A chance conversation last week about cross-Tasman migration was with a real estate agent from a small agency on the Sunshine Coast, currently with ten Kiwi families on his books who are leaving the sinking ship of New Zealand for greater opportunity, more money, warmer climate, and less political chicanery.
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Seventy five years ago today in the German city of Nuremberg, 16 of 23 Nazi doctors and administrators were found guilty of participating in war crimes and crimes against humanity “in the form of harmful or fatal medical experiments and other
familyfirst.org.nz The latest 1News Kantar poll shows that 70 per cent of New Zealanders believe the government is not doing enough to deal with gangs. Only 14 per cent thought the government was doing enough to deal with gangs. Even amongst Labour Party voters, only 25 per cent
Merry Fitzpatrick Irwin Rosenberg Tufts University Merry’s research interests span two separate but related fields. She has had a long-term interest in livelihoods and food security in conflict and post-conflict settings. The focus of this work is on supporting local strategies that households and communities use to mitigate, cope
By now, you’re probably well aware of the horrific attack on author Salman Rushdie. Most of you won’t have to struggle to fathom the motive of Hadi Matar, 24, the would-be murderer. In which case, you’re doing better than the New York Times. Just a heads-up for
As I wrote recently, the world’s leading democracy is starting to sound like an tinpot dictatorship. Spying on political opponents, ginning up fake dossiers, weaponising the state bureaucracy to pursue vendettas, dubious elections, show trials and secret police raids. Such is the state of what was once the world’
Despite the claims, no one has been able to answer provocative columnist Andrew Bolt’s challenge to name a single Aboriginal child taken from their parents solely for being Aboriginal. The grim truth was that the period of the so-called “Stolen Generations” was a period where paternalistic authorities arrogated themselves
The 1947 “Black Dahlia” murder could be said to be America’s “Ripper” case. The gruesome mutilation murder of a young woman has never been solved. The case exerted enormous public fascination, but on few more than a young James Ellroy, whose own mother was likewise murdered in an unsolved
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Few people would disagree that Julian Assange is a deeply unpleasant human being. Writer Andrew O’Hagen, employed by Assange to ghost-write his “autobiography”, spent months with him and has nothing nice to say about him, indeed very much to the contrary. So too many
Ali Iqbal Aliya Khan McMaster University Ali Iqbal is a transplant nephrologist at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and an Assistant Professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He works with patients who have chronic kidney disease at all stages of their transplant journey, from pre-transplant assessment to post-transplant
Brad Polumbo fee.org Brad Polumbo is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Policy Correspondent at the Foundation for Economic Education. Hardly a day goes by without some viral international incident reminding us why we’re so lucky to have the First Amendment. The latest such lunacy comes courtesy of the United
Darroch Ball Leader Sensible Sentencing Trust. What we are seeing now with youth crime is the inevitable and predictable outcome of treating young offenders with hugs and hot mugs of Milo. Wait for the excuses to pile up from the left when they are face the undeniable numbers – the latest
On Friday, RNZ broadcast an interview, below, with security analyst Paul Buchanan and described him as an expert. RNZ’s headline refers to some “anti-mask movement”; however, Dr Buchanan has deduced, despite admitting, “I don’t have perfect proof of this,” that this week’s bomb-threat phone calls to schools,
Ziva Branstetter propublica.org Ziva Branstetter has been a senior editor at ProPublica since March 2022, supervising a team of national investigative reporters. Richard Glossip Has Eaten Three Last Meals on Death Row. Years Later, the State Is Still Trying to Execute Him. by Ziva Branstetter ProPublica is a Pulitzer
