Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura We owe much to our ready access to affordable and reliable energy: it is closely correlated with increases in population, GDP per capita and life expectancy. But we have been putting all this at risk with a focus on sustainability which, while in itself is
Rachel Smalley Journalist and Broadcaster The Common Room This article was first published by The Common Room The Medicine Gap is a storytelling platform and at its heart is social justice – I write stories about everyday New Zealanders who are ill and need access to modern medicines that we don’
Lindsay Mitchell Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio, tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com There are increasing numbers of people who know and understand that what has happened these past three years, and what continues to happen, is wrong and unethical, criminal even. This includes people in positions of power and influence with the ability
Ian Powell Health Systems Commentator and Blogger commonroomnz.com This article was first published on The Common Room On 9 February 2023, TVNZ’s 1News revealed some data that should alarm us all: that our hospitals had hit 100% occupancy more than 600 times in 2022. That is, on average,
Jon Queally Jon Queally is managing editor of Common Dreams. commondreams.org Despite years of protest and warnings from environmentalists, the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog on Tuesday approved a plan by Japan to release tens of millions of gallons of water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into
Stella Paul Stella Paul is the pen name of a writer in New York who has covered medical issues for over a decade. In 2021, she lost her husband in a locked down nursing home in New York City where he had been brutally isolated for almost a year. He
kffhealthnews.org Research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health evaluated births between April and December 2022 and linked the passing of Texas’ restrictive anti-abortion law to 9,799 additional live births. Other reproductive health news is reported from North Carolina, Iowa and elsewhere. Houston Chronicle: Nearly 10,
Every time a government wants to pass state-sanctioned suicide laws, we’re treated to the same oily palaver that there’s no ‘slippery slope’. Except that, every time, there is. In fact, the latest jurisdiction to attempt to push through “Voluntary Assisted Dying” (suicide, to put it bluntly), the Australian
Dr Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior
I recently reported how a scientist who spent 100 days in an underwater habitat came out of the experience “10 years younger”. That is, certain biological changes, particularly in his chromosomes, effectively reversed his biological clock. But, if living under the sea might extend your life, living in space may
Robert Kogon Robert Kogon is a pen name for a widely-published financial journalist, a translator, and researcher working in Europe. brownstone.org German scientists have uncovered startling evidence that a substantial portion of the batches of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine deployed in the European Union may in fact have consisted
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com As another example of the tricked leading the willfully blind, Australian “ethicist and moral philosopher” Peter Singer still pushes their desperate tropes in his article in NZ’s The Listener: that anti-vaxers are crazy and selfish, and the shots are safe
Blocked Artery in Your Leg? Here’s What You Should Know. by Annie Waldman ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Arterial Motives The Big Business of Clogged Arteries Millions of Americans have
John Donne Potter Amanda Eng Massey University theconversation.com A recent survey suggests that 58 per cent of workers in New Zealand are exposed to at least one cancer-causing agent at work. Almost one in three are exposed at a high level, at or above the standards set by WorkSafe
familyfirst.org.nz Article first published in the Australian earlier this year… Incidents of domestic violence and assault have plummeted by more than a third in Alice Springs since alcohol restrictions were put in place earlier this year, following outcry from locals demanding for months that the Territory government implement
