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The release of the footage from the tunnels in Rafah has sharply brought home to both the political leadership and the wider Israeli public the terrible conditions under which the hostages still alive are being held – airless, dark and humid tunnels too low to even stand up in.
Despite the amazing advances of the past 500 years, we will end up back where we started.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards BUDGET DOCUMENTS DUMP, GOVERNMENT Claire Trevett, Jamie Ensor, Thomas Coughlan, Derek Cheng, Adam Pearse, Julia Gabel, Jenée Tibshraeny (Herald): Budget docs revealed: Warnings cancer promise was under-priced, Treasury wanted even less health funding Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): Peeking behind the curtain of Budget 2024 Anna
As predicted Darleen Tana is slowly dismantling the previous impervious aura of The Greens
Born in Australia, Malcolm moved to New Zealand as a child and attended Wellington College where his classmates nicknamed him “Aussie”. The name stuck with him his whole life.
All of this, combined, provides the backdrop for the decisions that the Israeli government has made and is now taking regarding the war against Hamas (and Iran via her proxies
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards CROWN-MĀORI RELATIONS Glenn McConnell (Stuff): David Seymour’s Treaty principles released, with major warnings from officials Jo Moir (RNZ): Treaty Principles Bill: Officials advise government against redefining principles Ben Strang (RNZ): 'Extremely conservative' estimate suggests $4m cost to progress Treaty Principles Bill
The Government has decided to enter the so-called AI space, but bizarrely chose the name of an existing organisation.
How can Christian church leaders, the ones who preach God’s love to all his children, suggest that some are more equal than others?
Never before in the field of human knowledge has so much been unknown by so many.
Prime Minister Starmer can claim that his new government is just doing the same as their predecessors, but that doesn’t seem to cut with a very disgruntled public. Prime Minister Luxon should take note.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards PUBLIC SERVICE Glenn McConnell (Stuff): This Twitter account is a ‘national security’ issue Richard Harman (Politik): Inside the public service (paywalled) Brent Edwards (NBR): The case for making structural change to the Public Service (paywalled) Tony Burton (NZ Initiative): Demystifying the State Jem Traylen
Over the months since Hamas invaded and attacked civilians in Israel, killing more than 1200 people and taking over 200 hostages, I’ve noticed a suppression of details of these attacks and the ongoing conflict in ChatGPT. Today I prove it is deliberate.
A combination of immunity across a wide swath of the population effectively ended the pandemic. It had nothing to do with any pandemic policies from governments here or abroad. The fact that this is even remotely up for debate is a testament to the power of media misinformation.
