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Tani Newton

What Is the Business of Science?

What Is the Business of Science?

Unproven hypotheses that are put forward as ‘truth’ or ‘scientific fact’, simply because powerful forces have decided to put them in that position, really have no more scientific validity than matauranga Māori.

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Can the State Schools Be Secular?

Can the State Schools Be Secular?

If you say schools shouldn’t ‘indoctrinate’ children or ‘force a religious view’ on them, allow me to point out to you that the schools have been indoctrinating children with secular humanism and forcing its religious views on them for decades. Now the shoe is on the other foot.

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Don’t Let Them Tell You That, Either

Don’t Let Them Tell You That, Either

We used to have outstanding early childhood education in this country. It was provided by mothers without qualifications, in homes without certification and at a cost to the taxpayer of precisely zip.

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The Silent Anzac Day of 2020

The Silent Anzac Day of 2020

How could it be? Anzac Day was about courage, looking death in the face and doing one’s duty without regard for personal safety. How had we come to this strange place where all that mattered was saving one’s own life from a trifling threat and it was a virtue to leave the vulnerable to die alone?

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So What Is It All About

So What Is It All About

It’s good that we have the Freedom Movement and the organisations that have sprung from it: may they long continue to stand and speak for the rights we didn’t realise we valued until they were gone. 

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