Raudha Athif was a stunning cover model known all over the world as “The girl with the blue eyes”. But what few people knew was that she was much more committed to a career in medicine than photoshoots. At 21, Raudha was attending university in Bangladesh and had plans to join her family
Australians are more likely to be victims of violent crime than Americans: much more, in fact.
The doctor was quick to put puzzle pieces together, knowing three patients were being treated for suspected poisoning.
Adults siphon off taxpayer money earmarked for kids, and no one is held accountable. Teachers’ unions share the same dysfunctional incentives as headline-grabbing fraudsters in Minnesota.
It remains to be seen whether recently announced toughening of laws in Victoria will make any difference to crime, but the root cause of many of these problems is tobacco policy.
An election-year address that only works if New Zealanders have collective amnesia.
Companies such as Stuff and NZME (publisher of the Herald) can make their own rules, as long as they’re willing to risk consequences such as loss of trust and declining readership. RNZ (and TVNZ, but let’s not go there) has no such latitude.
Passing new laws every time a terrorist act occurs does not make us safer: it merely emboldens a different, stronger entity to inflict its own tools of terror – our own government.
Right now the political waters might look more like the Cook Strait on a bad day, but I think by election day the sun will be shining on the coalition.
