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On Wednesday night the Government pushed through a change to the voting age in local body elections, lowering it to 16 years old. It is a sneaky, furtive, surreptitious move by the ever-so-transparent Local Government Minister Kieran McAnulty! Last night, in a dazzling display of democracy at its
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Lauren Anne Dickason has been found guilty of murdering her three young children at their Timaru home. The jury of eight women and four men reached a majority verdict. Dickason, 42, stood in the dock calmly as she was convicted of three counts of murder. She was taken out of
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Kate C. Prickett Victoria University of Wellington theconversation.com By introducing four weeks of paid parental leave for partners if re-elected, the Labour Party would move New Zealand out of an undesirable and tiny club of OECD nations. Only the United States and Israel would then not offer something
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Eunice Gaerlan Auckland University of Technology theconversation.com The National Party’s promised ban on cellphones in schools has been touted by leader Christopher Luxon as a “common sense” and “practical” way to address New Zealand’s poor academic achievement. And his claim that “phones are a massive disturbance and
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 scary stuff! Thermal mud pot erupting by houses near Whaka, Rotorua. On the spot, I could hear the
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Introduction In 2020, increasingly concerned that the government’s response to covid 19 might be causing more harm than good, Dr Alison Goodwin looked for other doctors asking questions or offering alternatives to the fear-based narrative. There didn’t seem
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Last month Nicola Willis released Labour’s leaked policy on GST: to make fruit and vegetables exempt. At the time Labour refused to confirm or deny it was their policy. Grant Robertson was actually against it. Even he had worked out the many fishhooks that would eventuate. A lawyer’s
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.
