Meta faces child addiction trial as Kiwi teens question social media ban
Experts have described the proceedings as social media’s “big tobacco moment”.
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New Zealand changed law to allow shorter COVID booster intervals
The approved Pfizer data sheet still recommended six months.
Council review finds fatal failures but leaves Mauao co-governors for wider inquiry
“Reports identifying a risk to life were received, filed, discussed, forwarded, and then left.”
What the Free Palestine Party Means for New Zealand Politics
Registration has transformed the Free Palestine movement from a protest campaign into a political party seeking votes. That changes the terms of debate.
Put Him up at Yours, Then, Your Honour #9
‘If we don’t let him stay, he’ll rape more children.’
Te Pāti Māori Just Made Our Argument for Us
Hobson’s Pledge has been calling for a binding referendum on the future of the Māori seats. It is high time politicians stopped deciding this question for us and put it directly to the people.
How to Properly Fix the Population
You are constrained to play particular roles in this life. If you don’t play those roles, then those roles will not be played and one of the consequences might be that the playgrounds will be empty.
Is There Foreign Interference in NZ Academia?
PILLAR has written to Minister for Tertiary Education Hon Penny Simmonds asking whether the government has sought security advice on Confucius Institutes and whether it will review foreign-state-linked university partnerships.
Don Brash and Te Pāti Māori Agree on a Strategy
How both sides of politics are thinking strategically about voting.
Good Oil General Debate
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Faces of the Day
The group are mostly elderly and retired and gather at an old sports building in Hastings to make coffins. “We are at a point where we don’t have the room to make any more,” Treasurer Cherie Hames says. “We are basically at capacity of what we can make on the premises. We have to find new premises.”
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… argy-bargy (noun) - : a lively discussion : argument, dispute Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Argy-bargy and its slightly older variant argle-bargle have been a part of British English since the second half of the 19th century. Argy and argle evolved in certain English and Scottish
The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
