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Election 2025: And We’re Off
How is the field looking as the first week of the campaign unfolds?
IAN WISHART: Open Letter to NZ Media on Green MP Benjamin Doyle
“This is why I believe there is now sufficient evidence for authorities to immediately investigate, and why I believe you have a journalistic duty to tell the story as it stands, and a moral duty to act”
Greens ECE spokesperson posts sexualised child images online, Peters asks “where’s the media?”
Green MP Benjamin Doyle may have some explaining to do.
Police under fire for persisting with ‘hate speech’ training and protest crackdown
“They need to go back to being politically neutral.”
Proposal to regulate protest rights rings civil liberties alarm
“There is something singularly ominous about a proposal seeking to justify a curtailment of such rights and freedoms.”
Government toughens sentencing laws as opposition defends status quo
Ending a “culture of excuses.”
Gold rush returns to Reefton, with hopes of long-term boom
“We want a 20, 30, 40-year mine life.”
Election 2025: And We’re Off
How is the field looking as the first week of the campaign unfolds?
It Is Australia’s Big Bribe
Labor’s cynical election budget bribes appear to be having the desired effect.
Stop and Search
Tamatha Paul should investigate the consequences of what happened to her party’s electoral support in 2017 – the last time a young(ish) wahine Māori gave Green voters cause to doubt her party’s attachment to the rule of law.
The Power of Kindness
More exclusive excerpts from Jacinda Ardern’s upcoming memoir (part four).
How This Republican Atheist Found God and King
Atheism and republicanism are childish things I learned to put away.
This Won’t Work
Why challenging Donald Trump’s executive authority in the courts is unlikely to end happily.
The Second Worst Polls Since MMP
Someone needs to do something big and bold and they need to do it right now, because current polling suggests that, if they don’t, they will be New Zealand’s first one-term government in 51 years.
Whom Should New Zealand Deport?
Which of our foreign-born population could we most do without? With more than a quarter of us born overseas, there are a lot to choose from.
Progressive Christianity: A Different Faith Altogether
Progressive Christianity seems to reinterpret Christian teaching to conform with modern society. This sets Progressive Christianity on a collision course with Conservative Christianity.
In Regards to Future Lockdowns
It is an unfortunate reality that governments will again attempt to implement lockdowns if a new disease causes social and moral panic. I believe by instituting these measures, we can help fight lockdowns and reduce their length and severity.
Yes, but What Do You Do About Tyrants?
It’s a rough-and-tumble game and Kiwis have been sorting out the winners from the losers since before you lot were in short pants.
‘100%’ US Gets Greenland – Trump
Using military force to acquire the island is not “off the table”, the American president has said.
NZ’s Trust Crisis a Revolt
Part of restoring trust is candidly admitting mistakes and failures. As the saying goes, trust arrives on foot but leaves on horseback – it will take time and consistent effort to win back the confidence that has been lost.
Foreign Aid, Reparations and Economic Growth
Developing countries in Africa and the Caribbean must pivot away from the reparations narrative and instead focus on strategic economic policies that drive industrialization and technological adoption.
Was Ukraine Playing the Long Game?
Although it is unlikely Zelenskyy planned for the Oval Office meeting to fail, it must be considered as a viable alternative.
The Post-lockdown Disorientation in the Arts
There seems to be no stopping the counterrevolution at this point, as the spat upon and disrespected middle voice of cultural normalization claws its way back from humiliation back into the mainstream of cultural experience.
We’re Sparking a the Conversation
The Rainbow Mafia is real. They doxx, threaten and get people fired for their beliefs.
Te Pāti Māori’s Gravy Train Exposed – And They’re Spitting Tacks
We are one people, one vote, one law and one flag.
Editors' Picks
How High Did the Grooming Cover Up Go?
UK PM implicated in Muslim child-rape gang scandal.
Most of the Covid Tyrants Are Gone, What Next?
Ardern, Biden and Trudeau are now gone. But where to from here?
Continued Contempt of Parliament from Te Pāti Māori
If they don’t like the institution of parliament and its standing orders, then they can always go back to the mat.