'You Divided the Nation': How Royal Commission Grilled Ardern Behind Closed Doors

'You divided the nation': How royal commission grilled Ardern behind closed doors

Dame Jacinda Ardern told the Covid inquiry that she did not know how she could have had the same rules for the vaccinated and the unvaccinated at the end of...

Seven significant failings of New Zealand’s Royal Commission on Covid

Ian Brighthope lays out seven significant failures of New Zealand’s Royal Commission of Inquiry into the country’s covid response. “No inquiry begins in neutrality when its scope is constrained before the first question is asked. The original Phase One Royal Commission was defined by what it excluded … This was not an omission. It was

The truth and tragedy of Covid in NZ

In our recent article “The Royal Commission Report is a Scientific and Ethical Failure“, we reported on some of its key deficiencies. With the benefit of some more time to reflect, we want to address additional significant factors that the Commission overlooked which it should have highlighted and addressed. During the last five years the Hatchard Report has published more than 500 articles covering every aspect of the pandemic, we have had a po…