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Personal Responsibility Needed for Scanning
David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party is pleased to see mandatory scanning being put in place by the Government but the onus shouldn’t be on businesses to enforce it. Businesses have been through enough with multiple lockdowns, as well as a raft of other costs placed on them
Hipkins’ Vaccine Supply Claim Dodges Fact – We Could and Should Have Got It Earlier
Chris Hipkins’ claim there was nothing New Zealand could have done to secure Pfizer vaccines any earlier flies in the face of hard facts, says National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop. “Mr Hipkins might not like to admit it, but in his interview on Q&A this
Independent Judiciary Crucial for New Zealand
Karen Chhour ACT Children spokesperson The Judicial Conduct Commissioner needs to become involved in a case where the Acting Head of Oranga Tamariki and two judges became inappropriately involved in a case. The Acting Head of Oranga Tamariki – Wira Gardiner and two senior judges intervened in a case that was
Vax or Jail? The Dilemma Facing Some Americans
Hannah Cox fee.org Hannah Cox is the Content Manager and Brand Ambassador for the Foundation for Economic Education. Brandon Rutherford was recently presented with a dilemma in an Ohio courtroom: get vaccinated or face incarceration. The 21-year-old was sentenced to two years probation for fentanyl possession by
Why We Shouldn’t Throw Open the Doors to Afghan Refugees
As The Australian’s Adam Creighton recently wrote, “the same organs that ritually hyperventilate about the detention of asylum seekers are the loudest voices in advocating imprisoning entire states”. They’re about to do both at the same time. Without a blush of embarrassment at their blatant double-standards, the
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Hipkins Extraordinary Admission on Q+A
David Seymour ACT Leader COVID response Minister Chris Hipkins has shown how unprepared the Government was for a Delta outbreak in an interview on Q+A this morning. Hipkins said, “Delta raises some big questions that we’re going to have to grapple with… it does mean our existing protections
Mask Exemption Not Worth the Paper It Is Printed On
If people think the mask exemption download/printout from the Covid19 website is going to get them into the supermarket maskless they are in for a shock as was my adult daughter at Countdown Riverbank Lower Hutt last night. She wasn’t approached at all and asked where her mask
What Happened to the Precautionary Principle?
All environmental decisions in New Zealand are to be based upon the precautionary approach first outlined as Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration 1992. In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or
Trust Us, We Know What We’re Doing
The government’s Covid-19 message this week fuelled anxiety and fear when the country was locked down at very short notice. Panic ensued, with people clinging to the government’s Covid-19 elimination strategy of masking, social distancing, contact tracing and testing mandates. The six o’clock news the
How to Become a Tyrant
There is a show on Netflix called “How to Become a Tyrant”. The show looks at various tyrants and the techniques they use to gain and hold onto power. One technique that the show misses is what I call “Infantilise the People“. What I mean by this is effectively turning
Lockdown First, Foremost and Forever
The Telegraph UK has written a scathing opinion piece on Jacinda Ardern’s COVID strategy. Seeing that she has been, until now, the darling of the overseas media, it is a particularly savage piece. Read on and enjoy the turning of the worms, in all parts of the globe. Poetic
The Fall of Afghanistan
New Conservative New Conservative agrees that what the world has witnessed in Afghanistan is a tragedy. Twenty years of Western investment – time, money and most significantly life – has been undone in just three weeks. The ability of the Taliban to regain control of the whole country so quickly appears to
Op-Ed: Hey, Big Spender – Spend a Little Time on Priorities
Andrew Bayly Shadow Treasurer For several weeks now, National has been highlighting the fact that, according to Budget documents, Finance Minister Grant Robertson has already blown $57 billion of a total $62 billion of funds set aside to deal with the Covid pandemic. We were highlighting this before the current
Stay Safe, New Zealand
Judith Collins Leader I hope you are all safe and well at home as the Level 4 lockdown continues. Like me, you’re likely feeling anxious about what’s happening and how we’ll get through this new challenge. First, caucus and I are absolutely clear that decisive action is