RT | 15 Aug 2016 A new report by The Intercept and Television New Zealand reveal the National Security Agency (NSA) worked with New Zealand’s government to illegally spy on one of its citizens in a failed terrorism investigation. A group of “democracy and freedom” activists were thought to be plotting the overthrow of Fiji’s…
RNZ | 15 Aug 2016 New spy laws considered by Cabinet Cabinet is considering new legislation for New Zealand’s spy agencies this morning, with a view to introducing the bill to Parliament this week. Above: the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB)’s spy base at Waihopai, near Blenheim. A recent review recommended the Government Communications Security…
RNZ | 6 Aug 2016 Goddard asked to explain resignation The New Zealand judge who headed an independent inquiry into child sexual abuse in Britain has been asked to appear before British MPs to explain why she has quit. The Home Affairs Committee chair Keith Vaz said it was “not enough” for Dame Lowell…
Metro | 6 April 2016 Part one: Bewitched in the Bay It’s been five years since Harry Potter last steered his broomstick across our screens. J.K. Rowling’s wildly popular boy wizard was such a fixture of the past decade that it’s easy to forget the outcry when he first landed. Remember the warnings from the…
Nelson Mail | 27 July 2016 Nelson Marlborough District Health Board will not discuss water fluoridation despite some members of the public raising concerns. The health board decided it would not discuss the potential fluoridation of the region’s water until government legislation determined who is responsible for the decision. Nelson resident Carleen Reich-Simko addressed advisory committee members of the health board at a…
Scoop | 12 July 2016 Alarm bells have now been raised over the number of children needing general anaesthetic surgeries for dental decay. This must be taken seriously but, the answer is NOT more fluoridation. With only half of NZ fluoridated, and the latest New Zealand research showing there is no difference between the majority…
NZ Herald | 12 July 2016 Thousands of Australians are paying hundreds of dollars to sit in a room for 12 hours and hear a conspiracy theorist talk about a race of shape-shifting reptiles who control human behaviour. And he’s coming to New Zealand. It’s a laughable theory and David Icke gets laughed out of…
Stuff | 5 July 2016 A Court of Appeal judge has indicated a reluctance to get into the merits of the fluoridation debate. “We understand today’s orthodoxy may be tomorrow’s heresy. Move on,” Justice Tony Randerson told a lawyer for anti-fluoride campaigners New Health New Zealand. The judge headed a three-member court for two days of appeals…
Hilary Butler | 16 May 2016 Polly Gillespie is not one for letting the facts get in the way of an emotive story, even when it concerns the tragic death of her sister. Polly got her sister’s cause of death wrong, her sister’s age wrong, the day she was admitted to hospital wrong, and the…
Stuff | 22 June 2016 GPS devices could be installed in every Auckland car, tracking where and when the driver goes around the city, as part of moves to introduce a form of road tolling in the city, the Automobile Association says. The government has done an about-turn on its earlier opposition to motorway tolls and now says…