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.
So where, in just 22 years, did these extra 35,000 Ngāi Tahu come from?
This is not simply a debate about monarchy versus republic. It is a question of legitimacy, consent and democratic grounding. Who governs New Zealand – and by whose authority?
