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We’re so used to news stories about shortcomings and policies in health, education or housing, that we’ve all become expert enough to have an opinion. However, most of us know little about the workaday functioning of the law of criminal proof, because we don’t think it will ever affect us.
Previously (9 February) I wrote about how business consultants Ernst & Young were used to do a hatchet job on…
Sometimes when you read a story like ours with police involved in alleged crimes, evidence deemed inadmissible, police withholding crucial evidence, juries not seeing the full picture resulting in a wrongful conviction followed by secrecy and suppressions of facts – it’s easy to label it a ‘conspiracy’ or a ‘crazy mother’ speaking out.
Critical to the success of New Zealand’s elimination strategy of Covid-19 community transmission has been the quality of expert advice…
Invariably Opposition do not win elections: Governments lose. Come 2023 however, in my opinion, the National Opposition are not going…
It’s no secret that the government is planning to introduce new, strengthened laws against ‘hate speech.’ New Zealand already has…
Late 1974 early 1975 I was promoted to sergeant from CIB – Auckland Central. Ross Ardern was a cop in…
As the Reserve Bank winds down its money creation programme (Quantitative Easing) some economists and commentators are calling for a…
Khalida Jarrar, a Palestinian feminist, lawyer, educator, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council , has been a human rights activist…
In a recent NZ Herald article (behind a paywall) ‘Labour takes revolutionary road towards state control’, Fran O’Sullivan claims that…