Kate Hawkesby: No more excuses, MIQ has to go

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Nov 10, 2021 · 3m

MIQ has to go and it’s important the pressure keeps being applied to the Government on this, because this is a government that responds to pressure.

As Justice Venning pointed out in Murray Bolton’s successful judicial review of his MIQ exemption, under the Bill of Rights, every New Zealand citizen has the right to enter New Zealand without “unreasonable limitation”. And in those two words are the keys that open the gates, and clearly highlight that the legal grounds for MIQ are no more.

MIQ’s also redundant because we’ve abandoned elimination and shifted to containment, we have Covid…