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National Finishes Year With a Yawn
Willis’ career is approaching election year with a stumble and a yawn. By election day, it may well have died in its sleep.
Bondi Beach and the conflicts New Zealand can still keep out
New Zealand’s distance and discretionary borders give it a unique ability to decide which conflicts it absorbs and which it refuses to import.
A bestseller, some resistance, and what it says about New Zealand’s cultural climate
A runaway political bestseller is proving easy to buy in some places and strangely hard to find in others, giving insight into how culture and politics intersect with retail choice.
Nearing election year, Hipkins promises a ‘different Labour’ but offers familiar answers
Meet the new party...
Luxon brushes off coup talk, says he rebuilt National from “civil war”
“I know what it took to rebuild a National Party from 20 percent to 37 percent and find a pathway to win an election.”
Digital labels plan aims to boost supermarket competition, but critics warn of transparency risks
A trial to let retailers use QR codes and digital labels on imported food.
Luxon condemns Bondi Beach attack, orders extra police protection for Jewish sites
“Terrorism and hate have no place in our societies.”
New Zealand’s long summer shutdown sparks productivity row
“There is a view that the country shuts down not just for Christmas and New Year but in many cases all the way through to March.”
Crimes bill tactic lets minister sidestep Parliament’s usual rules
Designed “to dodge Parliament rules."
National Finishes Year With a Yawn
Willis’ career is approaching election year with a stumble and a yawn. By election day, it may well have died in its sleep.
Some Christmas Questions for the Pollies
At this time of year TV and print journos down tools and, rather than do something useful like giving Willie Jackson a festive season scare by looking into certain allegations, instead think up inane Christmas questions to ask politicians.
Our God, Have You Forsaken Us?
Horrors like the Bondi terror attack are a challenge to the faith of Christians and Jews alike.
The Most Important Lesson For Your Child’s Future
Maybe you don’t want this to be true and I understand this sentiment because you are nice. But it is true. Your child’s world will not be nice, so the time for being nice is over.
How the Anglo-Saxon Tried to Save Europe from Itself
And save the Anglo-Saxon from left-wing Europe.
The Good Oil Podcast – Episode 21 – Geoff Upson
Geoff has spent years waging a one-man war on crumbling roads, bureaucratic inertia and the maddening gap between what officials promise and what actually gets fixed.
The Good Oil Podcast – Episode 20 – Jillaine Heather
In Episode 20 of The Good Oil Podcast, Cam sits down with Free Speech Union CEO Jillaine Heather, a forthright voice in New Zealand’s free-expression battles.
Exclusive: McCarten’s Receipts Blow the Lid Off MUMA’s Coverup: Lies, Bullying and Union-Busting Exposed in Damning Documents
What’s astonishing is the ostrich-like stance of legacy media. While they’ve chased trivial stories, the Good Oil has doggedly uncovered layer after layer of this scandal.
Has Orwell’s 1984 Become Reality?
The more the process is ramped up, the louder critical voices become (and protests are likely to occur) and, correlatively, the more anxious the neo-fascists become, to close the net around citizens of the world.
Finally, Some Commonsense in Election Laws: No More Freebies and Last-Minute Shenanigans
These reforms were necessary because some outfits have been abusing the system. Now the playing field is a tad fairer. Good on the coalition for sorting it out.
National’s Grim HYEFU Reality: The Economy Isn’t Fixed and Voters Know It
National has work to do...and fast. Otherwise, a lot of those blue seats will turn red next election.
Hipkins’ Gall in Promising a ‘New’ Labour: Same Old Hypocrisy from the Chipster
Hipkins had his shot as PM and it was a dud. Kiwis saw through the spin then, and they’ll do it again in 2026. Save your breath, Chris. No one’s buying.
Nicola Willis’s Blunder: Handing Ruth Richardson a Megaphone She Doesn’t Deserve
How National’s political brains trust missed this is baffling. It is straight out of the playbook. Remember Ronald Reagan’s killer line from 1980: “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” Swap in two years and it fits New Zealand like a glove.
Europe’s Forgotten Miracle – Madeira
This should not be treated as an exotic exception. It should be the rule.
A Major Blow To Press Freedom
Hong Kong pro-democracy publisher convicted of sedition.
Terrorism in the Age of Shrugs
The blob forces you, compels you, to enjoy the plastic toys, the bouncing blondes and hamburger #4. Eat, consume, sleep. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. That is the story. That is our narrative.
Can We Look Back in Anger Yet?
Tolerance must not be a suicide pact. Every time a politician chooses comfort over clarity and a journalist downplays jihadist violence they are laundering ideology. This is how a society talks itself into paralysis.
Blood on Their Hands
For too long, we have tolerated people calling for the very violence that occurred at Bondi Beach.
We Should Reconsider This
There’s nothing xenophobic or racist about favouring national stability and cohesion and ensuring all those who come to live in Australia accept and live by the values and beliefs that make it such a unique country.
Govt Must Act On Puberty Blockers
Family First’s position remains that there should be an immediate end to new prescribing of puberty blockers due to the clear lack of quality probative evidence of efficacy and safety.
They Must Guard Against Civil Unrest, Not Create It
The proposed changes to the Human Rights Act are not progressive, they are regressive. They undermine biological reality, jeopardise fairness and risk creating new injustices in the name of solving old ones.
Mark, You Are off the Mark – Again
We want a safe, strong, united New Zealand – where immigrants are welcome only if they assimilate. Where Christian heritage is honoured – not erased. Where our children grow up Kiwis – not strangers in their own land. We do not apologise for standing.
We’re Sparking a the Conversation
The Rainbow Mafia is real. They doxx, threaten and get people fired for their beliefs.
Te Pāti Māori’s Gravy Train Exposed – And They’re Spitting Tacks
We are one people, one vote, one law and one flag.
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How High Did the Grooming Cover Up Go?
UK PM implicated in Muslim child-rape gang scandal.
Most of the Covid Tyrants Are Gone, What Next?
Ardern, Biden and Trudeau are now gone. But where to from here?
Continued Contempt of Parliament from Te Pāti Māori
If they don’t like the institution of parliament and its standing orders, then they can always go back to the mat.
Six Years Ago My Life Changed
I’ve had years of failure, hurt, pain and suffering but I always get up in the morning and move forwards. Six years ago my life changed and it has cost me everything. Here’s why.
The Fault Lines from Washington Are Felt around the World
From free speech to NZ politics, events in Washington are reverberating around the world.
Back to the Basement for Joe
Looks like it’s back to the basement for Senile Joe. The presidential incumbent and Democrat candidate for this year’s election has ducked out of a campaign visit to a battleground state, after testing positive for Covid. Which is odd, because Biden is fully boosted with the Covid vaccination,
It’s Good to Be the Ruling Elite
If there’s one thing the new elite are good at, it’s looking after themselves. ’Twas ever thus, of course, but to damn them with faint praise, the old money at least had some vague notions of noblesse oblige. Today’s elites have only one moral compass: gimme, gimme,
Time for a Reality Check
Dr Muriel Newman Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. In the recent European Parliamentary elections, where
Wayne Brown to Auckland Transport: Shaddap You Face
Auckland Mayor, Wayne Brown, has channelled Joe Dolce and basically told Auckland Transport to “shut up and listen”. They seem to lack ears, so it will remain to be seen if Wayne Brown can make them listen to Aucklanders’ concerns over Auckland Transport.
Wily Winston Far Too Clever for Bob Carr and David Parker
Former Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr was recently in New Zealand at the behest of the Labour Party and spoke at a meeting organised by them. In his speech he lambasted the Government and Winston Peters for entertaining becoming part of AUKUS.