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No more free burps for Kiwi livestock
Building on the success of the ‘Freedom Convoy’ in Canada, New Zealand is seeing a rise in opposition to Covid restrictions which have shut the country down for almost two years, and to vaccine mandates seen as interfering with personal autonomy. Thousands of protesters accompanied a convoy of trucks and cars drove to the parliament in […]
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Now, Arden has announced a cautious plan to ease lockdown restrictions in Auckland.
In May 2018 his status had been revoked after he had come to the attention of the authorities with regard to his public support for Islamic State.
Minority woman of colour loses out to trans athlete…
In a rare display of like-mindedness, the New Zealand Parliament a couple of weeks ago unanimously passed a bill adding three days to a working woman’s bereavement leave to cover the miscarriage or still-birth of a child. The new entitlement extends to spouses and partners, including a separated biological parent, to couples adopting an expected […]
A 74-year old grandmother who flew from New Zealand to live with her family in Ireland, says that she feels “a prisoner” after being forced to stay in a Dublin quarantine hotel – even though her country of origin has an exceptionally low rate of Covid infection and is not on Ireland’s “high-risk” countries list. Elizabeth Malcolm […]
New Zealand shut its borders straight away when covid emerged. Ireland’s leaders refused to do the same out of love for the EU. 3 lockdowns and almost 3,000 covid deaths later, who made the right choice? Ben Scallan reacts. #gript
Like a lot of centre left parties around the world, Jacinda Ardern’s New Zealand Labour Party entered the recent New Zealand election pledging to raise taxes on the rich. At first glance, New Zealand Labour and it’s leader is everything the Irish left dreams of having here in Ireland – a young, unabashedly liberal, female […]
Among the roadside billboards canvassing votes for political parties and their candidates in New Zealand’s triennial election on October 17 is one announcing starkly: “LETHAL DOSE with NO assessment for coercion required.” Below that it asks: “Is the End of Life Choice Act safe?” It’s the kind of silly question you have to ask when […]
In the eyes of many around the world the COVID experience of Australia and New Zealand has been a relatively benign one. But as I mentioned last week (here and here) New Zealand is going to have to deal with some significant demographic headwinds in the years ahead due to the pandemic. Now, it seems as if […]
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