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Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com The police are running around ordering people off Christchurch beaches. Their message: “If you’re not exercising, clear out.” So you can skip on a beach but not sit on it. It’s a revolting and indefensible state of affairs. But it set me off
Jacinda Ardern told Mike Hosking that she had seen no evidence of gangs being involved with illegal roadblocks. She is clearly wilfully blind. Mike Hosking challenged her on this but she still denied there was any evidence. Her darlings at Newsroom and NewstalkZB last week documented this exact occurrence: Volunteers
Alex Davis theemperorsrobes.blogspot.com When the government compelled New Zealand into lockdown on March 24th most New Zealanders, desperate for any kind of decisive action, were relieved. Whether you believe the government’s decision to lock down the country was justified (I argue here and here it was not)
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
The PM rolls out this statement frequently during debate so here’s a selection of Ardern statements made during the COVID-19 lockdown that we can totally reject. Weeks in lock down prevented waves of devastation. “’We have stopped a wave of devastation‘, the prime minister said on Monday as
Immediately after we published our story about the leaked Police emails, which revealed that the initial two weeks of the lockdown were probably illegal, Jacinda Ardern appeared on Mike Hosking’s show to discuss this and other matters. Mike Hosking did not let her off the hook lightly: The government
With only 4 months to the election, it’s time to start collating the burning questions that our readers want New Zealand’s political parties to answer. At the last election, Hawkes Bay Today put readers’ selected questions to candidates at public meetings but some felt that a lot of
I hurt myself this morning, my own fault of course. Any of you people, much smarter than me, will have said ‘don’t do it.’ You may in hindsight stretch to an entirely unsympathetic ‘what did you expect?’, and you would be right, but I went ahead and did it
There have been a number of people in key leadership positions during the COVID-19 event who have come up well short of what we would expect in terms of job performance. Some of them have conned us, deliberately or otherwise, some have shown their true colours and some appear
Press Release: New Conservatives In 2017, the coalition of Labour, NZF and the Greens took control of New Zealand thus becoming the start of a journey that originally claimed transparency, openness and kindness but has failed to deliver except in the area of removing freedoms and disempowered democracy. New Conservative
Damien Grant is a liquidator. He drives the ambulance to the bottom of the cliff. His latest piece is an interesting view on the economy from a liquidator’s perspective and his further comments provide food for thought for those who think that National is going down in a screaming
At the start of the Level 4 lockdown, unknown to the public, the Police were flying by the seat of their pants, receiving almost daily updates telling them how to deal with the lockdown. At the start of the lockdown on 25th March, the Medical Officer of Health (MedOH) notice
Matthew Sharpe Deakin University Western philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato, the old saying goes. And The Republic (c. 375 BCE), featuring Plato’s teacher Socrates in dialogue with several friends, is unquestionably central to Plato’s thought. There are few subjects that Plato’s masterpiece does not
Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest might be keen as mustard on getting back to business as usual with China and getting those billions in iron ore contracts flowing back into his pockets, but ordinary Australians aren’t quite so keen. Public disquiet has been quietly growing for years, as premium Australian
