Scotland's Hate Crime legislation is proving a great success (sarc): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/08/police-scotland-fail-to-tackle-traditional-crimes/ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/07/police-spammed-with-complaints-by-neo-nazis-...
How a cult captured the NHS: society fails when it treats children like adults Kathleen Stock aptly sums up "gender affirming care" of minors: https://unherd.com/2024/04/the-liberal-lessons-of-the-cass-report/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups[0]=18743&tl_period_type...
InsideOUT are partly funded by Te Whatu Ora and Ministry of Youth Development https://insideout.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/InsideOUT-Annual-Report-2021-22.pdf Such is the extent of activist capture of NZ institutions.
I'm heartened that the new Minister of Health (Reti) voted against the inclusion of gender identity in the "Conversion Practices" legislation. So if PATHA's review is predictably ideological, maybe he will quash it - if he doesn't, he will get a letter ...
Ah yes, one of the "liberal" Nats.
Molly I think this document sheds some light on your question: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://nzmii.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/NZMP-INF002-C2-Doctor-in-Training-Fact-Sheet-03.pdf&ved=...
Thank you Molly for those heartening words of wisdom.
Yes, sadly I fear that Visubversa is right. I'm aware that most of the Nats also supported the bill - including all of their current front bench apart from Shane Reti. And unfortunately, two of the eight who had the courage to oppose the bill are no longer...
And yet the NZ parliament has recently passed legislation that is likely to criminalize any parents or medical professionals who are unwilling to endorse medicalization of a child's gender dysphoria, because that would be "conversion therapy". Jacinda ...
Stop it, you'll hurt your throat. OK, we declare a clean, healthy, sustainable environment to be a "human right". Immediately someone or some organization takes the government to court for breaching our human rights, for supposedly not doing enough about ...
The New Zealand government.
Yes, probably. But I wish the contemporary left was more practical, and less "aspirational" (I hate the word). And declaring something that can't be guaranteed a "human right" just debases the idea of human rights. I wonder if a year in China or Russia ...
Please don't put words in my mouth. Since when have I argued for doing nothing? My point is that precisely zero will be accomplished by legislating to declare a clean, healthy, sustainable environment a "human right".
Fair arguments, but not relevant to my point. Declaring a clean, healthy and sustainable environment to be a "human right" won't enable the NZ government to guarantee its citizens anything about climate.
"No government has complete control over any of the human rights." False equivalence. Any government - with good will - can guarantee freedom of expression, freedom from arbitrary detention, and freedom from torture.
I agree with some of that - though not about the present government "throwing in the towel". And the existence of strong environmental protection legislation in most developed countries shows that governments take environmental protection very seriously. ...
How does a government guarantee everyone a clean, healthy and sustainable environment? There's some risk associated with most human activities. Does the bill propose practical measures, like reducing permissible levels of E. coli or nitrate in waterways? I...
What is your evidence that "the very right wing US owners wish to ... erode our democracy and make us more pliant"?
Shooting the messenger again Rob? Or then again, the left could take notice and learn something useful.
Here's the report itself, showing plummeting public trust in the news media. https://www.jmadresearch.com/_files/ugd/a95e86_cc317afe8a414d69a47c034735e58854.pdf?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email Although the trend is worldwide, New Zealand is a trend ...
So Callaghan Innovation is spending $170K on a rebrand while shedding about 30 staff. What the ....? https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2404/S00034/revealed-callaghan-innovation-wastes-over-170000-on-rebrand-as-staff-call-out-job-cuts.htm
Right. And the previous government did know what they were doing? What did they touch that didn't turn to cack? They handled the pandemic OK, but apart from that ... How many ministers did they lose in embarrassing circumstances during their last year in ...
Dairy's never made much sense in the drier parts of the country, and I'm also looking forward to a shift to grapes and olives in those districts. As for dairy in the Mackenzie Basin, it makes about as much sense as trying to grow bananas in Banff.
And so? You have evidence that Luxon, Seymour and/or Peters believe in "chemtrails, flat earth, child sex rings, earth is only 6,000 years old, the rapture is coming….."?
If Seymour had as much power as you're suggesting, and if Luxon were merely a frontman, we would be facing a referendum on treaty principles, and the demographic ministries would be gone - not just trimmed. What we're seeing is the result of agreements ...
Without the knowledge of the organizers? According to OneNews, "A coalition of Toitū Te Tiriti, the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa, and School Strike 4 Climate are leading the event." https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/04/05/students-hit-the-streets-at-...
I thought the school strike was supposed to be about climate change, so why can I see Palestinian flags in the photo, and a Maaori sovereignty flag in the video? https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/04/05/students-hit-the-streets-at-climate-strikes-across-the-...
The shadow of Chris Finlayson looms long over New Zealand's coastline. https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2024/04/05/coastal-court-action-flies-under-the-radar/
The Kids are Alright? Not sure about that, weka. I suspect some of them are just Dedicated Followers of Fashion.
"David Seymour looks at regulatory shake up, potentially cutting Women, Māori out of policy talks", claims Thomas Coughlan. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/david-seymour-looks-at-regulatory-shake-up-potentially-cutting-women-maori-disabled-...
The Democracy Project highlights how middle-class our House of Unrepresentatives has become. Actually even "middle-class" doesn't do justice to it - most of our parliamentarians come from affluent backgrounds. And that includes Labour and the Greens. https...
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