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David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Labour party has no choice but to vote against the Rotorua District Council (Representation Arrangements) Bill after Attorney General David Parker found the Bill would limit the right to be free from discrimination and cannot be justified under the Bill of Rights Act. This
David Dempsey Alberto Ardid University of Canterbury Shane Cronin University of Auckland David Dempsey’s research group tackles some big challenges that arise when managing extreme groundwater systems in a safe and sustainable way. Alberto Ardid’s research focuses on volcanoes, geysers and geothermal fields. I use geophysics, python and
The findings on trust in media organisations is out and the left-wing dominated media have taken a flogging. It seems that the public is well attuned to their lying ways and are voting with their feet. Newsroom reports: Less than half the New Zealand public now professes ‘overall trust’
David Seymour ACT Party Leader ACT is appealing to the Government to make openness and inclusion the non-negotiable condition for work on our country’s constitutional future. Labour’s consultation on He Puapua is already dividing rather than uniting, asking only select Maori groups about our constitutional future. Closed-
John Maunder The ‘Maunder Minimum’ is the name given to the period from 1645 to 1715 when the number of sunspots – ‘storms’ on the sun – became almost zero. The period is named after the solar astronomer Edward Walter Maunder (1851-1928), who was working at The Royal Observatory at Greenwich
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Stephen Bagwell University of Missouri-St. Louis Stephen Bagwell studies the economic causes and consequences of political violence and human rights. His work has appeared in the Journal of Global Security Studies and the Journal of Human Rights. Human rights activists and international leaders first warned in April 2020 that
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Information Opinion Recently, our intelligence agencies declassified their threat assessments in New Zealand which included a summary of the ‘extremist’ groups that were considered a security risk. The things they said: Under “faith motivated violent extremism”: They acknowledged there are still ISIS-inspired radicalised people in New Zealand. However, they
familyfirst.org.nz Looking back at the events which unfolded over the summer months, it’s interesting to read that Human Rights Commissioner, Paul Hunt, told the Prime Minister last year there was a “divisive quality” to the traffic light framework. “I said that I thought there was a risk
Dr Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard 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 PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. If you are a science
