An unusual celestial event occurred on the same day as New Zealand’s Parliamentary Elections on the 14th of October 2023. A “Ring of Fire” appeared around the sun in daytime. This was a partial solar eclipse caused by the moon passing in front of the sun, seen mainly in
A curious myth sprang up ‘back in the day’, whereby politicians thought they could buy votes and emerge as a permanent government. They believed the man in the street was that stupid; believed people were so feckless and devoid of aspiration and self-reliance that a handout in return for a
Five years ago on the 28th of October 2018 I awoke at 0600 unable to use my right arm, half of my face slumped and with a very wonky walk. After my brush with Bell’s Palsy two years prior (the symptoms are similar), I knew the tests that checked
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Post-election the leader of NZ political party (and likely new government coalition partner) ACT, David Seymour, has said he would like to expand the Terms of Reference of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the COVID-19 response and also ask the
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Here are the replays of The Crunch. This week’s guests were Liam Hehir and Gary Moller. Nutritionist and endurance athlete, Gary Moller, talks with Cam about health, nutrition, faith, missed opportunities, and his hope for the future. Liam Hehir has always been a staunch National Party supporter. He now
They are willing to close their eyes to the purchase of more and more good farmland for subsidised pine trees planted by offshore investors. Some 200,000 hectares have gone just lately and more are following. More rural communities are being devastated. Lower export receipts. Everyone suffers. Owen Jennings If
Join us in standing with Israel at this critical time. An Israel support rally will be held at Aotea Square, Auckland, 3:30 pm, on Sunday 29 October 2023. Juliet Moses has written a powerful piece for The Post, setting the 7 October pogrom in its essential historical context. Dozens
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Is it time for the UN to go the way of the League of Nations? That body was disbanded in ignominy after it utterly failed to prevent the Axis nations from plunging the world into another World War. The UN may have helped steer the world through the Cold War,
Today, RNZ and both TV news channels lean well to the left, NZME and Stuff have both been captured by a radical interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, and the Otago Daily Times won’t touch a cartoonist like Garrick Tremain. Don Brash Conservative views are less and less welcome
Alexandra Sims University of Auckland Trish O’Sullivan Massey University theconversation.com There was a time when the family washing machine would last decades, with each breakdown fixed by the friendly local repair person. But those days are long gone. Today, it is often faster, easier and cheaper to replace
