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Nicholas Fondacaro newsbusters.org Nick grew up in East Stroudsburg Pennsylvania. He graduated from Binghamton University in 2013 with a degree in Political Science. While at Binghamton he served as the Speaker of the Student Assembly and wrote for the Binghamton Review, where his love for journalism started. Out of
David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party has today heard about the devastating impacts the lockdown and Delta Level 2 is having on our hospitality industry. The Government didn’t want the Epidemic Response Committee to continue because it didn’t want to hear real stories from real people about
It’s sobering to realise that my own children, now in their 20s, have lived with the “War on Terror” as the background to their entire lives. They can barely remember 9/11, of course; they were toddlers, playing, oblivious to the telly on which those shocking images transfixed the
Each day matters for hardworking businesses struggling under Level 4 lockdown in Auckland and new Level 2 restrictions elsewhere in the country, National’s Economic Development and Small Business spokesperson Todd McClay says. “The Government this week again said it would consider more support for businesses as the Covid lockdown
Middlemore Hospital is in the highest risk area in the current Covid outbreak and needs leadership from the Minister of Health – not abdication of responsibility, says National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti. “Instead of rebuking me in the House for asking if he takes responsibility for the situation at
During my brief tenure at the festering online sinkhole that is Twitter, I quickly learned the one, unbreakable rule: the left are untouchable. I was permanently banned from the platform after just a few months, for suggesting that a troll do something that he would surely have found quite pleasurable.
Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta needs to ask the United States for a ‘please explain’ as to why New Zealand was not invited to the more than 20 countries ministerial meeting, led by the US and Germany yesterday, National’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson Gerry Brownlee says. “The Minister needs to make
An animal welfare crisis is looming as Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor fails to pay attention to what’s going on around him, National’s Agriculture spokesperson Barbara Kuriger says. “Last year, during the first Covid lockdown, the Government spent $5.8 million buying 12,000 pig carcasses from overstocked
Alwyn Poole Information Opinion Tracey Martin became a member of parliament on the coattails of Winston Peters. When Peters and NZ First did not get over the 5% line in 2020 Martin suddenly announced that the party’s values did not match hers and promptly left a ship she helped
Here’s a little thought experiment for you: imagine that you had gone to sleep at some point in the past few decades, and then woken up in 2021. What on earth would you make of the world? For argument’s sake, I’ll choose my starting-point as 1987:
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Education Minister Chris Hipkins is mythmaking about the impact of school closures on learning, no doubt to downplay the impact of his Government’s failures over Covid, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “Yesterday in Parliament Mr Hipkins asserted that results for students were as good or slightly better
David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party has today responded to overwhelming demand for the return of the Epidemic Response Committee (ERC) with a special unofficial committee being held at midday. When the ERC was held during the first lockdown it gave scrutiny to the Government’s response. Not only
Hobson’s Pledge Trust hobsonspledge.nz ACT Party leader David Seymour hit a “perfect symbol of something the left worships as sacred” this week when he dared to question race-based policy by tweeting a Covid-19 vaccination priority access code for Maori. The New Zealand Herald printed Mr Seymour’
Covid-19 has meant that New Zealanders have had to sacrifice a great deal. They have missed funerals, weddings, births, and all manner of other special moments, National’s Climate Change spokesperson Stuart Smith says. “It seems a no-brainer to me that now is not the time for me
