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Good morning, delegates. It’s an absolute privilege to be speaking to you all here today as your leader. · I’d like to acknowledge National Party President Peter Goodfellow, my fellow board members, my lower North Island colleagues and all of you, the members of the National Party. It is great to see you all here today. · The past few years have been a challenging time for our party. The 2020 campaign was tough and the result on election night…

Sky News host Sharri Markson has assessed “chilling” details from a document produced by Chinese military scientists, in which they discussed weaponising SARS coronaviruses five years before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. · The book from 2015, ‘Unnatural Origin of SARS and Genetic Weapons Based on Artificial Human-Infectious Viruses’ (非典非自然起源和人制人新种病毒基因武器), describes SARS coronaviruses as heralding a “new era of genetic weapons” and said they can be…

WASHINGTON D.C., May 6, 2021 — · Extensive research shows ivermectin can reduce the risk of getting COVID-19 by 92.5%. However, through questionable evaluation methods, public health authorities around the world continue to recommend only highly restricted use of or outright ban of ivermectin. These actions only serve to prolong the COVID-19 pandemic and hurt the most vulnerable people in countries of all income levels. However, many advocates…

Labour MP Ibrahim Omer received a standing ovation after his maiden speech on Thursday. · The list MP is the second refugee to enter the NZ Parliament, having fled his home country of Eritrea, which has been ruled as a totalitarian, one-party dictatorship since its independence from Ethiopia in 1993.

The row that raged last week over the Reserve Bank’s role in the housing market is an argument we must resolve – and quickly. Since the Reserve Bank started reducing interest rates in May last year, house prices have jumped 25 per cent. Average house prices in Auckland hit $1 million in October and the median house price across New Zealand increased by 20 per cent, from $605,000 in October last year to $725,000. · Much of this has come about…

It was suggested that I do an additional short article 10 days out from the election with an appraisal of the economic policies being proposed by Labour and National. I’ve found this extraordinarily hard to do! That’s partly because of the difficulty of defining “economic policies”. Does the term include policy on reforming the Resource Management Act, or policy on oil and gas exploration – both highly relevant to our future economic…

Under MMP we have two votes: · 1. The Electorate vote – to represent the Port Waikato region. 2. The Party vote – for the Political Party of our choice. MMP (mixed-member proportional representation) was introduced in 1993 to replace FPP (first past the post) mainly because National and Labour shut out wider voter representation in Parliament. Votes for third parties were wasted. But after nearly 30 years many voters remain alienated and…

Gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 12.2 percent in the June 2020 quarter, the largest quarterly fall recorded since the current series began in 1987, as the COVID-19 restrictions in place through the quarter impacted economic activity, Stats NZ said today. “The 12.2 percent fall in quarterly GDP is by far the largest on record in New Zealand,” national accounts senior manager Paul Pascoe said. · Measures to contain COVID-19 have led to…

As millions worldwide struggle with the social, economic, and personal fallout from Government-imposed lockdowns, the pandemic is all but over in Sweden, which recorded only 66 deaths related to COVID-19 between 27 July and 27 August – less than 1% of the average monthly death rate of 6,800 people. · Dr Soo Aleman, senior physician and associate professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, explains T-cell immunity, why it is the only…

In New Zealand, like in many other countries, the Government is claiming that it is ‘listening to the science’ when it comes to COVID-19. · But when the scientific consensus is that no evidence exists to support such widely-adopted measures as school closures, travel restrictions, and mandatory wearing of masks in public, then is the Government truly ‘listening to the science’, or only hearing what it wants to?