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  • May 7, 2025

Critical child abuse cases surge, Oranga Tamariki under pressure

Up nearly 40 percent in the last half of 2024. 
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  • May 6, 2025

Majority back legal definition of sex based on biology

"This is a very popular proposal!”
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  • April 27, 2025

Human intelligence in decline: new studies link screen use to falling cognitive skills

“Are we really getting dumber, or is this a sign of a deeper shift in how we think and process information?”
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  • April 27, 2025

Meth use doubles in months as cartels flood New Zealand market

“Everything in the legal market has been going up with inflation, but it seems illegal drugs prices have been immune from that.”
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  • April 18, 2025

UK Supreme Court rules woman means ‘biologically female’ under Equality Act

Women face discrimination because of their biology, and should be protected as a distinct class.
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  • April 16, 2025

Coalition tells Health NZ to stop using term ‘pregnant people’ in official comms

“Only women and people of the female sex can get pregnant and birth a child no matter how they identify.”

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