Browsing: Opinion

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…

Opinion: Aaron Spencer. New Zealanders, in general, have had very little interest in the apparently baffling complexities of geopolitics, economics,…

OPINION: Ashley Church There is something about Israel that feels bigger than politics and bigger than the events of the…

OPINION: ROGER PARTRIDGE When a story recently emerged about the government getting advice on carless days under the Petroleum Demand Restraint Act, older New Zealanders will have felt a…

OPINION: Ashley Church. For a long time, after October 7, I tried to respond to the claims that Israel was…

Image featured was created by AI. OPINION: Ashley Church If the recent Newstalk ZB claim that “there is no bias…

OPINION: Wanda Alger As charismatic churches face an ongoing reckoning over the abuse of prophetic ministry, there is an enormous…

OPINION: Two venerable and time honoured social service providers of New Zealand seem to have decided that the way forward…