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New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Chief Coroner Anna Tutton has responded to our recent letter to her. We expressed our grave concerns about the state of the Coronial Service, which is, in effect, being expected to provide a pharmacovigilance function for covid 19 vaccines, but without
Christopher Luxon National Party Leader This is the most difficult moment for New Zealand’s economy since the Global Financial Crisis – and arguably since well before that. Real wages have experienced their most significant period of decline since records began. Inflation has outstripped wage growth for the last eleven quarters
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Our country will face a real choice in five months’ time. And the choice isn’t Red Chris or Blue Chris. As many now see, that isn’t much of a choice at all. The choice New Zealanders face is between parties offering more of
Earl Bardsley Research Associate at the University of Waikato and the originator of the idea of pumped storage at Lake Onslow. The economic aim of pumped storage at Lake Onslow is to provide a sustainable dry year solution that will not send electricity prices through the roof. The fuel of
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The Coronation of King Charles III was watched by over 400 million people worldwide. Millions of royal fans crowded into London to be part of the celebration, with over a hundred thousand lining the procession route. The pomp and pageantry of the Westminster Abbey ceremony
Christopher Luxon is really living in cloud-cuckoo land. The poll numbers are so obvious that even Blind Freddy can see them. Christopher Luxon’s degrading personal popularity is hurting National’s chances. But he is adamant that they aren’t. National’s Christopher Luxon denies his leadership is holding
ronpaulinstitute.org One of the interesting aspects of the Russia-Ukraine war is that the regimes in both countries have resorted to conscription to get soldiers to “serve their country”. One would think that if a war is just, citizens would not have to be forced to fight in it.
libertynation.com There is a word with which we have all become acquainted over the past few years. That word is disinformation, and, as many politicians assert, it is indeed a danger to democracy. When voters are misinformed, they make bad decisions – and sometimes those decisions are catastrophically bad. Unfortunately,
mercatornet.com Sales of Bud Light beer tanked by 21.4 per cent in the fallout of the Dylan Mulvaney saga. Apparently frat boys don’t particularly relate to a creepy man prancing about in pink teenage girl costumes. While big brand Anheuser-Busch has claimed their Bud Light blunder
Fred Too A basic plank of public policy work is cost/benefit analysis. You might not be able to quantify all the costs and benefits of a proposal, but you should certainly be able to identify what they are and give them a weighting. You use these to assess if
Graham Bell, former host of Police Ten 7, recently bemoaned the demise of the show and the wokeness that did it in and that got me thinking: New Zealand is one of the wokest places on earth. How do I know? The silence over the government’s damaging radical policies,
Heather du Plessis-Allan writes about the very low bar of expectations for people wanting to change the government at the election. It is a phenomenon I have noticed amongst our commenters: so desperate are they for a change of government that they’ll accept the average, the mild and
Three months on from Cyclone Gabrielle, the government has announced a $1 billion package for transport, education and mental health. ACT called out the government: “Frustrated locals have had to wait months for funding and certainty so they can get on with their lives,” he said in a statement on
brownstone.org For the past half-century or more, manufactured scares have been a recurrent part of life. Every year a very small number of people are killed (usually only one) or injured by bears here in Hokkaido, Japan. However, the news media invariably plays up these incidents. As a
righttolife.org.uk A new Canadian attitudes survey has revealed that over a quarter of those surveyed thought that ‘poverty’ and ‘homelessness’ should be made legal reasons for allowing euthanasia in Canada. The survey of a thousand adults in Canada, conducted last month, found strong support for assisted suicide and
