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
Police have finally provided some statistics to Stuff after earlier refusing an OIA submitted in January 2022. A more than 900 per cent spike in police call-outs to just five Rotorua emergency housing motels can finally be revealed after the Ombudsman ruled data requested by Stuff a year-and-a-half ago, which
Late last year, this little snippet passed almost unnoticed in the NZ media: The government is working with an Israeli-born surveillance firm named among a group of “cyber mercenaries” and kicked off Facebook for spying on people. It is keeping most of the operations with Cobwebs Technologies secret, but they
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Liberty Nation Staff libertynation.com Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released an unclassified FBI-generated FD-1023 form detailing an accusation that then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter pressured Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky into paying millions of dollars in order to remove a prosecutor investigating the company. The FBI generated this
A criminologist says the government is following the polls, not the evidence, in its new hard-line strategy for young ram raiders. Smash and grabs are set to become a new criminal offence as the government moves to crack down on the rise in retail offending. Which will include a maximum
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff shortly there after. newsbusters.
