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OPINION: Rodney Hide Here’s a simple question. If you had known what was coming, and you had the chance, should…
OPINION: Rev. Mark H. Creech By almost every modern measure of successful ministry, Jesus’ sermon would have been considered a…
OPINION: Don Brash/Hobson’s Pledge. Outrageous. That was the first word that came to mind when a supporter sent me a…
Opinion Dr Muriel Newman On one side is a coalition that wants to encourage people to get ahead through lower…
OPINION: Michael Swanson. With the 2026 election drawing closer, both major parties have settled on a strategy that tells you…
Editorial: cvnznews.com ARE WE WATCHING THE QUIET UNRAVELLING OF NEW ZEALAND’S SOCIAL‑CARE SAFETY NET? For more than a century, faith‑based…
OPINION: Rev Dr Stuart Laing-NZ Christian Network. All political parties have values, and feel they do good for everyone. However,…
OPINION: Rodney Hide Remember when questioning the origin of SARS-CoV-2 got you banned, branded a public-health threat, and cast out…
OPINION: Melanie Phillips/JNS.org The war of conquest against the West involves both Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood. America has changed…
OPINION: Michael Swanson On Friday I sat down with the Vote2026 Team at the University of Otago, a student-produced series…
OPINION: Peter Williams. When a system fails-It’s time someone is made accountable Here’s a question. If an organisation experiences “systemic…
OPINION: Michael Swanson The Opportunity Party has never been short on ambition, but its 2026 “Tax Reset” is pretty ballsy…
OPINION: Natalia Albert. My obsession this week has been: how many public houses does New Zealand actually have? And trying…
OPINION: Michael Swanson Every three years, New Zealanders fill in two ticks on their ballot paper. One is a party…
OPINION: Rodney Hide. There was a moment when Prime Minister Christopher Luxon lost the plot. During the last election campaign…
OPINION: Roger Partridge. Last month, ten organisations representing New Zealand’s ethnic, faith and multicultural communities delivered what they called an…
OPINION: Dr. Christopher Longhurst KSO The New Zealand Catholic Church’s Safeguarding Guidelines clearly establish a structure in which the Church’s…
OPINION: Ani O’Brien Forget “a week’s a long time”. A day is an eternity in politics. And yet consequences can arrive…
OPINION: Natalia Albert Back in April I wrote that Luxon likely wouldn’t make it to November as National’s leader, while…
OPINION: Ani O’Brien. A plan for a very different New Zealand The campaign policies of the Green Party of Aotearoa…
OPINION: Michael Swanson With the election drawing closer, one of the quieter but genuinely consequential questions hanging over the new…
OPINION: Bryce Wilkinson. Last month, the Ministry of Social Development released the latest of its excellent statistical reports documenting the…
The Coalition’s proposed shakeup of local government is well underway. Time is now running out for councils to decide on…
OPINION: Michael Swanson When the polls closed on election night in 2023, Labour had been reduced from a governing majority…
OPINION: Lindsay Mitchell. For those of us who take an interest in child welfare and listen to various media outlets,…
OPINION: Bruce Cotterill. There once was a young woman. She had long dark hair and a nice smile. She was…
OPINION: Michael Swanson. Anyone who has watched New Zealand politics over the past few weeks will have noticed something about…
Opinion: Karen Lehmann. For a few remarkable weeks, the World Cup reminded us of something we too often forget. Billions…
OPINION: Oliver Melnick The word Genocide has become a leitmotif when Israel is being discussed among foes. It has become…
OPINION: Mike Bain Ray Davies, frontman of The Kinks, once sang about a “mixed‑up muddled up shook‑up world” in Lola.…
OPINION: Don Brash There is an old political lesson which Christopher Luxon and the National Party would do well to…
Jonathan S. Tobin /JNS.org That’s the defense being employed by supporters of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani in the wake of…
OPINION: Maurice Williamson Imagine you’d decided to leave the car at home and make the shift to public transport. After…
OPINION: Michael Swanson Every sitting day in the New Zealand Parliament, when a contested vote is called, MPs do not…
OPINION: Roger Partridge. The exercise has many names – privilege walk, power line, power walk – and a well-documented lineage.…
Some significant progress was made in a room where communities in conflict grappled with peaceful agreement and disagreement. Opinion: Michael…
OPINION: Michael Swanson I asked AI to model the 2026 General Election Last Friday night, when I was sat on…
OPINION: Lindsay Mitchell A report from the Chief Executive of the NZ Council of Christian Social Services has made some…
OPINION: Peter Williams. Money triumphs over editorial sense In the immortal words of tennis legend John McEnroe: “You cannot be…
Opinion: Dr Muriel Newman After decades of rampant migration across Europe, governments are finally confronting a problem they have ignored…