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‘Applying for a Home Felt Harder Than Applying for a Job’

Jessica Terruhn Senior Research Fellow, University of Waikato Francis L Collins Professor of Sociology, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau The number of people living in emergency housing in New Zealand has grown exponentially over the last eight years – but plans to rely on the private rental sector ignore fundamental

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How to Destroy Our Fight for Freedom

How to Destroy Our Fight for Freedom

NewZealandDoc Philadelphia-born psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and author who emigrated to New Zealand in 2006. He retired from psychiatric practice in 2021, refusing to be inoculated, after working in the public sector in New Zealand. newzealanddoc.substack.com This morning I awoke to a message from a person purporting to be

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A Photo Was Doctored What Is the Big Deal?

T.J. Thomson Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University Rumours and conspiracies have been swirling following the abdominal surgery and long recovery period of Catherine, Princess of Wales, earlier this year. They intensified on Monday when Kensington Palace released a photo of the princess with her

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Questions Need to Be Asked on Both Sides of the World

Questions Need to Be Asked on Both Sides of the World

Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.realitycheck.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com The NRL Judiciary hands down an eight week suspension to Sydney Roosters forward Spencer Leniu , an Auckland born Samoan, after he

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A British Media Cover Up

A British Media Cover Up

Steven Tucker Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer with over ten books to his name. His latest is Hitler’s and Stalin’s Misuse of Science, comparing the woke pseudoscience of today to the totalitarian pseudoscience of the past. mercatornet.com Scarlet Blake is a 26-year-old female

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How Low Can Canada Go?

How Low Can Canada Go?

Maria Kulp Associate Professor of Philosophy, Gonzaga University Imagine that you have lived with an illness for years. The suffering this illness has caused is devastating – so much that you wish to die. You no longer feel like the person you were before. You have been to see specialists, have

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It’s Time to Protect the Next Generation

bobmccoskrie.com ONE OF OUR MOST IMPORTANT EPISODES: Advocates of gender-affirming care say it’s evidence-based. But now, newly released internal files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) prove that the practice of transgender medicine is neither scientific nor medical. Thousands of doctors worldwide rely

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That Is Not What Was Supposed to Happen!

That Is Not What Was Supposed to Happen!

Rosemary Abbott whakatakitimes.nz BROWNIE POINTS ACT leader David Seymour found himself at the centre of a scandal that has left his critics more annoyed than anything else. Seymour flipped over his e-bike in dramatic fashion on Sunday evening, but the crash has now left some people with the

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The Royal Commission of Inquiry Should Restore Public Trust

The Royal Commission of Inquiry Should Restore Public Trust

Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior

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MOE Protect Their Own Instead of Fulfilling Their Function

MOE Protect Their Own Instead of Fulfilling Their Function

Alwyn Poole alwynpoole.substack.com Founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11 – 13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1 – 13. It

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What Will Canada’s Online Harms Bill Do?

What Will Canada’s Online Harms Bill Do?

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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How to Fix the News Funding Model

Peter Thompson Associate Professor of Media Studies, Victoria University of Wellington The announcement last week that Newshub would be shut down was not the “canary in the coalmine” some suggested – it was the explosion. If it is not to be the first of many, then New Zealand needs a new

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National’s Supporters Happy With First 100 Days of Tax Policy

Lisa Marriott Professor of Taxation, Victoria University of Wellington Jonathan Barrett Associate Professor in Commercial Law and Taxation, Victoria University of Wellington Ahead of the 2023 election, it was clear there was not a lot in National’s tax policies to benefit the least well off. Nothing has happened over

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Seymour Offers Himself up as Tackle Bag

Seymour Offers Himself up as Tackle Bag

Rosemary Abbott whakatakitimes.nz BODY ON THE LINE David Seymour has put his money where his mouth is. The ACT leader has been outspoken about the Hurricanes Poua’s team haka, saying the team should focus less on politics and more on training. To demonstrate his commitment to the cause,

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One Rule for Him, One for Them

bobmccoskrie.com There have been some sports stories which the media have covered – but they’ve covered them in very different ways. It’s very clear that there’s one rule for some, and another rule for others – depending on who they agree with. TRANSCRIPT: There have been some sports

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Dear Royal Commission of Inquiry

Tani Newton Well, it’s that time – time to have our say to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into I-can’t-bear-to-say-what. I’ve only got as far as commenting on expanding the terms of reference, but I thought I’d share what I’ve written

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