MPs squabbled on Tuesday over a report which deals with how New Zealand could fulfil the commitments it made by signing up at the UN. Quite clearly there is a plan, it is being implemented, and we are going to call it out, National leader Judith Collins told reporters.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in Parliament expressed disappointment over how the debate had played out. The groundwork for us being able to have a decent conversation about these issues has not been well established by the debate I ve seen from members of this House.
The Opposition is accusing Labour of sneaking through separate systems for Māori, using the recent announcement of a Māori Health authority as an example.
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National Party leader Judith Collins attacking Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern over Covid-19 vaccines during Question Time in Parliament. Photo / Mark Mitchell
multimedia journalist at the Herald in Wellington@katieharrisnz
The National party remains optimistic despite leader Judith Collins dropping to the single digits in last night s 1News/Colmar Brunton preferred Prime Minister poll.
Collins is sitting at 8 per cent - down 4 percentage points, and significantly lower than Jacinda Ardern who is at 43 per cent, down 15 percentage points from the last poll in December.
Speaking to media, Collins said just about every opposition party in the world was struggling to get their numbers moving, and she actually thought they were doing well.
Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:30 am, February 13th, 2021 - 84 comments
Back in May, I wrote a post “Covid-19: may be endemic“. That is looking like it is more and more likely. The depth of infection in world populations means that recombinant variants are likely. Vaccines and previous immunity will reduce the death rates and infection rates. But won’t stop reinfection. Human behaviour will keep covid-19 as an endemic disease.
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