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Chris Penk First published by The BFD 23th June 2020 The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Ignorance of the law It’s pretty important that the laws of our land are easily enough understood to be obeyed.
Judith Collins says employers shouldn’t make vaccination against COVID-19 compulsory […] Collins appeared on The AM Show on Wednesday, and was asked if employers should have the right to not hire – or even fire – employees who refuse to be vaccinated. “I think that’s a bit too tough actually,
Brad Polumbo fee.org Brad Polumbo is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Policy Correspondent at the Foundation for Economic Education. San Francisco Mayor London Breed reinstated a mask mandate for her city on August 2 amid the rise of the COVID Delta variant. However, the mayor was just exposed for
One thing you can’t accuse the Australian or New Zealand governments of is quick thinking. Despite her retrospective claims of “hardernurly” lockdowns in 2020, the timeline shows that Jacinda Ardern dithered for weeks before announcing the first Level 4 lockdowns. Not coincidentally, the first lockdowns occurred around the time
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust “The announcement today by the Minister of Police Poto Williams and Police Commissioner Andrew Coster, shows the pressure they have been under to deal with the rise and rise of gun violence – but have failed to deliver anything of any real substance,
Chris Baillie ACT Police spokesperson Just over a year ago Jacinda Ardern told New Zealanders she had achieved her goal of 1800 new Police, today Poto Williams broke ranks and said she was wrong. It was always nonsense the way that the Government said they achieved the target without taking
The Government must clarify why it allowed thousands of Aucklanders to cross into Northland in the six hours prior to New Zealand’s Level 4 lockdown, National List MP based in Whangarei Dr Shane Reti says. Answers to written questions show 3316 vehicles with an Auckland residential address made their
There’s an old anecdote about a visitor to Maoist China noting all the workers toiling with buckets and spades to dig a massive dam. Why not get a couple of bulldozers? he asks. Because, the cadre replies, then we wouldn’t have full employment. It’s easy to laugh
John Scott Lewinski rt.com As a journalist, John Scott Lewinski hustles around the world, writing for more than 30 international news organization covering news, lifestyle and technology. As an author, he is represented by the Fineprint Literary Agency, New York. Information Op-Ed Despite the efforts of progressives spreading
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government can’t answer the simple question, when will it deem the vaccination roll out to be complete, after Chris Hipkins appeared in front of the Health Select Committee this morning. The Government says it is relying on advice from Prof. Sir David Skegg. That
Jonathan Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
The Prime Minister’s announcement today that she will provide Climate Change Minister James Shaw and his nine officials special allocation in MIQ on return from COP26 in Glasgow doesn’t square with the rules other Kiwis have to play by, says National’s spokesperson for Climate Change Stuart Smith.
Given the Chinese Communist Party’s lifelong commitment to secrecy and lies, we’ll probably never know precisely what happened in Wuhan in the last months of 2019 but we’re starting to get a pretty good idea from circumstantial evidence. And it’s not looking good for a lot
Mark Cameron ACT Rural Affairs spokesperson and Ruawai Dairy Farmer A positive proposal from the ACT Party to ensure environmental regulations are managed by regional councils and taken out of the hands of Wellington bureaucrats will today be voted down by the Government. As the only person in Parliament who
