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OPINION: Roger Partridge Two speeches from the Crown’s most senior lawyers over the past month have answered a question that…
OPINION: Dale Moreau Modern psychology can describe your anxiety down to the neurotransmitter. It can trace your patterns to your…
Opinion: Michael Swanson. I have, for a long time, had a real problem. I can’t help but comment on social…
Opinion: Richard Prebble. We rarely lose a constitutional principle abruptly. It is chipped away until one day, when it is…
Michael Swanson. A quick disclaimer before starting: I’m not a Tiriti ō Waitangi or Waitangi Tribunal expert. What follows is…
OPINION: Melanie Phillips. Violence in the “West Bank” is being malevolently misrepresented. As every part of the “Gaza genocide” mass…
OPINION: Ani O’Brien. It is easy to shrug off new tax proposals meant to target the “Super Rich” as not something that…
OPINION: Natalia Albert. The minister responsible for reforming New Zealand’s public service currently holds eleven portfolios. Eleven. That’s too many.…
OPINION” Andrew Doyle ‘O Jesus, send me a wound to-day,And I’ll believe in Your bread and wine,And get my bloody…
OPINION: Fiamma Nirenstein The right-wing party that scored a landslide victory in the recent elections in Saxony seems to have…
OPINION: Anne-Sofie Engelschiøn Two stories, two countries, same failure. Most people have never heard of either, and that alone should…
OPINION: Michael Swanson Every three years, without fail, New Zealand’s roadsides sprout a familiar crop. Corflute signs on wooden stakes,…
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…