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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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David Lange Would Support Maori Separatism, Says Ardern

David Lange Would Support Maori Separatism, Says Ardern

Ardern’s view of Maori independence, or separate government, is not new at all. The ink was scarcely dry on the Treaty when Maori chiefs challenged British sovereignty. Little good it did them because they were captured in the first article of the treaty. “The chiefs of the Confederation and

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Surprise! We’re All Anti-vaxxers Now

Surprise! We’re All Anti-vaxxers Now

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak George Orwell, “1984” I’ve long been a proponent of the efficacy and safety of vaccines. I have my “shots” regularly, including the annual flu vax. I’ve long disdained, and occasionally, futilely,

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The Pillars of Transgender Medicine Are Shaking

The Pillars of Transgender Medicine Are Shaking

Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet Can you really be transgender at four years old? Matthew Stubbings, and wife Klara Jeynes, both 44, from the English city of Doncaster, believe so. Their “son” Stormy was born as a girl named Emerald. However, from 18 months

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Making Monkeys Out of Us

Making Monkeys Out of Us

David Albert Jones mercatornet.com Professor David Albert Jones is Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Oxford; he was appointed in 2010. He is also a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University and Professor of Bioethics at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. A US-Chinese team of scientists have produced

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Families Are the Collateral Damage of Transgender Transitions

Families Are the Collateral Damage of Transgender Transitions

Anonymous author mercatornet.com The author is a married mom of two living in a Maryland suburb. She’s an “old fashioned feminist.” She celebrates being a woman and believes in equality. She respects men and their role in society just as much as she believes womens’ strengths play a

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Mike King Highlights Yet Another Government Failure

Mike King Highlights Yet Another Government Failure

Mike King is someone who has done more than most in the area of mental health. The government has yet again been exposed for its empty slogans and poor delivery; this time in mental health: Is anybody else confused by the shortage of mental health counselling services around the country

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Light a Durrie for Equality, Girls

Light a Durrie for Equality, Girls

Forget the gender pay gap, the gender superannuation gap or the glass ceiling: there’s a real and urgent gender gap that demands redress. The gap in question strikes right to the heart of the wellbeing, indeed, the very lives of one half of humanity. The gender gap in question

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