Larry Williams Drive

The news out this afternoon is that the Grounded Kiwis group has won its court battle against the Government over MIQ. The thing to take away from this is that the Government’s MIQ story is falling apart. It’s getting harder and harder to believe that MIQ was the right thing or the best thing for Kiwis. The High Court today hasn’t ruled that MIQ itself was unfair.  It’s only ruled that in some cases late last year it unjustifiably stopped some Kiwis coming home, and that there should've and could’ve been a better system than the hunger games lottery. So, the overriding message is: it could've been done better. Now, that’s not a knockout blow on MIQ by any means, but it isn’t pretty only a week after the revelation that we actually didn’t need MIQ before Christmas, we didn’t need to keep ex-pat Kiwis out. Last Tuesday we found out that both Ashley Bloomfield and Caroline McElnay signed off on advice to the Government that MIQ was ‘no longer justified’ because of how much Delta we had in the country. Especially