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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 1153 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

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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 1010 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

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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 867 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

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New Zealand 
June 23, 2020

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

Posted By: Louie Encabo 996 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

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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 1308 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

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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 1133 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

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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 1263 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

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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 958 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

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New Zealand 
April 26, 2020April 28, 2020

New Zealand: Has Simon Bridges’ time come?

Posted By: Louie Encabo 1121 Views featured, Judith Collins, national party leadership, new zealand national party, Simon Bridges

After a litany of disastrous PR stunts, many believe Simon Bridges’ time as leader of the National Party has come to an end. Recently,

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stock photo COVID-19 stay home save lives
New Zealand 
April 19, 2020April 19, 2020

New Zealand: Are we ready to leave the alert level 4 lockdown?

Posted By: Louie Encabo 1022 Views alert level 4 lockdown, COVID-19, covid-19 pandemic, featured, jacinda ardern

In late March, New Zealand was placed under lockdown to stymie the spread of COVID-19. Under alert level 4, only “essential” businesses could remain

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