surplus in four years while delivering $3.1 billion of tax cuts. * A wealthier country: Less debt, lower taxes, higher growth and incomes. * Safety from future pandemics: $816 million over three years for border security, research and PPE. * Getting Kiwis back
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