The Instinct to Hurt Those With Whom One Disagrees
We must learn to notice those instincts so that we can signal appropriate disgust wherever we encounter them.
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Labor Obsessed with Palestine, Not the Pacific
China is getting its money’s worth in Port Moresby and Canberra.
There Are No Ordinary People
Ordinary people can be locked down, surveilled, imprisoned, cordoned off, written off, dosed up on junk food and fat jabs, made to install inefficient heat pumps, sacked, housed in ugly new builds, left uneducated, laughed at and looked down upon, because they’re only ordinary.
This House Has Confidence in the President-Elect
Is celebrating a political assassination is a breach of basic decency and in conflict with the aims of the union he is set to lead? What should the limits of free speech be in positions of responsibility and employment?
The Model of a Modern Labor Senator?
New senator wants to promote financial literacy and economic growth.
What Is the Plan for Supporting the Lowest Schools?
You – Minister Stanford – have listened to very narrow views and have not addressed the needs of truly struggling schools.
Govt Must Act On Puberty Blockers
Family First’s position remains that there should be an immediate end to new prescribing of puberty blockers due to the clear lack of quality probative evidence of efficacy and safety.
We Know She Is, but What Was He?
Muslim diversity hire politician sneers into the mirror.
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The Silence of the Church
Where two or more gather in His name, Christ is present among them – a simple yet profound truth that many modern churches seem to have forgotten.
Teachers to Strike for Higher Pay and More te Reo Support
“The offers also ignore educators and children’s need for more support in the classroom and for te Tiriti and te reo Māori.”
Growing the Com Com Instead
Competition regulation doesn’t ensure better market outcomes, because it requires that businesses act against their own interests in the hope they won’t be the next arbitrary victim of socialist technocratic thugs.