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BREAKING: Vaccine Passports Legal Challenge Initiated

From The Health Forum NZ

If you thought the news on Friday about the lifting of mandates for NZDF and Police was amazing, we now have some more exciting news!

United We Stand, the group of Defence and Police staff that successfully challenged the government on the legality of their vaccine mandates, are now challenging the government on the mandatory use of COVID Vaccination Certificates (CVC or vaccine passports) right across the board for all Kiwis.

Their core arguments include the fundamental argument that CVCs do not prevent or limit the risk of outbreak or spread of COVID-19.

United We Stand are represented by Frontline Law that are asking that the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Protection Framework) Order 2021 is either revoked or amended to remove the CVC requirement by the 4th of March 2022 or they will apply for judicial review of the Order.

As a group of Defence and Police staff, United We Stand have said that they feel it is their duty to fight for New Zealanders and their freedoms. The vaccine passport system is divisive and a huge breach of fundamental rights that isn’t justified by the increasingly questionable benefit in stopping COVID-19 spread. A promise of removing it soon is not good enough. It needs to go now!

Hold the line everyone.

(If you are interested in supporting this case please donate through the United We Stand page https://www.unitedwestand.nz/support)

Photo: EnviroWatchRangitikei

NZ Human Rights Commission: “It’s clear that the protesters who I have met with have very real stories of loss & suffering … they feel broken & discarded due to the impact of Covid-19 health measures on their lives” (Hatchard Report)

Public Statement by Guy Hatchard Ph.D. Following a meeting with the Chief Commissioner Paul Hunt of the NZ Human Rights Commission

23 February 2022

Dear Commissioner

Thank you for providing the opportunity to present to yourself and staff yesterday afternoon. I did so as an individual scientist but on the invitation of Voices For Freedom. I remain independent of groups, but maintain communication with many groups and colleagues on scientific issues.

I am not a protestor, nor do I have any history prior to the pandemic of publicly opposing vaccination. I am formerly a senior manager at Genetic ID a global food safety testing and certification company (now known as FoodChain ID).

I am a long standing advocate of the benefits and safety of those natural approaches to diet and medicine which have been adequately scientifically verified. I have my own website, HatchardReport.com.

At the conclusion of the meeting you said that the HRC would make a public statement and left the participants free to make public statements themselves. Thank you.

This morning I read your public statement following the meeting which affirms that you feel a duty to listen, and adduces “It’s clear that the protesters who I have met with have very real stories of loss and suffering. They feel broken and discarded due to the impact of Covid-19 health measures on their lives.” You also expressed a measure of caution.

As a person experienced in the analysis of data and the assessment of scientific information, I am increasingly aware of deficiencies in official NZ pandemic data and its use to support continuations of now outdated government policy. Outdated government policy and incomplete official data directly impacts the rights of individuals.

For example, since 21 August 2021, the Ministry of Health (MoH) has been publishing data related to the Covid outbreak in a cumulative fashion. This data shows that 60% of cases occur in the vaccinated (against a vaccinated population rate of 79%), and that 70% of hospitalisations are among the unvaccinated.

This appears to strongly support vaccination, however it is misleading due to the cumulative nature of the data, (and incidentally because of the way vaccination status is categorised). Cumulative data only reveals the average of the whole outbreak, not the current daily and weekly trends.

Since October 2021, members of my support team have been calculating ‘snapshots’ of data by subtracting report data from each subsequent report. This has allowed me to see the current burden of cases by vaccination status for any specific time period, and to calculate the hospitalisation risk disparity for cases by vaccination status. Below is an example of the data between February 17 and 18:

This snapshot data paints a very different and relevant picture. It is indicative that during the present phase of our Covid outbreak, those that are vaccinated may be at slightly higher risk of hospitalisation than those who are unvaccinated. The general trends and overseas data support this concern.

You will be well aware that this is in contrast to government and media messaging strongly encouraging booster vaccinations as essential. If you ignore the crucial issue of very high rates of adverse effects, this could possibly be supported by the historical cumulative Covid data, but it is certainly not supported by current data.

The reason for the ineffectiveness of mRNA vaccination must also be obvious to you from yesterday’s presentations and the supporting submissions provided to you by presenters. The characteristics of Omicron are quite different from those of Delta. Omicron is a variant that has adapted to prefer infection of vaccinated individuals. From the perspective of genomics, this results from the well documented path of viral evolution.

I note that Medsafe has admitted in small print on its website, generally unnoticed and uncommented by media, that the phenomenon of vaccine acquired immune deficiency (which I allude to above) is a risk about which they have concern.

The Human Rights implications of this are also obvious. Incentives and encouragement to vaccinate, when its benefit is in doubt, but the risk of harm is well documented, do not amount to a process of informed consent or medical risk mitigation. Today in your public statement you clearly extend personal sympathy to those affected by adverse vaccine reactions.

Many among the wider population are becoming aware of risks through personal experiences. For example a friend of mine is a director of a large business, one of his relatives has been affected by myocarditis, but his work colleagues remained sceptical of any risk.

Recently the father of one of their employees had a booster shot immediately followed by a massive heart attack. As a result, the opinion of his colleagues has swung back in full support of my friend’s informed choice. This kind of experience is reforming public opinion up and down the country (and even I have heard in Parliament). It is no surprise that booster uptake has barely reached 50% of those eligible.

I come to the point of my writing, in addition to a big thank you for taking the time to listen at length, I submit that the human rights abuses are a matter of daily misery for many, extending to some dramatic and devastating personal health impacts which are escalating as booster shots are rolled out. In my opinion, it is not tenable to delay action.

The government has curated extremes of public opinion fearful of Covid outcomes, in favour of experimental mRNA vaccination, and prejudiced against those reluctant to vaccinate. As you know, this has extended to punitive measures.

As published evidence has accumulated which points to increased health risks of vaccination and therefore a need to revise policy, the government has dug its heels in and doubled down on announcements of vaccine safety and effectiveness. The Ministry of Health’s restricted presentation of data along with its refusal to institute mandatory reporting of adverse effects verges on the deliberately misleading and implies a cover up.

I surmise from your extensive history of supporting human rights, that you will know there is a fine line between unfortunate mistakes and deliberate suppression of fact. I believe that line is now being crossed in New Zealand.

Leadership in this situation involves a willingness to speak up, even if the message may be unwelcome, and a capacity to change direction. Every day that passes by without action means growing economic misery and exclusion for some and crucially some serious health incidents for others. There is an imperative for the Commission to stand up and say unequivocally there is a case which has been made and needs to be answered. A case that requires an open public dialogue.

Therefore I warmly welcome your statement:

The job given to the Human Rights Commission, Te Kāhui Tika Tangata, by Parliament is to listen, conciliate, educate and advance human rights and responsibilities for all”

I am asking you here to follow this statement with a timely call for a wider public process that will go beyond a possibly poorly informed, and certainly based on past experience, opaque review confined within the corridors of parliamentary power. The HRC is there to protect and uphold rights independently from parliament.

As I indicated in my submission, incidence of adverse effects and death proximate to Covid vaccination in NZ and elsewhere have far surpassed thresholds set by medical ethics and protocol that should also trigger an immediate pause in vaccination. This is not a time to delay, the situation has already passed beyond a point requiring prompt action. Can you please advise me of the intended HRC time frame?

I will, as you have already indicated I may, make this statement publicly available.

I look forward to hearing more from the Commission shortly. I remain ready to provide any scientific information you need within a short time frame. As you know, I have already submitted to the HRC a list of 1000 published papers on adverse effects of mRNA vaccination.

Yours sincerely

Guy Hatchard PhD

For more information: HatchardReport.com

Major Chink in NZ Govt’s Armor as Police and Defense Force Mandates Ruled Unlawful

 

By Steve ‘Snoopman’ Edwards, 24 February 2022

A decision by a New Zealand High Court judge who ruled the vaccine mandates for NZ police and defense force staff were unlawful — is a major chink in the armor of the Government’s Covid Regime.

Justice Francis Cooke who acknowledged the complainants had the right to refuse a medical treatment and that their employment should not be threatened by such a refusal — also stated the mandatesbreached the Bill of Rights and were a coercive measure that infringed upon domestic and international law.


This decision, released Friday February 24 2022, comes amid an escalation in the Wellington District Police command’s siege strategy throughout this week. This siege strategy — which has seen the placement of several dozen half-tonne bollards to encircle the Freedom Occupation’s vehicles, supporting infrastructure and access points — was a provocative move to forestall the Ardern Government having to parlay with the Covid-mandate resistors.

This dispatch concludes that the position of the New Zealand Police is untenable, especially since they have been beating up, arresting and otherwise intimidating those awake Kiwis who made the effort to demonstrate as peacefully as they could in Wellington. Their resolve to peacefully protest — amid repeated unlawful provocations by the Constabulary — to end the vaccine mandates regime, is now vindicated by this High Court decision that the vaccine mandates imposed on the police and defense force are unlawful.

Steve ‘Snoopman’ Edwards points out the NZ Police, the Ardern Government and the Wellington Political Elite have lost their sanctimonious legal, political and moral high ground to claim the Freedom Occupiers have no legal right to camp at Parliament Grounds and the surrounding streets.

Given the High Court has ruled that the vaccine mandates imposed on the very forces the state can wield to remove the totalitarian resistors are actually unlawful, the Ardern Government, NZ Police and Wellington Political Elite should capitulate immediately —
and with great humility —admit they were wrong to breach New Zealanders’ rights to economic security.

Friday 24 February 2022: Ironically, a major chink in the armor of the New Zealand Government is the High Court decision of February 24 that quashed the vaccine mandates for police and defense force personnel, by deeming such coercion as ‘unlawful’.

In this crucial win for the anti-mandate occupiers at Parliament Grounds, Justice Francis Cooke acknowledged the complainants had the right to refuse a medical treatment and that their employment should not be threatened by such a refusal.

Suspended workers of the New Zealand Police and Defence Force who challenged the Covid-19 vaccine mandates in the High Court should now be able to return to work, said Justice Cooke.

Justice Cooke admitted that the vaccine mandates for police and defense forces were implemented to promote public confidence in those services, rather than to stop the spread of Covid-19. Justice Francis Cooke stated:

“In essence, the order mandating vaccinations for police and NZDF staff was imposed to ensure the continuity of the public services, and to promote public confidence in those services, rather than to stop the spread of Covid-19. Indeed health advice provided to the government was that further mandates were not required to restrict the spread of Covid-19. I am not satisfied that continuity of these services is materially advanced by the order.”

READ AT THE LINK

RELATED:

BREAKING: Vaccination Mandates for Soliders and Officers Illegal – Court rules in favour of NZDF and Police

Court Agrees It’s Time to Move On From Mandates

Covid-19: Judge overturns police and Defence Force vaccine mandate

Photo: By Pear285 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37848206

NZ: The world watched our politicians cower behind a wall of shamefully compromised police officers

Wake Up Kiwi: The Right Side Of History: Wellington Update

Right now, all eyes are on Wellington, and the world watched our politicians cower behind a wall of shamefully compromised police officers.
Their yellow bellies were on full display, and millions are witnessing their despicable actions. Regardless of what happens next, exposure of their deplorable behaviour will go down in history as a massive turning point in the battle for freedom.

Related: The Corona Crisis: Is the Tide Turning? “A Rapid General Awakening”?
Remember, it’s level headed, focused, and considered action with integrity that will triumph in the end, not emotion-fuelled antics. We’ll leave that to the police.

The lies and tyranny will collapse under the weight of truth piling up. Soon, someone will break ranks, and the dominoes will begin to fall.

We will keep pushing forward until it happens. Some politicians are even starting to make noises in this space as they recognise that this is not a fringe minority.

But, we must keep the pressure on..

Vax mandates divide our nation, impact New Zealanders’ ability to work and provide for their families, and participate in life in general. It remains our goal to increase public awareness of these things.

By awakening enough of the people of New Zealand, the mandates will inevitably fall.

Whether it happens today, at the next demonstration, or the one after, it will happen; it is unstoppable.

And, until then, every single action makes a difference.



Related: NZ prime minister Jacinda Ardern says vaccine side effects are PROOF the vaccine is working: Does this include heart attacks and death?


Here are some incredible wins to acknowledge so far with the Freedom Convoy and EVERYONE involved!

Kiwis in their tens of thousands have stood up and spoken out – they drove in cars, trucks, motorhomes, motorbikes and even push-bikes in the convoy. They stood on roadsides and over-bridges and shared on social media.

People have rallied around to supply food, water, necessities, and support to those dedicated to the cause. THIS is the New Zealand we all know and love.

Hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders have seen us. They have seen the heart of this peaceful movement. They are beginning to understand we are many, and we are standing for them.

The disgraceful behaviour of our politicians and police has been in full sight. The people have seen the refusal of the MPs to come outside Parliament and listen to legitimate democratic protest. They have witnessed the completely unnecessary police brutality in the face of a peaceful stand.

Even the mainstream media has been unable to ignore us any longer, with all newspapers and television channels covering the story (albeit facts often losing to their fiction).

National and Act have shown we have no true opposition in this Government. All are captured. However, they have at least had to move to demand a timeframe to the end of the mandates.

Finally, we have seen ex MPs speaking up – Rodney Hide, Matt King and Winston Peters have been forthright in their condemnation of the Government’s treatment of New Zealanders making a peaceful stand.

Our voice and message are being heard. Now is not the time to give up – it is time to think and act strategically.

Related: Fake Science, Invalid Data: There Is No Such Thing As A “Confirmed Covid-19 Case” & Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s Highly Anticipated Book, “The Real Anthony Fauci”

So, what next?

Those in Wellington are calling for support – and numbers matter!


People ARE legally permitted to gather on the streets surrounding the grounds, so if you are willing and able, let’s wrap our support around Wellington.

We know that more people plan to convoy down to Wellington from other parts of the country. If this is your plan, please be mindful of the situation you will be entering and come prepared. Make sure you have somewhere to stay, food, water, and appropriate clothing.

And a reminder that Voices for Freedom stands for integrity, honour and respect. We do not condone aggressive, violent or unlawful behaviour. We encourage people to act calmly and respectfully, even when opposed or challenged, in line with our Code Of Conduct.

In The Meantime..


Let’s continue to show the rest of the country, and indeed the world, that Kiwis are peaceful and dedicated in their stand for our freedoms! Let’s get out on the streets to stand in solidarity throughout New Zealand.

>>>> AND BE SURE TO CAPTURE IT ON CAMERA <<<<

Remember, we’re all in this together. We are going to get out of it together too.

SOURCE: http://www.wakeupkiwi.com/news-articles-90.shtml#Update

A Call Out to Groundswell – Your Country Needs You Again – Right Now

By Kiwi4Justice

We’ve all been watching the incredible scenes in Wellington, as well as Canberra and Ottawa. Unprecedented historic gatherings to fight for freedom of those respective countries.

It’s really great to see Groundswell and ‘NZ Farming’ both coming out recently in support of the Wellington Freedom Camp. But now we need you all supporting this unprecedented movement in huge numbers on the ground as well as in your great words of support.

Groundswell achieved something really incredible when it got tens of thousands of tractors rolling through towns and cities right across New Zealand last year. It was so massive that it absolutely rocked and shocked the NZ government to its core with the gigantic scale of the turnout. It is quite possibly the seed that germinated into the current massive truck convoys around the world, including NZ.

Groundswell have been very much focusing their actions and attention around the ridiculously restrictive and impossible farming legislation being rolled out by the government, and have so far stayed away from mixing with the various protest actions around the government’s COVID policies and vaccine mandates. But right now, the Wellington Freedom Camp needs all hands on deck, irrespective of potential differences of opinion with some people on certain things around the vaccine issue. A fully united approach is needed from all sectors of NZ society and all Kiwis. The Wellington Freedom Camp is not specifically an anti-vax or anti-mandate rally. In fact, a significant percentage of the people at the Wellington Freedom Camp are fully vaxxed. The Wellington Freedom Camp is representative of the whole country standing up and saying NO to a government that is totally out of control on every single front of NZ life, including vaccine mandates which are creating apartheid, insane farming legislation, and countless other major issues right across the board of NZ society.

Many involved in the Groundswell movement were sparked into action last year by learning the disconcerting knowledge of how the NZ government is deliberately and completely selling NZ out, including the farming sector, through the implementation of United Nations Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030. Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 not only have the intention of wiping out local farming in NZ, but also the intention of wiping out our entire way of living and our freedoms for all Kiwis. Wiping out the farming sector as well as controlling all people through vaccine mandates linked to Digital IDs are both crucial elements of UN Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030. So we are all in this thing together. There is already a direct crossover between the farming sector and the vaccine mandates with the recent announcements of Silver Fern and Fonterra staff being mandated for COVID vaccines, which is leading to huge job losses in those companies.

So in reality the Wellington Freedom Camp needs to represent all of NZ and all sectors coming together to say NO to UN Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030. It is about NZ collectively standing up and saying to the government that the way we are being governed as a nation, and taking NZ headlong into these extreme globalist agendas is not at all acceptable and that we need a very different way of our country operating. Whether that relates to COVID policies, vaccine mandates, or farming legislation is irrelevant. It is all a part of Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030. We only have to look at how parliament and the government are treating the people at the Wellington Freedom Camp to know that something is very very wrong with the way this country is being operated. A totally peaceful protest has been met with brutal police force, followed by military style ‘psychological torture tactics’ of water sprinklers and music being blasted all night, and a total refusal to even engage in any type of dialogue. It is a government totally out of control, in all ways, not just on one specific issue. This problem requires a united approach to a shared and very major problem.

Groundswell has the potential to make an incredibly positive impact. If activated in the right way, Groundswell could make a thundering, nation changing impact in addition to the Wellington gathering, which is already an incredible stand by amazing patriotic Kiwis. With Wellington’s city centre already locked up by trucks, vans, and other vehicles, imagine the impact if 100-200 (or more) tractors rolling in to the centre of every major city in NZ. Then 50 tractors (or more) rolling into the centre of every town across NZ. How would Jacinda’s words look then when she labels this movement as nothing more than a small, irrelevant, and fringe minority of out of touch and crazy anti-vaxxers?

The Governor General is officially the only one who can dissolve parliament. What if Groundswell surrounded the Governor General with tractors until it was agreed to dissolve parliament? We need a new way of governing that doesn’t sell out our country to the extreme globalist ideas of Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030. If National were in power, or do get into power, things will be no different either.

The mainstream media is the biggest weapon that the NZ government has for implementing Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030. What if Groundswell surrounded all the main media networks with tractors until they agreed to tell the NZ people the truth instead of just being a paid off and controlled mouthpiece of the government and their extreme globalist agendas?

Groundswell could make a huge impact to help change and save this nation right now, including saving and turning around the farming sector as a key part of that. The Wellington Freedom Camp cannot just be a matter of getting the vaccine mandates dropped and everyone goes home with the job done. The job most definitely will not be done. It requires fundamental and seismic change to where and how our country is going in relation to these extreme globalist agendas and systems of control. It is literally now or never for NZ’s future. Everyone needs to unite together to help get this job done.

Tractors and Truckies coming together to save New Zealand. Let’s go tractors!

________________________________________________________________________

Added below here is comment from the Groundswell FB page on topic:

Groundswell NZ

❤️🇳🇿Parliament Protests🇳🇿❤️

This is a post written by Bryce McKenzie and is a feeling the rest of us in Groundswell NZ share. Groundswell NZ’s main focus continues to be on the unworkable regulations impacting the rural sector. Like increasing numbers of New Zealanders, farmers have felt badly maligned by this current government and its policies. Like the protestors in Wellington we also have been ignored by the Government and called denigrating names. We can empathize with their frustration.

Whether you agree or not with the people protesting on parliament grounds is not the debate anymore.

What this government, that proclaimed it would govern for all New Zealanders, has done is turn its back on a good number of its people.

How hard can it be to at least front up and talk to the people assembled on parliament grounds? The final straw for me and what prompted me to go public, is the way government is treating these people – turning the sprinklers on them knowing there was a storm coming, and playing loud music at night so as to not let them sleep and make them feel miserable – no farmer would treat animals like that!

Although this protest has a different focus to Groundswell NZ, we support their right to be heard and cannot understand or agree with the Governments actions.

What is becoming of our once united and proud country ❤️🇳🇿


Photo: tommybass0 video screenshot

NZ Police brutality at Parliament: a 17 YO teen is injured … restrained by full body force on his head

See how NZ Police restrained a young 17 YO teen today, caught on video. Onlookers scream in horror at the tactics used.

“Get off his *** head!! He’s just a kid!!” 

(and there is more …eye witnesses report and other videos supplied.. note also his age has been corrected, had been originally stated to be 14)

WATCH / READ AT THE LINK:
(Please note links are being censored if all else fails find truthwatchnz.is and see latest articles)

https://truthwatchnz.is/cv-injection-nz/nz-police-brutality-today-a-14-yo-boy-is-injured-restrained-by-full-body-force-on-his-head

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Red Light Runner – NgAngA’s Answer to Traffic Light Apartheid

From Collingwood in the Golden Bay, NZ

Innovative solutions in problematic times ….

“NgAngA has hit the national news headlines in recent weeks with his innovative business approach …” Kiwi4Justice

By Kiwi4Justice

He just calls himself NgAngA. The name is from his Australian Aboriginal tribe and it means ‘Peace Maker’. When you look around his quite incredible Café-Art Theatre in Collingwood, Golden Bay, it is very clear that the name is highly appropriate, and that NgAngA is no ordinary human-being.

READ AT THE LINK

https://truthwatchnz.is/cv-injection-nz/red-light-runner-nganga-s-answer-to-traffic-light-apartheid

Liz Gunn’s rebuttal of MSM – (18 Jan 2022)

RELATED STORY: 5 Kids allegedly collapse after the jab today at North Shore Stadium & One News scuttle off declining to report on it ! SHARE!! (updated)

Liz Gunn was simply calling out MSM for their failure to act as true journalists. Right on cue MS skews the intent.

READ & WATCH AT THE LINK:

https://truthwatchnz.is/covid-19-experimental-injection-nz/liz-gunn-s-rebuttal-of-msm-s-hit-piece-on-the-rumoured-ak-stadium-incidents-18-jan-2022

Sarah’s ‘jab, no job’ story

By Peter Drew

The saying ‘No Jab, No Job’ has become common place around New Zealand and around the world. But Sarah Carter’s story is different. Her story is one of ‘Jab, No Job’…

READ AT THE LINK:

https://truthwatchnz.is/covid-19-experimental-injection-nz/sarah-s-jab-no-job-story

NZ rising up

A freedom rally in Wellington Thursday 16th Dec, 2021. A great success by reports I’ve seen and heard. Of most note is whore media’s ongoing lying. They reported there were just a few thousand there … yet people on the ground estimated a whopping 20 to 30K. People have had enough … enough of all the inconsistencies, the lies, the silence on the independent data ….

READ AT THE LINK

https://truthwatchnz.is/?view=article&id=401:nz-rising-up&catid=2

NZ’s Traffic Light System Easily Explained

By Wally Richards

The Traffic Light System Explained Easily..

Mandated sectors workers are safe to work with one vaccine but their customers must have two…. (read at the link below)

SOURCE

PB Tech will become a Vaccinated Business from Monday 6th December (NZ)

Where to spend your dollars? This is from the Health Forum NZ. PB Tech announces in-store sales are for the vaxxed only. Not a legal requirement, however this store has opted to exclude the unvaxxed who are only able, if they wish to shop there, to purchase via click and collect. No thanks PB Tech.

READ AT THE LINK

https://truthwatchnz.is/cv-injection-nz/pb-tech-will-become-a-vaccinated-business-from-monday-6th-december

EVERY PARENT IN NEW ZEALAND NEEDS TO KNOW THIS TO MAKE AN INFORMED CHOICE FOR THEIR 5 TO 11 YEAR OLD

From the Health Forum NZ at MeWe. Examining the strange case of how vaccinations came to be scheduled for children and youth.

Yesterday the government announced that they would begin vaccinating 5 to 11 year olds before the end of January 2022. WHY? We examine the strange case of how vaccinations came to be scheduled for children and youth.

Harm from covid for children and young adults is incredibly rare

A study published in Nature drawing upon multiple studies finds the death among children under 18 years from covid is ‘incredibly rare’. The recorded rate of death is just 2 in each million cases. Half of these are clearly linked to comorbidities. This is very very very low. To put this in perspective the all cause death rate among the 15-19 age group in NZ is of the order of 500 per million per year which utterly dwarfs possible covid deaths. So there is nothing significant to fear. Virtually all children and young adults catching covid will experience very mild symptoms and develop long lasting natural immunity, rather than the rapidly waning partial immunity conferred by vaccination, which will necessitate regular jabs in future.

READ AT THE LINK

https://truthwatchnz.is/cv-injection-nz/every-parent-in-new-zealand-needs-to-know-this-to-make-an-informed-choice-for-their-5-to-11-year-old

A NZ Doctor examined an unjabbed pregnant woman in the boatshed out back of the clinic

A pregnant woman in NZ is medically examined in a boatshed. Cobwebs hanging. Because she was unvaxxed. Disgusting…

Video from the Health Forum NZ: includes your rights to treatment as a non vaxxed citizen, from the Medical Council’s own documentation.

READ AT THE LINK:

https://truthwatchnz.is/cv-injection-nz/unvaxxed-pregnant-woman-who-presented-for-urgent-treatment-was-examined-in-a-boatshed-out-the-back-discussing-your-right-to-medical-treatment-health-forum-nz

We will not cede our sovereignty … under He Whakaputanga you have no authority over us

NZ’s lamestream media reports on a press conference in Northland where the folk are not too sucked in by the pressure to be injected with the untested, still trialing, mRNA experimental jab.

With typical lamestream bias anybody asking pertinent questions of the (not) esteemed PM Ardern is dubbed a ‘heckler’ as was the man with a question about Israel, and the woman speaking up loudly about sovereignty is predictably assigned to the ‘anti-vax’ basket. The conference moved inside, to exclude the ‘hecklers’.

READ AT THE LINK

https://truthwatchnz.is/cv-injection-nz/we-will-not-cede-our-sovereignty-under-whakaputanga-you-have-no-authority-over-us

RELATED:

Due to protests, twice in one day Jacinda Ardern has been forced to cancel her PR visits to COVID-19 injection clinics … NZers are waking up

COVID-19 Public Health Response Amendment Bill (No.2) – a submission

Dear NZ Government,

I reject this Amendment Bill as well as the original Health Response Bill No.1. In particular I reject all aspects of it related to the COVID-19 vaccine. Any continued roll out of the current mass vaccine programme, especially the continuation and increasing powers of vaccine mandates through Vaccine certificates and ‘no jab, no job’ is by law a crime against humanity according to the 1947 Nuremberg Code (see Appendix for reference) as well as the NZ Bill of Rights. Even ‘coercion’ for the COVID-19 vaccine is classified as a crime against humanity according to the Nuremberg Code…

READ MORE:

https://truthwatchnz.is/covid-19-experimental-injection/covid-19-public-health-response-amendment-bill-no-2-a-submission

A Response to the NZ Herald’s VX Debunking PART 2

“In Part 1 we provided some detailed background information around why this piece of so called ‘journalism’ was so out of order for a mainstream media outlet to be acting as the personal PR department for Jacinda Ardern to help with damage control around the avalanche of information and evidence pouring out in contradiction of everything that she and the NZ government are saying and doing regarding COVID-19 and the mass vaccination campaign. We also provided background information on why the claims of vaccine ‘misinformation’ were so misplaced.”

READ MORE

https://truthwatchnz.is/cv-injection-nz/a-response-to-the-nz-herald-s-vaccine-debunking-part-2

How to induce NZ’s so called ‘hesitant’

Back in mid 2020 ‘they’ were already figuring out how to induce you to take the untested experimental VX … EWR

From The Health Forum NZ @ Facebook

Yale University Clinical trials dated July 7, 2020, at the NZ govt website:

“This study tests different messages about vaccinating against COVID-19 once the vaccine becomes available. Participants are randomized to 1 of 12 arms, with one control arm and one baseline arm. We will compare the reported willingness to get a COVID-19 vaccine at 3 and 6 months of it becoming available…”

Some of the many options being tested include:
Not bravery message1/15 of the sample will be assigned to this message which describes how firefighters, doctors, and front line medical workers are brave. Those who choose not to get vaccinated against COVID-19 are not brave.
Other: Guilt message1/15 of the sample will be assigned to this message. The message is about the danger that COVID-19 presents to the health of one’s family and community. The best way to protect them is by getting vaccinated and society must work together to get enough people vaccinated. Then it asks the participant to imagine the guilt they will feel if they don’t get vaccinated and spread the disease.

Other messages include:

“Other: Personal freedom message
Other: Economic freedom message
Other: Self-interest message
Other: Community interest message”

READ MORE:

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04460703

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

NZ’s COVID 19 PUBLIC HEALTH RESPONSE (AND CV V) AMENDMENT ORDER 2021

Posted at The Health Forum NZ today:

READ AT THE LINK:

https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2021/0182/latest/whole.html?search=sw_096be8ed81af5745_Vaccination_25_se&p=1&fbclid=IwAR12MSsSTf-NCJujF9qVtpGR-XnOeJrdMNm-XJatt2Umi_y8FcxkwcQl2lg#LMS519341

Photo: The Health Forum NZ @ Facebook

EWR comment: note with each lockdown more laws are introduced or old ones tweaked. The plan is one world government remember. This is part of the process. Restrict freedoms. Whilst our ‘only source of truth’ has said there will be no mandatory vaccines, this is akin to mandatory via the back door. See our New World Order & Agenda 21/30 pages.

NZ’s CV VX roll out started at the end of February yet no serious injury data was even collected until 7th of April

From The Health Forum NZ @ Facebook

This week Medsafe announced a new form of “active surveillance” for CV V adverse reactions.
This will involve texting a random sample of 10% of V recipients, at various time intervals, soliciting information about reactions.
I am pleased to see this for of surveillance added….while also wondering why we waited for nearly 2 million CV Vs to be administered before acknowledging the need for this.
Having spent five months at the Citizens “coal face” of death and injury, one thing i know for sure…
the “passive” surveillance we have had to date has done an abysmal job of collecting and collating the true extent of injury.
Our roll out started at the end of February and no serious injury data was even collected until 7th of April, and then only incidence of anaphylaxis.
The other serious incidences of heart attacks, strokes, Bels Palsy etc was not monitored until 15th May.
Note the warning that “causal link has not been proven so harm should be treated as a coincidence”

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A reminder: Ardern said the VX will NOT be compulsory

https://www.facebook.com/100004716580523/videos/1867333303433871/

Remember this also:

The CV Jab: Compare possible side effects listed by the NZ Govt with those listed by the FDA

Here are those supplied by the authorities in NZ:

The most common reported reactions are:

  • pain or swelling at the injection site
  • feeling tired or fatigued
  • headache
  • muscle aches
  • chills
  • joint pain
  • fever
  • redness at the injection site
  • nausea.

Uncommon side effects

In the clinical trials, uncommon side effects were reported in every 1 in 100 to 1 in 1,000 people. These include:

  • enlarged lymph nodes
  • feeling unwell
  • pain in limb
  • insomnia
  • itching at injection site

https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-vaccines/covid-19-vaccine-side-effects-and-reactions?fbclid=IwAR2N3PjfP5j23idAFNVCt7KGhJhS1EuCwfMdMiA4mR0VFs9pQc17Ey_K6CQ#side-effects

KNOWN POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS FROM THE COVID-19 EXPERIMENTAL mRNA INJECTION LISTED BY THE FDA

This is a draft list compiled by the FDA – the Food and Drug Administration in the US (link below):

Guillain-Barre syndrome, Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, Transverse myelitis,

Encephalitis, Myelitis, Encephalomyelitis, Meningoencephalitis, Meningitis, Encephalopathy,

Convulsions, Seizures, Stroke, Narcolepsy, Cataplexy, Anaphylaxis, Acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), Myocarditis, Pericarditis, Autoimmune disease, Death, Pregnancy, Birth outcomes,

Other acute demyelinating diseases, Non anaphylactic allergy reactions, Thromocytopenia,

Disseminated intravascular coagulation, Venous thromboembolism, Arthritis, Arthralgia, Joint pain,

Kawasaki disease, Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, Vaccine enhanced disease.

https://www.fda.gov/media/143557/download (see page 17)

You aren’t necessarily going to get all of those or even any of them if you have the vaccine. But those are the possible side effects that the FDA has listed. They’re all unpleasant, most of them very serious and you can’t get more serious than death. Below are the deaths & injuries reported to the official government data bases that occurred after taking the covid-19 injection. Remember only 1% on average are reporting.

CURRENT DEATH & INJURY STATS REPORTED:

USA: DEATHS –12,791 INJURIES: 682,873 (to July 2 )

UK: 1,559 DEATHS – INJURIES 1,135,579 (to June 23)

EUROPE: 20,525 – INJURIES 1,960,607 (to July 31)

AUSTRALIA – 313 DEATHS – 24000 INJURIES (to 20 June)

NEW ZEALAND – over 100 deaths (current)

For the articles on the deaths and injuries cited, go to the news page and at the right hand column, click on the images stating the stats.

A NZ law lecturer has come out against the arrest of anti-lockdown protesters in Auckland, calling it the death of democracy

A law lecturer has come out against the arrest of anti-lockdown protesters in Auckland yesterday, calling it the death of democracy

An AUT law lecturer has come under fire for posting a video in which she calls the arrests of Billy Te Kahika Jr and Vinny Eastwood a sign of the “death of democracy”.

Amy Benjamin, a lecturer of international law, went public with her take on the outcome of Thursday’s protest last night on YouTube.

She called the decision to go into a snap lockdown an “insane policy that probably amounts to a crime against humanity”.

In the video, she voiced outrage that Te Kahika Jr was arrested for peacefully protesting – which runs counter to police’s statement the arrest was made for the breach of the health order.

READ MORE

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/probably-a-crime-against-humanity-aut-law-professor-denounces-lockdown/ar-AANtDoA?ocid=msedgntp&fbclid=IwAR0m9Wsf9_CsRdqf7Xyw5RtPVAKdzUfG8eoDd6M1ytDR5doO3wOHM8h8oxg

Photo: Wikispooks.com

NZ mandates masks in specific locations

From Lawyer Sue Grey on changes brought in on Wednesday 18 August 2021.

COVID-19 Public Health Response (Alert Level Requirements) Order (No 9) Amendment Order 2021


READ AT THE LINK BELOW:

https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2021/0211/latest/LMS537260.html?fbclid=IwAR3RYwQslV0YbL5cSf4ShLhSzKlf-sUjXdYqg43KH3Fq_GDSsBjUKjwL798

Image by leo2014 from Pixabay

An important message from Lawyer Sue Grey to all frontline workers who are threatened with dismissal for saying no to the CV VX

From The Health Forum NZ page @ Facebook

IF YOU ARE A PORT WORKER WHO HAS SAID NO….AND YOUR JOB IS ON THE LINE, THIS IS VITAL INFORMATION FOR YOU

🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨🚨

A legal challenge is underway on behalf of the workers affected by the government’s recent No Jab, No Job legislation. 👩🏽‍⚖️👨🏻‍⚖️🧑‍⚖️
Voices For Freedom is proud to be supporting the challenge filed by employment advocate Ashleigh Fechney and lawyer Sue Grey.
Initial documents have been filed with the Employment Court and more news will be posted as soon as it’s available.
If you are a border worker (port, airport, MIQ) and this legislation affects your employment, please fill in the form linked to be kept up to date with developments and/or become involved as a plaintiff.
Note: Submitting your details does not mean you will be named in the case. It is simply an expression of interest and one of our team will be in touch with you shortly.
P.S. We will be setting up a legal fund for people wishing to contribute financially, so keep an eye out for that announcement.
https://form.jotform.com/212263239850858
Join the mailing list to keep up to date with the case! www.voicesforfreedom.co.nz

Further developments:

BREAKING NEWS … Ashleigh the Advocate, Derek the Advocate and lawyer Sue Grey, I with support from Voices for Freedom filed an urgent application in the Employment Court this afternoon.
We are seeking urgent protection for Crown airport and port employees who resist the draconian Vaccination Order “No Jab No Job” law and prefer not to have this experimental injection that Medsafe rejected for approval as a new medicine due to lack of evidence it was safe and effective.
If we are correct that the No Jab No Job law is unlawful, it will help protect the employment and human rights of many, and will force Minister Hipkins to explain his decisions and actions.
I will keep you posted.
If you would like to be on the mailing list please register with this form:

https://form.jotform.com/212263239850858?fbclid=IwAR0wswdCwWeq_4VZrbcN9kxMMqg1DOQCh-orK_UhTP9jqrajGQnzJfVBP1Y

Further comment from Sue:

Please could affected port and airport workers unite together and assemble lists of affected staff numbers and ways of connecting and sharing information quickly. We would like to be able to explain to the court the scale of the problem and why it would be best to have a single order to protect everyone rather than have to make separate applications for each group.

Image: Voices for Freedom.co.nz

Earlier post from the forum FYI:

URGENT!!
ALL FRONTLINE AND PORT WORKERS!!
URGENT!!


(Message below from Sue Grey)

THANK YOU for the amazing support and encouragement with the No Jab No Job Urgent Employment Court injunction application.
Judging by the number of messages, the scale of the problem is even bigger than I imagined.
Please could groups of affected port and airport workers unite together ( so far as you can) and assemble lists for each affected workplace of affected staff numbers with a contact person, and share these to vaxchallenge@letsbfree.com.
I suggest groups also set up ways of connecting and sharing information quickly. We have a conference with the Chief Judge at 2.30 today so need this asap before then please. We would like to be able to explain to the Employment Court the scale of the problem and why it would be best to have a single order to protect everyone, rather than have to make separate applications for each group.
NB the current “No Job No Jab” law applies to specific groups of Airside and Port workers. Information we have received makes clear that Minister Hipkins’ intends extending this to ALL PUBLIC SERVANTS and likely to other employees.
We hope judicial overview will help protect employee and other human rights, including informed consent and the freedom to accept or decline medical treatment and experimental treatment.

Header Photo: Port Tauranga, Attribution: http://www.freenzphotos.com @ Wikipedia

The NZ Govt knew in February ’21 that safety and efficacy info for the Pfizer VX was inadequate yet STILL declared it ‘safe & effective’

From NZ Lawyer Sue Grey:

Here in an extract from an information dump by Ministry of Health. Turns out they knew in Feb 2021 the safety and efficacy information was inadequate for approval of the PfizerVax. Despite this the govt declared it was “approved” and “safe and effective”.

RELATED (from the NZ Doctors nzdsos.com website):
https://nzdsos.com/2021/07/22/deaf-to-the-deaths/

Photo: FB screenshot

The CV Jab: Compare possible side effects listed by the NZ Govt with those listed by the FDA

Here are those supplied by the authorities in NZ:

The most common reported reactions are:

  • pain or swelling at the injection site
  • feeling tired or fatigued
  • headache
  • muscle aches
  • chills
  • joint pain
  • fever
  • redness at the injection site
  • nausea.

Uncommon side effects

In the clinical trials, uncommon side effects were reported in every 1 in 100 to 1 in 1,000 people. These include:

  • enlarged lymph nodes
  • feeling unwell
  • pain in limb
  • insomnia
  • itching at injection site

https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-vaccines/covid-19-vaccine-side-effects-and-reactions?fbclid=IwAR2N3PjfP5j23idAFNVCt7KGhJhS1EuCwfMdMiA4mR0VFs9pQc17Ey_K6CQ#side-effects

KNOWN POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS FROM THE COVID-19 EXPERIMENTAL mRNA INJECTION LISTED BY THE FDA

This is a draft list compiled by the FDA – the Food and Drug Administration in the US (link below):

Guillain-Barre syndrome, Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, Transverse myelitis,

Encephalitis, Myelitis, Encephalomyelitis, Meningoencephalitis, Meningitis, Encephalopathy,

Convulsions, Seizures, Stroke, Narcolepsy, Cataplexy, Anaphylaxis, Acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), Myocarditis, Pericarditis, Autoimmune disease, Death, Pregnancy, Birth outcomes,

Other acute demyelinating diseases, Non anaphylactic allergy reactions, Thromocytopenia,

Disseminated intravascular coagulation, Venous thromboembolism, Arthritis, Arthralgia, Joint pain,

Kawasaki disease, Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, Vaccine enhanced disease.

https://www.fda.gov/media/143557/download (see page 17)

You aren’t necessarily going to get all of those or even any of them if you have the vaccine. But those are the possible side effects that the FDA has listed. They’re all unpleasant, most of them very serious and you can’t get more serious than death. Below are the deaths & injuries reported to the official government data bases that occurred after taking the covid-19 injection. Remember only 1% on average are reporting.

CURRENT DEATH & INJURY STATS REPORTED:

USA: DEATHS – 13,627 – 2,826,646 INJURIES: (to Sept 11, 2021 )

UK: 1,662 DEATHS – INJURIES 1,204,555 (to Sept 15, 2021)

EUROPE: 24,526 – INJURIES 2,317,495 (to Sept 11, 2021)

AUSTRALIA – 524 DEATHS – 56,650 INJURIES (to Sept 15, 2021)

For the articles on the deaths and injuries cited, go to the home page at https://truthwatchnz.is/ at the left hand column, click on the link below each image stating the stats.

Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay

Stop the New Zealand government’s plan to seal Pike River mine!

From wsws.org

The Labour Party-led government is racing to shut down the underground investigation of Pike River coal mine. It aims to prevent the recovery of evidence that could lead to prosecutions of those responsible for the disaster which killed 29 workers in November 2010.

The Pike River Recovery Agency (PRRA), which has only explored the mine’s drift or entry tunnel, intends to pull workers and equipment out and start sealing the mine this week.

Nobody from Pike River Coal Ltd. has been prosecuted for the company’s egregious violations of workplace safety legislation, including grossly inadequate ventilation, which allowed methane gas to reach explosive levels. A 2012 royal commission of inquiry established that the company placed production ahead of workers’ safety and ignored numerous warnings of a catastrophe.

READ MORE

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/28/nzpi-j28.html?fbclid=IwAR1EWOIR2fBqjKI9sS81CigbcTaTYfK7vDN7xGFQpOnBlFdw6Mhtk9YfvQo

RELATED:

What is the New Zealand government trying to bury in Pike River mine?

Go to our Pike River Mine page to read an investigative report on the gross corruption behind this disaster.

Photo: wsws.org

NZ’s Medsafe approves Pfizer vaccine for 12-15 year olds! With 6-11 year olds also in their sights!

Thanks to Mike for alerting me to this info…

NZ’s MedSafe have approved the jab for 12 to 15 year olds WITH 6 TO 11 year olds IN THEIR SIGHTS!!. Watch at your schools people … they’ve been KNOWN before to pressure kids in parents’ absence to take jabs. Fact. Be proactive & make sure your school KNOWS your wishes on this. In Canada 12 Year olds can MAKE THEIR OWN DECISION and those kids are not being given (same as adults) the full picture on the 32 odd side effects (see below), one of those being death, not to mention myocarditis. FDA’s data (see below also). Not just the benign ‘sore arm, temperature’ stuff that MedSafe are telling us.

“Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has welcomed Medsafe’s “very carefully considered” provisional approval of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for children aged 12 to 15.” Parents, do ask to see documentation of the (very short) trials and the results. This injection is still experimental and trials (you are the trial) aren’t complete until 2023.

NOTE ALSO; “Director general of health Ashley Bloomfield said trials were also under way around children 6 to 11 being vaccinated”.

READ AT THE LINK:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-coronavirus-medsafe-approves-pfizer-vaccine-for-new-zealand-12-15-year-olds/3D2OPZZLOPOOMXY6LJT43Z4F2A/#

RELATED: In the last COVID vaccine study they “…killed every last ferret … & you are now the trial” (Human Rights Attorney)

New research shows why we should not vaccinate kids (Scroll down to Dr Brian Tyson’s info)

OTHER IMPORTANT INFO:


If you are considering the covid-19 jab consider the following info not provided by the NZ govt:

KNOWN POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS FROM THE COVID-19 EXPERIMENTAL mRNA INJECTION
This is a draft list compiled by the FDA – the Food and Drug Administration in the US (link below):

Guillain-Barre syndrome, Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, Transverse myelitis, Encephalitis, Myelitis, Encephalomyelitis, Meningoencephalitis, Meningitis, Encephalopathy, Convulsions, Seizures, Stroke, Narcolepsy, Cataplexy, Anaphylaxis, Acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), Myocarditis, Pericarditis, Autoimmune disease, Death, Pregnancy, Birth outcomes, Other acute demyelinating diseases, Non anaphylactic allergy reactions, Thromocytopenia,
Disseminated intravascular coagulation, Venous thromboembolism, Arthritis, Arthralgia, Joint pain, Kawasaki disease, Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children,Vaccine enhanced disease.
https://www.fda.gov/media/143557/download (see page 17)

You aren’t necessarily going to get all of those or even any of them if you have the vaccine. But those are the possible side effects that the FDA has listed. They’re all unpleasant, most of them very serious and you can’t get more serious than death. Below are the deaths & injuries reported to the official government data bases that occurred after taking the covid-19 injection. Remember only 1% on average are reporting.

CURRENT DEATH & INJURY STATS REPORTED: (links to reporting sites below)
USA: DEATHS – 4,863 INJURIES: 262,521 (to June 24 )
UK: 1,295 DEATHS – INJURIES 922,596 (to June 10th)
EUROPE: 13,867 – INJURIES 1,354,336 (to June 5th)
AUSTRALIA – 210 DEATHS – 22031 INJURIES (to 27 May)

WHERE TO REPORT AN INJURY OR ADVERSE REACTION:

VAERS USA https://tinyurl.com/yunna9nf

AEFI CANADA https://tinyurl.com/9979wkyx

YELLOW CARD UK https://tinyurl.com/adkpffp7

AUSTRALIA https://tinyurl.com/3upfafaw

WHAT SOME HEALTH PROFESSIONALS HAVE TO SAY

Great Barrington Declaration
As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection.
https://tinyurl.com/y785dmak

Physicians for Informed Consent
https://tinyurl.com/2wmnkek7

NZ Doctors Speaking Out With Science
https://tinyurl.com/kpvzuczf

DR SIMONE GOLD: ABOUT The CV19 VACCINE
https://tinyurl.com/h58nv7fu

America’s Frontline Doctors
https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/

An open letter signed by 32 NZ Medical professionals expresses concerns about the Pfizer ‘Comirnaty’ investigational vaccine for CV-19
https://tinyurl.com/v7jyze6p

57 Top Scientists and Doctors Release Shocking Study on COVID Vaccines
https://tinyurl.com/jt659fnb

8 MD s SPEAK ON VACCINES

  1. Dr. Nancy Banks – http://bit.ly/1Ip0aIm
  2. Dr. Russell Blaylock – http://bit.ly/1BXxQZL
  3. Dr. Shiv Chopra – http://bit.ly/1gdgh1s
  4. Dr. Sherri Tenpenny – http://bit.ly/1MPVbjx
  5. Dr. Suzanne Humphries – http://bit.ly/17sKDbf
  6. Dr. Larry Palevsky – http://bit.ly/1LLEjf6
  7. Dr. Toni Bark – http://bit.ly/1CYM9RB
  8. Dr. Andrew Wakefield – http://bit.ly/1MuyNzo

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The NZ Government promised to be open and transparent, but it is an artfully-crafted mirage

Opinion piece from stuff, I’m curious given the govt clearly controls the media. So someone is speaking out finally? Wait and see what transpires. It speaks to the tightening control on what journos write & am reminded of the US woman recently blowing the whistle on Fox News to Project Veritas …

Stuff excerpts:

“In my 20-year plus time as a journalist, this Government is one of the most thin-skinned and secretive I have experienced. Many of my colleagues say the same.

Even squeezing basic facts out of an agency is a frustrating, torturous and often futile exercise.

It’s now very difficult for journalists to get to the heart and the truth of a story. We are up against an army of well-paid spin doctors.

Here is the full article:

OPINION: From the moment she took office in 2017, Jacinda Ardern promised her government would be the most open and transparent New Zealand has seen.

In her first formal speech to Parliament she pledged: “This government will foster a more open and democratic society. It will strengthen transparency around official information.”

Since then the number of faceless communications specialists has skyrocketed. The Government’s iron grip on the control of information has tightened.

And it is now harder than ever to get information.

READ MORE

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/125352433/this-government-promised-to-be-open-and-transparent-but-it-is-an-artfullycrafted-mirage?fbclid=IwAR2CMWIw1js3n2i4QryttkUy4riBd0OQhMpTyqhndByI-42LRQMBMpSXtHY

Those who suffered as children at a Rangitikei psychiatric hospital (Lake Alice) to share their stories

Firstly remember this? …. Sept 2020
“When I filed my claim, instead of compassion, justice, validation and an apology, I received nine gruelling years of emotional battering, abuse and bullying from the Crown,” she said.

CROWN SET UP SECRET LAKE ALICE MEETING

Ex-Lake Alice chief psychiatrist flew from Australia for secret mediation meeting. David Williams reports

Crown lawyers were instrumental in organising – and hushing up – a meeting to settle a $1.5 million lawsuit which involved the secret return to New Zealand of the former head psychiatrist of a notorious children’s mental hospital.

In the 1970s, Dr Selwyn Leeks ran the Lake Alice child and adolescent unit, near Whanganui. Youngsters, many of them misdiagnosed and sent there wrongly, were routinely punished for minor infractions with electric shocks, without anaesthetic or muscle relaxants. After the practice was exposed, the unit was shut down and Leeks left for Australia.

Lake Alice is one of this country’s darkest chapters of child abuse in state care.

No one has ever been charged with criminal behaviour at Lake Alice, despite uncontested evidence of the abuse and torture of children. Last year, a United Nations committee found successive governments had violated the UN Convention against Torture for not properly investigating dozens of claims and holding anyone to account.

Yesterday, at an Abuse in Care Royal Commission hearing in Auckland, it was revealed Leeks secretly flew back to New Zealand in 1998, with the tacit knowledge and involvement of Crown lawyers, to try and settle a High Court claim by Auckland woman Leonie McInroe and another Lake Alice survivor. McInroe took civil action against the Crown and Leeks in 1994 over abuse at Lake Alice, seeking damages of $1.5 million.

Four years later, as the mediation meeting approached, McInroe was sworn to secrecy. ….

READ AT THE LINK: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/crown-set-up-secret-lake-alice-meeting?fbclid=IwAR0D41n2w3tXie8n_ADuxbQQ7ekQdemmvz1o5K5ZukrG1A-ahT6SKaDTvjE

The other article below (mainstream got the location wrong, Lake Alice was in the Rangitikei just minutes from Marton):

From tvnz

It’s hoped their stories, alongside expert and witness testimony will reveal the full extent of what went on at the child and adolescent unit at Lake Alice Hospital – a rural psychiatric facility in the Manawatu-Whanganui region.

The inquiry, which is part of the investigation into abuse in psychiatric care, offers the first comprehensive investigation into just what went on inside that unit.

Almost fifty years on from their abuse at the hands of the state, some of the “Children of Lake Alice” will be sharing their stories, as part of the Royal Commission Inquiry into Abuse in Care.

READ MORE

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/those-suffered-children-manuwatu-psychiatric-hospital-share-their-stories?fbclid=IwAR2DgLUKS3nEglgaHWnd-N9G7qYOQc0yLeomagI1D2wuJFUTY11Q8sKq1fw

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