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OPINION: Michael Swanson After regularly producing three substack posts every week since about April this year. This week was different…I…
OPINION: Rodney Hide. My daughter asked her friends a question. Your dog and a stranger are both drowning. You can…
OPINION: Fiamma Nirenstein International outrage over violence in Judea and Samaria appears to flow in only one direction. Someone should…
OPINION: Stephen Anthony The country is now asking whether the rising cost of living, falling productivity and competitiveness have been…
OPINION: Michael Swanson. Thoughts, feelings and predictions that have a high likelihood of ending up completely wrong At this point…
OPINION: Rodney Hide Here’s my election night prediction, for what it is worth. We will get a centre-right government. National…
Opinion: Ani O’Brien A Parliament without Chris Bishop would be a worse Parliament You may have heard about “The Overhang”…
OPINION: Bryce Wilkinson Voters are rightly worried about the cost of living. How can they balance the household budget? Should…
Michael Swanson One of the things that has baffled me during this campaign, is the sheer number of voters I’ve…
OPINION: All parties disappoint. National used to stand for property rights. Labour has abandoned taxing landlords. The Greens have gone…
OPINION: Ravi VenkatesanI have long been puzzled by something: How can smart, well-educated, decent people look at the same facts…
OPINION: The complexity of “settler violence” received dramatic illustration over the past week. Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine was injured…
OPINION: Rodney Hide Another day, another Chris Hipkins fact check. His complaint today (Friday) was that Māori MPs are held…
Editorial: Mike Bain Election campaigns promise a brighter future, a better government and solutions to the nation’s problems. But beneath…
OPINION: Ani O’Brien What NZNO’s own figures reveal about the health system crisis I am not here to dispute the…
OPINION: Menin Rodrigues For a long time, I believed social media had democratized truth. Everyone could speak and report. Information…
OPINION: Joel M. Margolis Under pressure from leading Western democracies to form a legitimate government, the Palestinian Authority (PA) recently…
Benefit numbers are out for September. The last before the election. Up again. There are now 417,000 working age people…
Opinion: Dr Muriel Newman. Earlier this year, at a time of rising geopolitical tension and increasing regional insecurity – with…
New Zealand First’s big promise this election is a Future Fund. The Future Fund looks like a recycled version of…
Chlöe Swarbrick wants “decolonisation” language for Palestine and a map with no Israel on it. Apply her own standard honestly,…
OPINION. The real election campaign is taking place on social media. Those on the other side of the digital divide…
OPINION: David Harvey One of the more absurd questions to emerge in the leaders’ debate on Tuesday 6 October focused…
Factors favouring the Greens include a clear, bold vision, popular leaders, a weak Labour Party, and global demand for change…
OPINION: Michael Johnston One of the most important things teachers can do to help their students improve is to give…
National has announced a five point welfare plan that applies almost entirely to Jobseeker/Work Ready beneficiaries. The first is random…
OPINION:John Raine The Ongoing Long March Through the Institutions More than three years ago, along with many others, I was…
Editorial: Mike Bain There is a foul smell hanging over Wellington. No, I’m not talking about the sewage. I’m talking…
OPINION: Jonathan S. Tobin /JNS.org After three years of failure, it’s time to try something else. That’s the lesson that…
OPINION: Michael Swanson MMP asks voters two questions. The party vote decides how many seats each party deserves, and the…
OPINION: Paul Melville. This election, the standout issue is the cost of living. It’s all the focus groups want to…
OPINION: Natalia Albert The Government’s council shake-up is on pause until after the election. Who knew institutions were going to…
OPINION: Mike Bain/Christian Voice New Zealand There was a time when charitable status for a church, ministry, or Christian organisation…
OPINION: Kerry BakerThere has been a movement in recent times to push a name change for our country to “Aotearoa”…
OPINION; Michael Swanson. When a party polling near the threshold announces its post-election bottom lines, the usual cynical reading is…
OPINION: Roger Partridge The 2026 election campaign has not got off to a good start for business – or for…
OPINION: Chris McVeigh. “And Ralph wept for the loss of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart and the fall through…
OPINION: Michael Swanson/Substack Ask which electorates will decide the 2026 election and most people picture government and opposition trading blows…
OPINION: Mike Bain/Christian Voice New Zealand I’ve discovered one of my spiritual gifts is people‑watching. Not voyeurism — just the…
OPINION: Natalia Albert/Substack I went to a panel on the Super age to try and get my head around the…