Articles in ‘Opinion’

In our recent article “The Royal Commission Report is a Scientific and Ethical Failure", we reported on some of its key deficiencies. With the benefit of some more time to reflect, we want to address additional significant factors that the Commission overlooked which it should have highlighted and addressed. During the last five years the Hatchard Report has published more than 500 articles covering every aspect of the pandemic, we have had a…

In March 2022, at the height of New Zealand’s COVID response, a documentary was produced that told a very different story to the one dominating the nightly news. · It featured ordinary New Zealanders — not politicians, not commentators — but people who said they had been harmed following vaccination. Families. Workers. Young people. Parents. Within a short time, that documentary was effectively pushed off mainstream platforms. Removed.…

New Zealand’s economic narrative is shifting. · According to the latest insights from Kiwibank’s Kiwi Economics commentary, the country is emerging from a difficult period — with signs of recovery beginning to appear across housing, employment, and consumer activity. Lower interest rates are starting to “do their job,” easing pressure and lifting confidence. ([Kiwibank][1]) · On paper, the outlook looks encouraging. · But beneath the surface,…

Arguments about the current energy crisis have shifted. It is no longer just about what ministers are doing now. It is also about what they chose not to do when they had the chance. This morning brought the clearest accountability journalism to this debate. Kate MacNamara in the Herald and Edward Miller in The Post both zero in on the same issue: New Zealand was left more exposed than it needed to be, and ministers were warned about the…

In this episode of Duncan Garner, Editor-in-Chief, we dive into the mounting pressure on Labour leader Chris Hipkins. · Read my full take here: https://www.rova.nz/articles/opinion-... · Duncan argues that the case for his resignation is now black and white following revelations about COVID vaccine advice for 12 to 17-year-olds. We break down the timeline of a March cabinet paper that referenced health risks for teenagers, which Hipkins told…

In his column Biosafety Now, Dr. Simon Wain-Hobson revisits controversial gain of function research conducted in 2014 funded by US NIH contract HHSN26620070001 which successfully managed to transfer the H7N1 avian (bird flu) virus from ostriches to ferrets. Once transferred, the virus established itself in the ‘captive’ lab ferrets sufficiently to cause airborne transmission to other ferrets without loss of virulence. H7N1 is as deadly for…

The Strait of Hormuz is closed. Flights through the Middle East have been cancelled. Petrol has surged well past $3 a litre. · Four thousand shipping containers of New Zealand meat and dairy sit stranded on rerouted vessels. Tourism operators are fielding mass cancellations. The Reserve Bank Governor gave an emergency speech to business leaders on Tuesday. · The national conversation, understandably, is about issues such as fuel prices,…

The first four parts of this series traced the hollowing out of New Zealand from structure to consequence. We began with a country that was once highly sovereign in practical terms — productive, internally anchored, and comparatively resilient. We followed the monetary shifts, the capital liberalisation, the foreign banking dominance, the housing-led financialisation, the deindustrialisation, and finally the shock exposure of recent years. Par…

This is among the most important articles that we have published not just because it challenges the current tsunami of polypharmacy that is being thrust upon us, but it also cites research evidence that begins to reveal the limitations of the standard interpretations of genetic function. Website: HatchardReport.com · Note: Hyperlinks in this article have been independently sourced to match referenced material where original embedded links were…

New Zealand did not simply “transition” its fuel system. · It restructured it. · And the blueprint for that restructuring—its logic, its drivers, and its consequences—is laid out plainly in the Cabinet paper authored by then Energy Minister Megan Woods. · What follows is not conjecture. · It is the system, described in its own words—and understood in full. · The System Before: A Country That Still Had a Stake · Before 2022, New Zealand…