What Privilege Sounds Like in 2025
RNZ, as a taxpayer-owned entity has a responsibility to ensure its coverage of news and current affairs is neutral, fair and balanced – an obligation that it constantly disregards.
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Never Waste a Good Crisis
Go the Breakers. And go the coalition. Please. As crises go, the rot at the top of the cops is a whopper. Use it well.
Stanford Does a Reverse Ferret
And redeems herself. The furore over Treaty flip-flop boosts her credentials.
No, Sanctions Didn’t Destroy This
Venezuela’s five-stage socialist collapse dismantled the rule of law, destroyed investment, and unleashed hyperinflation, long before Washington acted.
A Government on the Edge
Underpinning all these stories is the simple and unpalatable fact that the country is living wildly beyond its means and that political leadership is in crisis with a chancellor sinking into quicksand.
What Makes Good Immigration Policy?
Poorly implemented immigration policies can make the difference between a policy that benefits society and a policy that causes problems.
Nurse Faces Misconduct Charges for Her Views
She says they are now moving toward punitive action that could leave her unemployed by January, when her hearing is due to take place.
Maree’s Book Review: Godzone’s Enemies
If you’ve been watching the recent turmoil within the Greens and Te Pāti Māori and Labour, Loudon’s book invites you to look more closely at the people behind the politicians, who and what motivates them – and to draw your own conclusions.
Coster’s Legacy and the Fallout
Part Three: What the McSkimming scandal means for politics in New Zealand.
Now Is a Good Time to Get Rid of Māori Seats
Focusing on the needs of all Kiwis is proving to serve the needs of Māori better than the divisive race-based approach of the last government. Sign the petition.
The Minister Is Asleep – Long Live the Commissioner
If we let it slide, if we allow the polite machinery of the public service to quietly override the elected will, then let’s just be honest and stop pretending ministers run anything at all.
Nick Fuentes and His Antisemitism
Fuentes and his ilk don’t need to be argued with or understood. They need to be forgotten.
All Aboard the Trans Activism Bandwagon
The railway isn’t a vehicle for changing our beliefs: it’s literally a vehicle for getting us where we need to go. Concentrating solely on that is surely the best way to proceed.
COP30: The Climate Empire Strikes Back
UN pharisees are brooking no dissent to its climate narrative.
