Browsing: Opinion
OPINION: Lynne Samkin In the wake of the recent challenge to Christopher Luxon’s leadership of the National Party, the Facebook…
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…
Ashley Church There’s a fascinating story in the Old Testament about a group of people who fooled Israel into making…
OPINION: Bryce Wilkinson. Last month, the Ministry of Social Development released the latest of its excellent statistical reports documenting the…
Ashley Church If you follow mainstream media commentary in 2026 you could easily come away with the impression that 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…
Editors Note: A debate over accountability and editorial judgement — Dr Christopher Longhurst’s latest opinion piece examines how institutions communicate…
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…
Ashley Church A recent satirical headline claimed that Trump had broken the world record by winning his war against Iran…
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…
Ashley Church Back in June I wrote an article pointing out the inconvenient fact that there has never, at any…
Dr. Christopher Longhurst KSO Theology is often assumed to be in decline today. Yet it has probably never been more…
OPINION: Maurice Williamson Imagine you’d decided to leave the car at home and make the shift to public transport. After…
Ashley Church For several years I’ve followed AUT’s annual Trust in News survey and treated it as a useful guide…
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…
OPINION: Ani O’Brien. Note: it is my editorial policy to use pronouns that relate to the biological sex of the…
Kevin Briggins, There was recently a debate between Christian apologist Frank Turek, who is white, and Pastor Charlie Dates, who is black,…
Ashley Church Regular readers of my articles could be excused for wondering whether I’ve finally gone off the deep end…
Opinion: Rodney Hide. Last year in New Zealand 486 people had their lives ended under the End of Life Choice…
Ashley Church. Most of those reading this will probably have seen the 1993 movie Schindler’s List, starring Liam Neeson and…
Opinion: Peter Williams. It’s sure to be second time successful for the former TV host One of the rapidly emerging…
OPINION: Oliver Hartwich Nostalgia is a wonderful state of mind but, almost by definition, it glorifies the past while ignoring things that were not…
OPINION: Rodney Hide. Sitting through karakia I am invariably reminded of the book of Daniel in which faithful Israelites found…
OPINION: Chris McVeigh KC. A small part of me wants to take some pride in the bestowing of an honorary…
OPINION: Lindsay Mitchell According to Treasury, “People present in New Zealand each year are increasingly non-NZ citizens”: “In 2024, there…
OPINION: John McLean. In the wake of the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, which ended once and for all the centuries…