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
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!
Well, that’s the parliamentary sitting year done, and for the Australian prime minister, it surely can’t have come quick enough. 2023 was a horror year for Anthony Albanese, once the glow of actually winning an election with the record-lowest primary vote in a century wore off. Mind
Lennart Nijenhuis Lennart Nijenhuis started his journalism career as a digital editor at the Dutch daily Reformatorisch Dagblad (Reformed Daily). Before that, he studied Communications at Windesheim Zwolle. He has been working at CNE since its launch in October 2021. mercatornet.com Olivia Maurel always knew something was “off” about
The fallout from the High Court and Labor’s mind-boggling decision to turn nearly one hundred and fifty dangerous foreign criminals loose in Australia just keeps coming. Now a fourth bad wog has been re-arrested — and all Anthony Albanese’s top law officer can do is shout spittle-
Brittany Higgins has wrapped up her last day of cross-examination in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation suit, and it didn’t fail to deliver. The biggest revelation of her testimony was to confirm what everyone in Australia already knew: the taxpayer has been stiffed $2.3 million, straight to Brittany’
And the Lehrmann/Higgins circus just keeps rolling on. The criminal trial for rape against Bruce Lehrmann was ignominiously dropped last year. Now it’s being fought out again in all but name, as Lehrmann sues Channel Ten and former The Project journalist Lisa Wilkinson for defamation. The defence is
This story was originally published by ProPublica propublica.org Texas Judge Orders Release of Uvalde Shooting Records by Zach Despart, The Texas Tribune ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. A state district
Julian Maxwell Hayter University of Richmond theconversation.com Few people have been more associated with rolling back modern-day civil rights laws than Edward Blum, the former stockbroker who has successfully challenged many affirmative action and voting rights laws. Blum has no formal legal training. He, in fact, refers to
Thanks to the dodgy, blatantly biased Canberra legal establishment, alleged juror misconduct, and “fragile mental health” of the complainant, Bruce Lehrmann’s criminal trial for allegedly raping Brittany Higgins was never resolved. After delays and a mistrial, the whole case was dropped by the Canberra DPP (who subsequently came under
