Articles in ‘Wellness’

Vladimir Putin says he is ready for trilateral talks with Washington and Kiev, but insists negotiations must deliver a lasting settlement rather than a temporary ceasefire. Meanwhile, tensions between Poland and Ukraine deepen as Warsaw warns that Kiev's continued glorification of World War II Nazi collaborators threatens its EU membership ambitions. In France, fresh protests loom as political figures seek to capitalise on public attitudes…

New Zealand's aged care system faces growing pressure as its population ages. Dr Oliver Hartwich examines why underfunding residential care may ultimately cost taxpayers more through hospital admissions, delayed treatment and shortages of rest home beds. Opinion by Dr Oliver Hartwich | Executive Director, The New Zealand Initiative · Last week, we co-hosted a dinner with the Selwyn Foundation. Its chair, former Labour health minister David…

As New Zealand enters the colder months of the year, more than a million Kiwis have begun receiving their government-funded top-ups to help pay the power bill. Since it was introduced in 2018, the Winter Energy Payment has helped pensioners, beneficiaries and others on fixed incomes cover heating costs. It has also seen debate about who should receive it and whether it should be more tightly targeted. · Student associations have proposed…

The scarcity of reasonable grownup men, possessing masculine virtues, produces multi-generational psychosocial problems. · John Leake - Megan Fox with Machine Gun Kelly · There’s a verse in the Book of Exodus (20:5) that has long struck me as one of the most fascinating in the whole Bible. · “...for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them…