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The vaping regulations promoted by Ayesha Verrall will ban most vaping products and probably force vaping stores to close. This is not the Minister’s intent, it is due to a conflict between the legislation and the proposed regulations. The government is spending heavily on promoting vaping, while at the
“Free subject to conditions” would be the security status of terror suspect Suhayra Aden if she returns to New Zealand, according to a senior government minister. It looks increasingly likely the New Zealand woman accused of being an Islamic State terrorist will end up back here with her two children,
The extent of the Government’s failure to get on top of New Zealand’s housing shortage has been laid bare by new figures that show more than $1 million dollars of taxpayer money is being spent per day on motels for emergency housing. The Government spent $82.5 million,
Hamza Mudassir Cambridge Judge Business School Hamza Mudassir the co-founder and managing director of technology and strategy firm, platypodes.io. He has held several senior strategy and product management positions in leading technology companies in Europe and Asia. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Judge Business School,
When I wrote, some time ago, that “the left is promoting paedophilia (again)”, even I had the nagging sense that I was being more than a bit foil-hat conspiratorial. Surely no one could be far gone enough to actually try and normalise such a hideous crime as child abuse?
One of the big cultural differences between Australia and America is our manner of expressing patriotism. Australians have never been big on the whole brass-band pageantry of American “good old Stars‘n’Stripes forever” public patriotism. Similarly, we don’t go in much for the ostentatious American-style “thank-
Edward Peter Stringham aier.org Edward Peter Stringham is President of the American Institute for Economic Research, Davis Professor of Economic Organizations and Innovation at Trinity College, and Editor of the Journal of Private Enterprise. He is editor of two books and author of more than 70 journal articles, book
ACT Party ACT Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “This Government’s practice of blather and flannel when asked specific questions about its performance is running its usual evasive course in respect of how many new houses it will build this year,” says ACT Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “When I
AIER Staff aier.org Founded in 1933, the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) is one of the oldest and most respected nonpartisan economic research and advocacy organizations in the country. With a global reach and influence, AIER is dedicated to developing and promoting the ideas of pure freedom and
Macca Are the media in this country utterly stupid or knowingly lying by omission? I believe it is a combination of both. They have given up the right to be called journalists. That title long ago was given to people who were nonpartisan and gave the facts that were available
Shakespeare’s King Lear cries out “When we are born, we cry that we have come to this stage of fools”. Some of us feel the same way as we watch the Washington pantomime. In King Lear the Fool (Joe) and Cordelia (Kamala) are never on stage at the same
Clay Waters PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com Clay Waters was the director of Times Watch a former project of the Media Research Center. A half-dozen timeworn titles by beloved children’s author Theodore Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, will no longer be offered by the author’s estate for
A BFD reader recently received an email from their child who works in a funeral home in the UK. The email covers a number of things, but below are the most pertinent parts that I think will be of interest. As of now, we are still at the highest level
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The government is giving $55 million of taxpayers money to support what it describes as public interest media. The obvious danger of this is it will compromise recipients’ political comments. To deny that is naive and invites cynicism. But what puzzles me is why, alone
