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Christine McCarthy Senior Lecturer in Interior Architecture Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington It is hard to find much joy in the Prison Inspectorate’s report on segregation and cell confinement released today. It finds many prisoners in New Zealand are kept in solitary confinement and suffer negative psychological
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Had the star of the story been the Labour prime minister the real story behind the Tesla (non) story would have been immediately up in headlines on all media outlets. Sadly that was not to be, as coverage of Christopher Luxon is strictly controlled and sanitised; whenever possible, negative, humiliating
Ted Johnston, Deputy Leader of New Conservative states, “As a criminal lawyer working for 3 decades in South Auckland I have seen the constantly worsening state of the criminal justice system.” The recent assault on a 12-year-old by a group just highlights the decline in behaviour and increase
I, your intrepid eye-witness, have been in semi-hibernation for a little while, but having disposed of certain impediments to written communication for now, have emerged temporarily from my cave for a bit of a sniff around, to see what’s been going on. My first impulse on seeing
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Few people would argue when I say many university academics, notably in the humanities, have an inflated view of themselves. There was a time when they were treated with awe but those days are well gone. The financially driven degradation of universities as intellectual institutions
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Gaslighter Ginny Andersen has already won the Gaslighter of the Week award at Reality Check Radio twice. She could be in for the hat trick after her union pals at the Police Association called bull dust on her claims of 1800 new Police. As the Government celebrates its milestone of
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Classic Australian movie Mad Max was launched with the tagline, “When the gangs take over the highway… Remember he’s on your side”. As gangs, ram-raiders and other criminals take over New Zealand, Kiwis have no Mad Max to pray for. They’ve only got Absurd Andersen and Cheerful
