8 February 2025
By Dieuwe de Boer All the winning that's going on in the United States is a stark reminder how far we still have to go. As Trump announced to restore the English name of Mount McKinley in Alaska, our own [...]
8 February 2025
By Don Brash and Michael Reddell When Don was young and Michael’s parents were young, New Zealand had among the very highest material standards of living in the world. It really was, in the old line, one of the very [...]
5 February 2025
By Bryce Wilkinson If you believe some of its critics, the pending Regulatory Standards Bill is a demonic measure to end New Zealand society as we know it. This is beyond false; it is ridiculous. In fact, it is a [...]
3 February 2025
By William McGimpsey The recent furor in New Zealand around John Minto and his so-called “genocide hotline” provides a good illustration of just what life will be like inside the multicultural longhouse our society is being steered toward. Minto is [...]
3 February 2025
By Mary Hobbs The future depends on what we do in the present. — Mahatma Gandhi The Gene Technology Bill – Part 1 The First Reading of the Gene Technology Bill 2024 was introduced to Parliament on 17 December 2024, by [...]
1 February 2025
By Rodney Hide I struggle to believe former Prime Minister Helen Clark thinks Elon Musk is a Nazi. That doesn’t stop her of accusing him of being one and of him advocating genocide. Here’s her post on X on 26 [...]
31 January 2025
By Paige Wills It’s disheartening and enraging to see Silver Fern Farms betray the very farmers it claims to represent and surrender to global greenwashing under the false banner of “sustainability”. Their latest email (18/12/24) outlining Scope 3 Emissions Targets [...]
28 January 2025
By Michael Bassett So loud are the squeals from the likes of Debbie Ngarewa-Packer against the new appointments to the Waitangi Tribunal that I can only assume that Minister Tama Potaka has got things right. And that the new [...]
26 January 2025
By Peter Williams The last bastion has cracked. NZME, the only stock exchange listed news gathering operation in the country, has had to face reality and tell staff that jobs at the New Zealand Herald and Newstalk ZB will have to [...]
24 January 2025
By William McGimpsey Mere days into the new Trump administration and DEI mandates have been abolished, official government policy is there are only two genders, and Lyndon Johnson’s executive order authorising affirmative action has been terminated. Trump promised in his [...]
22 January 2025
By David Seymour Sometimes New Zealand is all milk and honey. Other times you can sense widespread frustration that things could be better. Our country is in one of those times where we need to choose how we proceed. We [...]