The peril of overriding personal conscience

By Danielle van Dalen

One of the non-blockbuster films of the summer is Terrence Malick’s latest project A Hidden Life. It’s based on the…

MEDIA RELEASE | End of Life Choice Bill report highlights multitude of “concerns and contradictions”

By Alex Penk

Released today, the Justice Select Committee’s report does not recommend passing the End of Life Choice Bill. Instead, it highlights…

Submission: The End of Life Choice Bill

By Danielle van Dalen

We are opposed to the End of Life Choice Bill. The dangers of this Bill lie at its very core…

Short Cuts Info | A clear boundary isn’t possible

By Danielle van Dalen

Are we willing to create a law which distinguishes between those whose life is worthy of protection from suicide and…

New Zealanders need to inspect details of End of Life Choice Bill

By Alex Penk

MEDIA RELEASE: Thursday, 14 December 2017 With the End of Life Choice Bill now voted through to Select Committee stage,…

Getting fit to compete in the global game

By Julian Wood

While political and economic “change” is on everyone’s lips, we need to be clear about our current situation, and what…

Unrealistic safeguards

By Danielle van Dalen

“Safeguards.” It’s an official-sounding and soothing term often used by those in favour of euthanasia, to ease concerns about the…

The aftershocks of King Henry VIII

By Alex Penk

What does a long-dead Tudor king have to do with the Canterbury earthquakes? In late 2010, after the first shock,…

Spying amendment lacks foresight

The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) may not occupy an “enormous, pyramidal structure of white concrete”, but 1984 has been…

Demanding answers  

By Keiran Madden

Ruth Porter | 22 April 2008 Published in The Northland Age, 22 April 2008 Finally Parliament is waking up to…

Submission: Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Bill

By Maxim Institute

Maxim Institute submits that, in its current form, this Bill has the potential to undermine democracy by ignoring the mandate…