If universities are breeding the leaders of the future, then we’re facing a horrifying and intellectually impoverished, darkened future. The Enlightenment is over, folks: the Inquisitors have won. In the 1960s, university students were the spear-carriers of the Free Speech Movement. Today, their children and grandchildren are tearing it
Jordan Williams Free Speech Coalition There have been attacks on free speech in our universities for the past two years. Massey University banned Dr Don Brash from speaking at a student politics society event, Massey cancelled Speak Up for Women’s Feminism 2020 event, and Auckland University of Technology cancelled
A much-loved teacher who died unexpectedly at home has been remembered by current and former students for his “cool police stories” and “great sense of humour”. Emergency services were called to the Christchurch home of former Australian police officer Jarrod O’Sullivan, 51, on Saturday. It is believed he died
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For all the “Closing the Gap” reports and billions of funding spent every year, the socio-economic markers for many Aboriginal Australians stubbornly lag behind the rest of the country. It’s surely without doubt that a huge contributor to that shocking discrepancy is the deplorable rate of Aboriginal truancy and
As can be read from Jeremy Corbyn’s bewildered response to his suspension from the British Labour Party for at the very least tolerating and covering up endemic anti-Semitism in the party, the left simply cannot comprehend that anyone could be left-wing and racist. After all, the left are the
You can lead a mind to a diploma but you can’t make it think. In the past 50 years, the percentage of Western adults with a university degree has risen from about 10% to over 30%. The Western world has never been so educated. And so very, very stupid.
“Nearly all children nowadays were horrible…systematically turned against their parents and taught to spy on them and report their deviations. The family had become in effect an extension of the Thought Police” George Orwell, 1984 When Orwell conjured a vision of the future, he evoked a boot stamping on
A controversial research paper by China expert Anne-Marie Brady has been called inflammatory, inaccurate and unprofessional by New Zealand universities who complained about it. The descriptions are revealed in letters of complaint released on Friday by the University of Canterbury in response to an Official Information Act request by Stuff.
“Progressives” really do seem to have a very low opinion of “people of colour”. Ami Horowitz hilariously captured the superiority of white progressives in a vox pop video regarding voter ID. Black people interviewed were flummoxed at the idea that they were – according to “liberals” – unable to grasp such simple
Lewis Andrew sojournal.co.nz In New Zealand, the Ministry of Truth Education may be looking at introducing or amending 135 school enrolment zones in Auckland. The plan is designed to save the Ministry millions of dollars by forcing parents to send their children to undersubscribed schools rather than oversubscribed
Hobson’s Pledge Trust hobsonspledge.nz The Ministry of Education has launched a wide-reaching programme called Te Hurihanganui which is presented as “anti-racism” but is actually anti-white. Introduced as creating a system based on a Maori worldview, Maori sovereignty, Maori family relationships, and the Treaty of Waitangi, the programme holds
What can you honestly say about a community so steeped in violence and abuse that its teachers need security fences to safeguard their lives? These are the same communities where STDs in children are endemic, domestic violence rampant – and where five year-old boys are gang-raped by other children. But it’
Thornton Blackmore During an electoral debate recently broadcast by Maori Television, guest panellist Ella Henry, who is an Associate Professor at the Auckland University of Technology, referred to communism as a “badge of pride”. Her comments, which were made toward the end of the debate, were directed toward criticism which
Why isn’t Greta Thunberg, the poster child for climate change, considered a very poor model for children’s mental health? Greta should be accompanied by a warning about the mental strain that alarmist, unproven climate change theory has on young impressionable minds. This is serious stuff. Greta Thunberg suffers
Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org At a meeting in Ohariu last night I directed a question at the representatives from the parties in government, thus NZ First’s Tracey Martin, Labour local MP Greg O’Connor and the Green candidate, John Ranta. ‘The New Zealand sex education curriculum turns small children
