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
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
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-
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
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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.
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
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
The tragic event that took place in the Auckland CBD on Thursday morning was a stark reminder that new approaches are needed to stem the rise in serious crime in this country. Not just crime committed by adults, but also by school-age children. Obviously any new ideas cannot be
When a panicked call over a suspicious package found in the White House revealed that someone had left half a baggie of coke lying around the presidential residence, very few people had to think hard about who it probably belonged to. After all, this is one of the most secure
Yesterday we saw yet another preventable tragedy occur in Auckland when, without a firearms licence, convicted criminal Matu Tangi Matua Reid illegally obtained a firearm and used it to kill two people and maim several others. Now the hand-wringing and blame game begins. But let’s examine the facts
A convicted violent criminal, on home detention, without a firearms licence, has committed another violent crime resulting in the death of two other people and multiple injuries. The man at the centre of a downtown Auckland shooting rampage at a construction site earlier today was Matu Tangi Matua Reid, aged
At what point should politicians be held accountable for the consequences of their decisions, beyond merely being turfed out of office? When should activists be prosecuted, as well, when the policies they stridently demand lead, not just to political mayhem, but the murder and rape of the innocent? It’s
