A country that tolerates huge numbers of children born into welfare, so many young skipping school, and declining achievement standards amongst those who do attend, can scarcely expect first world standards of health, or any other kind of care. Get real is the message.
Anybody for informed consent? The two words go hand in hand – informed and consent. It doesn’t do any good to be informed but not have consent.
Getting our house in order will almost certainly require real, painful sacrifice from taxpayers and beneficiaries of government programs. It is not clear if Trump has the will to do all that is necessary. If he does, history suggests that he will be punished instead of rewarded for this courage.
The small group – made up of NZDF personnel and staff from the New Zealand Embassy – recited a karakia and The Ode, and played the Last Post across the landscape, where trenches have re-emerged following wildfires in August last year.
What garbage for National’s former Treaty Minister Finlayson to cat-call ACT as being “populist”.
We cannot let our asylum system be exploited, nor can we afford to turn a blind eye when that system potentially puts innocent people in harm’s way. New Zealanders deserve a fair and safe society. The balance is off and it is time to fix it.
If Te Pāti Māori continues down its current path of delays, omissions, and nonchalant defiance, it risks far more than a warning – it risks legal penalties and, more importantly, a tarnished reputation in the eyes of the public.
Given that NZ First Minister Casey Costello is currently catching flak for reminding Health New Zealand that, “Only women and people of the female sex can get pregnant and birth a child no matter how they identify,” the scientists’ analysis could hardly be more timely.
The progressive state apparently considers individual human beings as a burden.
We should regularly be reviewing school materials, assigning star ratings, creating public discussion and engagement. From me, Collins’s Your Choice Books One, Two and Three gets a bad review and zero stars.
Donors, NGOs, and hospital administrators have moral leverage. They provide resources, training, infrastructure. That gives them a voice. It’s time they used it to pressure Hamas to stop operating from hospitals.
This holy week of Passover and Easter, instead of buying into the divisions that seek to sow so much strife among us, maybe consider that this enduring heritage that has anchored Western civilisation for over two thousand years is actually something golden.
Give freedom to your people. Doing so will eliminate America’s trade deficit with your nation and end the tariffs.
