Is This a $110 Billion Illusion?
After nearly 20 years and billions in subsidies, no one has shown that KiwiSaver has made New Zealanders wealthier. Still, the instinct across the political spectrum is to make the scheme bigger.
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How the World Lost Its Refining Buffer
Covid-era capacity destruction, post-pandemic concentration in Asia and the Middle East and what it means for New Zealand in 2026
The Problematic Size of Government in NZ
It is an election year. Who will, with credibility, propose to shrink the size of government in NZ to a level that allows genuine comparison with the best of the OECD?
Guns, Iran’s Bravado, and Man’s Best Friend
Well, what would you expect from a regime that thinks it’s the year 1405?
Secret Service Agent Is Suspended Again
Perez was one of six agents suspended without pay for 10 to 42 days for their connection to Butler. As part of Trump’s regular campaign detail, Perez served as the ‘site agent,’ in charge of developing and executing the rally’s security.
‘Remigration Is the Hill We Die On’
Eva Vlaardingerbroek delivers historic call to save Europe.
Will Petrol Sink Labor, Again?
Instead of closing down refineries and chasing green ideological pipe dreams, the government should (hey here’s a shocker) get out of the way.
New Zealand Rejects WHO Pandemic Reform
Push back on globalist bureaucrats, national sovereignty cited.
A Win for the Government?
When prices rise, families feel it immediately. When tax revenue rises, the government feels it immediately too – but silently.
This Was a Lost Opportunity
The Royal Commission report into Covid was an opportunity for people's voices to be heard. Sadly, it has failed, preferencing power over humanity.
Now the Eagle Has Floundered
Labourite Chatham Islands CEO comes a criminal cropper. Where are the coppers?
The Left Is Clearly a Greater Threat To Free Speech
The evidence from Cambridge, and from Britain as a whole, points in one direction. It is the left – not the right – that poses the greater threat to free expression today.
Who Owns the Bus?
Issues of homelessness and vagrancy in public spaces and on public transportation are made worse because government ownership of the property does not allow for exclusion. Instead, we get the “tragedy of the commons.”
From Woke To Broke: Hochul Begs the Rich To Return
What ever happened to “jump on a bus and head to Florida where you belong”?