The current leadership team is a coalition of unnatural bedfellows which, to date, hasn’t shown any signs of unravelling. You’d expect some loose threads to appear during election year, as parties fight to push their own narrative but, for now, you’d regard this coalition as a success.
Like Jesus, Mary’s Image has changed across the centuries.
Early portrayals of Jesus reflect the changing fortunes of Christianity.
The false smear that ‘Jews killed Christ’ has been written in millennia of blood.
As we grieve for the victims of the Bondi shooting, Hanukkah calls on us to insist on light nonetheless – and, in doing so, to ensure Jewish life is never extinguished.
The kindling of light is a kind of quiet defiance in itself.
From the First Fleet on, Jewish Australians have enriched Australia immeasurably.
A volcanic eruption on the other side of the world may have primed Europe for the worst plague in history.
They’re not depriving their children, they’re funding the destruction of the West.
A holiday parable for the world’s most expensive city.
This should not be treated as an exotic exception. It should be the rule.
Since opening for pre-order, the book has enjoyed strong early sales – an exceptional start for an indie non-fiction title – clearly demonstrating its strong potential to connect deeply with New Zealanders seeking authentic, unfiltered reflection on the Covid era.
Even such demented revisionist nonsense merits a reasoned rebuttal.
How NZ Super was built by a patriot and undermined by consultants.
British colonisation delivered literacy, medicine, infrastructure, government, economic development and the longest period of sustained peace the country had known. It was, relative to the alternatives, the most stable and least violent path New Zealand could realistically have taken.
