David Seymour ACT Leader Nurses will be better off under ACT’s Alternative Budget than they would under the pay increases proposed by the Government. A nurse on the middle pay band would get an additional $2200 from ACT’s proposed tax cuts. That’s a 3.36 per cent
David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. Looking for laughs? The International Energy Agency has produced a laugh filled report, grandly titled: “Net Zero by 2050: A roadmap for the global energy system“. Redesigning the global
Debbie Hayton rt.com Debbie Hayton is a high school teacher and trade union officer. She teaches science to 11-18-year-olds at a school in central England. As a transgender person, she has written extensively about what it means to be trans and how trans people can be
Nicole McKee ACT’s Justice spokesperson Thank goodness the FBI is cracking down on New Zealand gangs since our Government has gone soft on them. It took a major international operation to lead to 25 arrests and 900 charges. Operation Trojan Shield was led by the FBI and co-ordinated
Kurt Mahlburg rt.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
John Robinson hobsonspledge.nz John Robinson, a career scientist with a PhD from the Massachussetts Institute of Technology who has also written When Two Cultures Meet, The Kingite Rebellion, Unrestrained Slaughter: The Maori Musket Wars 1800-1840, and Hone Heke’s War. He co-wrote One Law or Two Monarchs.
I visited 14 properties in one week last month between Auckland and Mangawhai. No agents gave accurate information. At one of the properties I visited, I asked the agent what they expected to sell it for. The agent’s reply was “the CV is $905,000. Let’s kick it
NZ real estate agents write their own listing agreements and every company’s is different. It seems ridiculous but it is true. Each company writes their own to protect themselves. I will discuss what is directly affecting house prices the most. The biggest issue we have is the CMA (current
Rebecca Day fee.org Rebecca Day is an independent musician and writer, and enjoys applying the principles of Austrian economics to her businesses. More information about her music and writing can be found at thefreemarketmusician.com. For the arts industry, 2020 was an unprecedented year. Musicians saw incomes instantly wiped
rt.com Twitter is very concerned about its recent blocking in Nigeria, calling the free and open internet an “essential human right.” Back in the US, commentators pointed out, Twitter doesn’t care as much about this “right.” Nigeria’s government “indefinitely” banned Twitter on Friday, after the US tech
Rick Sarre University of South Australia In February, Australian media companies pleaded guilty to contempt of court over their reporting of Cardinal George Pell’s conviction on sexual abuse charges. On Friday, the Victorian Supreme Court handed out more than A$1 million in fines against 12 media organisations. The
Covid Plan B Dr Sam takes her gloves off in this video! Watch her rebuttal against a stuff.co.nz character assassination attempt on Dr Simon Thornley. To watch the full video click here. Note also: Stuff promotes Covid shots: Stuff Wins Funding to Counter COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation https:
Nancy Valko Nancy Valko has been a registered nurse since 1969 and currently she is a spokesperson for the National Association of Prolife Nurses (www.nursesforlife.org). She has also been a past President of Missouri Nurses for Life and past co-chair of the St. Louis Archdiocesan Respect Life
Naomi Braithwaite Nottingham Trent University Naomi is a Senior Lecturer in Fashion Marketing and Branding.In 2012 Naomi achieved a doctorate from Nottingham Trent University in the discipline of material culture, titled: ‘Shoe Design: an Ethnographic Study of Creativity’. The empirical focus of the thesis centred on the creative practice
Catherine Rentz propublica.org **This story is the second of a three-part series. “You Save as Long as You Have To” by Catherine Rentz; Illustrations by Isabel Seliger, special to ProPublica ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories
Shane Cronin University of Auckland David Dempsey University of Canterbury Shane Cronin is a volcanologist. His current research interests include volcano-tectonic interactions and instability, understanding Auckland’s volcanic past and future risk, large-scale explosive volcanism at andesite volcanoes, Mts Taranaki, Tongariro and Ruapehu, volcanism and volcanic hazards of
