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Casey Costello, Associate Health Minister, faced scrutiny over her “independent” advice supporting heated tobacco products. Her evidence includes outdated and unrelated reports, with Treasury and health officials warning of harm.
Treasury’s review stated, “The World Health Organisation asserts that claims of HTPs as a smoking cessation aid should not be made.” Despite the advice, Costello maintains these products offer a harm-reduction path for smokers.
There are warnings of over-collecting user data.
“…every intention of providing evidence, if asked.”
Why didn’t anyone ask if Hipkins should have sacked her?
The list is growing.
Only according to speculative modelling.
The NZ First playbook appears to be working.
There are warnings of over-collecting user data.
“…every intention of providing evidence, if asked.”
Why didn’t anyone ask if Hipkins should have sacked her?
The list is growing.
Only according to speculative modelling.
The NZ First playbook appears to be working.
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New Zealand’s pay equity laws were meant to correct historic prejudice. But the system ballooned into an ideological industry that assumed discrimination wherever women outnumbered men by an arbitrary percentage. In addition to being contentious, it was costly and, in its one-sided logic, coercive.
A simple school vaccine form is a subtle system of behavioural control, nudging families toward consent, compliance, and disclosure under the guise of choice.
The type of managerialism and politicisation afflicting New Zealand universities is present in other countries to a greater or lesser degree.
If you want to attack anyone for what you and a few of your fellow ideological travellers see as doctrinal error, you really shouldn’t make your target the grieving parents of a child who died alone of starvation in a motel room.
New Zealand doesn’t take its universities seriously, despite them being major export earners and productivity engines.
RNZ dismissed 1930s heat data by claiming sites can’t be compared, even though NIWA now routinely does, undermining their own record-breaking headline.
New Zealand’s pay equity laws were meant to correct historic prejudice. But the system ballooned into an ideological industry that assumed discrimination wherever women outnumbered men by an arbitrary percentage. In addition to being contentious, it was costly and, in its one-sided logic, coercive.
A simple school vaccine form is a subtle system of behavioural control, nudging families toward consent, compliance, and disclosure under the guise of choice.
The type of managerialism and politicisation afflicting New Zealand universities is present in other countries to a greater or lesser degree.
If you want to attack anyone for what you and a few of your fellow ideological travellers see as doctrinal error, you really shouldn’t make your target the grieving parents of a child who died alone of starvation in a motel room.
New Zealand doesn’t take its universities seriously, despite them being major export earners and productivity engines.
RNZ dismissed 1930s heat data by claiming sites can’t be compared, even though NIWA now routinely does, undermining their own record-breaking headline.
