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Where Do They Learn to Hate?

Where Do They Learn to Hate?

Despite Anthony Albanese’s unconvincing pledge not to allow anti-Semitism to “find so much as a foothold” in Australia, it’s horrifyingly obvious that it has not just a foothold, but a stranglehold. Jewish households and businesses are fleeing certain Melbourne suburbs. Mobs chant anti-Semitic, genocidal slogans, with politicians marching

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How Many Rainbow Serpents to the Dreamtime?

How Many Rainbow Serpents to the Dreamtime?

“Simpsons did it!” is a South Park joke that just keeps coming true. After all, a topical satire which has run for 35 years, 761 episodes, a feature film, and videogame and comic book adaptations, is inevitably going to cover nearly every topic imaginable. 9/11, the Trump presidency, even

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Were School Closures Worth It?

Were School Closures Worth It?

Kelli Ballard libertynation.com It has been four years since the Covid panic that disrupted so many lives. People lost jobs, businesses, and homes. We were not able to see loved ones in the hospital or even attend funerals. Everyone was masked up and told to isolate at home. The

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A One Size Fits All Protest

A One Size Fits All Protest

Students will take to the streets on April 5 in Christchurch, Auckland, Dunedin and Hamilton (I’ve spared you the Maori names) aided by free nationwide news coverage provided well in advance. “…biggest protest yet…” is embedded in the headline promising something that hasn’t happened yet and includes video

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A New Phase of Dumbing Down

A New Phase of Dumbing Down

Only a mainstream media journalist could argue that a decline in general intelligence is a good thing. Probably because, if everybody else dumbs down, the numbnuts in the media might finally have something to feel good about themselves. Of course, we, ah, ‘more experienced’ folks always like to think that

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The Cost of DEI in Universities

Kelli Ballard libertynation.com Diversity, equity, and inclusion – or DEI – isn’t new to colleges and universities, but in the last few years it has certainly grown in controversy. Some lump it together with critical race theory, but the growing assumption is that it’s a form of indoctrination, teaching

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Can We Fight Critical Race Theory?

Can We Fight Critical Race Theory?

Hello, it’s John Porter on Bay FM and today I’m talking about Critical Race Theory (CRT). No, not heard of CRT? Well, it’s a significant issue around the world these days and seems to be becoming embedded in the thinking of certain sectors of our society. Critical

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Sex Education Belongs in the Home

Sex Education Belongs in the Home

Alwyn Poole alwynpoole.substack.com Founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11 – 13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1 – 13. Despite

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Teens Report Feeling ‘Peaceful’ Without Smartphones

Teens Report Feeling ‘Peaceful’ Without Smartphones

As I’ve written before, social media companies are the Big Tobacco of the 2000s. Their own research shows that they know their products are extremely harmful to (mental) health, especially for impressionable children and teens, especially girls — but they continue to market to them anyway. And if social media

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Free to Believe What They Let You

Free to Believe What They Let You

Many years ago, I found myself “between jobs”, as they say. Mrs Brady, diligently scanning the job ads, found a position open in a health food store. “Must have a commitment to sharing organic and vegan lifestyles”, the ad specified. I pointed out that I was, if anything, diametrically opposed

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MOE Protect Their Own Instead of Fulfilling Their Function

MOE Protect Their Own Instead of Fulfilling Their Function

Alwyn Poole alwynpoole.substack.com Founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11 – 13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1 – 13. It

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Why Should We Reward Failure?

Why Should We Reward Failure?

Beginning journalism students are warned about the danger of becoming too sympathetic to their sources, thus colouring their objectivity. At worst, journalists are told, they may fall prey to “source capture”: privileging the interests of their sources and pushing a biased narrative. Especially when the source’s interest too-closely align

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The MoE Protects Their Own

Alwyn Poole Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Years 11–13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1–13. alwynpoole.substack.

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The Great Black Singlet

Alwyn Poole Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Years 11–13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1–13. alwynpoole.substack.

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Teach the True History, Not Radical Ideology

Sarah Cowgill libertynation.com Every progressive organization is trying to be on the ground floor of indoctrination when it comes to America’s kids. Long gone in so many states is the goal to educate youngsters in language skills, math proficiency, science, and the arts. But the folks behind Black

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Schools Leave the Churches for Dust

Schools Leave the Churches for Dust

I’ve said it before, and sadly I have to say it again: when do we start spitting on teachers? After all, the moral standing of priests has been indelibly besmirched by the shocking revelations that, not only were a minority of priests horrifically active paedophiles but that the entire

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