GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Bad politics are a virus’s best friend
One thing the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted is the importance of political decision-making. The adoption of successful elimination strategies to…
New Zealand Politics
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Dr Liz Gordon: Big mistake, David Seymour
There was a time, not so very long ago, that David Seymour’s Māori-bashing snipe at the issue of a so-called ‘priority code’ would have guaranteed him an upswing of support. But those days are over. It is a long time now since Don Brash received a surge in support for his Orewa speech (and then lost it again through dirty politics, you will recall).
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Covid & time
Oscar Wilde once remarked that ‘punctuality is the thief of time’. In his day the growing prevalence of commercial accounting,…
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Hollow Laughter, Mixed With Tears.
The black humour of this situation derives not from the terrorist attack, but from a review of the way elements of the New Zealand Left have, by turns, scoffed at the very idea that terrorism might constitute a genuine threat to this country’s national security; castigated the national security apparatus for failing to prevent the atrocity of 15 March 2019; and then, reversing direction once again, cautioned against an excessively draconian response to the events of the past few days.
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Rushing terror laws a danger to us all
The shock wave caused by the ISIS terrorist attack in West Auckland has frightened us all and while that fear is legitimate, it must not cloud our judgment.
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Why is SkyCity offering a 15% pay rise?
Unite Union was set to sit down with SkyCity several weeks ago to start bargaining for a new Collective Agreement.
The company seemed to be deliberately delaying the start of negotiations and then the lockdown has intervened to delay things further.
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Statement from Waipareira CEO John Tamihere is response to Act Leader David Seymour
A RESPONSE TO SEYMOUR’S SABOTAGE OF THE RIGHT MĀORI HAVE TO THE EQUALITY OF ACCESS TO VACCINATIONS
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ISIS Terror attack – political winners & losers
Even I felt like clutching my pearls writing ‘ISIS Terror attack political winners & losers’ as if a terrorism event can be defined into two simplistic evaluations, but this is The Daily Blog, home of the NZ dirtbag Left, and everyone is an adult so consider this your trigger warning and let’s angrily evaluate the political ramifications of this insane situation whereby a known violent militant was able to conduct an act of religious political violence while the entire political establishment sat on their hands.
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Dave Macpherson: The definition of incompetence…..
If you knowingly run or manage a health system that leads to avoidable deaths of patients, and you don’t change the system or the key personnel when you are aware of the problems, you can fairly be described as incompetent, and/or culpable.
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Jacinda’s leadership saves us again from Delta – how will Death Cult Capitalists respond?
This is what real political leadership looks like – Jacinda’s courage to stare down the death cult capitalists who screamed against lockdown has saved us again – if we hold our nerve, keep doing as we are asked we can get out from under this latest outbreak.