A man once celebrated globally for sporting excellence, humanitarian vision, charisma and elite connection now sits confined under punitive conditions. This underscores the stark contrast between global adulation and domestic peril in Pakistan’s political landscape.
New Zealanders aren’t going backwards. They’re rejecting the idea that national identity and public policy must be filtered through a single ideological lens. They want a government that governs for everyone – not just for the loudest or most organised voices.
How NZ Super was built by a patriot and undermined by consultants.
British colonisation delivered literacy, medicine, infrastructure, government, economic development and the longest period of sustained peace the country had known. It was, relative to the alternatives, the most stable and least violent path New Zealand could realistically have taken.
Is it time for New Zealand Post to be removed from its present management and privatised? Providing the best possible customer service does not seem to be on its agenda.
Both stories matter. Neither requires the invention of mystical entitlement. A nation built on truth does not need to fabricate sacred origins.
Co-organiser Karen Tonks says New Zealand First has the power to have the legislation thrown out. “It needs to be chucked out. It’s not fit for purpose. And so email all of the eight New Zealand first MPs. Send them an email and put the pressure on them.”
If we accept the lie, and let it triumph through us, we will lose everything our ancestors fought to preserve. But if we refuse it, it can have no power over us, and the state will be left powerless.
On this 108th anniversary, we remember the courage, conviction and spiritual depth of these soldiers.
Simon Power’s KiwiSaver advocacy is therefore less about retirement savings than about profit, influence and the audacity of a system where cashflow is guaranteed, risk is socialised and reward is private.
