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Government Blanked Northland Mayors on Lockdown

Jacinda Ardern’s Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet consulted Northland’s three Labour MPs but not Northland’s mayors before extending the region’s level 4 lockdown. “This was a contentious lockdown for many Northlanders, especially when Northland had no positive cases and many businesses and communities suffered,

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Captain Planet and the First VX

Captain Planet and the First VX

David Seymour ACT Leader Captain Planet James Shaw is taking 14 officials to Glasgow with him, the first XV of climate change. Despite COVID-19 being out of control in Glasgow, Shaw has decided to dive in boots and all. This is not the first time the squad has gone

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Wage Subsidy Problems Must Be Sorted

Wage Subsidy Problems Must Be Sorted

Further reports of confusion about whether businesses are entitled to the wage-subsidy at alert level two shows the Government must urgently improve the scheme, National’s Social Development and Employment spokesperson Louise Upston says. “Government MPs have sent mixed messages about whether firms are eligible for the wage subsidy

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New Zealand Could Be the Big Winner of AUKUS Fallout
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New Zealand Could Be the Big Winner of AUKUS Fallout

Geoffrey Miller Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s international analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a fluent speaker of German and Arabic.

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Government Strategy Rudderless

David Seymour ACT Leader Everything Jacinda Ardern based yesterday’s decision on was true two weeks ago, the only thing that’s changed is politics. Two weeks ago, there were about 20 cases each day, most new cases were within households, but a few new cases popped up to keep

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A Demented Dalek Screeching ‘Eliminate…eliminate’

A Demented Dalek Screeching ‘Eliminate…eliminate’

Jacinda Ardern chose to make this pandemic political: of that there is absolutely no doubt. At the very onset, in the first week of March 2020, a group of our senior epidemiologists whose names are all very familiar to us now: Prof Nick Wilson, Dr Lucy Telfar Barnard, Prof Michael

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Shaw to Have 14 Staff in Glasgow for Climate Talks

Shaw to Have 14 Staff in Glasgow for Climate Talks

If James Shaw was giving consolation gifts to Kiwis desperately trying to get home this Christmas he’d likely give them a lump of coal, having confirmed he plans to take 14 staff with him to the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, National’s Climate Change spokesperson Stuart Smith says.

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You Stuffed September, Open up October!

You Stuffed September, Open up October!

Brian Tamaki Information Opinion Enough is enough! Come stand with us in Auckland on Saturday the 2nd of October! We demand our freedoms back! NO MORE LOCKDOWNS! We want to be… • Free to Choose • Free to Work • Free to Farm • Free to Trade • Free to Parent • Free to Travel • Free

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Readying for a War of the Elephants?

Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 That was the headline on an excellent article by Audrey Young in yesterday’s Weekend Herald – except that there was no question-mark at the end of the

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Inconvenient Mask Facts That Michael Baker Needs to Read

Inconvenient Mask Facts That Michael Baker Needs to Read

Panic Porn expert and Chicken Little, Michael Baker is yet again predicting terrible calamity will befall us all if we don’t listen to him. Never mind that many of his fanciful claims have never eventuated, like the Tokyo Olympics will kill thousands or that the UK’s Freedom Day

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Disconcerting Developments

Disconcerting Developments

Chris Penk First published by The BFD 21th June 2020 The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the country by publishing an extract every day. Disconcerting developments It is worth remembering throughout all of this that the unbelievably cavalier attitude of the government right up to

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