Claims that Māori as a group are underprivileged/improperly treated must be statistically inaccurate. This follows because the statistics that underpin these claims encompass results from all of those who are described in the census as being of “Māori descent”.
Today, due to government mismanagement and long-term strategic choices, the British Army is only a shadow of its former self: a force far removed from the versatile, hard-bitten-hard-fighting army that once could take on any adversary.
All of this analysis led me to the question: Maybe the pro-government, anti-climate catastrophe people just don’t write letters? But if my own experience is anything to go by, that’s not true.
History should discipline politics, not be reshaped by it. On sovereignty, the record is clear – but politically inconvenient for some.
Unity does not come from enforced reverence or ideological conformity. It comes from shared citizenship, shared law and shared national loyalty – held by individuals, not groups.
Peter MacDonald Sam Hunt once said he could have become prime minister, as an accountant. Yet he chose a radically different path: poetry. He realised that while many follow ledgers or wield formal power, poets lead society in subtler ways, through observation, reflection and the quiet uncovering of truths that
How a compact network of activists, media, institutions and politicians shape the left-liberal agenda in New Zealand.
A new ministerial briefing from CTV Families advocate David Lynch urges NZ Prime Minister to establish a full Royal Commission into the Mt Maunganui landslide – not another council‑managed review.
It makes one wonder why on earth the National Party don’t have enough sense to replace their liability of a leader, who is already costing them votes.
Hawke’s Bay, the Mount and the consequences of substituting ideology for environmental science.
Even if a disaster is later found to have been foreseeable and preventable, families cannot sue for the deaths themselves. Support comes through ACC and accountability comes through WorkSafe prosecutions, coronial findings, and the public record.
The dead were not unlucky. They were failed long before the rain fell.
This is why the election of 2023 now feels like a broken promise.
The lasting, departing impression of our day trip to Auckland CBD is of a third-world city dressed up and marketed as first world – an un-developing city living of borrowed prestige.
The New Zealander who gave the world a new kind of power.
New Zealand’s education system is teaching children a modern ideological story as ancient truth – a story that rewrites history, embeds race-based authority and quietly undermines democratic equality.
