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lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com The Children’s Minister, Karen Chhour, intends to repeal Section 7AA from the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989 because it creates conflict between claimed Crown Treaty obligations and the child’s best interests. In her words, “Oranga Tamariki’s governing principles and its act should be colour blind,
Stuff‘s reporting on public service cuts is almost like watching a game or sports contest, where they are keeping a running total and breathlessly reporting on the cuts like they are a bad thing. Why? It’s as if they are gamifying and reporting on job losses like keeping
brownstone.org Is academic freedom becoming a casualty of the modern university, as the latter is transformed by the public-private partnerships that increasingly dominate our political life? Just before Easter, a Montreal man, father of four and full professor at a university founded shortly after Harvard, was informed of his
History is littered with the corpses left behind by utopian revolutionaries. As Jordan Peterson points out, it’s pointless to condemn the grim toll of, say, the Maoists or the Stalinists, if we don’t forensically examine the ideologies that motivated their crimes and catastrophes. For instance, the Maoists insisted
James Hickman James Hickman (aka Simon Black) is an international investor, entrepreneur, and founder of Sovereign Man. His free daily e-letter Notes from the Field is about using the experiences from his life and travels to help you achieve more freedom, make more money, keep more of it, and protect
Steve Goreham Steve Goreham is a speaker, author, and independent columnist on energy, sustainability, climate change, and public policy. More than 100,000 copies of his books are now in print, including his latest, Outside the Green Box: Rethinking Sustainable Development. cfact.org People in developed nations take abundant electricity
Ann Coulter formulated her famous Law of Mass Shootings: The longer we go without being told the race of the shooter, the less likely it is to be a white male. It holds up pretty well, although it needs an addendum: The time it takes for a shooting to drop
The mainstream media are shocked, shocked, I tell you, that fewer people than ever trust them. Perhaps they might consider whether their growing litany of lies over recent years. Only recently, for instance, media from TV1, to NPR and Australia’s ABC, reported “The International Court of Justice finding a
Chris Chapel Hi folks. I have made this guide for anyone wanting to complain about the 1News Verian Poll item of April 29. Deadline for complaints to TVNZ is 20 working days from April 29. TVNZ deserve thousands of complaints for the shameless lies and propaganda presented as news. Here
familyfirst.org.nz We’re stoked to announce that one of our favourite politicians – no longer in Parliament, sadly – and who has always scored highly on our Value Your Vote scorecard has joined the staff at Family First. Simon O’Connor will be bringing his 12 years of political experience
Auckland Mayor, Wayne Brown, has channelled Joe Dolce and basically told Auckland Transport to “shut up and listen”. They seem to lack ears, so it will remain to be seen if Wayne Brown can make them listen to Aucklanders’ concerns over Auckland Transport. Mayor Wayne Brown has told Auckland Transport
David Seymour says protesters who heckled him at an event on Saturday “didn’t do their cause any favours”. Video shared on TikTok shows protesters, with placards saying ‘Save Gaza’ and ‘Stop Killing Children’, as they interrupted the Minister of Regulation at a ribbon-cutting event for Hamilton’s new FIFO
A Midwestern Doctor midwesterndoctor.com By all metrics, Covid-19 was one of, if not the biggest medical disaster in history. Yet, unlike every other past debacle, there has never been a professionally done documentary of why this happened – instead, each production has simply focused on how many people were killed
David Thunder David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society in Pamplona, Spain, and a recipient of the prestigious Ramón y Cajal research grant (2017–2021, extended through 2023), awarded by the Spanish government to support outstanding research activities. brownstone.
These days it seems that you can’t go a week without having some Green MP go off the rails in one way or another. Case in point: Julie Anne Genter, Green MP and cycling advocate. A Wellington florist who claims to have been intimidated by Julie Anne Genter in
