Darroch Ball Leader Sensible Sentencing Trust We need to stop making excuses for these idiot teen criminals. We have created this environment for this sort of behaviour to fester – but our government, system, and media continue to give them every reason to continue to do what they’re doing and,
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. When it passed in the Victorian parliament in 2017, the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act must have been one of the most controversial pieces of legislation in Australian history. Lobbying on both sides was intense;
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Liz Gunn and her team at FreeNZ Media first alerted us to the plight of Mahelino Patelesio and his family on Tokelau’s Nukunonu Atoll on 3 July 2022. The family had been on house arrest (“tunoa”) under instruction of the
Gary Moller garymoller.com 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. A friend wrote to me: “What about
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. On April 7, 2020 Cardinal George Pell walked out of Barwon Prison, in Victoria, a free man. Australia’s High Court, in a unanimous 7-0 decision, had quashed his conviction for sexually abusing two
righttolife.org.uk Thousands of people across the United Kingdom stopped for a minute of silence at 11:41am to commemorate the 10 million lives that have been lost to abortion in England, Wales and Scotland since the Abortion Act was introduced in 1967. It is projected that the 10
Darroch Ball Leader Sensible Sentencing Trust There have been comments from the Minister of Justice, and repeated in the media, about the recent youth crime wave being a so called ‘spike’. What they want is to create a message that it is ‘short term’, ‘fixable’, and ‘unexpected’. All of which
Information Opinion In the 1890s the US Supreme Court entrenched what was known as the “Separate But Equal” doctrine, bypassing the concept of everybody being equal under the law. This meant that segregation and discrimination along racial lines was legal so long as services were available to each race. For
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com 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
Mauricio Rodríguez Pons Aliyya Swaby Annie Waldman propublica.org Mauricio Rodríguez Pons is a visual journalist. Aliyya Swaby is a reporter in ProPublica’s South unit covering children, families and social inequality. Annie Waldman is a reporter at ProPublica covering education. This story was originally published by ProPublica. For Helping
righttolife.org.uk From Thursday, women seeking an abortion in Hungary will listen to their baby’s heartbeat before they proceed with having an abortion as a new amendment comes into effect. On Monday this week, an amendment supported by the country’s interior minister, Pintér Sándor, was passed, which
Brooke van Velden ACT Deputy Leader and Housing spokesperson Councils up and down the country are lashing out at the Labour/National housing deal, with the Christchurch City Council the latest to stand up to the law. The Christchurch City Council has just voted against applying the density rules – meaning
Paula Jardine brownstone.org ON January 23, 2020, the day that the Chinese authorities sent their dramatic message to the world by putting the sprawling mid-China city of Wuhan under lockdown, the Biotech company Moderna signed a $1 million funding agreement with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to
Tobacco is our most deadly legal recreational substance, with alcohol coming second. So what does the government do about it? Tax it to high heaven, of course, so that it becomes a virtually prohibited substance. And what happens when you do that? You create a black market. A Newshub investigation
Information Opinion A couple of days ago the Independent Police Complaints Authority released a report that criticised Police for taking a large number of photographs “with no clear and lawful purpose”. There is also a claim of racial bias, as 53 per cent of those photographed were Maori. The response
Andreea S. Calude Sam Campbell University of Waikato As a linguist, Andreea S. Calude is fascinated by various aspects of language, including grammar and the organisation of spoken English, but also language evolution and language change (studying how words from one language get adopted and used in another –> borrowings
