Karl du Fresne I’m a third-generation New Zealander of Irish, Danish and French descent. I grew up in the farming town of Waipukurau and still consider it my turangawaewae, although I can walk the length of the main street these days and not recognise a single face. I’ve
Apparently, Stuff has come riding to the rescue of Newshub, inking a deal to produce news for the failing network. Presumably, Sinead Boucher came riding in on a dead horse: The 6pm TV3 news has been saved – but it will have a totally new look and will be provided by
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Stuff makes several stuff-ups in the same (very short) article. The first one is that the article was posted on Sunday afternoon, so evidently Luxon went back to the future to contact Albo. The rest are fairly obvious. If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share
Terry Goldsworthy Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University There are few scenes more shocking than random acts of extreme violence against people simply going about their daily lives. Yet this is what Australians are coming to terms with after a man went on a rampage through a
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Melanie Woodfield HRC Clinical Research Training Fellow Hiran Thabrew Senior Lecturer in Child Psychiatry and Paediatrics University of Auckland New Zealand’s youth mental healthcare continues to experience a rolling crisis with long waiting times for services. There have been calls to expand the mental health workforce and to diversify
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com “The anti-vax group has grown a lot in New Zealand, and I think it’s been driven by really appalling misinformation.” Prof Michael Baker This recent statement by Prof Michael Baker deserves a comment. It’s true but perhaps not in
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Dear Editor Recently the UK pharmaceutical watchdog Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA) ruled that a tweet and subsequent retweets made by Pzifer employees in February 2023, breached standards and had ‘misleadingly’ and ‘illegally’ promoted its Covid-19 vaccine. Which was then still in phase 3 trials. The ruling totalled
Tani Newton Perhaps I should be more forgiving but I have not forgotten the sort of verbal abuse I endured in 2020 for pointing out that the economy was being ruined for no purpose. Now the economy has been ruined for no purpose and most people are still living in
Lindsay Mitchell Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio, tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits
Yesterday the Government announced a vitally important policy…a policy that is needed before any other policies or law changes…a policy to allow renters to have pets. Seriously, that’s exactly what Chris Bishop and David Seymour think is vitally important legislation, right now! The Government says it is
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