A Useful Tool or Dangerous Overreach?
The problem is that once a power like this exists, it rarely stays confined to one purpose. The same law that clears a footpath today could just as easily clear a protest tomorrow.
Law
Getting Away with Murder?
A German man who strangled a Tasmanian sex worker is walking free after just a couple of years.
Tikanga on Trial
If the rule of law is to mean anything in this country, the creeping judicial elevation of tikanga must be dismantled. The integrity of our legal order, and the equality of every New Zealander before the law, depends on it.
Why Can’t the Public Decide Public Interest?
The disgraceful dropping of the Te Papa vandalism case.
Yes, the Attacks on Iran Are Legal
The US and its allies have every right to bomb the mullahs out of existence.
UMA Broadcasting Hammered: $43k Sting for Email Axe Job
This judgment vindicates my reporting and Matt McCarten’s advocacy and it pours shame on the legacy media for failing to hold truth to power.
Dollars, Cents and Trade-Offs of Drug Legalization
What would happen if all class one narcotics were legalized?
Blobudsman Shows His True Colours
New Zealand’s Chief Ombudsman unlawfully sides with the forces of opaqueness and censorship.
The Subsumption of a Culture
Have you ever heard the term inverse acculturation? New Zealand is undergoing it.
The Fallacy of ‘International Law’
Contradictory and un-democratic: no wonder the left love it so.
The Judiciary Is Out of Control
They have lost faith in majoritarian democracy and a hefty chunk of the top judges plucked from its members have adopted unconstrained and laughably implausible interpretive techniques. It’s bad in Australia, yes. But it’s worse in New Zealand. Worse again in Britain. Worse still in Canada.
Rescission Major Win for Science and the Rule of Law
President Donald Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin should be applauded for actually following the science and respecting the rule of law – things that have been too often ignored when it comes to climate.
The Killing of Informed Consent
Since consent was obtained for a product without SV40 sequences, the injection of a product with such sequences potentially constitutes an unauthorized physical trespass, regardless of the biological outcome.
Waitangi Day 2026
The coalition, in spite of claiming they are committed to equal rights and opposed to race-based law, is not doing nearly enough to protect New Zealand from the threat of tribal rule.