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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
