Does Winning the Leaders’ Debate Matter?
We learnt almost nothing about who will form the next government. The people who will decide that were not on the stage.
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A Double Cliffhanger for New Zealand
NZ voters are in a unique situation. MMP rules and consistent polling indicates we may get a hung parliament or a coalition with the slimmest of margins - but will it be red or blue?
The Five-Letter Word Media Won’t Say
From a failed airline hijacking to riots in France, our inability to name causes and motivations is undermining our ability to respond to reality.
There’s the Bloody Ball. Use it!
The Nats still have a chance but they have to change tactics.
The New Face of an Old Hatred
It is the raw, ignorant hatred that expelled Jews from medieval kingdoms, burned them in pogroms, restricted them from universities, and fed them into gas chambers. It requires no reason. It will simply endure unless, finally, good people stop it.
Why Does Anyone Still Take Socialism Seriously?
A devaluation of one’s fellow humans based on irrationality and sheer ignorance is the dark truth underlying socialism’s appeal.
NZ Shows How Not to Run a Census
Two millennia ago, Augustus counted his empire because he wanted to know what he ruled. In 2028, New Zealand will count itself because the parties could not agree on how to stop.
Beyond the Boats Invading Our Mother Country
The only souls still possessed of political zeal are those whose fervour is the fervour of the wolf. What they see is a flesh-and-blood civilisation, meaty and unguarded, to be looted for the survival of their own mangy pack. I mean the commies, of course: the Greens, Labour,
A Super Policy
Seymour may have devised the policy as an alternative to compulsory saving, but I think he has a winner for the retired.
The Battle Over the Waitangi Tribunal
When the Treaty of Waitangi settlement process was introduced by Norman Kirk’s Labour government in 1975, it was framed as a means of dealing with ongoing injustices. The Waitangi Tribunal was established as a permanent commission of inquiry to investigate contemporary claims that the Crown had breached the Treaty.
Warrantless Border Searches of Americans’ Cell Phones
The Supreme Court held that the government’s acquisition of certain geofence location data constitutes a Fourth Amendment search. The institute argues that those same constitutional principles should not disappear merely because a person crosses an international border.
Standing Against the Myanmar Junta
The revolution in Burma demands neither humanitarian aid nor neocon style intervention from Australia: what is needed is solidarity and a commitment to individual sovereignty, a market economy, federalism, and liberal democracy.