Are we doing it all over again? Is Australia whipping up another Chamberlain hysteria? I vividly remember the whole circus. It’s astonishing in hindsight just how unhinged public commentary around the case became. From initially shooting and killing dingoes on sight, public opinion quickly did an about-face when, as
Lauren Anne Dickason has been found guilty of murdering her three young children at their Timaru home. The jury of eight women and four men reached a majority verdict. Dickason, 42, stood in the dock calmly as she was convicted of three counts of murder. She was taken out of
Emmanuel Comte Dr Emmanuel Comte is a senior research fellow of the European Program at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy in Athens (ELIAMEP) and a professorial lecturer at the Vienna School of International Studies. mises.org Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s frescoes adorning the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, Italy,
Alexander Gillespie University of Waikato theconversation.com [The] release of the threat assessment by the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (SIS) is the final piece in a defence and security puzzle that marks a genuine shift towards more open and public discussion of these crucial policy areas. Together with July’
On social media yesterday, Alia Bee posted this thoughtful and well-written comment regarding the young man before the court for assaulting an older woman, and those responsible for inciting the chaos and violence at Albert Park. Read more here. Discuss it on The BFD. If you would like to access
Heather Montgomery Professor of Anthropology and Childhood The Open University Paris Mayo gave birth to her son Stanley alone – at home, in silence, while her parents and brother were upstairs. Mayo claimed not to have known she was pregnant, and no one at her school or within her family had
It sounds like a tragic enough story: four people hospitalised, three of them dying, after a family lunch in a quiet country town apparently went horribly wrong. Or is it something more sinister? On Saturday, July 29, 48-year-old Erin Patterson cooked a lunch of wild mushrooms for her ex-husband’s
Thankfully, the Indigenous Voice referendum seems unstoppably headed for defeat. Australians, sensibly, are increasingly revolting against the idea of turning Australia into an apartheid state, with Constitutionally-mandated racial separatism. If the chaos unleashed in Western Australia by that state’s Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act isn’t warning enough, Australians just
A man accused of dishonestly obtaining just over $1.4 million of Government funds during his time at the helm of a Covid response team was arrested at an airport as he was about to embark on a $92,000 holiday. Alister Thorby was contracted by Capital and Coast District
Michael Cook Michael Cook is editor of Mercator. mercatornet.com At the end of this month, a Toronto man will appear in court charged with abetting suicide. This is not, as you might think, a case of mercy killing — a grieving husband who wants to stop the suffering of his
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
