Melanie Collette Melanie Collette is a CFACT policy analyst. At its 2026 annual shareholder meeting in May, CFACT went straight to the top, asking BlackRock chairman and CEO Larry Fink whether the world’s largest asset manager will let clients walk away from sustainability investing entirely. CFACT’s Melanie Collette
The election has begun. And the media is on the case. Make that Graham Platner’s case. Buckle in.
Friedman was right: Australia can have a big welfare state, or it can have high immigration levels, but it cannot have both.
Whether this is a price worth paying to ‘maintain our sacred democracy’ is doubtful in the extreme.
David Seymour is sick of pretending that men can be women. Aren't we all?
How the media is fighting back at Richard Chambers and Mark Mitchell's questions.
By ignoring these loopholes in the latest RMA reforms, where the new Planning Bill and Natural Environment Bill offered an obvious fix, the government has actively chosen to protect bogus consultation fees over real progress.
Good intentions are no substitute for good policy, yet questioning expensive subsidies is increasingly treated as a moral failing rather than a legitimate debate about priorities.
It may sometimes appear a thankless task contacting MPs and sharing your views, but what is clear is that if enough voters present the case for change, politicians will listen – especially in election year.
Climate nonsense will eventually end and will be dumped onto the ash heap of history where it belongs. But the longer the cult goes on, the more damage is done. We should all do what we can to stop the madness as soon as possible.
The documents confirm Russia’s claims that the Ukrainian labs were working with potential bioweapons.
In theory, a soldier who refuses to comply with these ‘spiritual’ orders on the grounds of a conflict with their own personal faith or conscience faces a charge of disobedience – an offence punishable by up to two years’ imprisonment.
Together, these three bills create a layered, compounding risk for the organic sector and for all non-GE farmers, producers and consumers. Public submissions close for two of the bills tonight.
The rising star of New Zealand politics are Marxist re-distributors.
Reflecting on how entirely mad the situation is.
