Getting Away with Murder?
A German man who strangled a Tasmanian sex worker is walking free after just a couple of years.
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If ministers can’t interfere, who fixes state-media bias?
Editorial independence protects TVNZ from political interference, but it does not remove accountability when bias occurs. Ministers cannot direct coverage, but the board still has responsibility through leadership, oversight and senior appointments.
Why are COVID stories still using dodgy numbers and the same ‘expert’ script?
If the media wants to be trusted on COVID, then stop recycling misleading numbers, quoting the same local “experts”, and treating one narrow public health line as the only respectable view.
Tikanga on Trial
If the rule of law is to mean anything in this country, the creeping judicial elevation of tikanga must be dismantled. The integrity of our legal order, and the equality of every New Zealander before the law, depends on it.
Hipkins Needs To Answer Real Questions Over Ex-Wife Claims
There will be more to come on this. Jade Paul has not resiled from her accusations. Hipkins has offered no defence. Only denial.
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The assignment was extremely dangerous and difficult due to heavy mortar and small arms fire, and by the morning after the initial attack on 20 April, Manahi’s platoon of around 30 men was reduced in strength to 10. Manahi then led a party of three men up the western side of the pinnacle.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… Goldilocks (noun, adjective) - noun 1: a person with golden hair —used as a nickname 2a: a European composite herb (Galatella linosyris) with heads of yellow flowers resembling those of goldenrod b: any of several shrubby southern African composite plants (genus Chrysocoma) that have bright yellow
The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse
And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean; from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
Hypocritkins? Hipkins, privacy and the ‘very high standards’ problem
If you use private life to polish your public image, don't be shocked when people start asking whether the image was real.
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