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A Suggestion for a Tax on Investors

A Suggestion for a Tax on Investors

Ranjana Gupta Auckland University of Technology theconversation.com The property market is New Zealand’s largest industry, adding NZ$41.2 billion a year to gross domestic product. But there is a debate over how we tax houses – particularly those sitting empty despite the ongoing housing crisis. Housing affordability is

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Search Engine Google Turns 25 but Will It Survive AI?

Search Engine Google Turns 25 but Will It Survive AI?

Mark Sanderson Julian Thomas Kieran Hegarty Lisa M. Given RMIT University theconversation.com Monday marked an important milestone in the history of the internet: Google’s 25th birthday. With billions of search queries submitted each day, it’s difficult to remember how we ever lived without the search engine. What

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Yes to Women Builders, but What about the Male Teachers?

Yes to Women Builders, but What about the Male Teachers?

Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com I was intrigued to watch a TV news story (September 3) making a big deal out of a house in

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What Did He Say?

Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com There’s been quite the public spat here in the south about the chair of the Strath Taieri Community Board,

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‘A Robust Review Process’: Yeah Right

‘A Robust Review Process’: Yeah Right

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com We have been eagerly awaiting the findings of the Myocarditis study involving New Zealanders diagnosed with the condition following their COVID-19 injection.  We have written about it before but wanted to provide an update. In Dec 2022 the Ministry of Health

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The Sobering Lesson of Published COVID Science

The Sobering Lesson of Published COVID Science

Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior

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Disease X Is a Great Business Strategy

Disease X Is a Great Business Strategy

David Bell David Bell, senior scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Programme Head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in

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Turning Up the Heat for Climate

Turning Up the Heat for Climate

Larry Bell CFACT Advisor Larry Bell heads the graduate program in space architecture at the University of Houston. He founded and directs the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture. He is also the author of Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind the Global Warming Hoax. cfact.org Tedros Ghebreyesus,

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Teachers and the Issue of Preferred Pronouns

Teachers and the Issue of Preferred Pronouns

familyfirst.org.nz MEDIA RELEASE – 1 September 2023 Teacher Not Using Preferred Pronouns Shouldn’t Be Deregistered – Poll A new nationwide poll has found significant opposition to a decision which resulted in a teacher losing his teaching licence for refusing to recognise a student’s gender ‘identity’ and using the

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Voting for the New Freedom Parties

Voting for the New Freedom Parties

Matt L I’ve decided to start a new political party. The Pissant Protest Party will stand for all those people who have looked at the dozens of new parties that split the freedom vote and decided they need one more. I’m not sure why I’m starting the

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Her Hospital Thinks She’s Better off Dead

Michael Cook Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. mercatornet.com A future in which the right to life will be profoundly and inhumanely corrupted is on display in a dispute between a British teenager who wants to live and a UK hospital who wants

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The CBDC Roll Out in Nigeria

Jan M Fijor Jan M Fijor is a Polish journalist and founder of the Fijorr Publishing, the largest Polish publishing house dedicated to the Austrian School of Economics, which has published nearly 200 major titles. mises.org It is no coincidence that Nigeria, with a population of over two hundred

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Dad Jokes and Their Role

Shane Rogers Edith Cowan University Marc Hye-Knudsen Aarhus University theconversation.com This Father’s Day you may be rolling out your best ‘dad jokes’ and watching your children laugh (or groan). Maybe you’ll hear your own father, partner or friend crack a dad joke or two. You know the

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Why You Shouldn’t Buy the Climate Narrative

Jarrett Stepman Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation. http://www.heritage.org/ He is also the author of the book, The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past. PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com The White House and the legacy

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Will the Voice Close the Gap?

mercatornet.com Australia’s former Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson is not convinced that the Voice will close the gap with non-indigenous Australians. In fact, he suggests the Voice will foster division and cynicism rather than unity. Its politics will distract from the very practical challenges of closing the gaps

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