Kate C. Prickett Victoria University of Wellington theconversation.com By introducing four weeks of paid parental leave for partners if re-elected, the Labour Party would move New Zealand out of an undesirable and tiny club of OECD nations. Only the United States and Israel would then not offer something similar
Here’s an uncomfortable thought: every failed rape prosecution is, prima facie, a false accusation. Such a statement is guaranteed to enrage many, of course. Especially feminists, who love to bandy dodgy “statistics” that would have us believe that Australia is as dangerous for women as the Congo, where rape
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Introduction In 2020, increasingly concerned that the government’s response to covid 19 might be causing more harm than good, Dr Alison Goodwin looked for other doctors asking questions or offering alternatives to the fear-based narrative. There didn’t seem to
Ben Terangi Ben Terangi is a freelance journalist writing from Milwaukee. mercatornet.com Sex trafficking platform Pornhub has been dealt a major blow over the last year, with age verification laws sailing through multiple state legislatures, in some cases unanimously. As a result, the sleazy site has seen its traffic
NZDSOS The decision from Judge Kevin Kelly of the Wellington District Court, released last week, has seen Dr Alison Goodwin’s January 2022 suspension by the Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ) reversed. The case, filed on 9 Feb 2022, was heard 16 months later on 28 Jun 2023. The
Right To Life News righttolife.org.uk The Right To Life News team has spoken to a number of the pro-life campaigners involved with the campaign, as well as conducting its own research to produce this article that provides a full account of this pro-life victory. June 2022 – The Prudente
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Heather Montgomery Professor of Anthropology and Childhood The Open University Paris Mayo gave birth to her son Stanley alone – at home, in silence, while her parents and brother were upstairs. Mayo claimed not to have known she was pregnant, and no one at her school or within her family had
The messenger-shooting continues in the ACT, in the wake of the explosive inquiry that led to the resignation of its top prosecutor. The Sofronoff inquiry made findings of serious misconduct of DPP Shane Drumgold during his prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann for the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins. Rather than be
Right To Life News righttolife.org.uk A quadriplegic Canadian woman is considering euthanasia because she says it is more readily available than state disability support, even though she does not want to die. Rose Finlay is a 33-year-old quadriplegic mother of two children who have disabilities. She has released
Australia’s spiciest defo case is slowly grinding its way through the NSW courts. As I’ve written previously, a flamboyantly homosexual MP has taken one of Australia’s most notorious political bruisers to court. All over a tweet graphically describing gay sex. When I first wrote about this, I
Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll Senior Lecturer Above the Bar University of Canterbury It seems clear that adoption law reform won’t be a priority before the October general election. This will be bitterly disappointing for many New Zealanders. Despite some significant progress, the Ministry of Justice has revised its timeline for delivering
In 1999, Australian lawyer and journalist Paul Chadwick warned that, “All roads from a so-called independent statutory tribunal lead back through a parliament to a cabinet room”. Chadwick was speaking particularly of perennial issue of governments attempting to impose tighter control on media and information, but the same principle applies
Shane Drumgold has bowed to the inevitable and quit as Director of Public Prosecutions for the ACT. The extraordinary fall from grace for the top legal official comes in the wake of the Soffronoff Inquiry, which Drumgold himself requested. The inquiry made damning findings of misconduct against him. Drumgold, however,
Steven Tucker Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer with over ten books to his name. His next, Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science, comparing the woke pseudoscience of today to the totalitarian pseudoscience of the past, will be published in summer 2023. mercatornet.com Did you know it
As I wrote recently, “a week in Australian politics just can’t go by without a fresh absurdity from Brittany Higgins”. Well, it’s been a banner week, this week. From revelations of Higgins’ claim to be Aboriginal, to the release of the bombshell Sofronoff inquiry into the prosecution of
