Monday, July 20, 2026

NZ High Court upholds secrecy of Pfizer contract

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Justice Radich has dismissed Erika Whittome’s judicial review application in Whittome v Director-General of Health & Others, upholding the Government’s decision to withhold its Covid-19 vaccine agreement.

The decision allows Crown agencies to continue withholding the agreement, accepting the Government’s reliance on Official Information Act exemptions based on commercial sensitivity, contractual confidentiality and the public interest.

Whittome and her supporters argued that the case was about accountability and the public’s right to scrutinise the pandemic-era agreement that shaped New Zealand’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout.



Although the Court acknowledged the importance of transparency, it ultimately ruled that the agencies’ reasons for secrecy outweighed the public interest in disclosure. Read more at Reunite NZ and Judgment of Radich J.

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34 COMMENTS

    • In New Zealand as of 31January 2021 there had been 63 deaths attributed to Covid. At the same time there had been over 8 million Pfizer jabs administered. Two years later the jab total had increased to over 12 million and the number of deaths attributed to Covid was 5,471.

      Over the same time period Covid infections increased from 16,286 to 2,577,600. Clearly the Pfizer jab was not safe and completely ineffective in preventing contraction, transmission or deaths from Covid.

  1. What a pack of cabalists. Justice Radish meets Controller Borla in world electronic f*ckers suite on the 9th floor of the Hyattlton for an all-nighter (sight)

  2. Erika Whittome discusses Government’s lack of transparency around procurement processes.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw2RGC1wzmM

    Justice? Radich earned his LLB (Hons) from Victoria University of Wellington in 1986. Before his judicial appointment (to protect the New Zealand Company church parliament) in April 2023, he practiced at several leading firms, including Simpson Grierson, Bell Gully, Izard Weston, and Minter Ellison Rudd Watts. In March 2012, he commenced practice as a barrister sole at Clifton Chambers, was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2014, and served as President of the New Zealand Bar Association from 2020 to 2022.

  3. Shocking peeps but are we surprised? They hate us. The poison jab is just that, poison. Our tax payers Dollar was puffed up in smoke to divide the country and maim / make sick so many of us.

  4. ‘it ultimately ruled that the agencies’ reasons for secrecy outweighed the public interest in disclosure’.
    Says it all . . I’d like to see their bank balances . .

  5. I supose it is commercial sensitive when you sign a contract that allows various poisons injected into citizens.

    Radich has lost all credibility..

    Lets see if the court of appeal agrees with him.

  6. Much appreciated Erika (and those behind her) for all that you have done.

    It wasn’t in vain, it exposed them yet again.

    The government needs to remember that they work for us, the people and that this agreement was made on behalf of us, therefore we should know the details.

    Everything the government does should be transparent (yeah I know 🙄).

  7. What NZ politician will say anything about this?

    Notice none of them speak of justice for the innocent children murdered by the shot?????

    And it’s all in the election year?

  8. We need a new King Alfred the Great – who is wise & just – who loves his people. The Socialist Globo Homo must go – it will be a fight unfortunately.
    King Alfred was the one who upon arriving injured to the crofters hut, forgot the peasant woman’s cakes on the stove & they were burnt. “What sort of careless man are you, who neglects to attend to burning bread? Never have I seen so negligent a man – one who doesn’t even know how to turn ash-baked bread – and yet when it’s put in front of you, you’ll no doubt rush to eat it!” but he saved the Kingdom & the people.
    Stop buying the Globo’s products namely America & Israel – starve the monster. If you can’t do that, you are spineless & deserve the next Jab.
    Remember their weakness is distribution – that is the Achilles heel.

    • King Alfred the Great (who ruled the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex from 871 to 899) did famously dedicate his reign to reforming the legal system. He compiled a significant code of laws and sought to protect the weak and poor from oppression by ignorant or corrupt local officials. Alfred hanged 44 judges in a single year for rendering false judgments and executing people illegally.

    • And as was stated by H. L. Mencken – “Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance” and “Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.”

  9. Such a judgment should be a wakeup call to all those unfortunate people who had the covid gene therapy injected into their bodies. Big Pharma’s interests are more important than the recipients of the injection.

  10. HERE IS KIRSTEN MURFITT’S PETITION TO PARLIAMENT, WHICH HAS BEEN REFERRED TO THE MINISTER AS OF 23 OCTOBER 2025:
    https://petitions.parliament.nz/8890fa1e-7b77-4b3b-7cdb-08dcb057b576?lang=en
    ALSO-
    J.1
    Government response to the Petitions Committee Report to the petition of Kirsten
    Murfitt: Release the Pfizer/BioNTech contract
    Presented to the House of Representatives
    In accordance with Standing Order 256
    J.1
    Government response to the Petition of Kirsten Murfitt to release the Pfizer/BioNTech contract
    for the supply of the COVID-19 vaccines
    Introduction
    1. The Government has carefully considered Kirsten Murfitt’s petition to release the
    Pfizer/BioNTech contract for the supply of the COVID-19 vaccines, along with
    any subsequent contracts, variations, assignments and/or novation of contract.
    2. This response is provided in accordance with Standing Order 380.
    Government response
    3. The Government acknowledges the petitioner’s concerns regarding transparency and
    accountability in relation to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine procurement contract.
    4. In 2023, the Ministry of Health (the Ministry) considered similar requests under the Official
    Information Act 1982 (the Act) and declined them under:
    a. section 9(2)(b)(ii) – Protect the commercial position of the person who supplied or is the
    subject of the information
    b. section 9(2)(ba)(i) – Protect information given in confidence, where disclosure would likely
    prejudice future supply of similar information
    c. section 9(2)(c) – Avoid prejudice to measures protecting public health or safety.
    5. Complaints against this decision were considered by the Ombudsman who concluded that
    withholding the full contract was justified under the Act but recommended releasing a
    summary to address the public interest in transparency.
    6. In line with the Ombudsman’s recommendation, the Ministry has published summary
    information about vaccine contracts on its website to provide assurance about the nature of
    commitments made. You can find the summary here: http://www.health.govt.nz/information-
    releases/summary-statement-of-new-zealand-covid-19-vaccine-procurement-process-and-
    contracts-with-suppliers.
    8. The published summary provides information on key aspects of the COVID-19 vaccine
    procurement process, including risk allocation and indemnities,
    without disclosing commercially sensitive contractual terms. The Government considers this
    approach appropriately balances transparency with the need to protect New Zealand’s ability
    to negotiate future procurement agreements.
    9. The Government notes that the decisions by the Director-General of Health and Pharmac to
    refuse the applicant’s requests under the Official Information Act 1982. Also, the
    Ombudsman’s decision to decline to investigate the complaints about the decisions made by
    the Ministry and Pharmac are currently the subject of a challenge in the High Court.
    10. The matter is currently before the High Court and has been set down for a substantive
    hearing in 2026. While the matter remains before the Courts, the Government considers it
    would be inappropriate to comment further.

    NOW THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO DOUBT THAT THE ZIONIST VACCINE MANUFACTURERS (J3WI$H) AND THE MURDEROUS CORRUPT GOVERNMENT (MASONIC GLOBALIST AGENDA JUDGES) WANT US ALL DEAD!!!!!!
    https://rumble.com/v46iyox-17-million-murdered-by-covid-vaccines-and-voodoo-death-greg-reese.html?
    https://modernity.news/2026/06/25/microchip-like-parasite-like-and-self-assembling-nanotech-structures-found-inside-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine/e9s=src_v1_s%2Csrc_v1_s_o&sci=9881a3a2-e5e3-45ed-a5f4-7c3057b253eb
    https://justice-4-poland.com/2025/01/23/if-you-are-over-50-your-government-wants-you-dead/
    https://rumble.com/v3gefqp-neuroweapons-to-attack-the-brain-and-body-insect-bioweapons-to-deliver-payl.html?e9s=src_v1_s%2Csrc_v1_s_o&sci=8eaa3747-fa40-4027-b0ae-4bb152e000a8

    ONE J3WI$H RABBI SPOKE OUT, REALISING THAT HIS FELLOW J3W$ WOULD ALSO BE HARMED IF THEY TOOK THE COVID VACCINE!
    BOURLA IS J3WI$H…PFIZER IS PART OF THE EPSTEIN AND KISSINGER PEDOVORE CLASS OF UNTOUCHABLE BODY CORPORATES
    https://gatesofvienna.net/2021/02/31-reasons-why-i-wont-take-the-vaccine/
    RE-PRINTED & REPORTED TO THE NZ PARLIAMENT
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/31-reasons-why-i-wont-take-vaccine/5740534

    THE CATHOLICS KNOW ABOUT THE OPS AS WELL…
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-archbishop-carlo-vigano-statement-meeting-medical-doctors-covid-ethics-international-world/5845737

    IF NEW ZEALANDERS DO N0T VOTE FOR THE NEW ZEALAND LOYAL PARTY IN THE NEXT ELECTION, THEN MAYBE WE DESERVE EVERY BIT OF MURDEROUS CORRUPTION CONTAINED IN THE UNI-PARTY GOVERNMENT AND IT’S SUB-PARTY MINIONS!
    https://nzloyal.com/?s=covid
    https://nzloyal.com/health/

    A SECRET (MASONIC / TALMUDIC AGREEMENT) AGREEMENT FUNDED WITH TAXPAYER DOLLARS, WITH NO TRANSPARENCY?
    AND FORMULATIONS IN THE VACCINES DESIGNED TO MAIM AND MURDER? IN ACTUALITY, THE PFIZER WARNINGS TO THE ARDERN GOVERNMENT WAS SUPPLIED TO THE NEW ZEALAND PARLIAMENT VIA THE UNZ REVIEW ARTICLE. THEY KNEW THAT THE VACCINE WAS DANGEROUS, AND ANTI-HUMAN!
    https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-11-18-why-pfizer-coronavirus-vaccine-requires-storage-at-70c.html
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-vaccines-and-genetically-modified-humans/5718907
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/mrna-covid-vaccine-not-vaccine/5734464

    I KNOW THAT THE PARLIAMENT RECEIVED THIS INFORMATION BECAUSE I SENT IT SIGNATURE REQUIRED!
    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-vaers-injuries-400000-following-covid-vaccines/

    SO WE SEE WHISTLEBLOWERS BEING TREATED LIKE TRAITOROUS ESPIONAGE CRIMINALS, WHILE THE PERPETRATORS OF ZIONIST / J3WI$H GENOCIDE VIA BIO-WEAPON VACCINE JABS ARE LAUGHING AT US, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME SARCASTICALLY RIDICULING THE NON-JABBED WHISTLEBLOWERS AND CRIMINALISING US IS GROUNDS FOR PARLIAMENT TO BE IMMEDIATELY DISSOLVED, THE PERPS OF THE CURRENT UNI-PARTY PARTICIPANTS WHO KILLED OUR FAMILY MEMBERS AND MAIMED OUR CHILDREN ARRESTED, AND THE CORRUPT PROTECTIVE MASONIC JUDGES DISMISSED FROM THE BAR, THE BENCH, AND CRIMINALLY PROSECUTED!

    AGAIN- IF THE MAJORITY OF NEW ZEALAND VOTERS DO NOT VOTE FOR AND INSTALL THE NEW ZEALAND LOYAL PARTY, THEN WE ALL DESERVE MORE COVID BOOSTERS, THE NEW BIRD FLU VACCINE, AND 24 / 7 / 365 FACE NAPPIES, AND REMOVAL OF OUR CHILDREN FOR EXPOSING HISTORICAL, TRUTHFUL FACTS AND REPORTING!

  11. There you go New Zealand, you vote for politician bureaucrats, you pay generously for them and the judiciary for that matter but you don’t get to see an agreement signed on your behalf and paid for with your tax dollars by people who are ,in simple terms, your employees. Does that sound like “democracy” to you? Does it sound like accountability and transparency? Or does it sound like a government within a government that’s not answerable to anyone?

    Time for REAL change in this country is LONG overdue.

  12. The public interest is: 1. We will hang them if we find out the contract involved supply of varying active ingredients based on mortality feedback, 2. No one ever again will trust our government in pandemic or health related mandates.

    This “Judge” is protecting the corporation that employs him.

    • “All states, because they live parasitically off the population on an ongoing basis, depend on eliciting the compliance of the people in some degree; no state can survive a mass refusal to obey.” Etienne de La Boetie (1530-63)

  13. I actually think if the Government were able to waive privilege it would have in the Royal Commission and we’d be reading it now. Im inclined to think that there’s a clause that prohibits them from doing so. The real concern should be why those idiots would agree such outrageous contractual terms in the first instance.

  14. What a rotten cover up to the people of New Zealand. Absolutely shameless cowards! I do hope real justice catches up to these crooks.

  15. The NZ Corpo Gov has a DUTY OF CARE towards their Civilian Population of about 5,5x Million. They have failed in this requirement which they swear into as Politicians. Remember this in Nov 2026 WHEN the NZ Civilivan Population can vote these stooges out… NZ has about 10,000x Ashkenazi Goyim residing there. Yet the NZ 7x T.I.E.R.S, of Society enslaved by the Zion Satantist. All sub human, hell bounds.. goodbye.. Jesus is King, not Lucifier the Imposter….

  16. OUR COURT SYSTEM IS CORRUPT….
    we know what happens when the people wake up to this fact BOOM.
    Im glad im not a Judge or Doctor.

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