Why do our children want to self-harm, commit suicide and need the help-lines? Most of the problem for our youngsters is the ill-informed parent, the garbage constantly being announced from the government, irresponsible news broadcasters, a woke education department and the misinformation flow of lies and false claims from the United Nations.
Even academics are starting to admit it.
Victoria’s ‘free kinder’ promise falls as flat as the rest of them.
In an age of expanding state influence over childhood, home education stands as a bulwark for individual liberty, family autonomy, and voluntary cooperation. It empowers parents to reject mediocrity by monopoly and instead cultivate independent minds equipped to thrive in a free society.
If kids should place their education as a high priority, the messages and actions of administrators, teachers, and parents they observe should clearly reinforce that importance.
Why the Labour leader’s failure to disclose policy is irrelevant.
That wonderfully emollient assertion: “There will always be more that unites us than divides us,” is no longer true – if it ever was.
PILLAR is calling on parliament to ensure any expansion of biometric surveillance powers is accompanied by clear statutory safeguards, independent oversight mechanisms, transparency requirements and meaningful protections for privacy rights guaranteed under New Zealand law.
