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Police are treating the painting over of a rainbow crossing in Auckland this morning as a hate crime. […] In a statement, Auckland City Central Area Commander Inspector Grant Tetzlaff said police made a number of enquiries into the incident on Thursday afternoon and founds [sic] some items of interest. Officers
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
Nicholas Khoo Associate Professor of International Politics and Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Indo-Paciifc Affairs (Christchurch), University of Otago. Last week’s visit of the Australian and British defence and foreign ministers to Adelaide and Canberra is another step in the evolution of the trilateral AUKUS security and technology partnership.
democracyproject.substack.com Why is the National Party doing so much for landlords, property developers, trucking and construction companies, and so little for everybody who isn’t already pretty well-off? It’s as if protecting landlords’ investments and building apartments and roads now constitute the whole of National’s policy
Many years ago, I was interviewing a financial planner on the subject of succession planning. One her greatest bugbears, she said, was people who were swimming in a fortune of assets, but still determined to get the aged pension. “You’re sitting on a ten million dollar property — you don’
As Anthony Hopkins once admitted, “actors are pretty stupid”. Nowhere is this more obvious than when actors, as they regularly do, subject us to the dreary ritual of lecturing us on current affairs. Mostly, of course, these overpaid, preening parrots are merely doing what they do for a living: squawking
Michael Lambert Research Fellow and Director of Widening Participation, Lancaster University “For the decades of pain that you have suffered, I offer today a sincere and heartfelt and unreserved apology. We were wrong.” One year ago, on March 22 2023, the then first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, stood up at Holyrood
I rarely put much credence in celebrity opinions, because celebrities are generally not very bright, not very worldly, and terrified of saying anything they know their peers (and paymasters) won’t approve of. That said, occasionally, a celebrity does something that breaks the mould and shows a rare streak of
The Doctor There are three systems of jurisprudence in the world. The civil system used in Europe, south and Central America and various other countries that have Spain, Portugal, France and Italy as colonial powers in their past. The second is Islamic based law used in Islamic countries.[i] The
One of the more prominent Australian politicians during the 1980s and 90s was a man called Neal Blewett. He was Minister of Health, Minister of Trade, and Minister of Social Security during the Bob Hawke and Paul Keating Governments between 1983 and 1994. As long serving Health Minister Blewett oversaw
John Porter “This review is not about apportioning blame.” So said Hawke’s Bay Regional Council Chair Hinewai Ormsby, when announcing the review into the performance of Hawkes Bay Civil Defence Emergency Management, post the devastating flooding associated with Cyclone Gabrielle, one of the most devastating weather events to hit
Christopher Luxon Prime Minister This week, Nicola Willis and I announced the latest step in the Government’s plan to rebuild our economy and ease the cost of living for Kiwis. From 1 July, our FamilyBoost policy will ensure eligible families can receive up to $75 per week to help
Here is the replay of The Crunch from this week. My guests this week were John Banks, Simon O’Connor and, of course, we have the Buddies. Enjoy! JOHN BANKS: On The Performance Of The Coalition So Far And The Important Issues Of Our Future John Banks joins the show
March 27th, 2024 Greenwich Council has banned a chip shop from displaying a mural with a stylised Union Flag advertising its wares. Apparently, because the additional mural is at ground level it is not allowed in the conservation area (but the first storey one is OK?). I show below, without
It’s well established by now that the loudest “climate change” botherers are almost invariably the worst climate offenders. Anecdotally, BFD readers will be familiar with the likes of Izzy Cook, the teenage “climate striker” so deservedly mocked by Heather du Plessis-Allan for her rampant hypocrisy. Quantitatively, university studies have
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A week back I had lunch with two of the capital’s best known citizens. At one stage the subject turned to the working from home nonsense and we enjoyed ourselves citing examples we personally knew of various “working from home” shysters busy building a
