I don’t care how many times the upstart Police Minister from Hutt South tells me I should feel safer: the fact is I don’t and very likely the majority of the country doesn’t either. The little woman can bleat on all she likes about her extra 1800
He initially told his mate that he’d hit a dog, but he’d actually run over and killed another person. Sean Buis was lured to a popular Dunedin park, where he was run over and left for dead – and now the man behind the wheel has pleaded guilty to
Fangzhou Wang University of Texas at Arlington theconversation.com In the Netflix documentary “The Tinder Swindler,” victims exposed notorious con artist Simon Leviev, who posed as a wealthy diamond mogul on the popular dating app Tinder to deceive and scam numerous women out of millions of dollars. Leviev is a
Brian Tamaki It’s criminal that the crime catastrophe is covered up in New Zealand. Shrouded in secrecy, the alarming culture of crime cover-ups in New Zealand is going largely unchecked. Behind it is a troubling alliance among Government, Police, and Media. It’s straight from a movie plot. The
A “dangerous” 24-year-old man wanted by police in relation to a fatal shooting in the Auckland CBD on Thursday, August 3, is still on the run. A homicide investigation was launched on Friday evening following the death of a man who was critically injured in the shooting on Queen St
righttolife.org.uk Adam Smith-Connor, a 49-year-old physiotherapist and army veteran, has been charged by The Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council for silently praying within an abortion facility buffer zone. Financial penalty escalated to a criminal charge In December 2022, Mr Smith-Connor was fined £100 for silently praying outside
The sheer scale of the alleged offending by what may be one of the worst paedophiles ever arrested simply beggars belief. All credit is due to the police who suffered through years of trawling through some of the most horrific material imaginable. And for the exceptional, dogged, detective work that
Dr Muriel Newman Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. nzcpr.com Two separate shootings in Auckland
Opening the online news sites each morning is a routine reveal of yet another crime: another murder, another gun-related incident, another case of domestic violence, another ram raid, another ‘youth’ crime, another case of child abuse, of gang warfare, etc. As it was this week when two people were hospitalised:
Almost as often as we’re bludgeoned with the insulting virtue-signalling of “Welcome to Country”, Australians are also plastered with fatuous platitudes about the supposed “world’s oldest living culture”. This is a load of patronising bollocks, of course. If the claim is that it’s a continuation of a
In one of the most shocking cases of child abuse possibly ever reported in Australia, a former childcare worker has been charged with more than 1,600 offences. The charges include rape, against 91 girls, at a dozen early learning centres in Brisbane and Sydney, and overseas. The offences allegedly
Like justice, the wheels of science at times grind slowly. Scientific fraud is relatively easy to perpetrate — far harder and more arduous to expose and call to account. But the wheels of science — real science, not “The Science©” — grinds as exceedingly fine as those of justice. And both are slowly
Kris Gledhill Professor of Law Auckland University of Technology Lawyers are fussy about language because it is their job to argue about its implications. The current trial of Lauren Dickason is a case in point, and the jury has a complex task in front of it. Dickason is charged with
Kate Fitz-Gibbon Kate is Professor and Director of the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre. Her research is in the area of family violence, legal responses to lethal violence, youth justice and the effects of homicide law and sentencing reform in Australian and international jurisdiction. Marie Segrave Marie is
Theodore Dalrymple has observed that any nation earning praise from the Economist is a surer sign than any of its imminent demise. By extension, then, damnation from the same publication must stand as a certainty that a nation is doing something very, very right. In this case, it’s El
It’s hard to believe, I know. But the editorial in [yesterday’s] issue of the Sunday Star-Times is a worthy read. It’s the Kiri-thing again, but from a different angle. It points out the hypocrisy of complaining about ‘special treatment’ of ‘wahine Maori’ transgressions, pointing to the media
