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RNZ
Chris Bishop has lost his role as Shadow Leader of the House following a portfolio reshuffle by National Party leader Judith Collins.
ZB
Kate Hawkesby’s commentary goes too far in criticising the Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield. Hawkesby is right to critique the responsiveness
The Standard
Last night it was revealed that National and Act had refused to agree to a proposed virtual Parliament sitting where questions could be asked, and instead wanted face to face meetings, even though this would mean a third of the country's MPs travelling regularly to Wellington from a Covid delta hotspot.
Stuff
OPINION: However this lockdown ends up — and signs are good — it's clear that these policy tools are nearing the end of their working lives.
Newsroom
New Zealanders may well be frustrated by the piecemeal extensions to Level 4 restrictions, but is the alternative that much better?
Stuff
A total of 370 people are on their way to New Zealand after being evacuated from Kabul following recent terrorist attacks and the Taliban takeover.
Stuff
Dr Ashley Bloomfield says New Zealand's ICU facilities are ready for an outbreak of Covid-19. Is he right?
RNZ
The group tasked with creating a new Māori Health Authority has been told to ensure tino rangatiratanga is embedded at every level and iwi partnership boards have teeth.
Newshub
More than 80 percent of people support the country's COVID-19 lockdown
bowalleyroad.blogspot.com
Intramuscular Solidarity: A trade union movement dominated by the working-class wouldn’t have a bar of all this anti-vax nonsense. The idea...
Newsroom
Social development officials have fixed the terms of the wage subsidy after an embarrassing blunder
Stuff
East Coast hapū want police-led checkpoints at the boundaries of the rohe to help protect vulnerable Tairāwhiti communities from Covid-19.
Newsroom
Following comments by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison that an elimination strategy is fruitless, an epidemiologist looks into the Delta crystal ball.
werewolf.co.nz
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Newsroom
The Ministry of Health has failed to prepare the contact tracing system for the Delta variant, despite four critical reviews identifying gaps that remain unfilled.
Stuff
Aotearoa enjoyed more than 470 days without a level 4 lockdown. Did the Government use that time well or did it squander it?
Newshub
The Social Development Minister is appearing before MPs virtually.
bowalleyroad.blogspot.com
The Equal Application Of The Laws: There is only so much a judicial system, or any other important part of the state apparatus, will stand ...
NZ Herald
Sir John Key and Helen Clark sceptical of Taliban claims.
RNZ
Finance Minister Grant Robertson says there is enough funding to last the country for some time.
Newshub
It comes just a week after another volunteer in Christchurch was criticised for distributing political leaflets.
RNZ
Finance Minister Grant Robertson has fronted to the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee, defending the government's planning and use of the Covid-19 Response and Recovery fund.
bowalleyroad.blogspot.com
Labour Saver? Thanks to Michael Cullen’s clever alchemy, the base metals of neoliberalism could be transmuted into the glittering gold of “...
ZB
More support for Parliament to get back up and running as soon as possible. The sitting of Parliament has been suspended for a week amid Covid-19 restrict
RNZ
Power Play - Parliament's select committees have been given the weighty responsibility of providing the sole line of parliamentary scrutiny this week and the government must refrain from petty politics, Jane Patterson writes.
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