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And what have they done anyway?
Written By: - Date published: 7:41 am, February 2nd, 2022 - 107 comments
With Ardern getting a good-old media beat-down, remember here’s how to change a country for good like no one else but Labour can.
The problem with and the benefits of MIQ
Written By: - Date published: 9:04 am, February 1st, 2022 - 93 comments
It may not be apparent from the wall to wall sound emanating from the opposition and from the media but this Government’s Covid response has been exceptionally good and way better than that of pretty well every other major country in the world.
About the latest Colmar Brunton poll
Written By: - Date published: 8:15 am, January 28th, 2022 - 52 comments
The latest Colmar Brunton (now Kantar) poll has now been released and some of the commentary and analysis is pretty ordinary.
Labour has overseen massive inequality increase – Bernard Hickey
Written By: - Date published: 1:14 pm, January 27th, 2022 - 154 comments
The Government’s Covid 19 response, mainly via Reserve Bank measures, has enabled a mind-boggling increase in inequality, according to influential financial commentator Bernard Hickey. Covid response has saved multiple lives, but its refusal to simultaneously address inequality via taxes raises uncomfortable questions about how a leftist government has overseen a once-in-a-generation shift in wealth
The importance of proper mask wearing
Written By: - Date published: 8:58 am, January 27th, 2022 - 55 comments
With an Omicron surge appearing to be inevitable the importance of proper mask wearing has never been more important.
Weird stuff Jacinda Ardern has been accused of
Written By: - Date published: 9:25 am, January 25th, 2022 - 212 comments
It appears that social media allegations against Jacinda Ardern are becoming more and more extreme.
Going Red
Written By: - Date published: 11:13 am, January 23rd, 2022 - 164 comments
The New Zealand government has announced a nationwide move to the Red Traffic Light system from midnight tonight.
UK Covid deaths with no underlying factor.
Written By: - Date published: 10:51 am, January 22nd, 2022 - 106 comments
Oh. But here comes Omicron…
Omicron is coming
Written By: - Date published: 10:54 am, January 21st, 2022 - 113 comments
So far the country has fought back and eliminated the original Covid infection, won a couple of skirmishes and then and fought and quelled the Delta incursion. But it looks like Omicron is coming …
He’s not the messiah …
Written By: - Date published: 8:22 am, January 18th, 2022 - 125 comments
… he is allegedly a very naughty boy.
New Zealand’s Omicron options
Written By: - Date published: 2:31 pm, January 17th, 2022 - 101 comments
It will be a few days before we know if the omicron variant of Covid-19 is starting to spread in New Zealand. There are things we can be doing that will determine how that goes.
More Anarchy in the UK
Written By: - Date published: 8:19 am, January 14th, 2022 - 20 comments
Boris Johnson’s reign as UK Prime Minister may be terminal after news of a Downing Street party held during lockdown was leaked to the press.
What does Luxon do about Hipango?
Written By: - Date published: 9:31 am, January 11th, 2022 - 49 comments
Harete Hipango is in the news again, this time for posing with a group of anti vaxxers and posting a photo and making some pretty way out there comments on social media.
Human rights and MIQ
Written By: - Date published: 8:42 am, January 10th, 2022 - 155 comments
Well known socialite, fashion blogger and apparent Constitutional expert Jamie Ridge thinks that the country’s MIQ arrangements are completely unconstitutional.
Australia’s Omicron problem
Written By: - Date published: 9:44 am, January 6th, 2022 - 132 comments
With over 61,000 new Covid cases reported yesterday Australia is in the midst of an infection surge that it has not seen before. What lessons can New Zealand learn from Australia’s handling of the pandemic?
The Long Covid Post
Written By: - Date published: 11:30 am, January 5th, 2022 - 50 comments
It’s understandable that public health, governments and the media focused initially on acute covid, but we’re two years in now, it’s well past time to put long covid to the forefront as well.
New Year. Good News.
Written By: - Date published: 5:43 pm, January 1st, 2022 - 92 comments
This one goes out to all those good people running round like their hair’s on fire.
New Zealand 2 Covid 0 so far …
Written By: - Date published: 8:36 am, December 30th, 2021 - 280 comments
But Omicron may be loose.
The pandemic is resiliency training
Written By: - Date published: 12:17 pm, December 24th, 2021 - 12 comments
Fear and loathing on both sides of the fence, or adaptation and resiliency? We do have some choices.
Long covid, omicron and the precautionary principle
Written By: - Date published: 1:12 pm, December 20th, 2021 - 95 comments
There are still so many things we don’t know about long covid and omicron presents a whole new set of challenges.
Bad Covid takes
Written By: - Date published: 3:11 pm, December 19th, 2021 - 130 comments
There seems to be a correlation between commentators who have both Herald and Newstalk ZB exposure and how really bad their Covid takes are.
No One Cares
Written By: - Date published: 7:59 am, December 18th, 2021 - 71 comments
I had reason to visit Waitara in Taranaki recently, and I don’t want to sound like there’s a different world still operating … … but the fish and chip shop people weren’t wearing masks, I passed three guys burning the street with dirt-bikes and no helmets and famously lank and long hair, random fireworks lit up […]
V Day!
Written By: - Date published: 8:16 am, December 17th, 2021 - 319 comments
Yesterday was Aotearoa’s V day, the day that we reached the goal of having 90% of the target population vaccinated against Covid.
Goodbye, Auckland
Written By: - Date published: 9:23 am, December 14th, 2021 - 21 comments
For the hundreds of thousands of Aucklanders who have decided to holiday at a town near you, just be careful: they may never leave.
Anarchy in the UK
Written By: - Date published: 9:08 am, December 10th, 2021 - 25 comments
Boris Johnson is on the ropes. Not because of the disastrous effects of Brexit which only passed because of some of the whoppers that he told, but because of a Christmas party held last year at 10 Downing Street at a time when the UK was under a strict lockdown.
The Freedom Bus is on the move *
Written By: - Date published: 8:42 am, December 9th, 2021 - 44 comments
But special entry conditions including being double vaccinated or having a recent clear Covid test apply.
Some good news about Covid
Written By: - Date published: 7:58 am, December 6th, 2021 - 230 comments
In Auckland there ares welcome signs that the spread of Covid is declining and the Health system is holding up. And the Vaccination roll out has gone that well that Chris Luxon has described Auckland as having some of the highest vaccination rates of any city in the world.
What National Needs To Do
Written By: - Date published: 9:04 am, November 27th, 2021 - 83 comments
Since the left are experts at internal knifing, National should learn from the left about how to recover. What National needsto do to recover.
National – let the virus rip
Written By: - Date published: 8:29 pm, November 24th, 2021 - 21 comments
There is no other explanation, and this week Paul Goldsmith gave the game away, National thinks that we should let the Corona virus rip.
See what happens when you put a woman in charge?
Written By: - Date published: 7:41 am, November 24th, 2021 - 120 comments
Remarkably low Covid death and infection rates, good and improving vaccination rates, low unemployment and debt to GDP …
BORA vs pandemic mandate
Written By: - Date published: 2:30 pm, November 23rd, 2021 - 13 comments
The Bill of Right Act (BORA) is an interesting because it is what I would call a balancing act. It enshrines certain individual rights but they are not absolutes against community needs. So far the decisions about challenges to the vaccine mandate balance are supporting the Crown.
- Could geriatric hospitals reduce pressure on the health system? Maybe – but improving aged care is...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Partington, Research Fellow (Health Economics), Flinders University Jsme MILA/Pexels Australia is facing a surge in hospital presentations in older adults. Between 2015–16 and 2019–20, hospitalisations among people aged 75–84 increased by an average of 3% annually, the largest rise of ...3 days ago - Walking the trees: we traced how First Nations groups moved bunya pine and black bean trees
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Monica Fahey, Adjunct Fellow in molecular ecology, Macquarie University Matt Sheumack/Shutterstock For millennia, Indigenous knowledge holders have passed down lore to the next generation. Much lore describes the relationships between people and Country, including custodial responsibilities to care for other species ...3 days ago
- The deep political power of fluro: how hi-vis became a symbol of working class masculinity
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Humphrys, Lecturer and Head of Discipline, Social and Political Sciences & Climate, Society and Environment Research Centre (C-SERC), University of Technology Sydney Recent weeks have seen mobilisations of construction workers protesting the imposition of an administrator on their union by the ...3 days ago
- 75 jobs lost as high power prices close Penrose mill
Soaring power prices have claimed a third mill and 75 jobs, and left an Auckland community reeling.Oji Fibre Solutions has told staff it has no choice but to close its Penrose mill, following Winstone Pulp’s Ruapehu mills two weeks ago.Now, associate energy minister Shane Jones is “hoping and praying” the ...3 days ago - What we know so far about the deadly pager blasts in Lebanon
Pagers that detonated simultaneously, killing at least eight people and injuring thousands, were brought in by Hezbollah in recent months. ...3 days ago - How and why pagers exploded across Lebanon
Pagers that detonated simultaneously, killing at least eight people and injuring thousands, were brought in by Hezbollah in recent months. ...3 days ago
- Pacific nations want ecocide to become a crime – here’s why NZ should support the proposal
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nathan Cooper, Associate Professor of Law, University of Waikato Mario Tama/Getty Images The recent proposal by Vanuatu, Fiji and Samoa to recognise ecocide as a crime against humanity is timely and could provide a global framework of accountability for environmental damage. ...3 days ago
- Complaint about high prices in airport retail monopoly
A multinational you’ve never heard of has negotiated exclusive deals with airports to sell us $219m of high-priced confectionery, soft drinks and pulp novels The post Complaint about high prices in airport retail monopoly appeared first on Newsroom. ...3 days ago
- At least 8 dead, thousands wounded as pagers explode in Lebanon
Iran's envoy to Beirut is among the wounded in an attack Lebanon's government says is an "Israeli aggression". ...3 days ago
- Labour demands consultation after another 11th-hour gang patch ban amendment
Labour is calling on the government to send the gang patch ban back to select committee for consultation after yet another last-minute amendment. ...3 days ago
- What’s up with the changes to employment law for contractors?
A new test for workers who want to challenge their employment status as contractors is on its way. Here’s everything you need to know. On Monday, workplace relations and safety minister Brooke van Velden strode onto parliament’s tiles with a fuchsia-coloured clutch, perfectly matching her signature coat. Granted, it was ...3 days ago - Inside the government’s beleaguered bid to reduce violent crime
The target for reducing violent crime is already looking shaky, just months into a five-year plan. Documents released under the Official Information Act give a glimpse of what’s been going on behind the bold claims and big promises. Just over four months into his government’s first term, all the random ...3 days ago
- Slow down, Mr Brown
Comment: The Government’s proposed blanket speed-limit increases will go down in history as yet another thing imposed on people that no one asked for, for example when Coca-Cola switched to New Coke or when Apple forced U2’s Songs of Innocence album into everyone’s iTunes account.After years of careful consideration, detailed ...3 days ago
- The pageants where beauty takes a back seat
Miss World is viewed by a worldwide television audience of over one billion people.“It’s bigger than the Superbowl. It is big business, and it’s a big deal,” says the Miss World licence holder in New Zealand, Nigel Godfrey.He’s been involved in that business for more than 40 years and is ...3 days ago
- NZ asked to join Taiwan Strait military sailings
The Taiwan Strait must remain free for all to traverse, Taipei’s NZ representative says The post NZ asked to join Taiwan Strait military sailings appeared first on Newsroom. ...3 days ago
- Weak campervan demand makes Tourism Holdings worst-performing stock
The tougher economic environment is making it harder for Tourism Holdings to get sales over the line The post Weak campervan demand makes Tourism Holdings worst-performing stock appeared first on Newsroom. ...3 days ago
- Christchurch terrorist gets special status for inquest
New Zealand’s worst mass murderer has been granted “interested party” status for the upcoming coronial inquest into the Christchurch terror attack.That’s upset some in the Muslim community, including those denied government funding to attend the inquest hearing in person, who feel the terrorist’s rights are being put ahead of theirs.An ...3 days ago
- Methanex job losses a blow to Govt’s gas plans
Comment: Without NZ’s largest gas user, it is unlikely the oil and gas industry would take a risk on a no doubt unpopular new offshore drilling operation The post Methanex job losses a blow to Govt’s gas plans appeared first on Newsroom. ...3 days ago
- Newsroom daily quiz, Wednesday 18 September
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- Parental leave helps us help our kids help themselves
Analysis: Part of the excitement of youth is that it is a time to experience new opportunities, learn new skills, rise to challenges and develop our identities.But in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2024 the real world isn’t quite so accommodating for too many. A large and growing cohort of young ...3 days ago
- Daily crossword, Wednesday 18 September
The post Daily crossword, Wednesday 18 September appeared first on Newsroom. ...3 days ago
- Just say the words, minister: Military. Style. Weapons. Will. Remain. Banned
Opinion: Military-style semi-automatic weapons should have been banned after the mass shooting at Aramoana in 1990 The post Just say the words, minister: Military. Style. Weapons. Will. Remain. Banned appeared first on Newsroom. ...3 days ago
- Pro-Palestinian activists hold protests to disrupt defence expo in Australia
By Efe Özkan Pro-Palestinian anti-war activists in Australia have protested in Melbourne, disrupting a defence expo set to open on Wednesday. Protesters gathered yesterday in front of companies connected to weapons manufacturing across Melbourne as police were called to prevent an escalation of the events, according to 7News Melbourne. Many ...3 days ago
- New poll shows NZ support for recognising Palestinian statehood, sanctioning Israel
By Luka Forman, RNZ journalist A new poll shows a significant number of New Zealanders support recognising Palestine as a state and applying sanctions against Israel. Commissioned by advocacy group Justice for Palestine and conducted by Talbot-Mills, the poll found support for recognising Palestinian statehood and sanctions for Israel was ...3 days ago
- Added insulation costs small fraction of figure given by minister – research
The building minister says he expects the new research to be factored into the government's review looking at rolling back the standards. ...3 days ago
- Call for UN sanctions on Israel to implement ICJ ruling on illegality of Palestine occupation
BDS National Committee The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian society leading the global BDS movement, has called for immediate pressure on all states to support the updated resolution tabled at the UN General Assembly calling for sanctions on Israel. The resolution is aimed at enacting ...3 days ago
- View from The Hill: The Albanese government is feeling a lot of pain from pincers
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra When a leader is on the back foot, small things are telling. On Monday, Anthony Albanese, who leaves on Thursday for a meeting of the Quad – comprising leaders of the United States, India, ...3 days ago
- I think my child’s weight is affecting their health. How can I best support them?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Natalie Lister, Research Fellow, Paediatric Nutrition and Obesity/Pre-Diabetes Treatment, University of Sydney kwanchai.c/Shutterstock Weight fluctuation and change in body composition with growth is a normal part of development. Apart from the first year of life, teenage years experience the most rapid ...3 days ago
- Advertising a house is ridiculously expensive in Australia – could that be affecting the property ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Graham, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Sydney Andrey_Popov/Shutterstock Australia has long been one of the most expensive places in the world to buy a house. Now, it’s apparently also one of the costliest places to sell one. Recent ...3 days ago
- Tito Jackson was a lifelong musician, best remembered for his work with the Jackson 5
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leigh Carriage, Senior Lecturer in Music, Southern Cross University If you immediately start singing along to ABC, Blame It On The Boogie, I’ll Be There, Can You Feel It or Who’s Loving You you are a Jackson 5 fan – and for ...4 days ago
- ‘No way’ the government’s ‘one-size-fits-all’ health approach will wor...
A new study shows Pasifika children in Aotearoa are 115 times more likely to be hospitalised with acute rheumatic fever than European children. ...4 days ago
- Rupert Murdoch’s real-life succession drama is underway in a Nevada courtroom. What might happen n...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rodney Tiffen, Emeritus Professor, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney A unique court case is getting under way in Nevada this week. At stake is the future of the Murdoch empire. The case, which begins on September 17 local ...4 days ago
- Rules change for scheme which pays authors for library books
The government is making a change so authors whose books are held in public libraries will no longer have to reapply every year for payments. ...4 days ago
- Patient Voice Aotearoa delivers petition to Parliament to fix Buller Hospital staffing shortages
Patient Voice Aotearoa delivered a petition to Parliament today calling on the government to urgently fix staffing shortages at Buller Hospital. ...4 days ago
- Google is worth more in Australia than major news outlets. Here’s how it could better fund journal...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Nicholls, Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney The Global Media Internet Concentration Project examines the concentration of the communications and media in countries around the world. The latest data for Australia have recently been released, and ...4 days ago
- China says AUKUS is ‘driven by Cold War thinking’. Here are 3 reasons it is so threatened by the...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benjamin Herscovitch, Research Fellow, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University Ever since AUKUS’ public announcement three years ago, China has been staunchly opposed to the partnership. Beijing has blasted AUKUS diplomatically and mounted a concerted campaign to challenge its ...4 days ago
- The power of one: solitary carnivores outkill group hunters
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Luke Emerson, PhD Candidate in ecology, Deakin University Mark Elbroch, Panthera.org Earth’s majestic “apex predators” are some of the most prolific hunters in the world. But which ones kill the most? Our new research showed solitary hunters such as bears, ...4 days ago
- Justice minister’s advice to gang members who want to wear patches at home: ‘Just don...
The coalition is under fire from officials, the Law Society and the opposition for adding a controversial clause but Paul Goldsmith says the charges are easy to avoid. ...4 days ago
- Have you heard of the open source internet? The antidote to a capitalist web already exists
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dana McKay, Associate Dean, Interaction, Technology and Information, RMIT University Dan Schiumarini/Unsplash In the early days of the internet, famously, no one knew if you were a dog. The internet was a place where you could be anyone. More importantly, ...4 days ago
- Do repetitive head injuries really cause the degenerative brain disease CTE? New research questions ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lauren Fortington, Senior Research Fellow | Injury Prevention & Sports Medicine, Edith Cowan University Concerns about the long-term impacts of concussion and head injury have become prominent in recent years, particularly among participants and stakeholders of contact and collision sports. Many people ...4 days ago
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