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To Parents and Children: Just Read!

Alwyn Poole Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11-13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1-13. alwynpoole.substack.

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River of Freedom Premieres September 5

River of Freedom Premieres September 5

dailytelegraph.co.nz New Zealand film RIVER OF FREEDOM is set to release next month, with film premiere events in Auckland on September 5th at The Civic, Christchurch on September 6th at Hoyts Riccarton, and Wellington on September 7th at The Embassy. Following the premieres, New Zealand audiences will have

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Mental Health: We Need Change Now

Mental Health: We Need Change Now

Mike King Founder, I Am Hope commonroomnz.com I want to share with you a story. It’s a story about a little girl named Maddie, who lived in Tauranga and loved swimming in the ocean. One weekend, Maddie and her family went to the Mount for a swim. Now

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Milgram Is Still Relevant Today

Milgram Is Still Relevant Today

Armando Simón Armando Simón is a retired psychologist, originally from Cuba, and author of The U, Fables From the Americas and A Prison Mosaic. brownstone.org Today’s toxic state in society is a cornucopia for psychologists. For example, victimhood has become a status symbol in society to the point

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France’s Unrest Has Deep Roots

Emmanuel Comte Dr Emmanuel Comte is a senior research fellow of the European Program at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy in Athens (ELIAMEP) and a professorial lecturer at the Vienna School of International Studies. mises.org Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s frescoes adorning the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, Italy,

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Zelensky Fires Heads of Recruitment

Tyler Durden ronpaulinstitute.org It’s long been clear that Ukraine’s armed forces have undergone some significant recruitment problems amid generally low morale as throughout the summer the counteroffensive has stalled and appears failing. There’s also a grim emerging consensus that Ukraine is suffering staggering losses. Even just

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But Are the Insurance Costs Sustainable?

But Are the Insurance Costs Sustainable?

Duggan Flanakin Duggan Flanakin is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. A brief history

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Out of the Shadows

Alexander Gillespie University of Waikato theconversation.com [The] release of the threat assessment by the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (SIS) is the final piece in a defence and security puzzle that marks a genuine shift towards more open and public discussion of these crucial policy areas. Together with July’

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One Step at a Time

One Step at a Time

Harry Palmer CO2 is a bonus product extracted with natural gas in the Taranaki gas field. It’s used in fire extinguishers, soft drinks, beer propellant in pubs and dry ice in the entertainment industry, for example. However, when I was a production engineer at a NZ company producing a

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How Not to Cross a River

How Not to Cross a River

Harry Palmer If you’re out walking in the bush and you come across a river, you look for stepping stones to help you get across. Being a careful person, and if you’re accompanied by children, it is, of course, important for you and them to try to avoid

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A Defence for Mothers Who Kill

Heather Montgomery Professor of Anthropology and Childhood The Open University Paris Mayo gave birth to her son Stanley alone – at home, in silence, while her parents and brother were upstairs. Mayo claimed not to have known she was pregnant, and no one at her school or within her family had

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The One Paragraph That Reveals All

The One Paragraph That Reveals All

Bill Rice Bill Rice, Jr. is a freelance journalist in Troy, Alabama. brownstone.org The mountain of evidence proving beyond a reasonable doubt officials in the Biden White House bullied Facebook (and other social media) executives to perform Orwellian censorship has now reached Mt. Everest elevations. Yesterday, I spent several

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The ‘Number 8 Wire’ Days for NZ’s Defence Force Are Over

The ‘Number 8 Wire’ Days for NZ’s Defence Force Are Over

John Moremon Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies Massey University New Zealanders have been put on notice that defence and security are among the bigger challenges the country faces this century. The assessment earlier this year by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Navigating a Shifting World-Te whakatere i tetahi ao

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Letter to Dr Shane Reti

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com One of our occasional writers, a mandated-out nurse of many years experience now lost to the health system, picked up the speech of a proper politician, Senator Gerard Rennick in Australia, and hopes it might inspire our own. She emailed

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More Phone Less Sex

Michael Toscano Wendy Wang Wendy Wang (PhD, University of Maryland) is director of research at the Institute for Family Studies. Dr Wang is a former senior researcher at Pew Research Center, where she conducted research on marriage, gender, work, and family life in the United States. She was the lead

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US Abandoning Fossil Fuels Is Good for China

US Abandoning Fossil Fuels Is Good for China

Ronald Stein cfact.org Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book “Clean Energy Exploitations.” Wind turbines and solar panels that can generate electricity intermittently, are themselves totally dependent on fossil fuels for all their components.

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