GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Lessons for NZ from Cuba, the Covid-19 vaccine powerhouse?
What can New Zealand learn from Cuba about fighting Covid-19? Plenty, especially in terms of producing vaccines, according to Health commentator Ian Powell.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday – 5th September 2021
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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MEDIAWATCH: Gower on hate – woke current affairs provides little insight
NOTE: This was written before the Friday terror attack – it has been updated at the end
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MEDIAWATCH: NZ Herald Poll On Pursuing ‘Elimination Til Vaccination’ Is Thin End Of ‘Learn To Live With It’ Wedge
Yesterday’s Herald included the above polling figures, pertaining to what proportion of Kiwis want to do what about the virus from here on out. Forty six percent in favour of ongoing Elimination, 39% in favour of Elimination, until such time as we hit a seventy percent of the population vaccination rate, and thirteen percent wanting to ‘learn to live’ with Covid-19. Presumably not personally.
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A No Booking Approach For Māori and Pasifika Now Required.
Māori and Pasifika must be given equality of access to vaccination clinics. Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency CEO John Tamihere said…
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Government response to lockdown poverty “inadequate” and “sluggish” – Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group is deeply concerned the Minister of Finance this week refused to signal what, if any, desperately-needed…
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The urgent need for New Zealand aid to Afghanistan
Our government has understandably been preoccupied with helping refugees leave Afghanistan. But now the focus should shift to emergency aid for Afghanistan itself.
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Leaving Afghanistan “frees up resources for Israel”
In an article published by the US Defense News, Yair Ramati of the Israeli MirYam Institute, discussed what he considered…
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BREAKING: NZ has suffered another terror attack this time from ISIS
The Prime Minister has acknowledged that the Lynn Mall attack is a terror attack. The suspect who wounded 6 was…