Skip to content

The Defiant

Commentary on politics, news, and current events

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
The Defiant
Menu
  • Home
  • Editor’s Notes
  • New Zealand
  • The Philippines
  • International Solidarity
×

New Zealand

Winston Peters Jacinda Ardern Judith Collins
New Zealand 
August 28, 2020August 30, 2020

New Zealand: How should we manage our borders and quarantine facilities?

Posted By: Louie Encabo 574 Views covid-19 pandemic, david seymour, featured, jacinda ardern, Judith Collins, managed isolation facilities, winston peters

With the re-emergence of COVID-19 in New Zealand, the issue of border security and managed isolation facilities has become a hot political topic. After

Read more
New Zealand 
August 16, 2020August 16, 2020

New Zealand: Should the election be pushed back to a later date?

Posted By: Louie Encabo 474 Views 2020 new zealand elections, david seymour, featured, jacinda ardern, Judith Collins, new zealand labour party, new zealand national party, winston peters

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will announce on Monday, 17th August the fate of this year’s general elections. Originally set for the 19th of September,

Read more
Jacinda Ardern Winston Peters Judith Collins
New Zealand 
August 14, 2020August 15, 2020

New Zealand: The re-emergence of COVID-19 has made this election a lot closer

Posted By: Louie Encabo 702 Views featured, jacinda ardern, Judith Collins, new zealand first, new zealand labour party, new zealand national party, winston peters

New Zealand was once hailed as a ‘global exemplar’ in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. While the rest of the world struggled to

Read more
Gerry Brownlee COVID-19 New Zealand
New Zealand 
August 9, 2020

New Zealand: I hate to admit it, but Gerry Brownlee has a point

Posted By: Louie Encabo 541 Views ashley bloomfield, community transmission new zealand, COVID-19, covid-19 pandemic, featured, gerry brownlee, jacinda ardern

On August 5th, Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield announced to New Zealanders that community transmission of COVID-19 in the country is “a matter of

Read more
New Zealand 
July 13, 2020July 29, 2020

New Zealand: the National Party are deliberately sabotaging the government’s COVID-19 efforts

Posted By: Louie Encabo 478 Views chris bishop, COVID-19, covid-19 pandemic, featured, hamish walker, michael woodhouse, michelle boag

This week, mainstream media revealed that personal details of New Zealand’s 18 active COVID-19 cases had been leaked. A data breach of this scale

Read more
New Zealand 
June 23, 2020

New Zealand: National’s Todd McClay crying crocodile tears over Rotorua quarantine facilities

Posted By: Louie Encabo 584 Views COVID-19, featured, managed isolation facilities, new zealand national party, rotorua, todd mcclay

The Member for Rotorua, Todd McClay, who is also a senior member of the National Party, took to social media to lambast the Coalition

Read more
Chris Bishop and Michael Woodhouse New Zealand National Party
New Zealand 
June 20, 2020June 21, 2020

New Zealand: What Chris Bishop’s “COVID tourists” saga revealed about the National Party

Posted By: Louie Encabo 841 Views chris bishop, COVID-19, featured, michael woodhouse, new zealand national party

After 23 days of having no new COVID-19 cases, being hailed as the envy of the rest of the world, New Zealanders were shocked

Read more
Nikki Kaye Todd Muller New Zealand National Party
New Zealand 
May 29, 2020May 30, 2020

New Zealand: Muller and Kaye’s ascension has opened a can of worms in the National Party

Posted By: Louie Encabo 664 Views featured, new zealand national party, Nikki Kaye, Simon Bridges, todd muller

When the National Party caucus moved to replace Simon Bridges as their leader with Todd Muller, their intent was to turn their fortunes around

Read more
New Zealand National Party Simon Bridges Paula Bennett Nikki Kaye Todd Muller
New Zealand 
May 21, 2020

New Zealand: The Duality of the National Party

Posted By: Louie Encabo 793 Views featured, national party leadership, new zealand national party, Nikki Kaye, Paula Bennett, Simon Bridges, todd muller

After a dismal polling result, many are predicting the impending demise of Simon Bridges’ reign as leader of the National Party. Last Tuesday’s Newshub-Reid

Read more
The Rt. Hon. Winston Peters, Deputy Prime Minister
New Zealand 
April 29, 2020May 9, 2020

New Zealand: Will the COVID-19 pandemic usher in a new era of economic nationalism?

Posted By: Louie Encabo 576 Views covid-19 pandemic, economic nationalism, featured, ministry of works, new zealand first, winston peters

With New Zealand moving to alert level 3, Parliament resumed in limited numbers on the 28th of April. As is customary, the leaders of

Read more

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts

Subscribe to TheDefiant.net

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Follow Us on Facebook

Follow Us on Facebook

Follow Us on Twitter

My Tweets

Previous posts

Article Categories

Follow us on Facebook

Follow us on Facebook

Follow us on Twitter

My Tweets

Sounding off

  • BOND on The Marcoses and their fake academic credentials
  • Ci on Remembering Charlie de Rosario: The First Desaparecido
  • Ci on Remembering Charlie de Rosario: The First Desaparecido
  • Flo on Epistemic Responsibility: Why Pro-Marcos Historical Revisionism is Inherently Wrong
  • Mang Banong on The Tulfos are Sorry for Being Caught
Copyright © 2023 The Defiant . All rights reserved.Theme: ColorNews Pro by ThemeGrill. Powered by WordPress.