The Teaching Council should have struck teacher Timothy Fisher off a decade before he was convicted of numerous indecency and sexual offences against children, most under 12, a report by Katherine Anderson KC has found.
Predictions of imminent ice-free Arctic summers deserve more accountability from scientists, politicians and the media, argues science writer John O’Sullivan.
ACT leader David Seymour wants to reverse Labour’s residential rental loss ring-fencing rules, allowing landlords to offset new losses against their other taxable income.
NZ First’s polling support remains above its 2023 election result, and the party could again prove essential to forming a centre-right government, according to figures and coalition analysis reported by Reuters.
Opportunity leader Qiulae Wong is courting centre-right voters while acknowledging her party may end up negotiating with Labour, after Christopher Luxon again ruled out working with her.
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New survey shows an alarming number of people aren’t all that worried.
Citizenship should not be handed out in Weeties packets.
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Too busy marking his own homework to bother fronting the antisemitism commission.
The moral inversion of accountability. The consequences are downstream, but responsibility begins upstream.
Australia tried to end smoking with punitive taxes. Instead, it created a lucrative trade for smugglers and a wave of violent attacks on retailers.
Whatever it was, Islamic preacher denies it.
The most powerful influencer in Australia isn’t a teenager on TikTok. It is an institution that can regulate what others say, spend hundreds of millions promoting its own messages, subsidise parts of the information industry, define what it believes is in the public interest – and send you the bill.
According to the report, New Zealand had the highest suicide rate amongst youth in the 36 countries that were analysed, the second highest rate of school bullying and the third highest percentage of overweight children.
So much for those ‘stringent safeguards’ around medicalised suicide.
