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Racial Profiling for Better Women’s Health Outcomes

Racial Profiling for Better Women’s Health Outcomes

It’s been slim pickings media-wise for the Greens lately so they have made the most of co-leader Marama Davidson’s breast cancer diagnosis, which occurred over a month ago, by goading the public into pondering the contents of a delayed press release described as a “personal and

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NZ’s Democracy Is in Turmoil

NZ’s Democracy Is in Turmoil

NZCPR “As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance, and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.” Those were the words of Albert Einstein, who fled Nazi Germany in 1933 to live in the United States.

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Decline of the Day

Decline of the Day

The number of businesses operating in New Zealand has been steady, and even lifting a bit, in recent months. In April, there were just over 590,000, of which about 20 percent were in rental, hiring and real estate services. Shamubeel Eaqub, an independent economist, said that stable number hid

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A Truly Preventive Health System Is Needed

A Truly Preventive Health System Is Needed

Guy Hatchard Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior manager at Genetic ID,

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The Aftermath of the C-19 Policies

The Aftermath of the C-19 Policies

NZDSOS It seems we are at the end of the beginning, to borrow from Winston Churchill. We know the government’s Covid-19 response has been an epic disaster, a reckless game of Russian roulette with the nation’s health – bang! –  but this headshot will bleed inexorably. Four years on

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No ‘Pride’ in Sexualising Children

No ‘Pride’ in Sexualising Children

Family First As part of indoctrinating a radical and extreme sexuality & gender ideology to our children, there is now “Schools’ Pride Week Aotearoa” for NZ schools being held this week (17-21 June), overseen by the radical and government-funded charity InsideOUT, but also strongly promoted by the Ministry

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No ‘Pride’ in Sexualising Children

No ‘Pride’ in Sexualising Children

Family First As part of indoctrinating a radical and extreme sexuality & gender ideology to our children, there is now “Schools’ Pride Week Aotearoa” for NZ schools being held this week (17-21 June), overseen by the radical and government-funded charity InsideOUT, but also strongly promoted by the Ministry

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Shakespeare Is Back at School, Maybe

The revised year 7–13 English curriculum, to be released in July, is expected to include compulsory Shakespeare and grammar lessons, as well as a recommended reading list ranging from contemporary New Zealand authors to Chaucer and Beowulf. […] Teachers are also concerned about the emphasis on traditional literary texts, such

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Shakespeare Is Back at School, Maybe

The revised year 7–13 English curriculum, to be released in July, is expected to include compulsory Shakespeare and grammar lessons, as well as a recommended reading list ranging from contemporary New Zealand authors to Chaucer and Beowulf. […] Teachers are also concerned about the emphasis on traditional literary texts, such

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Could New Zealand Be Collapsing?

Could New Zealand Be Collapsing?

Michael Bassett Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments. Was Paul Henry correct when he questioned whether New Zealand is on the skids? It’s something we need to

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Could New Zealand Be Collapsing?

Could New Zealand Be Collapsing?

Was Paul Henry correct when he questioned whether New Zealand is on the skids? It’s something we need to ask now that our migration figures show we lost huge numbers of people last year who have gone overseas for greener pastures.

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Jones Calls a Spade a Spade and Wants to Use It
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Jones Calls a Spade a Spade and Wants to Use It

If there’s one politician in the current parliament who stands out as not being afraid to speak out against the woke and ideological left it is Shane Jones. Here is a man who takes no prisoners. What he does take is a pragmatic approach to what he sees as

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NZ’s Ministerial Conflicts of Interest Under Scrutiny
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NZ’s Ministerial Conflicts of Interest Under Scrutiny

Bryce Edwards I am Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington, where I run the Democracy Project, and am a full-time researcher in the School of Government. After all the conflict-of-interest scandals that dogged the last Labour Government, the public might have expected that the

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Dodgy Is as Dodgy Does
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Dodgy Is as Dodgy Does

Stuff continues to drip out unsavoury facts about Chinese involvement to subvert our democracy. We all know about both Labour’s and National’s dodgy donations, where the idiots at the Serious Fraud Office comprehensively destroyed any credibility they had by failing in all of their prosecutions because of the

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