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The Media Has Only Itself to Blame
Increasingly, New Zealanders are having to get their news from sources other than our newspapers, radio and television. If that ultimately sees papers like the Herald collapse then their staff have nothing else to blame but their own sloppy standards.
Still Relevant After All These Years
Why Family First plays a key role in modern New Zealand.
Councils Hasten to Embed Tribal Control
…before 2025’s local body elections, Māori ward referenda, RMA reform, or the coalition government gets off its chuff!
On the Ground After Katrina
As a reporter who spent more than a year on the ground covering Katrina’s dreadful aftermath, I witnessed the often heroic and dangerous efforts of human beings to wrest some sense of control in the midst of almighty chaos.
The Burden of What Has Been
Poll numbers have the former VP at the bottom of the barrel.
The Decision to Keep Epping’s Hotel Open
With the hotels remaining open, we are now due for yet more protests, yet more anger, and yet more public resentment over this issue. In the long-run this makes a political resolution, in the form of a change of government, much more likely.
A Palestinian State Means No More UNRWA
Either Palestinians are perpetual refugees, in which case Palestine cannot be recognised as a state, or they are citizens of a state, in which case the refugee designation must end. Both cannot be true.
Labour and Te Pāti Māori’s Supermarket Plan
Will history repeat the Kaikohe KFC collapse?
Are Judges Guardians or Threats?
Judicial restraint is not a partisan demand. It is the condition for legitimacy. Without it, the apex court becomes less a guardian than a threat – and the ecosystem begins to fail.
Our Courts Are Undermining the Govt’s Intent
In this judge’s application of the law, the very clear message the ban is meant to send has been muddied and weakened.
Door Opens for Tribal River Claims
Putting the nation at risk to prop up a dangerous and highly destabilising law that was promoted by a party that is now openly advancing anarchy no longer makes sense.
Is the Parenting to Blame for This?
It’s difficult not to wonder just how much harm this Millennial parenting might be doing.
The Archive Wars: We Have the Receipts
We, the people, found the surveillance contracts they thought were hidden.