OPINION: Billy Brown
After 15 years building infrastructure across the South Pacific and Australia,
I came home to New Zealand a couple of years ago and saw a fundamental shift in our culture.
We’ve moved away from meritocracy, productivity, and operational excellence.
Instead, too many of our state-owned enterprises have drifted into DEI, wokeism, and left-leaning ideology.
It’s simple: if you’re publicly owned, your fundamental job is to deliver operational excellence.
That means meritocracy.
That means productivity.
That means returning a healthy dividend back to the government and ultimately to the New Zealand taxpayer.
Just like Air New Zealand, TVNZ needs to stop focusing on ideology and get back to its core mission…
Reflect the nation.
Hold power to account.
Report the news in a balanced, unbiased way.
Those are the three key pillars.
Right now, New Zealanders have lost trust because they can see the difference between reporting the news and pushing a narrative.
If TVNZ cannot deliver on those pillars, then as a nation we need to seriously ask why we are continuing to fund a state enterprise that no longer reflects the central values of New Zealand.
New Zealand deserves better…
Let’s think big again
