Perhaps nothing exemplifies the bureaucratic lunacy crushing Australians in the name of “covid rules” than the case of Nikolai Petrovsky. Professor Petrovsky is one of Australia’s most respected vaccinologists. He has led the development of an Australian-made covid vaccine: a vaccine currently in phase 3 trials and ready to
Joshua Mawhorter fee.org Joshua Mawhorter has been a junior high and high school teacher for the past five years in the subjects of Government/Economics and U.S. History. Until recently, I was a California teacher working in two charter schools, one as a full-time classroom teacher of Government/
Barack Obama is the epitome of the modern “liberal”: a sneering, privileged elitist, forever heaping disdain on the working-classes. When Hillary Clinton effectively destroyed her presidential hopes by deriding ordinary Americans as “deplorables”, she was merely echoing her former boss. In 2008, Obama jeered at rust-belt, working-class voters as “bitter
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young
A girl is raped at a school. The school covers the crime up. The offender goes on to commit a similar crime at another school. When the first victim’s father tried to speak at a school board meeting, he was arrested and dragged out, cuffed and bloody. Protesting parents
Protest action is mounting over the Government’s vaccine mandates. Teachers and Healthcare workers took to Auckland’s streets to show their displeasure. The BFD had a roving reporter capturing many of the protestors’ cars as they drove past. This is how the NZ Herald described the protest: People protesting
Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz Greetings to all of you and my thanks for the work you are doing to stay home and follow the Covid-19 level 3 protocols. I also warmly thank all who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 at this time. You are doing your bit
KSK So now we have it. Lockdowns will continue until we all behave like good little children and have the almost mandatory vaccine. What is the PM smoking? A 90% vaccination rate for all DHBs? And then the booster shots that will also be required. The vaccine designed for Alpha
Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz Shock and sadness after death of British MP I am sure we were all shocked and saddened to hear of the death of British Conservative MP Sir David Amess last week. It is a sobering reminder that we live in times where there
The Government is wrong to keep most children out of school in Auckland, possibly for the rest of the year, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith said today. While we welcome a return of senior students, the risks of continuing to deny 5-14 year-olds a proper education outweigh the risks
As Chris Trotter wrote for Insight, many moons ago, universities were long part of an unspoken compact: “The workaday world paid for the universities and accorded them a large measure of autonomy, and in return, the universities supplied the expertise and advice that kept the workaday world ticking over”. For
[…] Trevor McIntyre told board colleagues at Haeata Community Campus and principal Peggy Burrows on Monday that he was stepping down with immediate effect from his role at the school and from an advisory role with the Ministry of Education. His message was sent at 5.30pm, just 90 minutes after
Currently, we have a number of groups of people, such as teachers and those in the healthcare sector, who are unaware of their legal rights. The key is to get good legal advice and to form support groups with others in your industry. **The following information is general in nature,
Dr Peter Ridd has lost his High Court challenge to his sacking by James Cook University. But the scientist has every justification for stating that he has “lost the battle but will continue the war”. It might even be said that he has ensured his final victory. On the other
Scott Kennedy Guest post on sojournal.co.nz I am not an emotional person. In the last 20 years of life, I believe I can count on the fingers of one hand the times I have wept. Not that I think this is a virtue, it just seems part of
