Joseph Mooney MP
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MP for Southland, LLB(Hons). Authorised by J Mooney, Parliament Buildings. Views are my own.
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I have written to the Prime Minister to convey to her the concerns expressed by many of my constituents about the lack of engagement with the call to outline the timeline and criteria necessary for when the vaccination mandates and passports will end.
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It would be good to know who in New Zealand is making these censorship demands, and what the demands are for?
@elonmusk
@chrispavlovski
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The Government needs to outline a clear timeline with the criteria and/or triggers required for when it will end vaccine mandates.
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Labour has spent almost $300 million on spin doctors - imagine if it spent that money on real doctors?
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I was surprised to read in a recent
@nzherald
article that Minister Megan Woods was claiming Labour had built 300 new homes in Queenstown so did some digging.
Have an answer back today from the Minister saying she was misquoted, and they “intend” to build 300 houses.
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Congratulations to Sacha Bond the new world record holder, shearing 458 Strong Wool Ewes in 9-hours today near Mossburn, Southland.
She now holds both the Strong Wool Ewe and Strong Wool Lamb World records.
Sacha is one of the world’s top athletes.
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Folks aren’t feeling the “team of 5 million” marketing slogans match the product being delivered anymore - in fact it feels like nothing is actually being delivered, & instead we’re being sold fantasy cycle bridges while our wallets are emptied by this government.
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Extraordinary that
@jacindaardern
said she couldn’t get personally involved in helping Mike King solve the mental health crisis - something she campaigned on helping fix in 2017 - yet she is proud to have personally signed off on giving $2.75 million for the Mongrel Mob.
Mike King lashes Ardern over $2.75m for Mongrel Mob rehab scheme, nothing for Gumboot Friday
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“Do as I say, not as I do.”
That’s another way of putting it Minister.
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How does
@Kieran_McAnulty
reconcile this with the Labour Party’s constitution which states “All political authority comes from the people by democratic means, including universal suffrage, regular and free elections with a secret ballot”?
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Prima facie the Government is in breach of Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by not ensuring adequate MIQ spaces for kiwis to return home.
Art 13 states: “Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.”
Grounded Kiwis' open letter to the Prime Minister asking the Government to
#FixMIQ
#MIQ
#GroundedKiwis
@jacindaardern
@chrishipkins
@MBIEgovtnz
@JudithCollinsMP
@cjsbishop
@dbseymour
@jamespeshaw
@MaramaDavidson
@whaeadeb
@Rawiri_Waititi
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Attorney-General reports that Rotorua Council’s bill breaches the Bill of Rights and is discriminatory.
Extraordinary that the Labour Government is prepared to support electoral law with constitutional implications that breaches the NZ Bill of Rights.
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Labour can’t deliver kiwibuild or a cycle bridge - but wants you to believe massive Government centralisation is the solution to fix:
1. Health system;
2. Three Waters;
3. RMA;
4. Immigration reset;
5. Climate change response.
Convinced?
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New Zealand’s balance of payments deficit has blown out to its highest level in 34 years.
We are living well beyond our means as a country.
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Just to be clear
@MaramaDavidson
&
@_chloeswarbrick
the language here is currently a crime under s4 of the Summary Offences Act 1981 - namely “in any public place, addressing any words to any person intending to threaten, alarm, insult, or offend that person.”
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PM Ardern: “My ambition is far beyond the United States and UK’s rollout.”
That’s great, but the reality is NZ is 120th in the world for our vaccine rollout.
This ambition can only be realised with specific vaccination targets - “as many as possible” is a wish not a target.
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Minister Kiri Allan in the 3rd (& final) reading of a bill tonight thought it was the second reading & talked about changes that would be made to the bill in Committee of the Whole House stage (which had already been & gone)-minutes before the bill became law.
#coalitionofchaos
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Labour believes in taxing kiwi workers harder & paying bureaucrats to give a little of it back.
National thinks kiwi workers deserve a tax break so they can spend it how they see best, and not waste it on paying bureaucrats to decide if they can have it back.
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Why has Labour government banned New Zealander’s from importing Covid-19 self-testing kits - available at pharmacies and online in Europe and the USA?
People can test themselves before leaving the house as a matter of course?
@chrishipkins
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We need a plan not a lecture.
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Four out of five of the panel members who evaluated tenders for saliva testing had conflicts of interest says the Auditor-General.
Contract then awarded to a company which didn’t have a diagnostically-validated saliva test - over a company which did.
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To be clear, Prime Minister Ardern personally signed off on giving millions to a lifetime patched Mongrel Mob member, who campaigned for Labour against National, and who said at his campaign rally “Sieg Heil to the Mongrel Mob for another thousand years.”
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Kāinga Ora spends almost $2 billion buying (existing) homes in five years - outbidding first home buyers competing for the same homes.
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In Germany you can buy self-test Covid kits for less than a dollar each, & Germany has approved over 50 such tests.
Germany also has 38.7 ICU beds per 100,000 people (NZ has just 4.6).
NZ has made it a crime punishable by 3 months jail to import Covid self test kits.
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So the National Party, ACT, Green Party, and Te Paati Māori are all opposed to the 3 Waters Bill at third reading.
The only ones voting for it are the Labour Party.
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A month ago the Australian Prime Minister apologised for his country’s slow vaccine rollout.
Today the New Zealand Government denied we even had a slow vaccine rollout.
This might surprise those who notice that New Zealand’s rollout is slower than Australia’s.
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Labour spends your money on pet projects like giving millions to the Mongrel Mob, while telling you what you should think, do and say.
National will invest your taxes in healthcare, schools and homes, and leave you to get on with living your life in freedom.
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“Last year the Government dropped a $2.5 billion dollar cash pot for councils to spend in a bid to get more mayors on board.
But Newshub can reveal Treasury warned against the handout, essentially calling it a bribe.”
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The recent Roy Morgan poll is a political earthquake.
On those numbers Labour would lose 15 MP’s.
Looking at the 2020 Labour party list they would lose 3 Cabinet Ministers and 12 backbench list MP’s (putting aside the question of whether they would also lose electorate seats).
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That moment when the Labour Govt finally realise what demand and supply actually means & why it’s important.
So their answer is to move to a wartime-type footing & pull out all the stops to increase vaccine supply right? Right?
Ah wrong-PM Ardern: “We need to reduce demand.”
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Odd that
@nzherald
‘s editorial cartoonist has blocked me on twitter despite having no interaction ever (to the best of my knowledge)
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Labour’s “Immigration Reset” is a disaster with more than 1000 registered doctors and nurses waiting in NZ residency queue.
Our DHB’s are already short 1,800 nurses.
I’m hearing of Medical Practices turning new patients away because of not enough GP’s.
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128 years ago today in 1893 New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world in which women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
The government of the day was the Liberal Party - a forerunner of the
@NZNationalParty
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It’s extraordinary that PM
@jacindaardern
was “too busy” to meet founders of probably the biggest protest in NZ’s history when they came to Wellington.
60,000+ concerned citizens protesting in 57 towns and cities across the country PM.💡?
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Labour has increased government spending by a whopping 68% since they came to power, yet have delivered worse outcomes in getting cancer treated faster.
#OutcomesMatter
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A good summary.
Farmers get 12 cents for the block of butter you see in the supermarket.
Their income is largely fixed.
Constantly changing regulations create huge uncertainty & have significant financial implications.
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“Staff go home in the evenings.”
Labour MP Deborah Russell suggesting that’s why her Govt was late finding out about power shortages.
Well, kiwis go home in the evenings and expect to be able to turn the lights and the heaters on.
They elect governments to make sure of it.
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I have written to the Minister of COVID-19 Response
@chrishipkins
this morning on behalf of the businesses & employees in my region, calling on him to loosen the government’s incredibly strict control over access to Rapid Antigen Tests, so that everyone can buy and access them.
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Good to see
@NZGreens
join National in calling for purpose-built MIQ facilities.
@NZNationalParty
has been calling for this since February 2021.
We need these to get
@GroundedKiwis
home and protect our communities.
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NZ’s constitutional democracy requires separation between what are called the four branches of government.
Press is the Fourth Estate.
Very interesting to see Government’s Speaker of the House publicly putting pressure on editor of a government funded media organisation.
@GraemeEdgeler
@radionz
@strikerpaul
serious issue - bad call. In these issues it is important that people you describe as a specialist have expertise.
@radionz
reputation depends on it.
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22 of South Islands 28 councils call on Govt to pause 3 Waters Reform process due to serious concerns about current decision-making timeframe & needing more information.
• All 10 Canterbury City & District Councils
• All 9 Otago & Southland Councils
• 3 West Coast Councils
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Some other facts to consider:
1) Parliament can only have virtual sittings if it first sits in person to approve “zoom parliament”;
2) Wellington moves to Level 3 tomorrow night anyway;
3) More people attend the 1pm press standup with the PM then will be in the Debating Chamber.
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The Labour government froze wages for frontline heroes like nurses & teachers employed by the public sector earlier this year.
Now it plans to force unionism aka “fair pay agreements” on private businesses.
Anyone else’s head spinning from the cognitive dissonance?
@coughlthom
3/3 - After 2 years of Covid, some of our biggest heroes have been our cleaners, supermarket workers, and bus drivers. They deserve a fairer deal through FPAs & we are getting on with it in line with our clear election mandate on this issue.
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New Zealand is making the news overseas for the wrong reasons after Tourism Minister
@Stuart_NashMP
told a cross-industry roundtable this week that they should “prepare for another 12 months locked away from the world.”
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If only the Labour Government had listened to
@JudithCollinsMP
and the
@NZNationalParty
back in January this year and acted on our recommendations, instead of spending their time congratulating themselves and mocking the Opposition.
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New Zealand is willing to give AstraZeneca vaccines to Pacific Island Nations, but won’t allow its own population to use it - New Zealander’s only have the option of using the Pfizer vaccine.
Why doesn’t this Labour government give people choices?
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Contact tracing makes or breaks a Covid response.
MOH wasn’t interested in stress-testing, but said it could “surge” to call 6,000 contacts a day. Yet in 8 days it called under 13,000 - average of <1,625 p/day.
Lockdown costs $1.5 billion p/week.
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I was elected MP for Southland a year ago today, an electorate I am immensely proud to represent and call home.
It’s a vast electorate bigger than Belgium.
It has 5 District Councils & 2 Regional Councils covering different parts of it.
I’m looking forward to the year ahead.
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National backing our farmers at the epicentre of the protests in Gore today.
Great day driving a 🚜 with my colleague
@DavidBennettMP
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Minister of Health
@AndrewLittleMP
says Cancer Society is “completely off the planet”, for saying he should be tracking how quickly people are getting treatment for cancer.
23,000 diagnosed with cancer every year, and 10,000 die - every year.
Can only improve what you measure.
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It is a sad indictment on the government that farmers felt they had to take their tractors and utes to town to be heard.
But with the government unwilling to listen to farmers’ concerns they’ve been left with few other options.
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“I can never support something that creates an entity that will not be accountable through elected representatives to the community that it serves.”
Well put by Auckland Mayor
@phil_goff
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This is interesting.
Australia approves quarantine-free travel from the South Island starting Tuesday next week.
However the South Island remains in Level 2.
South Islanders would have to quarantine for 14 days on return to NZ.
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Australian PM apologises for delays in vaccine rollout (they are doing better than us), while NZ Ministers congratulate themselves for meeting own arbitrary deadlines.
Unfortunately Delta strain doesn’t respect targets created by Beehive spin-doctors.
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Where on earth is saliva testing?
It’s been almost a year since saliva testing was recommended by Sir Brian Roche and Heather Simpson to be implemented at the border.
Why aren’t we making use of saliva testing to add to our surge capacity?
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National will repeal 3 Waters in its first 100 days of Government if it wins in 2023.
National believes in empowering and working with local government to deliver the infrastructure needed to unlock the economic potential and productivity of regions.
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Sign the petition: Stop the Three Waters Asset Grab
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Do they understand ss 13 & 14 of NZBORA & the historical basis for why they exist - the right to adopt & hold opinions without interference, & the right to freedom of expression, incl. the freedom to seek, receive, and impart information and opinions of any kind in any form?
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Oh dear, the PM doesn’t want to use targets - targets mean accountability which might worry the Govt, but they also give the country a goal to aim for.
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Folks in Hawkes Bay will be pleased to learn that the Environment Minister David Parker has visited the Bay and concluded from his own research that all of the woody debris came from willows.
It wasn’t even Aprils Fool day when he said that in the House this week.
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This is not on
@SpeakerTrevor
you need to stop this.
What do people think of this ???
My Heart Will Go On - Recorder By Candlelight by Matt Mulholland via
@YouTube
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Labour Minister’s failure costs NZ $4.5 billion.
Minister Stuart Nash tried to claim memorandum of understanding was signed in April 2020 before he became the Minister. But it was actually signed on 23 December 2020, AFTER Mr Nash was appointed Minister.
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“There is never a good time to blow up a health system - ever.”
Professor Des Gorman.
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Almost 3000 doctors and nurses waiting to apply for skilled migrant residence.
GPs and specialists are thinking of leaving the country or have already left because they can't get residence.
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@JudithCollinsMP
says Government should open up Covid vaccine eligibility to all adults so we don’t have to keep locking down.
NZ currently 120th in the world for vaccinations, & has fully vaccinated only 22.2 per cent of its 16+ population.
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Great news!
Our Southland Doctor is coming home and our maternity unit in Southland can continue.
Great that the advocacy by Penny Simmonds and myself worked - but shouldn’t have been needed.
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@KrisinMana
What are you doing about this - seriously?
A serious health crisis is unfolding due to staffing shortages, and all we hear from you is “we’re working on it” and “we’ll have an announcement soon.”
NZ needs you to do your job, so our health team can do theirs.
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Visited medicinal cannabis & hemp growing, testing & processing facility in Mataura where dross used to be stored.
Southern Medicinal Ltd believes it could create new processing & cultivation jobs supporting up to 500 hectares of cultivation in Southland during next 10 years.
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This Labour/Greens government literally can’t keep the lights on - towns and cities across North Island plunged into darkness on one of the coldest nights of the year.
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Labour, Greens, & the Māori party voted down my motion last week to hear from the authors of the He Puapua report in the Māori Affairs Select Committee.
Opportunity to hear directly from the authors of the report on their thinking & recommendations lost.
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Great to have
@EricaStanfordMP
in Queenstown today proposing immigration policy to address the challenge of attracting people needed to deliver high quality tourism experiences amidst NZ’s biggest labour shortage in 40 years following the very exciting news of opening borders.
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But PM Ardern blamed the workers - why does that sound familiar?
Health officials have finally allowed all port workers to get vaccinated after port bosses spent “months” trying to convince the government to widen the criteria. It comes amid the Tauranga Port workers scare.
@NewshubNZ
#COVID19nz
#ports
#nzpol
#shipping
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If you don’t have to be vaccinated to enter New Zealand now, why are there so many rules and restrictions on the unvaccinated who are actually in the country?
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Let’s get our police & defence force personnel back on the beat.
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Penny Simmonds MP & I have published an open letter urging the Prime Minister
@jacindaardern
& Covid Minister
@chrishipkins
to urgently help get Southern Maternity Specialist Doctor back into NZ to stop maternity ward being downgraded.
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Labour’s Health & Finance Ministers can’t figure out why “huge injections of cash don't seem to be making much difference” in agencies such as the Ministry of Health.
Then Min Little attacks Cancer Society for suggesting tracking outcomes-makes sense now.
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Sad news today that Lumsden is losing its only daycare centre catering for 50 children - only 2 years after losing its birthing centre.
It’s having to close because they can’t hire a teacher.
I wrote to Minister of Education
@chrishipkins
about severe teaching shortages in June
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Immigration Minister
@KrisinMana
continues to say he “hopes to have more to say around EOI and residency applications soon.”
How long can someone keep saying that, without doing anything?
We are losing skilled people who are in NZ that this country needs & others want.
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Here’s a challenge Prime Minister
@jacindaardern
Commit to ending lockdowns, reopen our economy, and reconnect to the world when we hit 85-90% vaccination (along with DHB and age-based milestones), or on 1st December, whichever comes earlier.
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Unbelievable - Labour is ideological, inflexible and incompetent. NZ deserves so much better than this.
The nurses union says we need 21,000 nurses to fill shortages … Labour has delivered 12.
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The decision to blast loud music and turn on the sprinklers by Speaker Trevor Mallard in an attempt to deter protesters from Parliament’s front lawn was not made by police.
“It’s not a tactic we would encourage,” Police Commander said, but added “it is what it is, it happened”.
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The “team of 5 million” marketing slogans haven’t matched the reality for skilled migrants, many of whom have been separated from their children since the borders closed.
With over 9,000 MIQ rooms unused this year by Govt, it’s a humanitarian fail.
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Labour Government’s centralised command and control model is a complete failure.
Let citizens solve their own problems.
Auckland Grammar's Headmaster has been blocked from collecting 2,000 rapid antigen tests that have arrived in NZ. The tests are not yet approved, but exceed accuracy rates set by the Ministry and are widely used in Australia.
@NewshubNZ
#COVID19
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This is unbelievably incompetent lawmaking by the Labour government.
Justice had to do Bill of Rights vet on traffic light bill without seeing final version due to ‘late receipt of the Bill that was not in compliance with Cabinet Office Guidance’.
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Today Labour MP’s on Māori Affairs Select Committee voted down our motion to have Covid-19 Response Minister
@chrishipkins
appear to answer questions for Māori about the Lowest & the Slowest vaccine rollout to one of our most vulnerable communities.
#NoScrutiny
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NZ Govt needs to urgently help Afghans who supported NZ troops as reports that State may fall to Taliban shortly.
NZ cannot be responsible for lives being lost because they helped kiwis.
Come on
@KrisinMana
&
@jacindaardern
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@jacronyms0212
An Otago University study showed shearing 320 ewes used the equivalent energy as running a full marathon - and Sacha now holds the world record for shearing 458 ewes, so yes, “one of the world’s top athletes” fits the bill.
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Let’s get
@GroundedKiwis
back home.
Fully vaccinated kiwis without Covid locked out of NZ, while over 1300 with Covid or close contacts self-isolate at home in Auckland.
What’s the excuse now
@jacindaardern
and
@chrishipkins
?
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King Canute could not stop the tide, & the Prime Minister could not stop Delta.
What the Government can do is get all hands on deck to supercharge vaccine rollout, resource health system to manage the response, & invest in next-Gen treatments & testing.
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Public submissions close tomorrow evening on the repeal of the Three Strikes law.
It’s a very odd time to schedule the closing date for submissions when much of NZ is on holiday, but if you want to be heard on it, see the link below.
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