UN Report Reveals the Hidden Exploitation
The best interests of the child should remain central to all decisions about banning or regulating surrogacy, as well as to the creation of laws that protect the child’s fundamental rights.
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Study 329 Is Finally Under Review
Ghostwritten manuscripts, selective reporting and buried suicide data: shaping the evidence base for antidepressants.
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[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day
Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.
This Doom Marketing Has Backfired
Oatly’s crisis is self-inflicted. But it’s also a warning to every other boardroom chasing the next ESG headline. The age of climate preaching is over. The only sustainable strategy left is common sense.
They Are Passing the Buck
The only reason they choose to be in the CBD is because that’s where the money is. It’s like Trump said: when you see a dirty door in front of a restaurant you know not to go in.
Five Taxes We Should Abolish Now
Australia needs a leaner, fairer tax system that doesn’t penalise success, ambition or everyday life.
Central Otago Gold Mine Gets Green Light
New Zealand is poised to capitalise on renewed international demand for gold and minerals, with the government granting a major mining permit for one of the country’s most significant gold discoveries in decades.
Is This Any Different to a Mafia Protection Scheme?
This ‘pay the money and you can have your cultural assessment…’ goes against all that is fair and democratic. It actually diminishes their own mana!
Bringing the Benefits of Hamilton Island to the Far North
Simeon Brown and Chris Bishop have done some good work with proposed roading improvements to the Far North. A much more significant improvement would be to make the Kerikeri Airport fully international. In 10 years Northland could go from the poorest to the wealthiest NZ province.
Electricity Prices Are the New Inflation Flashpoint
As AI data centers, clean-energy mandates, and regulations collide, the power grid is becoming a battlefield.
UBI: Make Slavery Great Again
Slavery, for many, will seem easier than struggling, and far safer. Once dependent, the luxury of struggling may be gone. We need a real conversation before we turn irretrievably down that road. For most, that will probably not happen.
Smash the Golden Idols
You’ll be amazed at what free people can build when they’re left alone to pursue truth over fashion and value over virtue‑signalling.
Does Trump’s Mineral Deal Break the Monopoly?
The two allies will invest $1b in projects to boost Australia’s processing.
We Stopped Practising True Capitalism
Nature is not socialist. It’s cooperative, but only when cooperation benefits the whole. It’s not about forced redistribution. It’s about contribution to the ecosystem.
How to Hide a Truth in Plain Process
There are no secrets, but, if there were, no one knows anything about them. And this is the point. This is how secrecy works in a modern process organisation.