Private Asset Investment Has Risks
KiwiSaver will increasingly become a critical aspect of New Zealanders’ retirement. Changes to it need to be carefully considered and evaluated.
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‘Free’ School Lunches: Why?
While school lunches may seem small beer to some, they are a marker of a society steadily moving away from personal responsibility. And that’s not trivial.
What Is Next? Information Disorder Syndrome
Making information disorder a syndrome affecting the individual allows the state through the medical and insurance industries to step in and force the individual to conform to societal norms.
Is Upgrading the Army a Mission Impossible?
Canada must recover from decades-long deficits in military spending and procurement.
A ‘Clean Energy Race’ With China? Only if You Ignore the Coal.
China uses more coal than any country in the world and is increasing production fast. The “renewables race” is fear-driven fantasy.
Provisional Consent: No Safety or Efficacy Needed
The amendment removed the words “on a restricted basis for the treatment of a limited number of patients”.
National Just Sold Us Down the River
New Zealanders deserve real leadership, not preformative climate virtue-signalling at the expense of our prosperity.
The Media Are Blindly Marching On
The now-habitual intrusion of personal opinion into ‘news’ coverage isn’t just a breach of traditional journalism rules. On a purely pragmatic level it’s crazy because it accelerates public distrust of an already failing media industry.
DeepSeek Is So 1984
Perhaps the most important thing to remember that everything that comes out of China has a hidden, secondary and nefarious purpose.
Minto’s PSNA Hotline
In response to the “genocide hotline” initiative, Zionist Federation of New Zealand president Rob Berg said the PSNA call was not about free speech “but a call for vigilantism and to incite violence against Israelis”.
Helen Clark Declares Musk a Nazi
If you are taking your news from the legacy media, you are being misled. X is the media now.
The Case for the US Iron Dome
Keeping America safe from incoming nuclear missiles is an old goal and a new Trump promise.
The US Must Prepare for War
America’s ability to maintain peace through strength will depend not just on our technology or strategy but on the preparedness of our people. War may be a constant in the human condition, but so too is the capacity for courage, sacrifice, and resilience.
The Fake Papers in the Literature
Authorship, citations, even academic journal editors, are up for sale. It is unclear when paper mills began to operate at scale.
They Dumped on the Crossbench
Perhaps a builder, a vet, a blacksmith, a soldier, a footballer, a sawmill manager and an engineer might not know a lot about politics, but we did bring to the parliament a perspective that career politicians did not.
OIA: Medsafe Has No Duty of Care to the New Zealand Public
This apparent contradiction raises serious concerns about the integrity of our public health system