Nothing tells voters that it is time to change the government like out-of-control crime and a Government intent on cuddles for crimes instead of jail. There have been 129 ram raids since May, almost all of them on the watch of new Police Minister, Chris Hipkins. Of 129 ram raids
Tommy Bent must be resting a bit easier in his grave, these days. After all, he’s finally going to shuck the mantle of Victoria’s most corrupt premier. Even Queensland’s Joh Bjelke-Petersen might finally be getting a contender for most corrupt premier in all Australia. From volunteer firefighters,
Darroch Ball Sensible Sentencing Trust Something funny is starting to happen with some of the media and their views on youth crime. Now, as everyone reading this knows, I have had a very clear and consistent view on what is going wrong with the Youth Justice system. In fact, if
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
