Wendy Jenny Salesa, Associate Minister of Health announced on Wednesday evening that a bill to legislate behaviour around vaping would not be forthcoming before Christmas. In fact, she said, it will be within their first term, so it could be just before the election next year. This flies in the
It seems that there will be a new bill debated, possibly even before Christmas, that will see some changes to the law in relation to FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) proposed and argued. Cross party support has been gained for this issue with the bill being sponsored by Priyanca Radhakrishnan from
Catherine Abou-Nemeh Victoria University of Wellington Earlier this week New Zealand’s parliamentarians voted on the third reading of the End of Life Choice Bill. Much public discussion on the merits of euthanasia has centred around the role of the medical practitioner as healer. Some doctors and conscientious objectors
We have been told in no uncertain terms by the NZ Advertising Standards Authority that ice cream does NOT make us happy and that anyone who dares to advertise that it does, better wipe the smirk off their face quick smart, because “the implicit claim that there is a link
PA Pundits – International Tony Perkins “Talk with teens about possible regret.” That’s what the American Academy of Pediatrics says about tattoos and body piercings. But when it comes to giving a girl who thinks she’s a boy a double mastectomy, the same organization thinks parents should “respect” their
Press Release: ACT Party There has never been such comprehensive parliamentary scrutiny of a bill as the End of Life Choice Bill. 39,000 public submissions, 16 months in select committee, four months in Committee of the Whole House, nearly two years from First Reading to Third Reading. The Third
As if private landlords don’t need another example of why they should get out of providing rental housing this should give them the incentive. Meet the tenant from hell. “A New Lynn landlord says methamphetamine-related damage by a tenant was so bad they had to take out a
Proponents of medical killing invariably couch their defence in terms of “safeguards”. This might seem plausible enough in theory – but practical experience is quite another matter. As practical experience shows, once the laws are passed and the Rubicon crossed, “safeguards” are very quickly watered down. In the Netherlands, for instance,
As Theodore Dalrymple has written, “To assent to obvious lies is…in some small way to become evil oneself…a society of emasculated liars is easy to control”. The West is fast becoming a society dominated by literally emasculated liars. But the greatest evil being perpetrated is not the obvious
CRISPR technology has taken a new leap. Scientist David Liu of the Broad Institute says that fine tuning of this gene editing technology could correct about 89 percent of the mutations in human heritable diseases. Legal and Media analyst Lionel breaks it all down (13:29). Talks between Turkish President
Perhaps this post should come under the banner of ‘Whinging Crybaby Vegan of the Week’ but hey, no red-blooded bloke wants to see his sausage flogged, especially by some scrawny screeching Vegan harpie. You would think that you could go out for a nice charity walk in support of
When the medical lobby first campaigned against tobacco, certain perceptive observers questioned whether they might start getting carried away with their own success and turn into the Fun Police. Oh no, the white-coated wowsers swore, it was only about tobacco. They weren’t going to start browbeating about alcohol,
