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A recent violent incident at Mercury Bay Area School (Coromandel NZ) has shaken the community and opened the door to a much wider conversation.
A Chicken and Egg Parable for NZ Education
I don’t know if they will totally overcome the environment of their early life, adolescence and young adulthood – but they have a chance as they have come to a great place.
Justice delayed, Justice denied?
A young man is dead. And that is a tragedy without qualification. But what does the court outcome actually represent?
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Get Ready for ‘Business Friendly Socialism’
The actual solution is embarrassingly simple. You are only “in hock to the bond market” if you borrow. This most certainly will not improve under a “business friendly” socialist.
Social Media Is Not Like Tobacco
Although it is reasonable to age-gate activities such as smoking, drinking and driving, to compare such restrictions to social media age restrictions is a false equivalency driven by far more insidious intentions.
We Should Read Between the Lines
Smuggling in a regime of pre-emptive speech control. The right response is therefore the simplest one. Support the deepfake amendment for exactly what it is – a narrow, sound, self-contained closing of a gap in the law – and refuse, flatly, to let the commission’s wider regime ride in on its back.
