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Despite Major Conservation Efforts, Populations of New Zealand’s Iconic Kiwi Are More Vulnerable Than People Realise

Despite Major Conservation Efforts, Populations of New Zealand’s Iconic Kiwi Are More Vulnerable Than People Realise

Isabel Castro Massey University Isabel Castro is a wildlife biologist with broad interests including animal behaviour, parasite-host interactions, anatomy, morphology, sensory biology, and conservation. Her research is on island species, particularly birds, but also introduced mammals and charismatic land snails. She has a passion for solving conservation problems, making

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Texas Pro-life Victory Scares Desperate Blue-Check Abortion Fans
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Texas Pro-life Victory Scares Desperate Blue-Check Abortion Fans

Gabriel Hays newsbusters.org Staff writer for MRC Culture. Joe and Betty Anderlik Fellow. University of Dallas Class of ’16. Governor Greg Abbot (R-TX) just signed into law one of the nation’s most important abortion bans in history in the state of Texas and boy, are abortion lovers

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Minister Should Apologise to Patients’ Group

Minister Should Apologise to Patients’ Group

Brooke van Velden ACT Health Spokesperson Health Minister Andrew Little owes an apology to Patient Voice Aotearoa for accusing them of using “extremist rhetoric. Patient Voice Aotearoa is a group that is advocating for medicines for people who are sick or dying. For a Minister to accuse them of extremism

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Benefit Blowout as Budget More Than Doubles

Benefit Blowout as Budget More Than Doubles

Karen Chhour Social Development spokesperson David Seymour ACT Leader Jacinda Ardern says Kiwis aren’t work shy, but they’re about to get a hell of a lot more shy now she’s more than doubled the budget for the dole. The budget has gone from $1.8 billion in

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PHARMAC Political Theatre Grotesque

PHARMAC Political Theatre Grotesque

Brooke van Velden ACT Health spokesperson It is grotesque political theatre to make people wait for the budget to get their medicines funded each year. A more mature Government would have included funding in the PHARMAC review so that we have a policy to compare options of non-pharmaceutical interventions,

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The La La Budget

The La La Budget

David Seymour ACT Leader David Seymour. The Government had an opportunity today to get New Zealand back on track following COVID-19, instead, its Budget makes Fawlty Towers look like a hotel with a sound management plan. This Budget does nothing for middle New Zealand, the battlers who work hard

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Provocation and Retaliation at Heart of Gaza War

Provocation and Retaliation at Heart of Gaza War

Jamie Hyams aijac.org.au Jamie Hyams Is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (Aijac). An edited version of this article was published in the Daily Telegraph – 18 May 2021 We feel we’ve seen this all before from Israel and Hamas. As they

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Transparency Needed on COVID after Sneaky Prisoner Rule Change

Transparency Needed on COVID after Sneaky Prisoner Rule Change

David Seymour ACT Leader The Government has been quietly moving some prisoners up the list to receive the COVID-19 vaccination without any consultation. Prisoners were all part Group 3 along with most of the general population, but a new document shows that some have been moved into group two.

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Back in the 1950s

Back in the 1950s

Bruce Logan Back in the 1950s (my childhood), before instant news on television, short movies (shorts) were shown in cinemas before the feature film. They varied between news items and documentaries. Often the documentary would finish with a voice-over, “just another step in man’s conquest of nature”. I

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NZ History Curriculum Needs Radical Redraft

NZ History Curriculum Needs Radical Redraft

Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson and former teacher The Government’s New Zealand history curriculum threatens to indoctrinate students in left-wing ideas and requires a radical overhaul. The draft New Zealand history curriculum, which is out for consultation until 31 May, requires students to learn a narrow set of

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