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Can a Free and Open Society Allow Vaccine Passes?
David Thunder mercatornet.com David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. Western societies, at least up to very recently, have distinguished themselves by their commitment to two fundamental principles. The first is the principle that social life is open
What a Difference a Month Makes, Hey Joe?
So, Joe Biden has come out from his Camp David hidey-hole and faced the press over the shocking events in Afghanistan. As America faces up to its second catastrophic defeat in a generation, even the sycophantic American mainstream media are growing hostile with Biden. But Biden refused to accept
Bring Back the Epidemic Response Committee
David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party is once again calling on the Government to bring back the Epidemic Response Committee. Scrutiny of the Government’s response is essential during this pandemic. We have seen how valuable it was when Chris Hipkins made a brief appearance at the Health Select
Low Vaccination Numbers Putting Officers at Risk
The Government’s failure to prioritise the vaccination of frontline police officers is putting their safety at risk, National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown says. So far only 2669 frontline police officers are fully vaccinated and just under 3000 have received their first dose. “There are more than 10,000
RBNZ Hold on Rate Rise the Right Move
The Reserve Bank’s decision to hold the Official Cash Rate at 0.25 per cent is the right one given the economic uncertainty New Zealand now faces as a result of the new Covid-19 lockdown, says National’s Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly. “The Bank has done the right
Victoria: Where the Young Die in Secret
Victoria has become the police state of Australia. Last year the socialist Andrews government placed Melbourne under curfew for the first time in its history. Not even in the darkest days of WWII was such a dramatic stripping-away of basic human rights ever imposed. Now, he’s doing it
Kabul Has Fallen – But Don’t Blame Biden
Ron Paul mises.org Dr. Ron Paul is a former member of Congress and Distinguished Counselor to the Mises Institute. This weekend the US experienced another “Saigon moment,” this time in Afghanistan. After a 20 year war that drained trillions from Americans’ pockets, the capital of Afghanistan fell without a
As Afghanistan Falls, What Does It Mean for the Middle East?
Tony Walker La Trobe University Tony Walker is a vice chancellor’s fellow at La Trobe University. He is a columnist for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. He is a dual Walkley Award winner for commentary, and recipient of the Paul Lyneham Award for Excellence in Press Gallery
Biden’s Shameful Surrender Will Haunt Us All
It was back in 2015 that Foreign Policy bluntly described Barack Obama’s foreign policy as a, and I quote, “giant cluster-fuck”. Welcome back to the future, courtesy of Obama’s Veep, Joe Biden. As Foreign Policy noted, Obama might have inherited a diabolical foreign policy situation — but he
As the Taliban Returns, 20 Years of Progress for Women Looks Set to Disappear Overnight
Azadah Raz Mohammad The University of Melbourne Jenna Sapiano Monash University Azadah Raz Mohammad is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne and holds an LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights from University of Essex, and a second LLM in International Criminal Law as a Fulbright Scholar
While You Are Locked down You Have Time to Make a Submission
Bob McCoskrie National Director Family First The Government set a deadline date for submissions on the bill to ban “conversion therapy” of less than 4 weeks – the shortest time possible. They basically don’t want to hear from you, are not actually interested in your view, and are hoping you’
Victoria’s Elected Dictator Suspends Parliament
It’s a common fallacy to assume that dictators are never elected. In fact, some of the worst dictators were elected to power rather than seizing it by coup. Famously, the Nazis were elected, although, to be fair, it was as a minority party. But Mussolini’s Fascists were swept
What Did They Do to Prepare for Delta?
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government needs to tell us what it did to prepare for a Delta outbreak, so there is hope of ending this lockdown in days not weeks. At the Health Committee two weeks ago, Chris Hipkins could not give one example of what the Government has
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