IT LOOKS LIKE A THESIS, BUT IT IS ACTUALLY A HIT-PIECE

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by guest-writer, Marilyn Park, M.A. A critique of Claire Patolo’s thesis “Counterspin Media and COVID-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand: Far-Right Extremism and the Undermining of Public Sphere and Public Health Principles’, (School of Communication Studies Faculty of Design & Creative Technologies AUT, 2023.) INTRODUCTION This thesis by Clare Patolo has already been reviewed once (see … Read more

1080 POISON PELLETS ON WALKING TRACKS, DEER CARCASSES ON FARMLAND IN MAKARORA VALLEY

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by Thomas S. On Saturday 27th April 2024, the Department of Conservation conducted a pest-control operation across some 46,000 hectares in the sub-alpine bush of the Makarora Valley in Mount Aspiring National Park, near the border of the Otago and West Coast regions. The operation involved the aerial application of sodium fluoroacetate, more commonly known … Read more