GUEST BLOG: The Lockdown With Bryan Bruce Day 14 : Who Owns NZ Now?
It’s part of my job as an investigative journalist to ask inconvenient questions. 4 years ago I asked the question Who Owns New Zealand Now?
New Zealand Politics
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Jacinda’s incredible leadership – the politics of a 4, 5 & 6 week lockdown
IF the numbers keep declining 5 weeks would be the smart money, but whether it’s 4, 5 or 6 weeks of lockdown, the economy we go back to will be truncated and forever in a sense of immediate retraction if the virus flairs up anywhere.
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Why 100% of Parliament needs to agree to postponing the election
The issues around the Election date has come to the forefront by Winston going public with statements about postponing the September 19th election date to November 21st.
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GUEST BLOG: President of NZ Nurses Union – OUR LIVES have changed, utterly.
I write this column half way through the historic COVID-19 lockdown. Given the daily rate of change, I can hardly imagine what our professional and personal lives will look like when it ends.
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“Lord, give us Democratic Socialism – but not yet!”
IT PAINS ME to ignore the Prime Minister’s advice, but it’s time to kick some Labour Party butt.
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Week 2 NZ Pandemic Lockdown – TDB Winners & Losers
With a Health Minister who liked walkies and an army of Ok Karen narcs, New Zealand weathered our second week in lockdown. Here are the winners & losers of Week 2 under Pandemic Lockdown…
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Waatea News Column: It’s not good enough that our spies are tracking the pandemic – when were they told it was serious?
Over the weekend, Fairfax NZ officially asked our spy agencies, the GCSB and SIS, if they were monitoring Covid19 intelligence globally to know how bad the pandemic might get.
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GUEST BLOG: The Lockdown With Bryan Bruce: Day 13 I/V With BERL economist Dr Ganesh Nana
Today I had the privilege of talking on Skype with Dr Ganesh Nana who is the Research Director of BERL (Business and Economic Research Ltd).
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Labour’s cowardice to fix WINZ toxic culture returns to bite them in the arse as frightened NZers gridlock welfare Ministry
Labour’s failure to tackle the toxic culture at WINZ and MSD would become problematic once large numbers of NZers were forced to apply for welfare…
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Comparing Bridges commute to Clark’s breaching of quarantine are two separate issues
I get we want to be tribal on the Left, especially after one of our own has screwed up so badly, but come on, these are 2 very different things.