Nicole McKee Spokesperson Fair and Reasonable Campaign With only five days left, the firearms buyback is turning into a total omnishambles. Firearms buy-back collects only 28% of banned firearms Yesterday we exposed that despite all of the media attention and advertising campaign by the Police, the firearms buyback has
Viv Forbes Viv Forbes is Executive Director of the Saltbush Club. He has had long experience of bushfires in Queensland and NT – lighting, fighting and cleaning up after them. Background: Australian Government promises A$11M for more flashy water bombers. More Water Bombers? No – Fight Fire with Fire. In a
Redline The Council of Disobedient Women John Fenaughty is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland. In a recent column Fenaughty suggested that school teachers should use students’ “correct names and pronouns (e.g., he, him, they, them, she, her, etc.
George When the Government justifies its petrol taxes as essential for transport infrastructure it could be seen as a legitimate vindication for the horrendous gouging of the motorists’ wallets. After all, if we want good safe roads they come at a cost. At least that’s the line of BS
Alessandra Prunotto sapiens.org On a drizzly Saturday morning in June 2018, I found myself kneeling on the edge of a wooden boardwalk in Melbourne’s northern suburbs. My right arm was hooked over the side, fingers gathering cobwebs and dust as they probed the rough pine of the planks.
Judith Graham Kaiser Health News December 12, 2019 It was a promise Matt Perrin wasn’t able to keep. “I’ll never take away your independence,” he’d told his mother, Rosemary, then 71, who lived alone on Cape Cod, Mass., in a much-loved cottage. That was before Rosemary
PA Pundits – International Fred Lucas Fred Lucas is the White House correspondent for The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation. and he is the co-host of “The Right Side of History” podcast. House Democrats, legal analysts, and pundits suggested in recent weeks that President Donald Trump committed various impeachable
PA Pundits – International David Wojick David Wojick contributes Posts at the CFACT site. He is a journalist and policy analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. If you hold your nose and look closely there is some pretty funny stuff going on at the UN climate summit
Katherine Gibney, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity The pacific island nation of Samoa has been making headlines over the past month due to a significant measles outbreak. At last count, 4,995 measles cases had been recorded, and 72 people, mostly young children, had died. The actual
deja vu Amidst all the tragedy, suffering and loss of life, from the White Island eruption, Carmen Parahi has seen fit to insist that all place names in New Zealand should revert to their original names, and that includes dropping New Zealand for Aotearoa. Only Stuff would think it appropriate
The people visiting White Island on Monday afternoon when the volcano erupted were tourists and tour guides from Australia, the UK, China and Malaysia, along with New Zealanders. Many have questioned what they were doing there, especially given the volcanic alert level for White Island had been raised a few
Shane Cronin, University of Auckland Five people have been confirmed dead, 31 remain in hospital with injuries and eight are still missing after sudden volcanic eruptions on Whakaari/White Island off the east coast of New Zealand. The island is a tourist destination and 47 people were on it when
No Face I took a wander through the article, Becoming ‘really Pakeha’ published yesterday by author Jen Margaret and it was littered with thorns. Jen has a vision of where white people fit in New Zealand and how they should atone for the sin of their skin. She wants separation
Wendy Further comments post Friday’s press conference on his ‘favour for a friend’ debacle will only see government minister (and former associate immigration minister) Kris Faafoi dig himself further into a hole. An apology including your own excuses is not wholehearted neither is it unconditional. Jumping to your own
Vincent Ho, Western Sydney University It’s happened to many of us at some point in our lives: we finish our bowel movement, look down in the bowl and have a moment of panic when we see an unusual colour. Poo can be found in many colours other than brown,
Matt Ridley poses a question: Here’s a quiz; no conferring. To the nearest whole number, what percentage of the world’s energy consumption was supplied by wind power in 2014, the last year for which there are reliable figures? Was it 20 per cent, 10 per cent or 5
