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Gifts, Graft and a $12bn Defence Spend-up
The government’s headlong rush into big defence contracts, with minimal public oversight, risks compounding the problem by entrenching a military-industrial elite operating with impunity.
Why Do Māori Have to Rely on Deceased Kidney Donors?
Systemic racism or an inconveniently multifaceted set of problems requiring uncomfortable conversations.
What Happened to Personal Responsibility?
What is it that academics and public servants are afraid of? That the consequences of enforced personal responsibility would drive worse outcomes?
Defunding Gavi: An Important Step?
All the incentives for this expanding global health workforce push them to support centralized, vertical approaches to public health. To be healthy, people now needed manufactured stuff, and only wealthy, Western-trained people can be trusted to make them have it.
New York May Get Government-Owned Grocery Stores
History shows that’s never a good idea.
Trump’s Mineral Policy Offers a Strategic Opportunity
A seabed mining agreement with the island nation of Nauru would reduce China’s influence while establishing America as an industry authority.
They Could Make Up Our Future Parliament
An insight into the little monsters who will one day run the country.
I Hear Echoes of Citizens for Rowling
Many New Zealanders resent being told what to think. That was the lesson of 1975 and I don’t think much has changed.
Te Tiriti, Not Te Mandate
A school board affirms its right to apply Treaty obligations lawfully – supporting Māori students without mandating cultural content for all.
Apartheid Funded by the Taxpayer, Run Like a Family Business
Whānau Ora should be dismantled. This isn’t empowerment: it is exploitation of the system by those lucky enough to sit at the top. The people it was meant to help never see the benefit. The insiders make sure of that.
Who Relies Most on Welfare?
Chinese people had the lowest dependency rate at 2.4 per cent. The highest rate is for Māori at 23 per cent.
The Human Cost of Starmer’s Welfare U-Turn
Some might blame Jane and her mum for being scroungers. As it happens I don’t: they seem to me to be making a perfectly logical, if short-term, financial decision. £72 a week is available so why not take it?
A Big Win for Women’s Sports
The university’s moves are in keeping with the guidelines President Donald Trump set out in two orders called “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” and “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism.”
