Browsing: Opinion

Opinion: Ani O’Brien. Note: I was a vegetarian for 10 years and previously worked at the SPCA. I am a…

OPINION: Roger Partridge. Critics of judicial overreach face an odd challenge. The most sophisticated response is not to defend the…

By Chris Trotter – OPINION Power, if it is to have any lasting legacy, must be seized. Not inherited, not…

OPINION: Karl du Fresne “I’m not going to play that game,” Christopher Luxon said – rather lamely – when Tova…

Opinion: Peter Mortlock Don’t you love the lying, biased media? On Good Friday, they show some “dying” church with a…

OPINION: Andrew CopsonChief executive, Humanists UK The retraction of the Bible Society’s report on Gen Z church attendance (YouGov withdraws…

By Melanie Phillips. As the clock ticks away toward U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest “negotiate or I unleash hell” deadline,…

OPINION: Mark Creech, After watching an episode of “House of David,” (Amazon Prime) I found myself drawn back into one of…

Opinion: Kelly Williams As we enter the Easter season and look to Holy Week, we want to center our attention…

Opinion: Ani O’Brien. TOP isn’t above Left and Right. It’s just the Left in better packaging. Every election cycle, like…

OPINION: Caitlin Brown. I have a proposal: what if we collectively stopped going to work, refused to pay taxes, and…

OPINION: Billy Brown After 15 years building infrastructure across the South Pacific and Australia, I came home to New Zealand…

OPINION: Peter Williams The following was written in Peter’s capacity as Taxpayers’ Union board member In 2022, I joined the…

OPINION: Lindsay Mitchell I am not a supporter of government hand-outs. That’s because I am not a supporter of the…

Opinion: Aaron Spencer. New Zealanders, in general, have had very little interest in the apparently baffling complexities of geopolitics, economics,…

OPINION: Ashley Church There is something about Israel that feels bigger than politics and bigger than the events of the…

OPINION: ROGER PARTRIDGE When a story recently emerged about the government getting advice on carless days under the Petroleum Demand Restraint Act, older New Zealanders will have felt a…

OPINION: Ashley Church. For a long time, after October 7, I tried to respond to the claims that Israel was…

Image featured was created by AI. OPINION: Ashley Church If the recent Newstalk ZB claim that “there is no bias…

OPINION: Wanda Alger As charismatic churches face an ongoing reckoning over the abuse of prophetic ministry, there is an enormous…

OPINION: Two venerable and time honoured social service providers of New Zealand seem to have decided that the way forward…

OPINION: Lindsay Mitchell. Here’s a policy for National. Or ACT. Get rid of the sole parent benefit. Known for decades…

OPINION; The Reverend Dr Stuart Lange The ultimate source of every human life is God. Every human being is loved…

Editorial: cvnznews.com It has finally happened: a combined U.S. and Israeli strike on Iran. I sat in my office on…

Opinion: Ashley Church. As decent people everywhere mark the elimination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – Iran’s supreme leader since 1989…

What is oneness in Christ? Opinion: Dr Stuart Laing. The oneness of all believers in Christ is a spiritual reality, which God…

Opinion: Susanne Maynes. I’ve never attended Bethel Church or their school of ministry, and I’ve only listened to a handful…

Opinion: Peter Williams. February 25 is a significant day for Bendigo — Bendigo in Central Otago that is. Like its…

OPINION: Chris McVeigh I enjoy listening to Jim Mora on Radio New Zealand. There are a number of reasons for…

OPINION:  Binoy Kampmark In a feat of enterprising delusion and sinister suppression, Australia’s second largest state has decided to deal…

Opinion: Joey Sacharow “Australia has a choice to make. Its character — for generations to come — will be defined…

OPINION: Dr Stuart Laing It’s a timely question, because this is an election year, and in the next while all…

OPINION: Nathan Najib New Zealand Is Being Sold an Economic Lie Capitalism isn’t the problem, cowardly politics is. Socialism doesn’t…

OPINION: A.S. Ibrahim. In the vast expanse of the Arabian Peninsula, tiny Qatar—smaller than Connecticut—casts an outsized and dangerous shadow.…

OPINION: Robin Schumacher, Love it or hate it, no book rocks the world like the Bible. The Guinness World Records…

OPINION: Joel Foster. “Christians cannot do without good reporters”, wrote Evert Van Vlastuin, director of Christian Network Europe, on the last day of…

OPINION: Richard Prebble. Politicians make mistakes. They are human. Decisions must often be made with inadequate information. It is easy…

OPINION: Dr. Bryce Edwards. Many expected fireworks at Waitangi this year. In an election year, with the Government’s record on…

OPINION: Michael Bassett. If you are watching the bizarre goings on at Waitangi, keep an eye out for which politicians…

OPINION: Kaeley Harms Sometimes the conservative refrain, “there’s a war on men,” functions less as a diagnosis and more as…