Margaret Somerville mercatornet.com The Royal Hospital for Women Foundation in Sydney recently held a fundraising event which featured doctors from the Hospital speaking of a successful uterine transplant to a woman they had performed in January 2023. When asked whether they would transplant a uterus to a transwoman (a
**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 of the Southern Alps, taken looking north on a Qantas flight from Melbourne to Christchurch, 25 Tuesday at
Vanessa Cobham Julie Hodges The University of Queensland theconversation.com Going to school can be challenging for children and young people at times. Most young people will have patches during their school career where it feels hard. That’s normal. Getting through those hard times can bring with it sense
Alex Penk Independent Researcher and Writer commonroomnz.com This article was first published by The Common Room New Zealand politics has its fair share of immortal lines, like this one: “I can smell the uranium on your breath.” That’s David Lange, Prime Minister in 1985, debating our nuclear-free
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Emanuel E. Garcia, M.D. New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science newzealanddoc.substack.com Each day brings with it its measure of joy or travail. The noise of life hums along and practicalities absorb the attention of most of us, enough so that the profundity of alterations introduced by
Mark Freeman In the run-up to this year’s general election, “experts” are predicting the possibility of a violent attack—even an assassination—on a politician. The warning comes in Radio New Zealand’s recently-released podcast series Undercurrent: Misinformation in Aotearoa, in which presenter Susie Ferguson claims political
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com I read with dismay this week that the Labour Party is contemplating removing GST from fresh fruit and vegetables. It will seem such a sensible policy to a great many people, and may therefore attract a lot of votes. As somebody who wants rid of this
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The Greens love to lecture us about evidence-based policy, but strangely they never seem to produce any such evidence when it comes to their own policies. Chloe Swarbrick has her knickers in a bunch over Labour’s weak policy response to ram raiders. Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick has hit
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