Luke Duane Oldfield is a 31 year old postgraduate student at the University of Waikato. His Masters dissertation is an examination of interest group involvement in comparative politics systems and the consequences for public health policies. When he’s not reading, writing or eating burgers there’s a high chance he’s watching cricket.
1 November 2015
The anti-fluoride circus made a new home this spring in the Coromandel locality of Thames (population 6,700). This circus did not feature any elephants though, or monkeys, or even humans performing under duress, neither were there any dramatic highwire acts or somersaults, unless you were to count the verbal gymnastics of those seeking to remove artificial fluoridation from the town's supply. In the hours before the referendum results were released, the Advertising Standards Authority found that Fluoride Free New Zealand (FFNZ) and their supporters had made a series of misleading claims during the campaign.
1 February 2015
Luke Oldfield discusses the art of engaging with a 'Non-Opinion'