I’m not so much flabbergasted as flubergasted – astonished – by the treatment meted out to Emma Chatterton, the relatively young National candidate for Remutaka (running against Hipkins) in the upcoming election, at the ‘climate protest’ [on Friday]. The mandatory ‘Kia ora, tatou’ hadn’t been squeezed from her lips before
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This week, investigative journalist Ian Wishart released a concerning report about NIWA being selective in its record of historical weather events. The downloadable report is available here: investigatemagazine.co.nz. A summary of the document says: * Most of New Zealand’s biggest historic storms and cyclones are missing from NIWA’
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Daniella McCahey Assistant Professor of History Texas Tech University When the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition ended on March 2, 1958, it marked what many called the last great adventure possible on Earth: an overland crossing of the Antarctic continent. Sixty-five years later, it’s remembered in New Zealand chiefly
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New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com As other countries wind back vaccination programs, NZ is going full-steam ahead despite a conspicuous absence of “the science” to support such a decision. Covid vaccination commenced recently for under 5s, at this stage for high risk babies only, despite
Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior
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New Zealanders like to think of themselves as resourceful, egalitarian, independent and free. Much of that is, it might surprise many of you, a comforting lie. Far from being independent, more and more New Zealanders are signing up for generational dependence on the state. A goodly slab of what used
Ulrich Speidel Senior Lecturer in Computer Science University of Auckland Modern communication systems need two main things: power, and what engineers call “backhaul”, the connections that link cell towers and exchanges to the national network. When Cyclone Gabrielle struck, both were badly compromised. Many sites lost power not long after
