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Dear Editor Call me a moron, but why can’t we vaccinate people who turn up for COVID testing at the same time as providing the test? Having completed my two vaccinations, I’ve observed how the process could easily be adapted to accommodate those seeking a test. The same
Frankly Anyone experienced in project management and risk management disciplines will be thinking the same as me. They will be stunned at Biden’s massive leadership failures in Afghanistan which are shaking the world. No wonder his poll rating has crashed so dramatically. Anyone who knows anything about project and
Taxpayers’ Union The Taxpayers’ Union has continued to expose how the Government has frittered away the $62 billion Cv response fund. The Cv response fund was 20 times larger than Shane Jones’s infamous Provincial Growth fund, and yet even before the current lock down, Grant Robertson had whittled it
Simon Court ACT Local Government spokesperson The ACT Party has today released our Three Waters Policy as we respond to the Government’s proposal to move control of water assets away from local communities and into centralised bodies. It is critical that New Zealanders have access to safe drinking water
Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins has today announced a minor reshuffle of the Opposition Shadow Cabinet following the retirement of Dr Nick Smith and the decision of Todd Muller to not to seek re-election at the next General Election. Michael Woodhouse replaces Chris Bishop as Shadow Leader of
David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party has today welcomed the Parliamentary Business Committee decision that a socially distanced Parliament will go ahead next week. Any ACT MPs who attend next week will already be in Wellington, be double vaccinated, masked, and taking all precautions. As Trevor Mallard has said,
There’s a good reason that, despite the feathers it ruffled, I described New Zealand’s response to the Wuhan pandemic as lazy, complacent and selfish: because it is. Except that I forgot to add: delusional. The stated goal of the Ardern government is “Zero Covid”. This is a fantasy.
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 Below is the oral submission Don Brash made today, August 26, before the Environment Select Committee of Parliament. You can read the written submission here. Mr Chairman/Madam
When one digests the events of the last couple of weeks the question seems not an unreasonable one. Things have happened and decisions have been made that are out of step with what one would expect in a true Western democracy. There are traits in the Prime Minister’s demeanour
Chris Trotter bassettbrashandhide.com When Daily Blog Editor, Martyn Bradbury, says Labour’s lucky the country’s currently distracted by the Covid-19 Delta Variant, he’s right. Were New Zealand safe and out of Lockdown, it would be in the midst of a dangerously divisive row about Oranga Tamariki,
I have a good mate who contracted Covid while living in Indonesia. After nearly two weeks of being the sickest he has ever been he called a mate to ask what he suggested for treatment. He was told to get some Ivermectin, doxycyline and zinc into him. Fortunately for him
It is time we as adults stop listening to this crazy power-hungry bunch who enjoy this authority to have you locked away in your home. Why do we let them keep alive the big lie that they, only they are keeping us free of Covid-19?
If the Prime Minister can hold in-person press conferences every day under Level 4, Parliament should be able to sit with limited numbers and distancing. Democracy isn’t optional. National Party
