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Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The latest political opinion poll confirms support for Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Government is sliding. According to Colmar Brunton, Labour has fallen 3 points to 43 per cent, National has dropped 3 to 26 per cent, ACT has risen 5 to 14 per cent, the
There can be no doubt now that the Prime Minister’s incredibly wasteful and expensive lockdown of Auckland has failed. Even Blind Freddy knew it was never going to work. But it seems the Prime Minister gets her advice from children’s stories and believes she is The Little Engine
David Seymour ACT Leader The real story behind Air New Zealand waiting four months to make vaccination mandatory is that the Government’s ICT is not ready. As Greg Foran told Q+A “In terms of customers, we’re got some operational things still to work through, you know, staying
democracyaction.org.nz There is strong level of opposition across the country to the Government’s proposed Three Waters service delivery programme. Comments from councillors show very serious concerns. In some quarters there appears to be a suspicion that the Government is not being completely open about everything it is
Chris Penk First published by The BFD 6th July 2020 The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Kind of ridiculous Is there anything more absurd than an instruction to “be kind”? For one thing, it’s illogical. The
Tamaki told supporters “society has been restructured in fear” and they’ve had a “gutsful”. “Today we are facing a Government we thought we could trust. Instead they are stripping away the freedoms and rights of everyday Kiwis. “That’s what they give to prisoners. We’ve all gone to
BREAKING NEWS: There is a catastrophe emerging amongst the vaccinated. Health Officers from NSW and Victoria are reporting the unthinkable. If you compare this with my Singapore report this week or my Israel v Palestine report from two weeks ago, all on this page, the NSW figures offered in this
Emmanuel Rincón fee.org Emmanuel Rincón is a lawyer, writer, novelist and essayist. He has won several international literary awards. He is Editor-at-large at El American For decades the Communist Party of Cuba has blamed the United States for Cuba’s misery and poverty, alluding to the “blockade”
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government has lost control of COVID-19 and is in dangerous denial. The Prime Minister stands at the podium looking shellshocked as the Government’s response crashes down around her, complaining that New Zealand’s vaccine roll out is too slow. You have to hand
The spread of Covid into the Waikato and increasing numbers of unlinked cases is all the proof needed to confirm Level 3 in Auckland is not containing the virus in line with the Government’s elimination strategy and a new approach is urgently required, says Leader of the Opposition Judith
Reclaim the Net reports on the unvaccinated being banned from business premises. Australia’s often draconian measures in response to the epidemic continue to intensify, with reports now saying that one of its states, New South Wales (NSW) is threatening to jail unvaccinated people who try to enter business premises
It is only a short hop, skip and a jump from preventing people from working because they are unvaccinated to preventing them from entering a supermarket to purchase the essentials of life if they are not vaccinated. We don’t discriminate against people for being HIV positive in the workplace
Chris Baillie ACT Police spokesperson and former Police officer The current approach to gangs isn’t working and Police Minister Poto Williams needs to take action. The headlines this morning are simply unacceptable. Our Sunday morning papers shouldn’t be reading “Shocking gang axe attack: Man killed in front of
Nicole McKee ACT Firearms Law Reform spokesperson The delays in processing firearms licences have become so bad that the safety of New Zealanders is now being put at risk. ACT has revealed through Parliamentary Written Questions that almost 9000 people are waiting more than a month for their licence to
In a move somewhat akin to the Beagle Boys investigating the Great Duckberg Bank Robbery, the WHO are preparing to “investigate” the origins of Covid-19. For a third time. In a stunning display of wishful thinking, the WHO says it is confident that this time China will cooperate. Despite
