Joe Burton University of Waikato Senior Lecturer, New Zealand Institute for Security and Crime Science, University of Waikato As Friday’s attack by an ISIS sympathiser in a New Zealand supermarket has shown, ISIS’s extreme ideology still holds strong appeal for some disaffected Muslims living in the west. ISIS
Alwyn Poole The Ministry of Education in NZ have as their motto that: “We shape an education system that delivers equitable and excellent outcomes.” The data tells a very different story. Our system is stratified in terms of socio-economics (decile), ethnicity, gender, schools types (faith-based vs value-free)
R. M. Huffman rt.com R. M. Huffman is a physician, author, and observer of culture. Some doctors are openly discussing refusal to treat patients who decline, for whatever reason, to get the jab. This would set a dangerous precedent and shatter fundamental tenets of medical practice. An insidious sentiment
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com 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
Angus Aardvark There was a time when scientists felt an obligation to ‘Science,’ acknowledging that they themselves ‘stood on the shoulders of giants’. Because of that, they felt obliged to openly debate things that did not fit previous views in order to expand human knowledge as they passed the baton
Woody Greetings David and Judith I wish to address your approach to Covid-19 and more specifically your position on vaccinations and treatment for Covid-19. You along with the Labour government seem determined to push for vaccination of the populace of New Zealand as the only solution to this
Elisabeth Taylor mercatornet.com Dr Elisabeth Taylor is a graduate from the University of Sydney and Commonwealth scholar with a PhD in Medieval Women’s History from Cambridge University. She now works as a researcher, writer and speaker, presenting on issues relating to gender and sexuality. Australians who rely on
Adam Collins University of Surrey Adam Collins has been a qualified nutritionist for over 20 years, completing his undergraduate degree in 1996 before going on to complete an MSc in Nutrition & Metabolism and a PhD focusing on energy expenditure and body composition. When it comes to diet and health,
Helen Skouteris lens.monash.edu Monash Warwick Alliance Joint Professor of Health and Social Care Improvement and Implementation Science A random remark to a group of school mums eventually led to Elaine Miller donning a vulva suit in the Scottish parliament. Miller told the politicians she knew how to “make
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. On August 5, 2017, Michael Hari and two other men from a tiny terrorist group called the White Rabbits firebombed the Dar al-Farooq (DAF) Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, at the time of morning prayers. A pipe bomb
Joe Woodard mercatornet.com Joe Woodard earned a PhD in Political Theory at Claremont, then spent 10 years as an academic (Brock, UCSB, USCCR, Bethany), 15 as a journalist (Alberta Report, Calgary Herald), and 11 as a Canadian federal tribunal judge (EI, Citizenship). He helped his wife Kathy raise their
righttolife.org.uk Marie Stopes Australia has closed four of its Queensland clinics. The clinics, located in Townsville, Rockhampton, Southport, and Newcastle employed over 40 staff and performed around 5,000 abortions annually. Managing director Jamal Hakim described the closures as “a really difficult decision“. He explained: “Costs, when it
Darroch Ball Co-leader Sensible Sentencing Trust. The problem with governments is that, more often than not, a tragedy has to occur before any meaningful laws are changed. Then, for some strange reason, those law changes can bypass all the bovine scatology and happen overnight. The issue with the terrorism
Kathy Ann Townsend Dominique Potvin University of the Sunshine Coast Kathy Ann Townsend is a marine scientist with a particular interest in marine conservation and human impacts on the marine environment. Dominique teaches and coordinates Animal Ecology and Envioronmental Science courses at USC’s Moreton Bay campus. Environmental scientists see
Ethan Yang aier.org Ethan Yang is an Adjunct Research Fellow at AIER as well as the host of the AIER Authors Corner Podcast. He holds a BA in Political Science with a concentration in International Relations with minors in legal studies and formal organizations from Trinity College in Hartford
Birsen Filip mises.org Birsen Filip holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and master’s degrees in economics and philosophy. She has published numerous articles and chapters on a range of topics, including political philosophy, geo-politics, and the history of economic thought, with a focus on the Austrian School
