The Supreme Court has finally made its decision on the prolonged legal wrangling over the extradition of Kim Dotcom. They said that he can be extradited. Kim Dotcom can be extradited to the United States to face 12 criminal copyright-related charges, the Supreme Court has ruled after a marathon legal
Stephen Franks Free Speech Coalition The Human Rights Commission is gunning for hate speech laws with taxpayer funding and the support of the Government. The Human Rights Commission report released yesterday has called for a balance to be struck between “freedom of speech and the right to be safe.” It
righttolife.org.uk New Zealand has voted to introduce an extreme assisted suicide law in a binding public referendum. Preliminary results, announced by the country’s electoral commission on Friday, show 65.2% of voters supported the End of Life Choice Act coming into force as a new law. Support
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Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com For the first time since MMP was introduced in 1996, New Zealand voters have given a single political party the absolute power to govern alone. Whether Labour decides to exercise that authority or share their mandate with the Greens, remains to be seen. Whatever arrangement
It’s so easy being Labour: just take gobs-ful of lies and then regurgitate same down the needy throats of voracious, unquestioning, and juvenile media-nesters who swallow them without hesitation. Thus it was with Andrew Little condescendingly trivialising the sexual groping of a female prison officer in ‘alerting’ the public
Andrew Little has signalled yet again that he is hell-bent on repealing the three-strikes law. God only knows why as the rationale for repeal is rather spurious: The law that resulted in a man being sentenced to seven years in jail for grabbing a prison guard’s bottom is likely
righttolife.org.uk The High Court in London will hear a landmark case against the UK Government over the country’s discriminatory abortion legislation, which singles out babies with disabilities by allowing terminations right through to birth for conditions including Down’s syndrome, cleft lip and club foot. Currently in
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Alex Schadenberg mercatornet.com Alex Schadenberg is Executive Director and International Chair of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. He is based in Ontario, Canada. On Monday, 13 October, Dutch Health Minister Hugo de Jonge announced that the Dutch government will amend its euthanasia law to permit child euthanasia — an announcement that
If the referendum fails If the referendum fails it means not only that legalisation of cannabis is off-the-table but probably also decriminalisation. It would be easy to blame the misinformation campaigns and scare tactics of groups like Family First and SayNopeToDope. But to me that’s too simplistic. People voting
Gladys Berejiklian has become the Fairy Princess of the right. The right of politics are zealously defending their favoured female leader against reputational attacks and staunchly maintaining that she is a strong, capable leader. That last assertion was already looking shaky enough. The Ruby Princess fiasco, for instance, was a
When Barack Obama pontificated about “the curated media”, he said more than he knew. What Obama was tacitly admitting is that the legacy media are self-appointed gatekeepers of the public sphere. With the typical arrogance of the left, Obama assumed that the public must be taken in hand like a
