Browsing: Opinion

OPINION: Ashley Church. Why are voters really abandoning traditional political parties? Election results, last week, confirmed a trend that seems…

OPINION: Lindsay Mitchell. Immigration Minister, Erica Stanford, criticizing ACT’s proposed levy on immigrant workers, said it will fall to farmers…

By Michael Swanson Should Labour extend an olive branch to The Opportunity Party? There’s a pretty strong case for such…

OPINION: Ashley Church. Yesterday I pulled into a major-brand service station to fill the tank in my car. (and yes,…

Opinion: John Bowie, LawFuel publisher It takes a certain perverted genius for the state broadcaster to threaten to sue a…

OPINION: Jonathan S. Tobin. Americans don’t like war in general. But if it has to be done, it had better…

OPINION: Peter Demos Spend a few minutes online and you will see the clips: a green-haired, nonbinary pastor, a rainbow-draped…

OPINION: Ashley Church. A few weeks ago I wrote an article pushing back on the claim that Israel is committing…

EDITORIAL: Mike Bain The story is simple and brutal. God declared Jericho’s plunder devoted to the Lord; it was not…

OPINION: Ashley Church I am a man of many contradictions. One of them is that while I don’t believe there…

OPINION: Rodney Hide. TVNZ Political Editor Maiki Sherman — the first Māori women to hold the job — repeatedly shouted…

OPINION: Peter Williams. Any politician who refuses to front on a particular media outlet essentially because he or she is…

By Jonathan Tobin/ JNS.org The latest attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump demonstrates anew that, like the toleration of antisemitism,…

OPINION: Zoran Rakovic. New Zealanders increasingly shoulder Treaty burdens not theirs to carry—learning Māori rites, obeying Crown guilt, and performing…

OPINION: Roger Partridge New Zealand’s housing crisis has causes everyone recognises – RMA restrictions, building consent delays, infrastructure that cannot…

OPINION: Melanie Phillips. Most people in America are against the war with Iran, as they are in Britain, too. Very…

OPINION: Rodney Hide. Christianity didn’t just arrive in New Zealand—it built the place. Missionaries planted the first permanent settlement in…

OPINION: By Teasi Cannon, Would you board a cruise ship if you knew the captain and crew were hired not for…

OPINION: Rodney Hide. In March 2023, Green co-leader and then-Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence, Marama Davidson,…

OPINION: Lindsay Mitchell Speaking after his cabinet meeting yesterday, affirming his continuing leadership of the National Party, Prime Minister Chris…

OPINION: Ani O’Brien. Today must end it. After a weeks and months of constant cycles of breathless speculation, anonymous briefings,…

Opinion: Graham Adams The path to election glory has traps. NZ First’s prospects at the election after a run of…

OPINION: Oliver Hartwich. With energy prices spiking, an old idea has gathered fresh momentum: break up the big electricity companies.…

Opinion: Bryce McKenzie. Bryce Mckenzie, co-founder of Groundswell NZ explains clearly what is happening in Gore and why it is…

OPINION: Ani O’Brien. How Liam Hehir convinced me I was wrong Last week, in my weekly political wrap up I…

OPINION: Teasi Cannon “You are a personal and professional offense to me!” The words pierced my heart and echoed in…

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…