What Is Hanukkah and How Is It Celebrated?
As we grieve for the victims of the Bondi shooting, Hanukkah calls on us to insist on light nonetheless – and, in doing so, to ensure Jewish life is never extinguished.
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Digital ID, Free Speech and Our Children
Today, we are wrapping our children up in digital cotton wool! What are the implications? I ask you.
Hanukkah: The Light in the Darkness
The kindling of light is a kind of quiet defiance in itself.
Heroic Muslims Are Not the ‘Antidote’
I know Ahmed is a genuine hero. But please, let’s not treat him as one, at least not in the way Albanese and McEvoy are: the ultimate cost will just be too great. I know this column makes me sound like a heartless piece of shit. But empathy has got us absolutely nowhere.
The Barry Young Hearing in Court
Mark Freeman Whistleblower Barry Young says he’s not trying to break the law or harm anyone: he’s trying to do the right thing. Mr Young appeared in the Wellington District Court last Thursday and Friday at a closed court hearing in which a judge will determine whether his
An Open Letter to Simeon Brown
Is not the real problem, who, if truth be told, is actually neglecting Māori?
Terrorism in the Age of Shrugs
The blob forces you, compels you, to enjoy the plastic toys, the bouncing blondes and hamburger #4. Eat, consume, sleep. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. That is the story. That is our narrative.
Why the Quiet on This?
Despite the overlap, no New Zealand utility companies have publicly announced asbestos investigations in their wind farms. The findings and safety responses remained confined to Australia. In New Zealand, regulators and utilities have made no statements and mainstream media has not raised the issue.
Are They Bad or Just Bonkers?
The Bondi Barbarians. The role of bad ideas in abominable behaviour.
Finally, Some Commonsense in Election Laws: No More Freebies and Last-Minute Shenanigans
These reforms were necessary because some outfits have been abusing the system. Now the playing field is a tad fairer. Good on the coalition for sorting it out.
Good Oil General Debate
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Heroes of the Day
A longtime married couple has been identified in a video circulating on a Chinese social media platform confronting one of the Bondi Beach gunmen involved in a terrorist attack on Sunday. The footage shows Boris Gurman, a 69-year-old retired mechanic, trying to disarm one of the armed men
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… sobriquet (noun) - : a descriptive name or epithet : nickname Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : This synonym of nickname has the same meaning in modern French as it does in English. In Middle French, however, its earlier incarnation soubriquet referred to both a nickname and a tap under
The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse
Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me.