State of emergency declared for Auckland Auckland flooding live updates: Day two A third death related to the flooding around Auckland has been confirmed this afternoon. Police have confirmed that Fire and Emergency workers at a Shore Rd property that had been hit by a landslide found one person deceased earlier today. Police will now make enquiries on behalf of the Coroner. Two other deaths have been linked to the flooding – one body was found in a flooded culvert…
Middlemore Hospital ED delay investigated: ‘Healthy’ 50yo woman dies with brain bleed after told to wait eight hours 16 Jun, 2022 A “healthy” 50-year-old woman has died with brain bleed after allegedly being told by staff at Middlemore Hospital’s emergency department there would be an eight-hour wait before she was examined. The woman presented to ED with a severe headache yesterday at 1am and was told there would be an eight hour wait, a doctor – who asked not to…
Jacinda will feel most at home. Guy Hatchard’s comments are below Jacinda Ardern uses Harvard speech to lash ‘keyboard warriors’, attack disinformation Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has used her Harvard commencement address to attack online misbehaviour and disinformation. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has received an honorary degree from Harvard University and used her commencement speech to take aim at unhygienic “keyboard warriors”, disinformation and the role played by the big tech companies, while painting New Zealand as a progressive but…
Not even in the headlines but buried on the website. I mean, what could be less important than feeding ourselves?! I personally don’t believe in coinkydinks. Everything has to be contextualised. Levin storm ‘will have effect on national supplies’ – Veges NZ Some Levin growers have been hit hard in today’s hail and thunderstorm, with one likening the damage to a shot gun blast to the veges. Locals describe a mini tornado hitting early this morning, ripping trees up, roofs…
The Government is under pressure to reveal more details about how Aucklanders will be able to leave the region over the Christmas and summer period. COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins this week suggested the Government was considering allocating time slots to travellers, something that deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson then called impractical. But it wasn’t ruled out in a statement from Hipkins on Thursday, when he said the Government was “committed” to Aucklanders travelling and that decisions were yet to…
We hear about the “event injury” (they are worthy of assistance) but nothing about small businesses that are amongst those that actually FEED us – that is unimportant. Newshub, 28 September, 2021 Vaccine passports are tentatively set to be introduced in early November in the hopes of kickstarting the stagnating event industry. A vaccine passport, or vaccine certificate, is a document confirming its bearer has been immunised. The concept has gained traction overseas as it allows vaccinated individuals to…
Stabbing in New Zealand supermarket was ISIS-inspired terrorist attack – prime minister RT, 3 September, 2021 A stabbing attack in an Auckland supermarket in which multiple people were injured was an act of terrorism, New Zealand’s prime minister says. The suspect was shot dead by police. “This afternoon, at approximately 2:40pm, a violent extremist undertook a terrorist attack on innocent New Zealanders in the New Lynn Countdown [supermarket] in Auckland,” Ardern said at a press conference. The suspect was a known…
ARE YOU THOROUGHLY CONFUSED YET? QUOTE: “The wife is fully vaccinated. She’s in a different age group, and she has tested negative, but one of the things we’re going to do is retest her and also do serology, because we are not assuming she might not have been infected, perhaps asymptomatically because she’s vaccinated, and infected her partner.” About as obvious as night follows day that this would be the narrative Coronavirus: Experts fear new COVID-19 cases are just ‘tip…
