NewstalkZB reports:

An Auckland couple say incessant noise from their Kāinga Ora neighbour is destroying their lives, leaving them at breaking point with chronic insomnia and stress.

The offending property in Avondale’s Eastdale Rd has amassed a staggering 72 noise complaints to Auckland Council since the female tenant moved in in March.

Neighbours – some of whom have slept in their car to escape the racket – are pleading with authorities to act before the situation boils over.

72 complaints since March – so basically 10 complaints a month.

The couple could no longer stand the noise and planned to put their home on the market.

They felt Kāinga Ora should evict the woman “to restore peace” as she clearly had no regard for her neighbours or community.

Another neighbour said the constant noise was “pretty nasty”, sending jarring vibrations through his house.

He had also made repeated noise complaints but said nothing changed.

“You can’t sleep but everyone seems to have their hands tied.

“It’s really affected our mental health. You just feel like giving in sometimes.”

The neighbours are having their lives wrecked.

The council had been working with Kāinga Ora on the case and provided the agency with copies of noise reports.

Kāinga Ora regional director North and West Taina Jones said the Avondale situation had been challenging, particularly during level 3 and 4 lockdowns.

“Kāinga Ora has received numerous complaints regarding noise and has tried to encourage our customer to show more consideration for neighbours.”

Clients were “supported to be good neighbours, responsible, considerate and law-abiding”. Kāinga Ora could issue a breach of tenancy notice in extreme situations.

Here’s the problem. Housing NZ used to evict bad tenants. But under the new kindness regime they have been effectively told never to evict a tenant. This is great for the tenants, but terrible for neighbours who have no recourse.

Any private sector landlord would have evicted the tenants after the 5th or at least the 10th call out of noise control. But the Government is a terrible landlord for neighbours.

The Herald reports:

Complaints about the Government’s Three Waters Reform TV adverts include describing them as misinformation, untrue and a taxpayer-funded propaganda campaign. …

The $3.5 million advertising campaign, which began in June 2021, depicts unhappy cartoon people and animals with poor quality water. …

The Advertising Standards Authority ruled in the context of advocacy advertising, it was not misleading or offensive.

A total of 48 complaints were made about the adverts.

The Government said its aim was to build wider support for Three Waters reform.

The ads might not breach the ASA codes, but they are clearly failing in terms of building support for the Three Waters reform.

A Curia poll for the Taxpayers Union found support for the reforms was a miniscule 19% with 56% opposed.

Regardless of party support, a plurality of voters are opposed. Labour voters are a net 11% opposed, Green voters a net 6% opposed and National voters a net 40% opposed. Those undecided on the party vote are a net 51% opposed.

Of course around 90% of the Councils are opposed also. But will Labour use it majority to legislate to confiscate water assets from democratically elected councils?

The BBC report:

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced the Queen has agreed Southend will be granted city status following the killing of MP Sir David Amess.

Sir David was stabbed to death at Belfairs Methodist Church on Friday.

He regularly championed Southend’s case to be a city during his time in Parliament.

Mr Johnson told the House of Commons he was “happy” to announce Southend “will be accorded the city status it so clearly deserves”.

The prime minister said: “That Sir David spent almost 40 years in this House, but not one day in ministerial office, tells everything about where his priorities lay.”

He added Sir David “never once witnessed any achievement by any resident of Southend that could not somehow be cited in his bid to secure city status for that distinguished town”.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer told Parliament he was “so pleased” by the announcement.

Sir Keir said the news was “a fitting tribute to Sir David’s hard work”.

His murder was chilling. MPs should not have to worry about being killed as they meet constituents. We want MPs to be accessible.

He campaigned for Southend to be a city for 40 years, so a nice tribute by the Government to grant it, as a way to honour him.

For those interested Southend-on-Sea is in SE Essex and has a population of 183,000. It has the longest pleasure pier in the world – around 2.2 kms long.

Karl du Fresne writes:

The cabal I’m talking about reaches across politics, the bureaucracy, academia, arts, the media, the churches and even sport and business. It dominates the public conversation to the extent that dissenting voices are largely excluded, at least from traditional mainstream platforms.

The common ideology that unites this cabal is not easily summarised, since it’s multi-faceted. Some would call it “woke” – an unsatisfactory term because (a) it’s too easily resorted to and has therefore been diminished by over-use and (b) its meaning is so diffuse that it can be hard to pin down.

If forced to define the groupthink that binds the members of this cabal, I would suggest it’s an adherence to the ideology of identity politics – the idea that disadvantaged minority groups (more of which seem to emerge with every passing month) have needs, grievances and interests that, when push comes to shove, supersede those of the majority.

Identity politics involves a relentless focus not on what unites us – in other words, the interests and values that all New Zealanders have in common (such as freedom, prosperity, peace and respect for the rule of law) – but on grievance and division. Proponents of identity politics see society as an aggregation of disadvantaged groups that must compete for power and influence against a privileged and hostile majority that’s indifferent to their needs. …

But what sets the 2021-style cabal apart is the sheer scale of its influence. A homogeneity of thinking extends across virtually all the public institutions that influence New Zealand life. What debate there is mainly takes place on the margins – for example, on talkback radio (which the media elite regards with contempt), in social media and on blogs like this one, where dissenting opinion can be quarantined as if it were a contagious disease.

The dangers hardly need spelling out. A country where government policies largely go unchallenged by the institutions that normally hold politicians to account is a country that risks acquiescing in the face of an authoritarian state.

Two obvious examples are academia and the media. In liberal democracies, both institutions typically subject governments to close, and often harsh, critical scrutiny. But in New Zealand in 2021, academics and the media sing from the same song sheet as the people in power. Media outlets publish just enough dissenting opinion to avoid the accusation that they function as compliant government mouthpieces. Academics, apart from a tiny minority of courageous dissenters, serve as cheerleaders.

This is spot on. Its not that most of the media see themselves as biased, let alone partisan. It is that their worldview is totally in sync with the Government, so they never challenge it.

There are two broad views on the Treaty of Waitangi – one is it promised equality for everyone, and one is that it promised a partnership and co-governance. 95% of those in the media not only seem to be in the second camp, but believe anyone in the other camp is a lunatic racist fringe.

The same comes with equality of opportunity vs opportunity of outcome. 95% of media reporting is about unequal outcomes, with an implicit belief that Governments must keep interfering to produce the same outcomes for all groups, rather than ensure all groups have the same opportunities. The difference is huge, but almost never debated in the media.

And if different outcomes go against the prevailing identify politics, they are ignored. There are 100 times more stories on women getting paid less than men on average, than there are on boys and men massively under-achieving in the education system.

A reader sent me a copy of this:

Dear Prime Minister,

Forgive me for not writing a formal letter but given the urgency of our Hospitals lack of readiness to deal with a significant Covid community outbreak I thought E mail correspondence would be more prudent.

In Singapore eighty-one per cent of the entire population is fully vaccinated – excluding under-12s, it is 90%.

Despite the best possible Covid vaccination rates Singapore reported its highest one-day Covid case total in more than a year, with 837 cases recorded last Tuesday.

As of Tuesday, a total of 809 people were hospitalized .Of these, 75 were seriously ill and required oxygen.

The majority of seriously ill patients were older than 66.

It is therefore clear that vaccinations alone may not prevent our under resourced and neglected Hospitals from becoming overwhelmed with Covid patients.

So can you please advise ,as a matter of urgently priority ,the Governments Hospital Covid mitigation plan and timelines to ensure that Covid Infected New Zealanders receive timely, quality clinical care to not only reduce preventable Covid mortality rates in our Hospitals but also to ensure our precious frontline medical staff have the correct equipment for their personal safety and the treatment of their patients.

Also since every ICU bed needs around five to six nurses to keep it operational 24/7, we have a shortfall of at least 100 ICU nurses.

Our country is critically short of doctors and nurses yet according to Immigration New Zealand, 901 registered nurses and 235 doctors are already in New Zealand waiting on the Government for residency approvals so they may work.

The Ministry of Health has advised that “an estimated 81,500 in the public system stand in line for surgeries, procedures and appointments delayed due to the Delta outbreak.”

Can you please advise the remedial actions and timelines for increasing our critical Hospital HR resource levels not only to address our urgent Covid Hospital needs but also so that our general population has access to timely lifesaving quality healthcare.

In the interests in the health and wellbeing of all New Zealanders I look forward to a timely and incisive response to these questions.

Yours Sincerely Sir Ray Avery GNZM

I have a Christian faith. Please don’t anyone think that is a claim of perfection – not even close – but probably better than I would have been otherwise.

The thing that drew me most to the faith was the nature of Jesus – reaching out to women, reaching out to children, reaching out to lepers. I was also drawn to his challenge of rule imposing authority (whitewashed tombs).

Great churches are open places for all: “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me“

In the NZ Herald today Ardern openly acknowledged that she is creating two classes of people (https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/liam-dann-we-are-a-polarised-country-the-qualities-well-need-to-get-through/G46MGNPJF3577NVWRCBQUASAMI/).

This is the government’s restrictive mandate for churches:

– Churches can have up to 100 people (counting all ages), based on 1metre distancing, but only if vaccination certificates are used – this means no unvaccinated people attending.

– If you want unvaccinated people attending, the gathering can only be up to 10 people. You will need to decide if you are happy to have singing or not.

The rest of the country will go to Orange once they reach 90% vaccinated and Auckland would go there sometime later once the covid case levels have reduced down. This means: No limits on the number of people attending, providing it is only vaccinated people.

– If you include unvaccinated the limit will be 50, with 1m distancing.

Those without vaccine certificates are about to become the new lepers. How abhorrent to ask churches to exclude them. Of course they should take massive care – but there is an enormous gap between that and creating a new set of pariah’s.

Although it is apocryphal that the Danish King in WW2 wore a yellow star. The Danish nation did stand together:

“The ability of the Danish government to run the internal affairs of the country was decisive for the absence of anti-Jewish legislation, which lacked the public support and votes to pass the Danish parliament. The Danish government did not require Jews to register their property and assets, or to give up apartments, homes, and businesses. The Danish authorities did not require Jews to identify themselves, with a yellow star or any other form of identification.” https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/king-christian-x-of-denmark

The BBC reports:

An MP who made threatening phone calls to a woman because she was jealous of her relationship with her partner has been found guilty of harassing her.

Claudia Webbe, 56, a former Labour MP for Leicester East, who is now independent, was found guilty of one charge of harassment.

Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard she made several calls over two years and threatened the woman with acid.

What gets me, is she still denies it.

She claimed a recorded phone call on 25 April in which Webbe was heard saying “get out of my relationship” 11 times was taken out of context.

Webbe said it had been during a heated argument with Mr Thomas over breaching the Covid-19 lockdown with Ms Merritt.

“I simply called her and asked her not to break lockdown with Lester,” she said.

“She was breaking the rules and I was just pointing it out. I’m the victim.”

So Webbe thinks she is the real victim, and she was only concerned about lockdown rules when she called the other woman 16 times.

Webbe claimed she was a victim of “domestic abuse and coercive control” and was being “goaded and gaslighted” during the row, which resulted in police being called after a neighbour reported her screams.

She confirmed she was still in a relationship with Mr Thomas and they were engaged.

So she claims her partner was cheating on her, abusing her and coercively controlling her – but’s she happinly engaged to him!

Webbe previously said: “I have spent my lifetime campaigning for the rights of women, for challenging this type of behaviour and this is not something that is in my character and not something I would ever do.”

It sounds like Harvey Weinstein reminding everyone how many feminist causes he had championed.

Paul Hynes QC representing Webbe read out character references from former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and former shadow home secretary Diane Abbott.

No wonder she was found guilty!

However, District Judge Paul Goldspring said he had found Webbe “untruthful” in her evidence.

“Some of the things she said I believe were made up on the spur of the moment,” he said.

“Some things she said in the witness box just don’t bear scrutiny.

“In short, I find Ms Webbe to be vague, incoherent and at times illogical.”

A perfect fit for UK Labour 🙂

A guest post by Clive Bibby:

I admit the headline to this column isn’t my own.

It comes from a recent Australian Sky News Public affairs programme that was celebrating the “breath of fresh air” that is the arrival of the new NSW Premier, Dominic Perrottet.

The discussion included the public yearning, as in this country, for a return to governments who acted in the best interests of the majority while being sensitive to the genuine grievances and needs of the minority.

It talked about the need to get back to a time when individual responsibilities to ones fellow man, woman and children are regarded as much more important than our current focus on our basic human rights – real or imagined.

Referring to life during the pandemic, it highlighted the farcical adherence to policies that divided the country’s population into those who were expendable and those who are guaranteed protection, simply because they are working for the government or its agencies.

I was heartened but not surprised to note that the response from the general public to the change from “lockdown” to “opening up” in New South Wales was universally positive.

I would wager that the public mood in this country would welcome such a move by our government sooner rather than later. It is just common sense that the need for change is now the only viable option.

How long should we tolerate this King Canute doctrine while it is proving disastrous on every front.

It is clear from just about every rational observation of nations who have recognised the need to adjust their lifestyles in order to live with the virus that we should follow suit before we destroy what is left of our ability to function as a sovereign state.

This government seems unable to recognise that the betrayal of its citizens in order to promote its falsely disguised objectives while it has total control, is rejected by those who crave a return to the “live and let live” policies of the past.

And that number is growing. It will not be long before respect for the law will become a casualty of a frustrated public who don’t share the objectives of the divisive programmes that are being introduced without a mandate.

This country’s populace is an overwhelming mix of people from all ethnic backgrounds, who simply want to get on with a life that enables access to equal opportunity in exchange for the recognition of our individual responsibilities to those who are in need of our help and care.

The tried and proven formula for achieving a law abiding, functioning democracy operating under those conditions is not new. But it is radically different to what we are being served up at present.

Our Government is finally being faced with the “ chickens that are coming home to roost” and it is terrified at what it is seeing. Watch this space.

A reader writes to the PM:

Dear Prime Minister,

I am writing directly to you to highlight some information regarding self-isolation and the risk of positive COVID-19 cases arising from returnees impacting the wider community.

As a background my son has just missed out in the MIQ lottery yet again, and it is increasingly likely to be stranded in Sydney once his university studies are completed for the year.

Given we have moved from an “elimination” strategy to a “containment” strategy,  I ran some numbers to assess the self-isolating risk for New Zealand residents currently in NSW and in the MIQ “lottery”.

As calculated in the below table the chance of a returnee from NSW spreading COVID-19 to the wider community is almost zero. A copy of the spread-sheet is attached if your advisors wish to alter any assumptions.

Given COVID-19 is already in the community (current 7 day rolling average of 24 daily cases), it appears illogical to make obtaining one of the limited MIQ spots a condition of returning to New Zealand given the low probably of a new case from a returnee from NSW adding to the daily totals (especially in Auckland/Waikato). The very minor COVID-19 risk is surely outweighed by the on-going damage to the large number of people’s mental health.

The Bill of Rights states that every New Zealand citizen has the right to enter New Zealand. Whilst there is a possible justification for curtailing this right due to health reasons, this surely can no longer apply given that COVID-19 is now “established”.

The logical solution seems to be:

·         to allow self-isolation for returnees from low risk countries to free up MIQ spots or,

·         reduce the MIQ stay to 7 days (which Australia is starting for self-isolation), or

·         urgently set-up more MIQ spots.

If the MIQ policy is not going to be relaxed in the next month, could you please advise what “the plan” is, so those stranded overseas can make suitable future arrangements rather than being left in eternal limbo by the on-going torture of MIQ lotteries. I look forward to your response and would be happy to discuss any matters.

Four times the Government was told they needed capacity to contact trace 1,000 cases a day and four times they assured us they could. But not at not even 10% of that level, it is falling away.

Newshub reports:

Health officials have revealed they’re no longer spending time trying to find out how mystery cases became infected, and the focus is instead turning to isolating contacts of mystery cases.

So they’re no longer tracing backwards to the source, just forward.

There’s also been a shift to focusing just on high-risk cases, for example, an essential worker who tests positive. 

Not all cases are having their contacts traced.

Additionally, ringing casual contacts has been scrapped. 

And not all contact are being traced, of those they even bother to do.

Stuff reports:

Wellington City councillor Nicola Young has accused senior council staff of acting undemocratically by investigating her for an alleged conflict of interest without her knowledge.

Council officers commissioned a legal opinion from prominent lawyer Andrew Butler on whether she was conflicted on the Wellington Central Library vote because her son works at Beca – a firm that put forward a design proposal.

This is outrageous to get a secret legal opinion behind the back of a Councillor, because staff think there may be a conflict. If you think there is a potential conflict, discuss it with the Councillor.

Young said she was not consulted before the legal opinion was sought. She was provided with the opinion at a meeting with council staff in September.

“I thought it improper for officers to have commissioned a legal opinion without first discussing it with me, especially as their concerns had not been raised at any stage before this meeting,” she said.

I’d be furious also.

Earlier this year, Foster sought legal advice from law firm Simpson Grierson to try to stop Fitzsimons and other councillors from sharing opinions about the library proposals.

Also wrong. Councillors are allowed yo express an opinion in public on an issue. It’s why we elect them.

Stuff reports:

Brad Stephenson’s father only has one or two days to live.

But Stephenson has been denied an exemption to leave MIQ early to say a final farewell despite being double vaccinated and having tested negative for Covid-19.

Stephenson has been fully vaccinated since June, and has taken three PCR tests in the last nine days. But his application to leave the Crowne Plaza facility early has been declined on the grounds he poses too much of a health risk to New Zealand.

How someone ever thought giving bureaucrats the final say over life and death situations like this is beyond me. Just as the tough immigration decisions go to the Minister, as he can use discretion to take account of individual circumstances, so should these sort of decisions. I bet you any elected (not appointed) official who actually has to face meeting those affected by their decisions would grant permission to leave early.

And when we have over 100 new cases a day already in the community, the decision goes from merely uncaring to truly despicable.

A reader writes in:

Im hoping you may be able to help me  raise some awareness.

Someone very close to me, like a relatively small number of people is unable to have a Pfizer vaccine due to allergy (others also due to existing medical conditions.)

For some in the above groups an alternate such as Jensen or AstraZeneca (both approved here) would offer protection from Covid perhaps not as good as Pfizer but better than no vaccine by a long way.

I have been told after making enquires with both  the MOH and my local MP 

that no alternative is available nor are there plans to make one available and to talk a medical proffesional. (Very condescending) 

I find this situation disturbing are we a team of 5000000 as the govt likes to tell us or 5000000 less a few hundred who dont matter? These people are getting called Anti Vaxxers and finding themselves excluded socially due to current messaging its taking a serious toll on them.

Could you please raise awareness of the situation nd the lack of an alternate to help those that find themselves in purgatory.

If we can secure extra Pfizer in a rush surely securing a supply of an alternate option is doable. 

I think we should make another vaccine available for those who can’t take the Pfizer vaccine. We don’t need a lot of does, just say 5,000 or so.

The Pfizer vaccine is excellent, but if making another vaccine available will lift vaccination numbers, we should do it.

If this is what the Police call mainly behaving within the road rules, I’d hate to see what would qualify as not mainly behaving safely.

In the House on Tuesday in answering a question the Prime Minister said something that filled me with deep concern:

“We have always taken our own approach on Covid”

This is close to the equal of her ridiculous earlier statement.

“Do feel free to visit covid19.govt.nz – otherwise dismiss anything else. We will continue to be your single source of truth. When you see those messages, remember that unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth.”

We have had no apology for the highly inactive/arrogant/little-dance approach to the 100 days Covid-free. We have had no apology to the lack of plan – facilities/treatments, etc during that time. We have had no apology that the government let delta in and facilitated its spread.

Matthew Syed wrote a brilliant book called Black Box Thinking. The premise is that in an emergency you have to listen to all voices and perspectives – without hierarchy. He begins the book through telling two stories. One is the death of Elaine Bromley in an operating theatre during a very routine operation. He delves into the stats and finds that annual deaths from medical mistakes in the UK can be above 34,000.

Syed notes: “With open reporting and honest evaluation, these errors could be spotted and reforms put in place. We are so worried about failure that we create vague goals so no one can point the finger when we don’t achieve them.”

He then writes about the tragedy of United Airlines 173. Why did it crash? Because the pilot could not distract himself from one alarm (landing gear that was – in fact – down) to hear another (fuel) and listen to an engineer. He lacked “situational awareness”. In the death of Elaine Bromley it was the inability of hierarchical medical experts (the surgeon and anaesthetist) to listen to a nurse who had a more wholistic understanding of what was happening and a better time-frame.

The author then goes on to explain how the medical sector has remained in a state of hierarchical and money driven funk (e.g. 100% trust big pharma) … while airline travel has massively improved it’s safety protocols by listening to ALL voices – dissenting included.

If I ever read the word “expert” in our media again it will be too soon.

Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book is The Bomber Mafia. He tells a story, without judgement, of the attempt to develop precision bombing in WW2 that failed and ultimately morphed into fire-bombing 67 Japanese cities with napalm and Hiroshima and Nagasaki being nuked. 100,000 people burned to death in one night in Tokyo. It speaks of intransigent people – in a bubble – reinforcing each other’s theories and discounting other options.

Gladwell’s book remined me of the great documentary; The Fog of War – on aspects of the life of Robert McNamara. It is a deeply disturbing account on parts of WW2 and the course of developments in Vietnam. McNamara is a remarkable human but the documentary leaves you to do the thinking on morality. One huge value is the 11 lessons that McNamara stipulates. They seem to apply in our current situation:

Lesson #1: Empathize with your enemy.

Lesson #2: Rationality alone will not save us.

Lesson #3: There’s something beyond one’s self.

Lesson #4: Maximize efficiency.

Lesson #5: Proportionality should be a guideline in war.

Lesson #6: Get the Data.

Lesson #7: Belief and seeing are both often wrong.

Lesson #8: Be prepared to re-examine your reasoning.

Lesson #9: In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil.

Lesson #10: Never say never.

Lesson #11: You can’t change human nature.

Like the documentary does I will leave you to judge if our government is applying any of these.

Today’s announcement cloaked some things.

1. There is no chance of Auckland coming out of Level 3 prior to November 29. Personally – I will now miss 6 of the first 7 months of my grand-daughters life in Auckland. I have already missed the first year of my grand-son’s life in the USA and there is no light in the tunnel due to the MIQ situation. No nuance or consideration of situation.
2. There is very little chance that all DHBs will get to 90% double-vaxxed – for some the possibility is many months away. Blamings the population when you, as the government, have stuffed up is poor politics 101.
3. Personal freedoms are being sucked out like only the best Dyson can do.
4. There is no major push towards alternative vaccinations or high-quality therapeutics/treatments.
5. Stating the “Auckland has done all of the heavy lifting” shows a complete lack of empathy for all of the separated families and all of the provincial businesses smashed by a complete lack of tourism. Not only does this government lack empathy for Auckland – including education – but it has very little idea about the provinces either. The South Island really should secede.
6. There seems to be no plan, or statistical change of status, in respect of the fact that the Pfizer vaccine is losing over half or its transmission protection within 6 months. People who received their second dose in May or before should start coming of the fully vaccinated list. In terms of passing the disease to children I have little interest in the vaccination status of teachers – I want to know if they have the virus and there is no hint of rapid antigen tests being provided in education.

I am a very distracted driver so Karen, my wife, drives on most of our long trips. There is too much great stuff to see out of the window. When ever we are driving, though, we have one clear agreement – the passenger always has the right to speak up whenever they perceive a hazard – with no grumping back! It has prevented a significant number of fender benders.

I have completely lost confidence that our government is listening to any of the passengers – or people world-wide who can help.

Alwyn Poole

[email protected]

National has released a 30 page economic plan to help families and businesses through covid. Key details include:

• Increase wage subsidy eligibility to Level 2, recognising even Level 2 makes it hard for some businesses to operate
• Reduce revenue loss criteria from 40% to 30%
• Increase level of wage subsidy from $600 to $800 per fulltime staffer
• Require MSD to process applications within five days
• Give businesses in Level 3 and 4 a 50% rent subsidy
• Give employers the legal ability to require vaccinations, if a risk assessment shows it is necessary
• Take any area with at least 70% vaccination rates and no Covid cases to Level 1
• Allow fully vaccinated businesses to operate at Level 2, even if community is in Level 3 or 4
• Reduce company tax rate from 28% to 17.5% for two years for businesses with fewer than 20 staff
• Move threshold for 10.5% rate from $14,000 to $17,000 for two years giving every taxpayer $420 more over two years
• A two year moratorium on and new regulations or law changes that increase costs for businesses

All good stuff.

• Vaccine target of 90% fully vaccinated for each DHB in NZ
• New traffic light system of green/orange/red to come in when every DHB is 90% vaccinated
• Auckland will move to new red alert level when Auckland is 90% fully vaccinated
• Rest of NZ will move to orange alert level when all DHBs are 90% vaccinated

One Green co-leader is the Associate Minister for Housing and she wasn’t even informed in advance of the housing package announced on Tuesday. That tells you all you need to know about their influence on Government.