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When the coronavirus pandemic hit Planet Earth in early 2020 it was confronted with two main opposing strategic responses to…
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When the coronavirus pandemic hit Planet Earth in early 2020 it was confronted with two main opposing strategic responses to…
If one were to accept the statements of National Party leader Judith Collins and her Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop, along…
Zero fucks given for patient safety.
Universal public healthcare in New Zealand was enabled by new ground-breaking social security legislation in 1938 under the first Labour…
An inadvertent consequence of recent a decision forced upon state drug purchasing agency Pharmac highlights the importance of New Zealand…
Let’s be clear about the purpose of the proposed law change. It’s not about restricting freedom of speech. Why? Because…
Our criminal justice system is a collection of irreducible rights, designed to avoid convictions of the innocent. And it should never be corrupted to achieve the political purpose of increasing conviction statistics. The Sexual Violence Bill will certainly lock up more “perpetrators”, by allowing even more unjustified trials and by jailing even more innocent men. Parliament should vote it down.
Looking back on the whole journey, it seems like a horrible movie script. How I wish it was just a…
Evidence of complete vaccination or a Covid pre travel -test plus quarantine for 14 days should be a conditon of travelling to our country.
It’s true. Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words.