Graham Adams commonroomnz.com Graham Adams is a freelance editor, journalist and columnist. He lives on Auckland’s North Shore. This article was first published on The Common Room In New Zealand, the general election on October 14 will be to some extent a judgment on the extensive co-governance
“A humanitarian,” Orwell said, “is always a hypocrite”. Nothing could have prepared him for the Greens, though. Because, when it comes to “progressive” hypocrisy, the Greens are in a class of their own. From pontificating about political donations while trousering the largest donation in Australian history, to blatherskiting about “transparency”
It’s time to bury the ghost of Robert Muldoon and finally admit that New Zealand is the loser when it comes to trans-Tasman migration. Mostly because, while New Zealand is still a great country, it’s been run into the ground by its elite class. This includes not
As I wrote recently, the Hipkins Labour government is providing a sterling example of just what Australia shouldn’t do, with its trade deal with the EU. That deal, a typical EU bully-boy pact, begrudgingly allows New Zealand a pittance of access to heavily protected EU markets, while hog-
Ben Terangi Ben Terangi is a freelance journalist writing from Milwaukee. mercatornet.com In an exchange that will live on in infamy, Federal Senator for South Australia Alex Antic last year asked a panel of Australia’s top medical experts representing the Department of Health one decidedly uncomplicated question, namely,
What is it with Labor governments and Orwellian censorship? Last time, it was Julia Gillard trying to set up a government censor for mainstream media. This time, it’s Anthony Albanese, trying to do the same for social media. Unsurprisingly, both Gillard and Albanese hail from Labor’s Socialist Left
As any sensible man knows, telling an angry woman to be quiet is almost never going to work out in your favour. But the wet, weak fools running the supposedly conservative party in Victoria are not sensible men. Women across the world are very angry right now — and they’re
Lawrence W. Reed fee.org Lawrence W. Reed is FEE’s President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty, having served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). He is author of the 2020 book, Was Jesus a Socialist? as well as
There’s an old saying: “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt”. Most celebrities, it seems, have never heard that saying. Probably because they couldn’t hear over the din of their own witless yapping. Every time these overpaid
A saying we often use here at the BFD is, “explaining is losing”. Ironically, given that one of the biggest complaints about the “Indigenous Voice” referendum is that the government is withholding detail, the more they try to explain, the more they lose. That might be because their “explanations” are
Things just keep going from bad to worse for the “voice” referendum campaigners. Just a couple of weeks ago, the Guardian was trumpeting that their Essential poll was the lone standout from polls that uniformly show support for the referendum slipping further and further into losing territory. You’ll never
There are many good reasons to never listen to celebrities banging on about politics. For a start, they’re almost always terrified sheep: the shadow of cancel culture is ever but a tweet away, and every sleb is more than aware that their entire career hangs on studiously following The
For years, we Australians have been subject to the dreary fawning of the chattering classes, wishing that their countrymen would follow New Zealand’s lead. People who have their feet on the ground and skin in the game are advising that New Zealand is the last place we want to
Rebekah Barnett brownstone.org ‘30 minutes of truth bombs’ is how one Twitter user described Liberal Democrat John Ruddick’s maiden speech to the New South Wales (NSW) Parliament, last Wednesday 28 June. Indeed, Ruddick, who left the Liberal Party in 2021 after public disagreements over the Party’s handling
Australia’s elite class really learned nothing from the pandemic years – least of all about China. Whether or not China engineered the virus, and whether or not it was deliberately released or leaked, the fact that China’s months of lies and cover-ups meant that the pandemic was far
