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
**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this View from Your Window? Yesterday’s photo was looking across to the Gallipoli peninsula from Hotel Des Etrangers in Canakkale. ** We need more photos please folks,
There are a couple of notable trends in vegetarianism. Firstly, vegetarians and vegans are overwhelming likely to be either Millennials or Boomers, female, and (when religious motivations are factored out) white. Vegetarianism is especially the choice of teenage females. Secondly, most vegetarians eventually revert back to eating meat. Because of
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I was interested to read that breast reduction surgery is available from Medicare in Australia. This made the news when women complained they were at the back of the queue, apparently some surgeons viewing it as a cosmetic issue. That’s nonsense. Overly large breasts are
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Mark Freeman As the 2020s culture wars ramp up in New Zealand, most of us will have seen noisy and chaotic scenes at recent events disrupted by protesters: the Posie Parker rally in Auckland, Julian Batchelor’s Stop Co-Governance meetings and marches led by Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki.
Michelle Cameron University of Waikato theconversation.com After receiving a head injury from a car accident in 2014, I was given support through the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) to recover and return to work as a health professional. But I am keenly aware that those who have brain injuries after
If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Why There Can Be No Right-Wing ‘Alliance’ Bob McCroskie made a video titled “United they stand, divided they…” calling for “conservative-leaning” parties to work together in an Alliance-style
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National has released their tax policy and it is rather more detailed than anything we have seen from the Labour Party. Predictably, Labour has rubbished it, but it certainly looks like Nicola Willis has put considerable thought into this policy. The National Party has unveiled its plan to introduce four
Christopher Luxon National Party leader Nicola Willis and I have just announced National’s tax relief policy. We’re fighting back for the squeezed middle — New Zealanders who are working hard but watching their incomes being eaten by high taxes and rising costs. This is a major part of our
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If Tony Paretovich had one word to describe how he felt flying from Brisbane to Auckland on Monday, it would have been “humbled”. At 71 years old, Paretovich was on his final journey as a flight steward for Air New Zealand; a job he had held for 51 years. It
