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The DIA: NZ's digital information & censorship Tsar.
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It's World Bee Day & the FAO & WHO are making chemical pollution worse.
Because they lock in ancient - 20, 30, 40-year-old - unpublished corporate studies to justify high residue levels on food crops.
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Ministerial Juggernauts.
Some thoughts on why New Zealand is uniquely vulnerable to abuse of power.
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Is the catastrophic crisis in journalism taking democracy down with it?
2022 Tauranga by-election – fair and balanced journalism – or biased and defamatory?
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It's one hour. It's sensible. It's New Zealand's Silenced documentary.
The COVID-19 Campaign was so much more than a 'public health' emergency. 'Silenced' draws attention to what else went on behind the scenes.
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Manufacturing Consent for Biotechnology.
The government is taking clear action to manufacture consent for deregulation & for research investment. But keeps forgetting the lessons of the 2000…
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Uninformed & (basically) overnight - the Severe Weather Emergency Recovery Legislation Bill
Over-reach via Orders in Council, legacy extensive secrecy provisions continuing to & ignorance in this Bill... & one day to submit!
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Young girls eat meat!
Access to meat protein is a food security issue. A mental health issue. (Updated May 2023).
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Are there really clear checks & balances for our private Census information?
What is your perspective?
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Digital Enclosures & 15-minute cities.
The case study is called 'China'.
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Where is the Medsafe report stating the Comirnaty BNT162b2 product is safe and effective?
If only I could put my references on the OIA request form... so I'll have to do it here instead.
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Therapeutic Products Bill: Labyrinthine & unaccountable as it exits the starting gate?
No cost benefit analysis, an empty Bills Digest, no RIS, a governance culture that persistently ignores and underfunds diet & nutrition. Cabinet…
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TASA 2022 Conference paper presentation: SCIENCE FOR WHOM?
Manufacturing social consent for government policies through the control of science production.
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24 bills in a few days. Move along, nothing to see here.
The Queen died, and so we must push many controversal bills through quickly. Some thoughts on authority & some points made by New Zealand's blithe…
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