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Opinion: Richard Preeble Whenever Hager publishes one of his hit jobs it reminds me that I once was a target.…
OPINION: Rodney Hide Chris Hipkins wants to outlaw “price gouging.” He has no idea what it is. Companies found guilty…
OPINION: Roger Partridge Two speeches from the Crown’s most senior lawyers over the past month have answered a question that…
OPINION: Rodney Hide. Everything government monopolises, it botches. Roads: potholes and gridlock. Schools: a decade of the kids’ lives and…
OPINION: Natalia Albert/Substack Tax policy is the most important political statement. Everything else is downstream. It is also complex, boring…
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…
Ashley Church Over the past couple of days, media outlets here in New Zealand have reported that the “far-right Alternative…
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: Rev Dr Stuart Laing-NZ Christian Network. All political parties have values, and feel they do good for everyone. However,…
Ashley Church Over the past few weeks I’ve noticed a steady increase in the number of social media posts and…
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…
Ashley Church A few weeks ago I wrote an article about Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist whose extraordinary story was…
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…
Ashley Church. Could TOPs “free money” policy really work? And is it really ‘evidence based’? In 2004, John Key described…
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…
Ashley Church. If you’re a centre-right voter, there’s a fair chance that a sense of dread has started to descend…
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: 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…