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Chris Penk First published by The BFD 25th June 2020 The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Stop the press! One of the sectors thrown into considerable chaos by the government’s coronavirus choices is the media. First,
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Many moons ago, I wrote of two different ideas of freedom: “freedom from” and “freedom to”. “Freedom from” is the over-arching principle of that great document of liberty, the US Constitution. “Freedom from” is the principle that freedom means to be free from restriction. “Freedom to” is the competing
I was shocked to see paramilitary police firing rubber bullets on the steps of Flinders Street Station. Words cannot describe what I felt at watching marching ranks of heavily-armoured police, rifles cracking fire, smoke from tear gas grenades swirling around them, swarming onto the steps of the Shrine of
Health Minister Andrew Little has serious questions to answer over New Zealand’s Intensive Care Unit capacity, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. Hospital ICU capacity was so under-prepared for this Delta outbreak that the Auckland DHB was forced to issue an urgent callout for 30 ICU
Brooke van Velden ACT Deputy Leader and Health spokesperson Andrew Little needs to take some responsibility after blaming the Ministry of Health who “has struggled to achieve as much as we would have liked them to” on mental health. “The Government has allocated billions of dollars towards the issue and
Hannah Cox fee.org Hannah Cox is the Content Manager and Brand Ambassador for the Foundation for Economic Education. In the US, it would be easy to believe the vast majority of people are in lockstep with the government’s pandemic policies. Networks are aflush with headlines claiming their polls
The Government claiming it’s on track to deliver its mental health promises is a kick in the guts to all those New Zealanders desperate for mental health support and can’t access it, National’s Mental Health and Suicide Prevention spokesperson Matt Doocey says. “Finance Minister Grant Robertson’s
Remember when Donald Trump was “upsetting the established international order”? He’s got nothing on Joe Biden. Back when the Bad Orange Man challenged European nations to start pulling their weight in NATO, or the US would walk, the Euro elite lost their minds. Pay for their own defence? Mon
The shortage of veterinarians in New Zealand is reaching critical heights and is now compromising animal welfare, National’s Animal Welfare spokesperson Tim van de Molen says. “Three months ago the Government attempted to show it was taking the issue seriously by granting a token 50 border exemptions for vets
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments. He served on the Waitangi Tribunal from 1994 to 2004. Everywhere in the developed world the payment of
Louis Houlbrooke taxpayers.org.nz That’s the takeaway from today’s massive document dump, which includes an incident management plan that explained: “An intervention approach is not the traditional DOC position that we have taken in the past with marine mammals however the Iwi, public, media and political interests
