Reproduced with permission
On Wish Lists and Reality
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.
Contagions and the Real Survivors
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.
Trump vs the Meteor
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.
Kiwi Team Covers WWI Battlefield Remains
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.
Finlayson Describes ACT as ‘Populist’ in World News
What garbage for National’s former Treaty Minister Finlayson to cat-call ACT as being “populist”.
NZ Must Confront the Hard Questions
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.
Te Pāti Māori’s Ongoing Financial Accountability Issues
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.
University Backs Down in Sex Debate
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.
In Ontario, You Can Plan to Expire in 24 Hours
The progressive state apparently considers individual human beings as a burden.
Gender Indoctrination of School Kids Goes Mainstream
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.
When Hospitals Are Human Shields
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.
Holy Week and the Beauty of the Western Canon
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.
