The Bull Ring

Flashback: 29/7/2020 - Judith Collins extremely out of touch with the NZ voter New Zealanders do not want a dirty election campaign, according to the latest Newshub-Reid Research Poll - but Judith Collins has officially declared it dirty.  Politicians have promised a clean campaign for Decision 2020. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she'd offer up a  "positive", "factual" and "robust" campaign , while National leader Judith Collins said she  informed her caucus to keep it clean .  . . But even with the best intentions, so far the tone has been grim and grubby.  Private medical details were leaked ; there was a  ministerial affair and subsequent sacking ; and  an MP sent unsolicited explicit images  - Newshub has seen the screenshots.  Collins has now officially declared the campaign "dirty".  "I would have thought that the bullying of William Wood, our candidate in Palmerston North, has been very nasty and dirty,&quo

NZ Herald lies about Auckland being divided over lockdown extension exposed Herald 'Journalist' Jason Wells out jogging with some mates. When the NZ Herald gloriously went behind a paywall, it crippled their right wing influence and bias over the news agenda because so few people pay for it. . . The Herald got around that today by publishing this deeply deceitful headline behind the Paywall… Covid 19 coronavirus: Exclusive poll shows Aucklanders divided over lockdown extension …now the NZ Herald is 100% Death Cult Capitalism and their editorial line has been the need for the slaves to be forced back to work while the border is reopened, so their bias is always against Labour and it is always spinning against the Government. Based on the headline alone, you would buy into the Herald’s lie that people are angry with Labour when in fact the Poll actually says this… …Aucklanders aren’t ‘divided’ over lockdown! Only 6% don’t believe it should have happened

Important dates for election 2020 Sunday 6 September : Parliament dissolves Sunday 13 September : Writ Day – the Governor General formally directs NZ to hold the Election 19 September, 9.30am:  Newshub Nation presents  Battlegrounds  – a special programme dedicated to some of the most hotly-contested electorates in the country, featuring a debate between the key Northland Candidates, on location in the Bay of Islands. Tuesday 22 September  – The  first Leaders’ Debate  takes place between Jacinda Ardern and Judith Collins at 7-8.30pm on TVNZ 1. Moderated by John Campbell. Monday 28 September  – The  Young Voters Debate  in association with Auckland University will feature candidates from a range of parties and will be live streamed via 1news.co.nz and 1 NEWS social channels. Moderated by Jack Tame. Wednesday 30 September : Overseas voting starts 30 September, 7.30pm:   Newshub Decision 2020 Leaders Debate  with Jacinda Ardern and Judith Collins, hosted by Patrick Gower and p

Portland mayor pins blame on Trump for inciting violence after man is shot The mayor of Portland, whose city has been plagued by protests for months, has accused US President Donald Trump of escalating tensions that last night led to a fatal shooting of a man affiliated with a right-wing group. On Saturday night (US time) a man was shot and killed in Portland, Oregon, after a large caravan of Trump supporters clashed with protesters, in the latest sign of divisions flaring in the lead up to November’s presidential election. The president weighed in by retweeting a series of posts denigrating Portland’s Democratic Mayor Ted Wheeler, who has been a vocal opponent of Trump's push to send federal troops to quell unrest in Democratic cities as part of his law and order agenda. But on Sunday afternoon, Wheeler hit back during an incendiary press conference in which he blasted the President and blamed him for inciting his base to cause trouble. “Yesterday's events be

Newshub ratings suffer as viewers protest their anti-government stance and move to TVNZ TVNZ has capitalised on its ratings dominance of TV3 in news and current affairs programming during the latest lockdown - with 500,000 more Kiwis on average tuning into 1 News at 6pm than Newshub. Audiences this year have turned to coverage in strong numbers across the likes of nzherald.co.nz, Newstalk ZB and other major news channels - and former TVNZ head of news Bill Ralston believes there's a reason the state broadcaster has an advantage over Newshub in the traditional TV space. . . Ratings over the past month from July 22 to August 22, have shown TVNZ's 1 News at 6pm has an average nightly audience of 751,421 in the +5 overall demographic. TV3's Newshub 6pm bulletin had an average audience of 241,656. While the ratings for both stations' news programmes bumped significantly the week of August 9 to 15 - in which Auckland's second lockdown began - the incr

A high-stakes test of trust in the system, and each other Despite cautions from some, the Government has “ploughed ahead” with moving Auckland out of Level 3. Now, public health officials - and Kiwis as a whole – must show it is not wrong to place our faith in them, Sam Sachdeva writes. As Aucklanders awake to a Level 2 world , they – with the rest of the country – are heading into uncertain territory. The last time any part of the country moved out of Level 3, on May 11, it was after a sustained period of lockdown which had largely broken the back of outbreaks around the country. . . Now,  Auckland moves down alert levels with community transmission still ongoing  (albeit connected to a single cluster) and all the risk that entails. In recent days, experts like Shaun Hendy and Michael Baker had called on the Government to rethink the relatively swift move back into more normal life, either by keeping Auckland at Level 3 or enforcing more wide-ranging rules on mask

Judith Collins gives no confidence in her ability to hold country together If she cant even control her husbands misogynist antics National Party leader Judith Collins has responded to criticism of her husband David Wong-Tung sharing anti-Jacinda Ardern memes on social media, saying it's not something she would do.  . . "We've been together for 41 years. I've never been able to get him to do anything I tell him to do so," Collins said on Monday. "I've just said to him, well it's not something I would do, but he's an adult and he makes his own decisions." Wong-Tung has been re-posting memes from a Facebook page named National Party's Meme Working Group, including one where an image of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is tinted green and made to look like the Marvel comic character The Incredible Hulk.  Ardern is labelled "The Incredible SULK" in the meme, and it is captioned: "Don't make me angry. You w

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Sure is great being a New Zealander Imagine living in any other country. where the only mistake a government has made in the last couple of days is telling too many people to get tested.. Imagine that? We are living in a great country. .

Coronavirus: Prime Minister praises Aucklanders' high uptake of masks Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has praised Aucklanders’ high uptake of masks as the region enters coronavirus alert  “level 2.5” . Ardern arrived in Auckland on Monday morning. At 11.30am, she visited a  Kāinga Ora development  on Bari Lane, in Māngere. . . The prime minister, who was wearing a blue surgical mask, told media gathered at the construction site that she had noticed “widespread mask use” while travelling across the city, which was “fantastic". Ardern hoped the high use of masks would continue. "It is an added piece of vigilance, a tool that we have to keep ourselves and others safe," she said. On Monday morning, the construction workers at the Kāinga Ora site were wearing an extra level of protective gear on top of high vis and hard hats: face masks. One of the roads that will sweep through the new development is lined with houses at varying stages of construc