When you’ve just been handed a big poo sandwich, sometimes all you can do is grin and do your best to force it down. Make no mistake, the overnight announcement of an historic new alliance between Australia, the US and Britain is, for New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern, a
News that the United States, United Kingdom and Australia have formed a partnership without New Zealand is concerning and leaves many questions for the Government to answer, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “It’s disappointing that after many years of New Zealand’s co-operation with our traditional allies,
Hanlie Booysen Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Hanlie’s main research interest concerns the relationship between Islam and politics. Her PhD thesis explained the moderate platform of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood (SMB), against the inclusion-moderation hypothesis. Jacinda Ardern used very specific language in her description of the terrorist
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On Friday the 3rd of September New Zealanders were targeted again by a terrorist. Though the ideology driving the hatred of this man was different to the terrorism we saw in March of 2019, there were certainly some commonalities. Neither of these terrorists were home-grown. They brought their ideology to
In the popular (read: left-wing) media narrative, the war in Afghanistan sits somewhere between WWI and Vietnam. It was, we are told, a colossal waste of blood and treasure. Fought on a false premise and doomed to fail. But is that true? It certainly isn’t true of WWI; despite
Recently, Tasmanian senator Eric Abetz published an op-ed arguing that, yes, contrary to the prevailing media narrative, Afghanistan was worth it. Abetz pointed out that the war accomplished what it had set out to do: crush Al Qaeda and destroy its safe haven in Afghanistan. But he left dangling the
That the Government still does not know how many New Zealanders and Afghan civilians who worked alongside our Defence Force remain stranded in strife-torn Afghanistan is appalling, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. “I asked Minister of Defence Peeni Henare multiple times how many vulnerable New Zealand citizens and
Americans vying for the top jobs are already rich, but the lure of power and fame attracts the wrong candidates. Recently Donald Trump popped the lid on his presidency saying the president gets lumbered with the hard decisions because the easy decisions have already been made. Joe Biden learnt this
As The Australian’s Adam Creighton recently wrote, “the same organs that ritually hyperventilate about the detention of asylum seekers are the loudest voices in advocating imprisoning entire states”. They’re about to do both at the same time. Without a blush of embarrassment at their blatant double-standards, the left-media
It was back in 2015 that Foreign Policy bluntly described Barack Obama’s foreign policy as a, and I quote, “giant cluster-fuck”. Welcome back to the future, courtesy of Obama’s Veep, Joe Biden. As Foreign Policy noted, Obama might have inherited a diabolical foreign policy situation — but he went
Australian Defence Force brass seem to think that the ADF needs to “redeem itself” and “restore trust”. But it’s not the ordinary service men and women who’ve lost the trust and esteem of the Australian public – not to mention the ranks. Australians trust and respect their troops. It’
In my series of Insight posts, Re-Christianising the West, I argued that, beyond mere secularisation, there is a vocal and influential segment of Australian society that is not just non-Christian, but implacably, aggressively anti-Christian. As if to prove my point, the Australia Defence Association has publicly stated that Australian soldiers
Is Wokeism the greatest psy-op in human history? From “post-Marxist thought” (an oxymoron, if ever there was), and Gramsci, the Frankfurt School and Critical Theory, we’ve ended up at Wokeism. And, from the Marxist’s point of view, it’s succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. The capitalist West is
As we are all-too-aware, China has been stealing sensitive information from the West for years. The theft ranges from intellectual property worth billions a year, to scientific research, to military secrets. Now, we learn that China has been stealing the most sensitive data of all: our DNA. A prenatal test
Free Speech Union The decision by the Chief of the Defence Force to remove an essay which had been selected as the best written in an essay competition because he didn’t like what it claimed is chilling, and a troubling attack on free speech. Spokesperson for the Free Speech
