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John Daley Chief Executive Officer Grattan Institute This is longer than the usual Conversation article, so allow some time to take it in. Nobody likes talking about the COVID-19 endgame, but we need to choose one. The appropriate interventions – public health, government spending, and freedom of movement – all depend
British author Oliver Murphy talks about stockpiling and the reasons behind panic buying. It was last week when Isabel had come out of major surgery to remove a brain tumour. Now convalescing at home, Isabel (not her real name) is only able to take paracetamol to manage what she describes
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Fred Lucas PA Pundits – International Fred Lucas is the White House correspondent for The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation and he is the co-host of “The Right Side of History” podcast. In what he called a “game-changer or maybe not,” President Donald Trump on Thursday directed the
California is now on lockdown with the Governor issuing a stay at home order for residents. California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a statewide order for all of the state’s residents to “stay at home” during the coronavirus pandemic. “We need to bend the curve in the state of California,
I am aware the virus is a killer. Who isn’t? What’s killing me is the wall to wall coverage on the topic. It’s like there’s nothing else happening and thanks to the overreacting by politicians trying to look tough, there pretty much isn’t. The popular
The rest of the world is taking the Covid-19 pandemic a great deal more seriously than our Prime Minister. While Israel moves into full lockdown along with many other countries, Jacinda Ardern is performing PR stunts. The latest is a press conference specifically for children: New Zealand’s prime
Paula Bennett is having a massive sook about not being included in the Government’s Covid-19 outbreak discussions. National deputy leader Paula Bennett is firing back at criticism about Simon Bridges‘ and the party’s response to the coronavirus outbreak. It’s a hard time but the Opposition is
There is a slow-moving coup underway within the National Party. We can see it between the noise and static of the global pandemic and there are clues. The easiest way to destabilise the leadership is by leaking internal poll details. That is now happening, with key people in the
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Read this thread. The maths will be the same for New Zealand: The Imperial College team plugged infection and death rates from China/Korea/Italy into epidemic modeling software and ran a simulation: what happens if the US does absolutely nothing — if we treat COVID-19 like the flu, go
The Government has finally decided to close our borders to all but citizens and permanent residents. They have finally done what they should have done with the original border controls less than a week ago: New Zealand is closing its borders to everyone but citizens and permanent residents in an
Questions to Ministers WILLOW-JEAN PRIME to the Minister of Health: What is the Government doing to keep the public informed of the steps they can take to protect themselves against COVID-19? Hon PAULA BENNETT to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s statements and
When you hear the Deputy Prime Minister tell people overseas they better think about getting back here pronto, then you know we have a problem coming. Some of you don’t believe a word that Winston Peters ever says so you can carry on regardless, and suffer accordingly. I’ll
Warning Graphic information and photos that many will find upsetting National’s Amy Adams said she believed in safe areas and described the protests outside abortion clinics as “psychological abuse and torture”. […]The last speech went to National’s Amy Adams, who will retire from Parliament at the next election
