Skip to content

Health

Euthanasia Fundamentalists Sell Death in the Netherlands

Euthanasia Fundamentalists Sell Death in the Netherlands

Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet Foreign observers might have the impression that it is always open season for euthanasia in the Netherlands. Not so. While the guidelines are elastic and subject to interpretation, they do exist and people violating them risk prosecution. A recent

Members Public
Parents Banned from Stopping Puberty Blockers

Parents Banned from Stopping Puberty Blockers

Family First “That is not cool with me” – Kris Faafoi, Minister of Justice If parents aren’t concerned about the conversion therapy bill introduced by the Government on Friday, all they need to do is listen to the Minister of Justice explain the effect of the bill, and parents will

Members Public
Hardware Trying to Be Software

Hardware Trying to Be Software

Eliora By the end of this year Faafoi and Ardern want to prevent “ordinary conversations around sexuality.” NZ Herald July 30th Douglas Murray, the author of The Madness of Crowds, Gender, Race and Identity, sees hardware trying to be software, in a gender dysphoria frenzy. The claim (that sex is

Members Public
Mental Health?

Mental Health?

Have you noticed how nobody is allowed to be sad any more? Depressed? Grieving? No. Today, everything is about mental health. If you are struggling at work, it is because of your mental health, not because you might not be up to the job. If you can’t get out

Members Public
Health System Buckling under Labour’s Mismanagement

Health System Buckling under Labour’s Mismanagement

It’s unsurprising nurses have declined the Government’s latest pay offer when the Government’s own data shows it’s more interested in boosting the number of bureaucrats in the health system than our doctors and nurses, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. National has obtained data

Members Public
person in gray hoodie sitting on bed

Suffer the Children under Lockdown

The bootlickers and cowards cheering on lockdowns like to accuse people demanding their most basic freedoms of being “selfish”. But who’s really selfish? The person who advocates that the tiny minority vulnerable and afraid should be protected should they so wish, while everyone else be allowed to choose to

Members Public
Government’s Vaccine Rollout a Shambles

Government’s Vaccine Rollout a Shambles

The Government’s excruciatingly slow and chaotic vaccine rollout shows it has no idea how to get the lifesaving vaccine to New Zealanders, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “And this weekend’s mass vaccination event is indicative of just how much of a debacle the Government’s rollout

Members Public
white and blue medication pill blister pack

PHARMAC’s Priority List Lacks Transparency

Brooke van Velden ACT Deputy Leader and Health spokesperson The ACT Party welcomes PHARMAC recognising New Zealanders are asking for more transparency on which medicines it funds but today’s announcement falls short of providing the information needed. All of the information PHARMAC has released for ‘transparency’ is already available

Members Public
yellow and black no smoking sign

Lack of Supply and Vaccine Mismanagement

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. The biggest problem so far for the vaccination programme has been the lack of supply of the Pfizer doses, and debate continues as to whether

Members Public
doctor holding red stethoscope

Rollout Roadblock: Supply Sorted but Delivery Delayed

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. The journalist who has covered the vaccine rollout best is the Herald’s Derek Cheng. On Thursday he reported on the Government’s latest explanation

Members Public
‘Year of the Vaccine’ at Risk

‘Year of the Vaccine’ at Risk

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. A consensus is emerging that the Government has generally managed the Covid crisis very well over the last 18 months, but they have dropped the

Members Public