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I have written in The BFD recently about the decline of western Anglosphere nations through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. And that how, through a collapse in confidence, and also in morality, we have meekly accepted the suspension in civil liberties deemed by governments to be ‘necessary’
Gerhard Sundborn covidplanb.co.nz Gerhard Sundborn is a Senior Lecturer Population and Pacific Health at the University of Auckland. With Covid-19 bearing down on New Zealand, and fears of an overloaded health system and a death toll numbering many tens of thousands, the Government moved swiftly to implement
Phil Goff and Auckland Council are trying to box in rate options as either 3.5% or 2.5% by instructing officials not to include a 0% (rates freeze) option in any of the consultation material and advertising. The Ratepayers’ Alliance have been in a battle with the Council over
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New Conservative Party Yesterday, the first day that Parliament was sitting after almost 5 weeks of a nationwide lockdown, the Arms Legislation Bill (commonly known as the 2nd tranche) was on the Parliamentary Order Paper as a Bill for consideration. This Bill contains a number of items that are highly
Frank Newman nzcpr.com If the government wants to get New Zealand working it should get rid of the Resource Management Act (RMA). Even one of its architects, Geoffrey Palmer, has said it’s broken. It is and has been for quite some time, which is why it’s so
Bob Jones, in a recent article on The BFD, had this to say: It’s a sorry scene ahead of us and I say again, by election-time the Jacinda lustre will be replaced by despair and anger with the obvious electoral outcome. I agree wholeheartedly. The backlash has already
Questions to Ministers KIRITAPU ALLAN to the Minister of Finance: What recent reports has he seen on the Government’s economic response to the COVID-19 pandemic? Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s statements and actions? Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH to the
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Everywhere the war analogy is used re the fight against coronavirus. Probably within a year we’ll have a vaccine. But all about us will be economic devastation, record unemployment and despair. History says that will induce two political consequences. One, as is evidently already
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War Is Over Peace returns, sort of. The end of lockdown means a return to work for many, but not all, businesses and workers. It is also time to survey the ruins. The Government has belatedly realised how damaging the lockdown is and now seeks Alert Level Two as soon
Yesterday saw the first post-COVID-19 parliament, and to kick it off there was a ministerial statement from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. We don’t need to torture you all with her speech. It was her usual speechify, sloganeering and fake news about how hard and early we went
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
An interesting article floated through our tipline overnight. Apparently Jacinda Ardern participated in a conference call with other countries leaders, including Bibi Netanyahu. It can’t have been much of a secret because the Israeli PM published a video of it: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participated in a
Justin Knight For anyone too young to remember Y2K, it was a very expensive non-event invented by IT charlatans to scare the world into paying them a significant amount of money to fix precisely nothing. The argument went that when the year 1999 ticked over to 2000, all the
Rt Hon Winston Peters’ first speech back today in parliament. Now is the time for New Zealand’s economic future “If New Zealand can grow it, or make it, then we should…” Our focus now is to rebuild our economy New Zealand has now moved from alert level 4 to
