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Brown Pushes a Digital Health Overhaul
While the minister touts “stronger cybersecurity”, no details were offered about how the system will avoid the failures seen in recent high-profile public-sector breaches.
Why This Chaos Was Predictable
The inevitable implosion of Te Pāti Māori, explained by Grok.
Unis Selling Aus to the Highest Bidder
Teaching Chinese cyber-warriors how to attack Australia?
A well-paid ecosystem takes its grievance to Geneva
A government-funded Māori health leader is asking the UN to intervene, framing policy rollbacks as discrimination.
This Is a University Challenge
Cremin must have faced hundreds of students. How many of them will have been infected with the woke mind virus courtesy of his instruction? How many will have gone on to employment in HR departments, social work, media, education or the public service, taking their destructive views with them?
A Nation Built by Grit Now Run by Fragility
If New Zealand wants a future worthy of its past, it must restore the principles that built its success: reason, responsibility, enterprise, merit and truth. Nothing else will work – and history shows that nothing else ever has.
This Is an Historic Overhaul
This shift reins in mission creep and saves ordinary people from funding the political priorities of activist-leaning councils. It also gives ratepayers clarity. When councils have a narrow, concrete purpose, the public can actually measure performance.
You Are What You Want: How ‘The System’ Really Works
The secret of this life is that all of us get exactly what we want. It is inevitable. But the terrible truth is that, when you get it, you have to face what it actually is.
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Document Reveals Shocking Ties Between Anti-Tobacco Activists and a Big Tobacco Player
Is taxpayer money funding advocacy to create a monopoly for a foreign tobacco firm? Why the selective promotion of one company’s tech? And has the MOH stitched up their minister again?
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Face of the Day
Jones also described the Otago Regional Council as “the Kremlin of the South Island” after a dispute over mine expansion.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… parochial (adjective) - 1: of or relating to a church parish 2: of or relating to a parish as a unit of local government 3: confined or restricted as if within the borders of a parish : limited in range or scope (as to a narrow area