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New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Warning Long read. 1394 words. Information Opinion But people die every day, don’t they? Indeed they do, on average around 84 daily in New Zealand, but skewed to winter. However, we experienced GPs with thousands of years of collective work
Information Opinion It has been interesting, though not surprising to hear the amount of blarney emanating from between Jacinda Ardern’s pearly whites in America. The Prime Minister of New Zealand constantly, at home and abroad, tries to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. Her ministers
CJ Hopkins cjhopkins.substack.com CJ Hopkins is a novelist, playwright and political satirist. Lock yourselves down inside your homes! Break out the masks and prophylactic face shields! Switch off what’s left of your critical faculties and prepare yourselves to “follow the Science!” Yes, that’s right, just as
Information Opinion August 1973: Prime Minister Norman Kirk returned from a virtue-signalling overseas trip spent pontificating to everyone about how morally wicked they were compared to him by demanding a nuclear weapons ban (or some such twaddle). A few hours later he was interviewed by some press gallery hack
Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Get ready for a big debate on how to improve democracy in New Zealand. On Tuesday, Justice Minister
The Government, or more precisely, two of its ministers, fought like hell to keep this letter secret. A letter thought to be so explosive it warranted dying in a ditch for three years to keep it secret. More than three years after Green MP Julie Anne Genter wrote a “secret
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's been given an honorary doctorate from Harvard University. She used her speech to rally against disinformation, and called on social media giants to limit its spread by 'recognising their power and to acting on it'. pic.twitter.com/4HBQeb2OWv — Jason Walls (@Jasonwalls92)
One of the harsher lessons of the last decade in Australian politics is that honeymoons are getting shorter and shorter. Most of the time, the end of the affair is self-inflicted by newly-minted leaders who think that the old rule of getting the dirty work sorted as soon
As I wrote some time ago, about new Australian PM Anthony Albanese: Nice bloke, terrible politics. His first few days in the PM’s chair are going a long way to confirm that view, particularly the first part. As we all know, there are just two rules of public debate
Josh Stevenson brownstone.org Josh lives in Nashville Tennessee and is a data visualization expert who focuses on creating easy to understand charts and dashboards with data. Throughout the pandemic, he has provided analysis to support local advocacy groups for in-person learning and other rational, data-driven covid policies.
John Mac Ghlionn brownstone.org With a doctorate in psychosocial studies, John Mac Ghlionn works as both a researcher and essayist. His writing has been published by the likes of Newsweek, NY Post, and The American Conservative. The threat posed by monkeypox is real, very real. Or is it? According
One of the greatest litmus tests of the Albanese government will be how it handles the issue of border security. Borders, which, given Australia’s geographic reality, means boats, are an electric issue in the country. On its first day, the Albanese government signalled that it would resist the powerful
Information Opinion May 25th, 2022. The Sue Gray report into the shenanigans in Downing Street during the early days of Covid was presented to Boris Johnson today and was released to the public this morning, and the Prime Minister made a statement to the House at 12:30, after Prime
New Zealand First Media “Accusations of nepotism being levelled at a cabinet minister must be addressed,” says Rt Hon Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First. “Questions have been raised about Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta having close family members appointed to influential and lucrative government contracts and advisory positions
Well, there’s one thing Australia’s new parliament will be good for — testing how far to the looney left Anthony Albanese’s Labor will let themselves be dragged. Because the truth is that Labor barely won the election at all. Its primary vote was a near-record low and
