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We Can Do Better

We Can Do Better

NM Zero point eight per cent. That’s the percentage of New Zealand’s population that was transgender or non-binary when measured by Statistics New Zealand in 2020. Yet this microscopic minority and its ideals are continuously being prioritised and enforced by the New Zealand Government through funding, access, and

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Do Not Comply

Do Not Comply

Robert W Malone MD, MS Inventor of mRNA & DNA vaccines, RNA as a drug. Scientist, physician, writer, podcaster, commentator and advocate. Believer in our fundamental freedom of free speech. rwmalonemd.substack.com By now, we probably have all heard about the Silver Spring Maryland elementary school that has put

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Big Lie on Campus

Big Lie on Campus

I often wonder if the feminist left believes the ludicrous nonsense that they do, only because they judge everyone else by the toxic men they surround themselves with. Who can forget, after all, the sight of Harvey Weinstein marching against sexual assault at the 2017 Women’s March at Sundance?

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We Don’t Want Gender Ideology at School

We Don’t Want Gender Ideology at School

Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com Here’s some news the mainstream media don’t want to report: there is significant opposition to gender ideology being

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Yes to Women Builders, but What about the Male Teachers?

Yes to Women Builders, but What about the Male Teachers?

Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com I was intrigued to watch a TV news story (September 3) making a big deal out of a house in

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The Decline (Collapse?) Of Meaningful University Degrees

Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Two decades back I wrote “Degrees For Everyone”, a comic novel on the collapse of universities as centres of academia. Instead, I claimed, they were now commercial ventures, dishing out nonsense degrees in non-academic topics. Since then university degrees (excluding the sciences, philosophy et al) have

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Teachers and the Issue of Preferred Pronouns

Teachers and the Issue of Preferred Pronouns

familyfirst.org.nz MEDIA RELEASE – 1 September 2023 Teacher Not Using Preferred Pronouns Shouldn’t Be Deregistered – Poll A new nationwide poll has found significant opposition to a decision which resulted in a teacher losing his teaching licence for refusing to recognise a student’s gender ‘identity’ and using the

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Dad Jokes and Their Role

Shane Rogers Edith Cowan University Marc Hye-Knudsen Aarhus University theconversation.com This Father’s Day you may be rolling out your best ‘dad jokes’ and watching your children laugh (or groan). Maybe you’ll hear your own father, partner or friend crack a dad joke or two. You know the

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Aspiring for NZ to Be the Best Country for Parenting

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.com In

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Helping New Zealanders to Be Better with Money

Stephen Agnew University of Canterbury theconversation.com Even as an economics student at university, I remember heading into town on a Friday night knowing what I needed to pay the bills before I could spend on socialising. But despite having the financial literacy to know better, Monday could still sometimes

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Public Schools: Students and Teachers Giving Up

As I keep advising parents of today’s school-aged children: Homeschool your kids. In retrospect, it’s what I would have done, had I my druthers. Absolutely, were my kids school-aged now, it’s what I’d do. It’s not just that schools are clearly doing a pretty bad

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Get ’Em Woke While They’re Young

Get ’Em Woke While They’re Young

In a stunning scene from Fred Schepisi’s The Devil’s Playground, a priest delivers a terrifying sermon on the torments of hell. The priest is played by author Thomas Keneally, who would later talk of his “feeling of outrage that at the age of seven we were lumbered with

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The Creation of the Alphabet

Yehezkel Laing Yehezkel Laing is a journalist, actor and filmmaker living in Jerusalem. aish.com For a hundred years scholars have been searching for the mysterious people who created the alphabet. Has the answer been under their nose all the time? The alphabet is such a basic part of our

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A Day I Will Never Forget

Principal X November 15th, 2021 marked a day of profound heartbreak for me, a day I will never forget. On this day, a profound shift occurred; a juncture where former allies in leadership transformed into arbiters of my exile, classifying me as a ‘safety risk’. Just one week prior to

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In an Age of Lies

In an Age of Lies

David Rennie The New Zealand education system has transformed a bastion of free inquiry into a social justice factory whose only inputs are race, gender and victimhood and whose only output is grievance and division. I, along with most other sane New Zealanders, feel morally obliged to make as much

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All 3 Kids ‘Trans’? Nothing to See Here

All 3 Kids ‘Trans’? Nothing to See Here

A “trans” child, it is said, is like a vegan cat: you know someone else is really making the decisions. Increasingly, with “trans men” (girls who pretend to be boys) especially, the decisions are being made by their peer groups and the internet. It’s notable that girls identifying as

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