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Fact Check: Does George Christensen’s Bill Force Medical Intervention When There’s No Chance of Survival?

Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news Secretary of the “Reason Party”, Emma Sinclair, has presented a poor-performing video claiming to debunk George Christensen’s Children Born Alive Protection Bill. For context, the “Reason Party” was formerly called the “Australian Sex Party”, and was established in 2009 by Fiona Patten, the then CEO

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Dr Shane Reti – Labour’s Direction in Health Hugely Disappointing

Thursday’s Broken Compass Budget has revealed the impact the Government’s decision to radically restructure our health sector will have on the health of all New Zealanders, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “Labour has allocated almost half billion dollars to ‘begin the transition’ to its proposed

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Careening down the Slippery Slope in Record Time

Careening down the Slippery Slope in Record Time

The more the “progressive” left scream and bluster that there’s no slippery slope, the faster they shove us all down its greased rails. It took less than two years to go from a state-run mail-in opinion survey on gay marriage to radical transgender laws in Tasmania (the latter was

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Minister Should Apologise to Patients’ Group

Minister Should Apologise to Patients’ Group

Brooke van Velden ACT Health Spokesperson Health Minister Andrew Little owes an apology to Patient Voice Aotearoa for accusing them of using “extremist rhetoric. Patient Voice Aotearoa is a group that is advocating for medicines for people who are sick or dying. For a Minister to accuse them of extremism

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PHARMAC Political Theatre Grotesque

PHARMAC Political Theatre Grotesque

Brooke van Velden ACT Health spokesperson It is grotesque political theatre to make people wait for the budget to get their medicines funded each year. A more mature Government would have included funding in the PHARMAC review so that we have a policy to compare options of non-pharmaceutical interventions, such

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Another Day, Another Blood Clot

Another Day, Another Blood Clot

There’s an old saying in journalism: if it bleeds, it leads. That is, the media are more likely to report the extraordinary. “Man bites dog” is a far more interesting story than vice-versa. The only problem with that is that it leads to a very skewed worldview for the

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Breakthrough on Laura Fergusson Trust

Breakthrough on Laura Fergusson Trust

David Seymour ACT Leader and Epsom MP The Laura Fergusson Trust which provides critical services to young disabled people has broken its silence and agreed to meet with the Minister of Health. This is fantastic news which follows my questions to the Health Minister in Parliament yesterday and a rally

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Medical Misdiagnosis

Medical Misdiagnosis

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Seemingly daily we read of GP misdiagnosis costing lives. From long experience I would say this. First; understand that GP’s are, general practitioners with the emphasis on “general”. That is they can only really deal effectively with relatively minor obvious issues. If a GP

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Dr Shane Reti – Andrew Little Suggests Cuts to Health Services

Dr Shane Reti – Andrew Little Suggests Cuts to Health Services

Health Minister Andrew Little needs to rule out cutting health services to pay for his radical restructuring plans for the health sector, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. National has a letter from Andrew Little to Finance Minister Grant Robertson, setting out his priorities for Budget 2021. “The

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Leftists and Their ‘Trigger’ Bullshit

Leftists and Their ‘Trigger’ Bullshit

Trigger warnings. Suddenly, they’re everywhere. So-called “triggers” have proliferated faster than “gender dysphoria” in a clique of teenage girls with Instagram accounts. And they’re every bit as real: which is to say, they’re a phony fad, cooked up by leftists terrified of having to debate their blatantly

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Chris Bishop – OAG Issues Stark Warning on Vaccine Roll Out

The Auditor-General’s audit of the government’s vaccine roll-out presents a very worrying picture of a lack of progress and significant concerns about whether it will achieve its goals at all, says National’s Covid-19 Response Spokesperson Chris Bishop. The Auditor-General states that he is “not yet confident that

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Time for Answers from Laura Fergusson Trust

Time for Answers from Laura Fergusson Trust

David Seymour ACT Leader The Government has made it clear it’s willing to get back to the table with the Laura Fergusson Trust, so we need answers about why the Trust is refusing. The Laura Fergusson Trust has been a safe haven for young people with physical and neurological

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Tetraplegic Sophia Malthus was among disabled protesters clutching placards who rallied in Greenlane today calling on authorities to save the Laura Fergusson Trust. The Trust supports young disabled people with physical and neurological impairments. Its rehabilitation centre has been providing treatment from its home and respite care unit for almost

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We Are Having A Baby

What Do They Mean When They Say ‘Pregnant Persons’?

Margaret Somerville mercatornet.com Margaret Somerville is Professor of Bioethics at the University of Notre Dame Australia School of Medicine (Sydney campus). She is also Samuel Gale Professor of Law Emerita, Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Medicine, and Founding Director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law Emerita

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