Independent Analysis and Reportage
When money is coming from the ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’, a recent study found parents and adult children can have very different assumptions – which they rarely discuss.
Canada can significantly improve women’s health, in both the short- and long-term, by focusing on five attainable and affordable immediate actions.
Care improves when healthcare professionals are given the tools to find their own solutions.
When both parents appeared equally available, schools were 40% more likely to call students’ moms, rather than their dads.
American churches could not rely on the state for financial support. Private philanthropy helped them survive – and shaped the country’s religious diversity today.
AI agents can play an important role in coping with the rise in air traffic – but only if trust in their capabilities is established first.
Research suggests loneliness and depression can reinforce each other, while social isolation has a more limited effect.
Using orphan girl novels to study Ted Lasso brings certain themes into sharper focus – particularly its concern with fatherhood.
Children have a right to leisure.
Pacific Media Watch Daily Blog editor and publisher Martyn “Bomber” Bradbury’s gagging case has been adjourned until next week, with the judge warning today that latest posts defending “free speech” might be risking contempt of court. Bradbury’s TDB article yesterday claiming that he “faced 6 months imprisonment or a $5000 fine to censor 4 blogs”
Explosive allegations of betting inducements have been heard at a Senate inquiry into online gambling laws.
The New Zealand government remains shamefully silent on Gaza, despite being a signatory to international agreements that oblige it to act, writes John Hobbs in E-Tangata. COMMENTARY: By John Hobbs A friend who lives in Gaza, just posted the following: From the sea of Gaza, I do not look out . . . I stand