Author: Curwen Rolinson

Something that comes up on the anniversary of 9/11 is that question: “where were you when…”.

Over the past few months, I’ve heard multiple people pushing Israel as a model for where they want New Zealand to go – big vaccination campaign, followed by prominent rollback for lockdown and other restrictions, getting back toward Old Normal relatively swiftly.

National is now complaining that Labour compromised and allowed National to have what National claimed it wanted.

Something I recall from last year’s Lockdown experience was the press conferences. Not, you understand, because they were pretty decent exemplars in political communication (although they were also that). 

I’d say this was a conspiracy theory … but evidently, it is quite out in the open. What if ……

The thing about this self-isolation trial – and, for that matter, broader-scale self-isolation rather than MIQ facilities all up – is that people are GOING to do daft things.

By now, news of the Pegasus spying scandal has made its way across the world. And I think that, rather than the Western-oriented outcry which is currently also sweeping the media-sphere, taking a look at India’s situation is quite instructive here in order to garner a more true picture of what’s actually been going on.

I must confess myself slightly perplexed at the “outrage” that the Government put $250,000 into working out how to do comms for its Covid-19 strategy. I mean, think about what was involved at every step – what New Zealanders were being asked to do.

Over the past few weeks we’ve seen a heightened level of scrutiny for the seeming non-spending of public money on…