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For some reason yesterday I thought of the Green Party's Policy Costings Unit idea, where political parties could get their policies costed by Treasury and then the results are made available to the public when the policy is launched. This was Green Party policy going…
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Double good news here. Andrew M. Slavitt, a former Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (ex-Obama health care head), tweeted this last week when Yale scientists announced they had FDA Emergency Use Authorization for their new covid test. Not only have Yale…
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Mr Borrowdale has succeeded in part and the High Court has ruled that the first 9 days, from March 26 to April 3, elements of the Government's Covid lockdown were unenforcable. I am not surprised. Based on this opinion given by Andrew Geddis I said…
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Inasmuch as tiny, distant New Zealand need worry about the foreign policy of the United States, it’s worth a drill into what a Democratic Party dominated United States foreign policy might look like. If elected, Joe Biden will inherit a United States that has abdicated…
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Anyone else getting slightly tired about the Opposition running lines that the Government's handling of Covid is an abject failure? I mean perspective is important. Right now among Western Developed Nations we are probably ranked the second best nation in handling the virus. Taiwan is…
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One of the characteristics of a political blog in New Zealand is the way that our operations reflect the political cycle. Coming into an election after mid-year, we have a steadily increasing level of traffic, posts, and comments. Moderators, commenters and even authors start showing…
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Canterbury University is conducting a review of statements made to the Justice Select Committee by Professor Anne-Marie Brady alleging covert military transfer to China which complainants from other Universities under attack said "contained manifest errors of fact and misleading inferences." The University would do well…
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Over at No Right Turn, Idiot Savant points out the following about the month delay in the election when talking about the parliamentary implications (my bold). Parliament will now resume on Tuesday, though it has a pretty light Order Paper. Most of its business will…
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An ambulance is racing down the motorway to an emergency call-out of a person with potentially life-threatening disease symptoms** and a ragtag of wannabe drivers are trying to wrestle the steering wheel from the highly experienced driver who has to keep all her attention on…
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The Chief Executive of Watercare Raveen Jaduram has resigned. The NZ Herald points to criticism of his $775,000 salary, and the drought. Salary seemed to be the sticking point, oddly enough. Not whether expanding Watercare’s reach into managing the Waikato catchment but failing to prepare…
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At 10am Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will announce her decision on the election date. This will be done in the light about what is currently known about the current covid-19 outbreak. That is her decision alone and is constrained by the parliamentary electoral limits that…
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Auckland, and the rest of the country, has been on tenterhooks for the past week. Are we facing a Melbourne type second wave surge? Was our pride in being Covid free horrendously misplaced? Because for over a hundred days we have been very happy with…
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We are entering into an interesting 24 hours. Jacinda Ardern is to announce tomorrow morning if the election is to be delayed. Should the country just get on and hold the election and decide who is going to make decisions for us in the next…
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It has been interesting and rather disheartening reading a number of idiotic articles in the NZ Herald in recent days calling for a change in the way that we handle outbreaks of covid-19 in NZ. Implicit in the articles was that the risks that covid-19…
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Change 1: Health Overrides Economy Recently, the German philosopher Markus Gabriel said “The pandemic has shown that we are capable of not always making economic considerations our first priority. We have done the right thing morally, and decided to prioritise health at almost any economic…
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He’s old, boring, uninspiring, and offends no-one: surely he’ll fail miserably as President? Joe Biden elected as President has a stronger chance than any Democrat President since LBJ of getting very strong domestic reforms done. Biden is positioned to be one of the most successful…
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