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IF DAVID CLARK hasn’t been sacked by the time you read this, then Jacinda isn’t doing her job. His point-blank refusal to accept responsibility for the multiple institutional failures of his Health portfolio more than justifies Clark’s dismissal.
1. Michael Woodhouse alleges Government has inadvertently housed the homeless 2. Government carries out full-scale investigation to determine whether they…
Is this really the sort of neo-imperialist company New Zealand wants to be seen keeping?
When Todd Muller burst onto the political scene a few weeks ago like, as Bomber put it, a loaf of stale white bread, he promised to be a different kind of leader than Bridges. No criticism for criticism’s sake and all that.
As Nobel Peace prize winner and South African Archbishop, Desmond Tutu, says “we should name it apartheid and boycott”
Saint Ashley has had his angel’s wings ripped bloodily from his back. Unfair? Of course it’s unfair! But that’s the whole nature of the political game, isn’t it?
Just when the Council’s annual plan indicated a small step towards overdue environmental, infrastructure and social equality, it has reviewed its budget in light of expected income slumps, and suggests cutting all things good in favour of austerity, prioritising contracts where commitments have already been made with socially distorting effects.
What we have learned this week, with absolute clarity, is that our borders will have to remain closed for a long time to come.
In an interview with the Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway on Radio NZ last week it became clear that the entire country is now hostage to a bottleneck in the managed isolation/quarantine system that means only 250 people a day can be allowed into New Zealand.
It all boils down to this: The timeline of latest revelations suggests National Party MPs placed their want to GET their opponents – the Ardern Government – ahead of concerns that Covid-19 was potentially un-contained and again infecting New Zealanders. Is this a step too far for the Todd Muller-led party?