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Slippery Hipkins & the Official Information Act
The Ombudsman can't do anything about it - can we help?
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Note 1: Unprecedented lawmaking, unprecedented (absence of) public consultation
From my April 2022 paper COVID-19 Emergency Powers: The New Zealand State, Medical Capture & the Role of Strategic Ignorance
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24 bills in a few days. Move along, nothing to see here.
The Queen died, and so we must push many controversal bills through quickly. Some thoughts on authority & some points made by New Zealand's blithe…
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Locking in Mandated Medicine by Short-Circuiting Democracy
When Select Committees make a habit of declaring public concerns about the safety of a mandated medicine are 'beyond the subject matter of the bill'.
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Open Letter to The New Zealand Principals' Federation
On the Ministry of Education requesting that the NZPF enforce mask wearing.
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OIA Request - Where's the science?
Are we observing the cherry-picking and side-lining of the scientific literature throughout the COVID-19 event, or is a body of methodical analyses …
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Where is the Medsafe report stating the Comirnaty BNT162b2 product is safe and effective?
If only I could put my references on the OIA request form... so I'll have to do it here instead.
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2021 October consultations to the COVID-19 Amendment Bill. Were the NZ public gamed?
What can we consult to? The surprising lack of vaccine references in an October Amendment Bill, & the astonishing maelstrom of references in a second…
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TASA 2022 Conference paper presentation: SCIENCE FOR WHOM?
Manufacturing social consent for government policies through the control of science production.
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COVID-19 & the science. Deny, dismiss, divert & displace.
OIA request responses by the Minister of COVID-19 Response; the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet; Ministry of Health; and the Ministry of…
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Uninformed & (basically) overnight - the Severe Weather Emergency Recovery Legislation Bill
Over-reach via Orders in Council, legacy extensive secrecy provisions continuing to & ignorance in this Bill... & one day to submit!
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COVID-19 IN NEW ZEALAND. ETHICS & THE SETTING ASIDE OF NORMATIVE PRINCIPLES.
Discussion paper - PDF downloadable.
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