# Tony Blakely

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Matthew Hague: Lawyer on the impact of the Covid Inquiry findings on current legal cases

There's a belief the latest covid Royal Commission findings may provide assistance to current legal issues.   The first phase of the Inquiry into the pandemic response is being presented today, but it's unclear when the Government will release it.   Chaired by Professor Tony Blakely, it says m ...

Full Show Podcast: 28 November 2024

On the Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast for Thursday 28th of November, we get reaction from the Reserve Bank and Steven Joyce after our last OCR cut of the year.  Phase 1 of the Covid inquiry is complete, and inquiry chair Professor Tony Blakely has some surprising comments about vaccin ...

Tony Blakely: Outgoing Head of the Covid Inquiry on the findings of phase 1

The outgoing head of the Covid inquiry has found vaccine mandates caused huge pain to a "substantial minority” during the pandemic.  Tony Blakely says the Government should look at whether their benefits outweighed the harm they caused.  Blakely will deliver the report from the first phase of ...

Kerre Woodham: There are lessons to learn from the Covid response

The first phase of the Royal Commission of inquiry into the COVID-19 response will be handed to the Government today. There’s one of finding I know is going to really resonate with a section of this listening audience and members of the wider community. The head of the inquiry, Professor Tony Bl ...

John MacDonald: How I feel now about the vaccine mandates

‘If you think I’m a Jacinda Ardern puppet, you’re going to get a huge surprise’.  Who’s saying that, do you think?   It’s Professor Tony Blakely – the epidemiologist and public health expert who has chaired the first phase of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into New Zealand’s response to the C ...

Mike's Minute: The real reason for the Covid report

I am glad the Covid report has been released.  Why wouldn’t it be? It's ours, we lived it and are living through it.  It says a lot of stuff you thought it would say; compulsory mandates were one of the most controversial measures. No kidding.  The country was not prepared for border closures ...

Taking Cues From New Zealand's Smokefree Bill

New Zealand has become the first country to legislate a generational end-game for smoking, with sale of tobacco products banned for those born in 2009 beginning next year. What lessons can Malaysia draw from the Kiwi experience? We speak to Tony Blakely, Professor of Epidemiology at the Universi ...

Live Longer Cycling To Work

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/mFHrIsgV43o   Riding your bicycle to work regularly can reduce your chances of dying by 13% during any 15 year period.  New Zealand epidemiologists analyzed data from 3.5 million Kiwis, 80% of their working-age population.   Only 3% of the population cycled to work ...