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Guus Berkhout Guus Berkhout Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, Delft University of Technology Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences President of CLINTEL Your Excellencies, Compared to global problems like poverty and health, climate change is a nonissue! Using computer models, alarmists frighten the world population already for
Ngl I kind of feel bad for the prime minister here. pic.twitter.com/oUY5SvwBu1 — Liam Hehir ? (@PronouncedHare) December 8, 2021
Kay O’Lacey wokejoke.nz Information Satire The New Zealand Dollar fell overnight again for the fourth straight day and the NZX is bracing this morning to take another beating as the fallout from an errant Tweet continues. Just how fragile the NZ economy is was underlined when a prominent
Trying to defend the obvious absurdity of so many covid rules, a convinced Covidian of my acquaintance (finally, reluctantly) admitted that they were obvious nonsense, but, “Well, the government has to do something”. To which I replied: “No, they don’t. They just think they do.” Governments think they have
Karen Chhour Social Development and Children spokesperson The Government’s gradual ban on all tobacco sales is prohibition plain and simple and it will eventually create a black market. As a former smoker, I’m sick and tired of Labour trying to socially engineer us into changing our behaviour. No
Brooke van Velden ACT Deputy Leader and Health spokesperson This morning I accepted a petition signed by more than 10,000 people calling for urgent action on breast screening. Lockdowns have taken a massive toll on New Zealanders. We have repeatedly heard about the public health response to COVID, but
Michael Swanson University of Otago Michael Swanson is currently a PhD Student at the University of Otago researching the role of the Opposition in New Zealand’s political system. He has previously completed a Master of International Studies (with a dissertation looking at Australian and New Zealand Defence relations with
Karl du Fresne karldufresne.blogspot.com Karl du Fresne is a freelance journalist and blogger living in the Wairarapa region of New Zealand. Many readers will have seen this picture. It shows three political journalists sprinting across the forecourt at Parliament. My first thought on seeing the photo was that
The passage of the Rights for Victims of Insane Offenders Bill tonight is a positive step towards ensuring victims of insane offenders are treated equally and their needs are placed at the centre of our justice and health systems, Taupo MP Louise Upston says. This new law rectifies a current
David Seymour ACT Leader Business NZ’s refusal to back Labour’s so-called Fair Pay Agreements should be a wake up call to the Government- it’s time to drop the damaging policy. Even the name Fair Pay Agreement is totally dishonest. People are forced into a contract they
NZTU Media taxpayers.org.nz This month marks a year since the Government announced its $30 million purchase of land at Ihumatao. The decision to purchase the land was justified on the basis that it would result in the provision of housing on the site, with funding coming from the
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The above, an unbelievable Stuff headline yesterday with an underlying account how our Defence Minister, Peeni Henare, is “monitoring” the massive Russian troops build-up on Ukraine’s border. One can picture the scene in the Kremlin. A lackey bursts in to Putin’s office.
There were some interesting comments on my post from Monday – Luxon’s First Week. The post was intended to be about the attitude of the media to the new Leader of the Opposition, and how his media honeymoon lasted less than a day, but some of the comments were interesting
