Jack Vowles Professor of Political Science Victoria University of Wellington The coalition government’s approach to Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Treaty of Waitangi) will inevitably set the scene for Waitangi Day next week, with the ACT Party’s Treaty Principles Bill already generating protest and ill will. But ACT’s
Charles Krblich Chuck Krblich works in the insurance and reinsurance industries as a catastrophe manager. brownstone.org Il nous faut de l’audace, encore de l’audace, toujours de l’audace! (We need audacity, more audacity, always audacity!) Georges Jacques Danton Just a short time ago, on a Saturday, before
We live in a time of near-universal deceit, but one of the biggest lies sold to us is that “women never lie about rape”. Does anyone with half a working brain cell really believe that? Now, before the autistic screeching starts, I’m not saying that women always lie about
MRC Staff newsbusters.org Anti-free speech Google has been hit with multiple antitrust lawsuits. Google suffered an epically devastating defeat in federal court on Dec. 11 after EPIC Games Inc., the company that created Fortnite, successfully sued Google. This lawsuit stems from Google’s decision to ban EPIC Games after
No wonder Bruce Lehrmann was grinning from ear to ear outside court. His defamation case against Channel Ten and Lisa Wilkinson is on a roll. Lehrmann is sueing the broadcaster and the journalist for defamation, over The Project’s scoop interview with former Canberra staffer Brittany Higgins, who claims she
Kris Gledhill Auckland University of Technology The new coalition government has made its campaign promise to crack down on gangs a priority in its 100-day action plan. But whether the new “get tough” policy genuinely plugs gaps in existing legislation is very much open to question. The policy was laid
Gary Moller Gary Moller is a Health Practitioner who is focused on addressing the root causes of ill health or poor performance by making use of a key forensic tool – Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis – and administering healthy, natural and sustainable therapies. garymoller.com “Crimes include, murder, racketeering, biological weapons laws
Richard Kelly Richard Kelly is a retired business analyst, married with three adult children and one dog and devastated by the way his home city of Melbourne was laid waste. Convinced justice will be served one day. brownstone.org In their famous ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ bout, Muhammad Ali and
Peter St Onge Peter St Onge is a Mises Institute Associated Scholar and an Economic Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. St Onge received his PhD from George Mason University and was a 2014 Mises Institute Research Fellow. For more content from Dr St Onge. mises.org A few days
dailytelegraph.co.nz CHANGES TO FRESHWATER RULES ARE A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION BUT MORE WORK NEEDS TO BE DONE IF THE NEW GOVERNMENT ARE SERIOUS ABOUT RESTORING FARMER CONFIDENCE, FEDERATED FARMERS FRESHWATER SPOKESPERSON COLIN HURST SAYS. “The National Policy Statement on Freshwater Management is without a doubt the
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Written in conjunction with an NZTSOS colleague. When the vaccine mandates came into force for Health and Education workers, employers could apply for ‘Significant Service Disruption’ (SSD) vaccine exemptions for staff who refused to take the ‘vaccine’. These exemptions were meant
This post was written by Family First staff writers. familyfirst.org.nz A serial sperm donor who donated to several Kiwi women has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for sexual offending against children. There were also serious charges related to possessing and distributing child exploitation material. 27
Ramesh Thakur Ramesh Thakur, a Brownstone Institute senior scholar, is a former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, and emeritus professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. brownstone.org The following is an excerpt from Dr Ramesh Thakur’s book, Our Enemy, the Government: How Covid Enabled
According to her testimony, Brittany Higgins now employs a legal babysitter, “so I can’t do anything dumb”. Whoever the poor soul is, they’ve got their work cut out for them. On her last day of cross examination, Higgins publicly confirmed what had so far been confidential: that she
Michael Cook Michael Cook is editor of Mercator. mercatornet.com Such is the stigma surrounding suicide that advocates of ‘voluntary assisted dying’ insist vehemently that it is by no means suicide. For instance, Go Gentle Australia, a leading lobby group for VAD, explains in its website’s FAQ that: People
familyfirst.org.nz This tragic story not only illustrates the dangers of cannabis, but also highlights the leniency of our sentencing… A woman smoked “20 bongs” of marijuana before getting behind the wheel and killing a pedestrian. She then filmed the aftermath of the crash and posted it to TikTok!
