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The Voice and the Family Unit

The Voice and the Family Unit

Michael Cook Michael Cook is editor of Mercator. mercatornet.com If The Voice means anything, it means improving the lot of Australia’s Aboriginal people. There is a life expectancy gap of 20 years. They have some of the worst incarceration rates in the world. Life in some outback towns

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Jack Smith, Donald Trump and the Right to Free Speech

Jack Smith, Donald Trump and the Right to Free Speech

Graham J Noble Chief Political Correspondent & Satirist at LibertyNation.com. Raised and inspired by his father, a World War II veteran, Graham learned early in life how to laugh and be a gentleman. After attending college, he decided to join the British Army, where he served for several years

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A Win for Sue Grey and a Win for Freedom of Speech

A Win for Sue Grey and a Win for Freedom of Speech

dailytelegraph.co.nz Late Friday afternoon Sue Grey received news that the Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal has struck out charges against her and found no case to answer as she had not breached professional standards. The charges had stemmed from complaints instigated by pro-government lobby group FACT Aotearoa,

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It Is Not Cultural Justice

It Is Not Cultural Justice

Dr Muriel Newman Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. nzcpr.com Two separate shootings in Auckland

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The Rise and Rhetoric of the Climate Chicken Littles

Roger Koops Roger W. Koops holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of California, Riverside as well as Master and Bachelor degrees from Western Washington University. brownstone.org For those who may not recall Chicken Little (AKA Henny Penny), the character was derived in the 1880s and was meant

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Facebook Files III: the Arbiter of Truth

Facebook Files III: the Arbiter of Truth

Catherine Salgado Catherine Salgado is a staff writer with Media Research Center’s NewsBusters’ Free Speech America. She also has a column, Washington’s Bayonette, on The Rogue Review and her own SubStack newsletter, Pro Deo et Libertate. newsbusters.org The third installment of the Facebook Files has been released,

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EPA Approved a Highly Carcinogenic Fuel Ingredient

EPA Approved a Highly Carcinogenic Fuel Ingredient

Sharon Lerner Sharon Lerner covers health and the environment. She joined ProPublica in 2022 after seven years as an investigative reporter at The Intercept, where she focused on failures of the environmental regulatory process as well as biosafety and pandemic profiteering. This story was originally published by ProPublica EPA Approved

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Captain Cook’s Cottage Now in Their Sights

Captain Cook’s Cottage Now in Their Sights

Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.

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The West’s Fossil Fuel Aims Empower China

Don Ritter Don Ritter holds a Science Doctorate from MIT and served fourteen years on the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce and Science and Technology Committees. He was a National Academy of Sciences Fellow in the USSR, speaks fluent Russian, and was Ranking Member on the Congressional Helsinki Commission

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Eight Key Questions about Lab-Grown Meat

Paul Wood Paul has been a full-time research scientist throughout his career, from Melbourne University to CSIRO, CSL and Pfizer. He has received a number of awards, including the CSIRO Medal and Clunies Ross Award. He now help academic groups work with Industry. lens.monash.edu What is it?

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NZ’s First Security Strategy Suite Is Released

Alexander Gillespie University of Waikato theconversation.com When Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, German Chancellor Olaf Scholtz proclaimed a “Zeitenwende”, or historical turning point. It resulted in Germany’s first ever official national security strategy. The equivalent wake-up call in New Zealand was the 2019 Christchurch terror attack.

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This Was Tucker Carlson’s ‘Greatest Public Mistake’

This Was Tucker Carlson’s ‘Greatest Public Mistake’

Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics,

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A True Crime Drama from Spain
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A True Crime Drama from Spain

Michael Cook Editor of Mercator mercatornet.com There used to be one issue which all ethicists condemned — eugenics. Even today, the horrors of state-sponsored eugenics are vivid – the Nazi extermination of Jews, Gypsies, Slavs and disabled people or the sterilisation of the “feeble-minded” in the US, Canada, Sweden

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Some WWII Pacifists Risked Their Lives

Some WWII Pacifists Risked Their Lives

Linsey Robb Associate Professor Northumbria University, Newcastle Like many conscientious objectors during the second world war, John Corsellis was acutely aware of the complex and conflicted position he was taking. Years later, he told the Imperial War Museum’s oral history project: I was always pretty strongly conscious of the

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The System Is Failing Our Kids

Karen Chhour ACT MP commonroomnz.com This article was first published by The Common Room For years I’ve never really told my story, as I was ashamed of it. As I got older, I realised unless we are honest with ourselves about our past, we cannot move forward. My

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The Silver Lining to Our Grey Hair

Putiputi Fleming The Nurses Gone Grey Society would unreservedly like to apologise to hairdressers the breadth and length of New Zealand for any involvement we may have had in lowering revenue over the last three years. Whilst we cannot and should not take responsibility for government fiscal management throughout the

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