Yesterday, the Green Party launched a policy on making dental treatment more readily available and free for all, not just those under the age of 18. The party wants to see dental vans and mobile clinics increase to 398. Health spokesperson Ricardo Menéndez March said an estimated 40 per cent
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura The news that New Zealand might be a net absorber of CO2 is exciting and challenges our approach to emissions management. The Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) requires an emission certificate for each tonne of CO2 equivalent emitted, encouraging consumption choices towards lower emissions. The benefits
Alexander Gillespie University of Waikato theconversation.com When Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, German Chancellor Olaf Scholtz proclaimed a “Zeitenwende”, or historical turning point. It resulted in Germany’s first ever official national security strategy. The equivalent wake-up call in New Zealand was the 2019 Christchurch terror attack.
Opening the online news sites each morning is a routine reveal of yet another crime: another murder, another gun-related incident, another case of domestic violence, another ram raid, another ‘youth’ crime, another case of child abuse, of gang warfare, etc. As it was this week when two people were
ACT leader David Seymour was grilled on his party’s tax policy yesterday. ACT proposes a two-rate income tax system, with a 17.5 per cent tax rate on income up to $70,000, and 28 per cent above that. “You tell me what the gap should be,” he
Michael Cook Editor of Mercator mercatornet.com There used to be one issue which all ethicists condemned — eugenics. Even today, the horrors of state-sponsored eugenics are vivid – the Nazi extermination of Jews, Gypsies, Slavs and disabled people or the sterilisation of the “feeble-minded” in the US, Canada, Sweden
Karen Chhour ACT MP commonroomnz.com This article was first published by The Common Room For years I’ve never really told my story, as I was ashamed of it. As I got older, I realised unless we are honest with ourselves about our past, we cannot move forward. My
Putiputi Fleming The Nurses Gone Grey Society would unreservedly like to apologise to hairdressers the breadth and length of New Zealand for any involvement we may have had in lowering revenue over the last three years. Whilst we cannot and should not take responsibility for government fiscal management throughout the
Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com 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
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New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Despite strong objections by the vast majority of New Zealanders to the passage of the Therapeutic Products Bill as it stood, with the inclusion of Natural Health Products, the New Zealand government passed it under urgency. According to the announcement by
This week’s guests were my good friend Maurice Williamson, Don Brash and Brian Tamaki. Enjoy the replays! Help Fund Our NewsDesk We are building a NewsDesk, hiring journalists and taking the fight to the mainstream media. Will you help fund our NewsDesk? * For security reasons, credit card donations require
So-called Sovereign citizens write to the Department of Justice and corporate bodies declaring they have removed themselves from any contract with the state and as of that date they are no longer subject to the laws of the land. Megan Gordon down in Nelson is trying to find a
Simon O’Connor National MP commonroomnz.com This article was first published by The Common Room. Does it seem to you that the left and right of politics has changed? Does it seem that, particularly on what we think of as the left-wing of politics, the topics being discussed
Freedoms New Zealand On Wednesday, Brian Tamaki launched Freedoms New Zealand’s controversial law & order policy at the Grand Millennium Hotel, situated in the heart of Auckland CBD. This is the primary policy that Brian Tamaki is personally championing on the campaign trail, leveraging his extensive forty years of
In 2017 Labour came in on the crest of a wave led by “Surfer Girl” Jacinda Ardern. Who remembers the Beach Boys song written by Brian Wilson? The song is described as a teenage daydream; it swoons over the object of his affection, imagining their future together seemingly before they’
