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Why Did It Take Her 4 Years to See the Light?

Why Did It Take Her 4 Years to See the Light?

Emanuel E. Garcia, M.D. NEWZEALANDDOC Philadelphia-born psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and author who emigrated to New Zealand in 2006. He retired from psychiatric practice in 2021, refusing to be inoculated, after working in the public sector in New Zealand. I read with mild interest in Dr. Peter McCullough’s substack

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Tougher Love

Chris Trotter democracyproject.substack.com THE INTENSIFYING POLITICAL CONTROVERSY over the Coalition Government’s policy on gangs promises to be one of those sheep-from-goats moments. While the Left will veer instinctively towards the sociological, the Right will opt to (paraphrasing one of the best lines from Pulp Fiction)

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The Consequences of NZ’s COVID Mandates

The Consequences of NZ’s COVID Mandates

Jan Dewar Head of Nursing Denise Wilson Associate Dean Maori Advancement | Professor Maori Health Gail Pacheco Professor of Economics, Director of the NZ Work Research Institute Lisa Meehan Deputy Director, NZ Work Research Institute Auckland University of Technology During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, policy was being made

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Death Spiral or Flat Spin?

Death Spiral or Flat Spin?

Political journalists and commentators are often prone to examples of exaggeration. Tova O’Brien is one of the worst, but it is understandable when you work for a niche publication that is so close to failing that its staff resort to calamitous exaggerated headlines to attract readers to their dross.

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Parallel Assessment Means New Medicines Assessed Sooner

Hon David Seymour Associate Minister of Health Pharmac is changing its process so it can assess a funding application at the same time Medsafe is assessing the application for regulatory approval. This means that medicines will be able to be considered for funding sooner in New Zealand. Access to medicines

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Unbelievable

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In today’s Post newspaper correspondence Michael Barnett, has come up with a brilliant idea re funding the City Council. Specifically, he suggests imposing taxes on city commercial sites. I’ll chip in my contribution and suggest we call this new tax “rates”. Reading these

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Satirical Image of the Day

Satirical Image of the Day

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Damien Grant

Damien Grant

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Half a century back newspapers were everyone’s principal news source. But in the face of the new digital option with its immediacy, they’ve gone over like ninepins and the handful surviving, knowing the game is up, are all actively trying to build a

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NZ Elections and Dark Money

Dr Bryce Edwards democracyproject.substack.com Political Analyst in Residence, Director of the Democracy Project, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington Elections in the United States are dominated by big money. But what isn’t commonly understood is that most of it is raised and spent, not by the

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Peaceful Gathering on Parliament Steps

Doctors from New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science (NZDSOS) will be on the Parliament steps on Thursday 29 February at 1 pm, and will speak and hand over a letter demanding that the covid injections be ceased due to the overwhelming danger signals. A spokesperson for NZDSOS, Dr Alison

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Is Labour a Spent Force?

Normally after an electoral drubbing such as the Labour Government received last year one can safely assume that in another two or three election cycles there will be a path back to power. Voters will simply tire of the current lot and therefore there will be an appetite for change.

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There Are 3 Kinds of Lies

lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Question: Do you understand how the child poverty statistics are derived? Clearly some people do not. Last week the latest child poverty statistics were all over the media. But there are a number of misunderstandings that need addressing. Like this one from NewstalkZB’s John MacDonald who

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Nashy Gives Labour a Good Kick in the Cods

Nashy Gives Labour a Good Kick in the Cods

Stuart Nash, unencumbered by having to toe the party line is throwing his former colleagues under the bus as Labour and other crim-friendly groups start shouting about the coalition Government honouring yet another promise. Stuart Nash has hit out at his former Labour colleagues over changes to laws targeting

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A Year on the Recommendations Still Stand

A Year on the Recommendations Still Stand

Alwyn Poole Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11 – 13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1 – 13. alwynpoole.substack.

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A Healthy Democracy Needs Opposing Ideas

A Healthy Democracy Needs Opposing Ideas

Caleb Anderson Published first on NZCPR Ideas are often difficult to define.  Generally, our understanding of ideas is defined by two things. 1.  By what an idea does (what it produces) 2.  By what it is not (by its opposite) How would you define democracy, for example? Most of us

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