The Doctor Ewan Campbell is best known for his innovative soil-conditioning system. It was apparently such a threat to mainstream fertiliser companies that he became the subject of a weird commerce commission investigation for misleading claims. Then, to top off the persecution, he was imprisoned for tax crimes on behalf
Jane Healy Communications Manager Auckland Zoo Auckland Zoo is celebrating its centenary today, a century during which generations of New Zealanders have been at the heart of its journey to becoming the wildlife conservation organisation it is today. “On the eve of venturing into our next century together, there couldn’
Hello, it’s “All things Political” with John Porter on Bay FM, and today I’m reading an e-mail I was sent recently. These are not my words but seemingly, they represent the feeling of a hell of lot of New Zealanders. Firstly, we have to start telling the truth
On Saturday was the long-awaited Hamilton West by-election. The final result was much in line with what had been forecast but which many of us didn’t dare to hope would actually eventuate! A swing of 21 per cent from Labour to National: annihilation territory for the socialists. Whereas an
It was surely one of the most staggering moments of hypocrisy in Australian history: in the same week that the Labor government connived to censure a former PM for the first time since Federation, it was indulging in an orgy of lionising former PM Gough Whitlam. Where’s the hypocrisy?
Rob Perez Honolulu Star-Advertiser This story was originally published by ProPublica. 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: Promised Land A Failed Housing Pledge to Native Hawaiians For the better part of two
Alexander Gillespie University of Waikato The recent claim by Kim Jong Un that North Korea plans to develop the world’s most powerful nuclear force may well have been more bravado than credible threat. But that doesn’t mean it can be ignored. The best guess is that North Korea
Fred Too Several days ago I noticed that Statistics NZ released its September quarterly births and deaths figures on 17 November. Deaths in the year to September 2022 had rocketed to 38,052, up 10 per cent from 34,578 in 2021. Deaths had already risen by six per cent
Ceren Kabukcu University of Liverpool Ceren Kabukcu is an archaeobotanical scientist with broad interests in Quaternary palaeoecology, and plant food and wood fuel use by hunter-gatherers and the earliest farmers in Southwest Asia and Europe. We humans can’t stop playing with our food. Just think of all the different
It’s official: there’s no such thing as “indigenous people”. Not, at least, unless you’re a natural-born member of the Khoe-San groups of Southern Africa. Everywhere else – you’re just an immigrant. A “coloniser”, if you will. It’s science. As scientists find more ancient human DNA, sample
Teddy Roosevelt has quite a reputation for not having too many damns to give. As a sickly child suffering terribly from asthma, he was warned to take it easy or he wouldn’t live long. He replied to the doctor, “I’m going to do all the things you tell
Adam Dick ronpaulinstitute.org Fifty-nine years ago this week, President John F Kennedy was assassinated. These many years later, the United States government continues to hold in secret piles of information related to the assassination. After the popular theatrical run of director Oliver Stone’s movie JFK that dramatically challenged
We have come to the end of yet another yet fantastic book giveaway for our subscribers. The prizes are three copies of Adam Plover’s new book New Zealand; the Benefits of Colonisation. Today we announce which three lucky BFD members have each won a copy of this book. We
Yesterday returned serviceman Neill Boak celebrated his 100th birthday. He is the first Kiwi to receive a 100th birthday card from the new head of state, King Charles III. After the war, he returned to his field of surveying: establishing his own company and working notable projects, including the Auckland
