What can you honestly say about a community so steeped in violence and abuse that its teachers need security fences to safeguard their lives? These are the same communities where STDs in children are endemic, domestic violence rampant – and where five year-old boys are gang-raped by other children. But it’
Reem Wasay asiamediacentre.org.nz Auckland-based Reem Wasay is a journalist and former op-ed editor of Pakistani newspaper Daily Times. She has also worked as a programme coordinator in the non-profit sector in NZ. Something is spurring Pakistan’s women into action. A rising demand for accountability and change is
Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news There’s a video going viral showing President Trump’s former campaign manager, Brad Parscale, being tackled to the ground by police. The Washington Examiner reports, “Parscale was Trump’s campaign manager from February 2018 until July, when he was replaced by Bill Stepien. He remained
The saga of the Cardinal George Pell trial had a startling new twist yesterday. It has long been argued that powerful forces conspired to bring down Pell – Victoria Police admitted to establishing a “Get Pell” squad specifically to fish for allegations before any had been made – but the new revelations
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com So proclaimed the Herald in a ridiculous beat-up story last Saturday with nothing explosive about the item whatsoever. The Herald revealed that hours before the double murder Lundy’s partner in a proposed vineyard venture was visited by two cuttings suppliers reps re non-payment of
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Isn’t it a relief that all those jihadi terror attacks have stopped? I mean, they must have. You hardly read anything in the media any more about some swivel-eyed follower of the Religion of Peace mowing down a street full of pedestrians or chopping off the heads of random
Imagine if anyone with the surname “Trump” was caught receiving millions from a Russian official? Try to picture the scale of the media histrionics if Jared Kushner was even remotely associated with a global sex-trafficking ring? When it’s Joe Biden’s little boy, though…crickets. Hunter Biden allegedly sent
I’ve been saying for years that we needed an Independent Commission Against Corruption. Our trading partners have them, even Fiji has the FICAC. Now Judith Collins has as good as announced that with an extension of the purview of the SFO and also a doubling of their budget. National
Add ending child poverty to the long list of government fails. It was Ardern’s catch phrase in 2017 and joins the list of Labour’s failed promises. UNESCO ranks us 35th out of 41 developed countries for a child’s wellbeing. The relationship between poverty and family violence is
We all know that Black Lives Matter is a barking mad conspiracy theory. Anyone with an ounce of critical thinking and access to some easily available statistics quickly realises that its entire narrative is completely at odds with reality. But nothing, perhaps, demonstrates the movement’s utter detachment from reality
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Politics, the saying goes, is downstream from culture. Just as many in Australia are quick to ape the latest cultural trends from America, they’re only too eager to jump on the latest stateside political bandwagon. Case in point: Black Lives Matter. The fact that BLM is nothing more than
Shelby Our police have lost their cojones. Well more to the point, the police leadership have. Consider what has happened this year, first under the very woke Mike Bush and now with the completely wet Andrew Coster in charge. It started with the illegal iwi roadblocks in April and May
Eliora New Zealand is experiencing a change in the type of crime being committed. According to the NZ Police, the number of home burglaries is down but shoplifting is up. On top of an economic hit, Kiwi businesses face an increased level of theft. Businesses in New Zealand have been
