NZ Politics
Basking in the Sun and Howling at the Moon
Time waits for no man and, as the polls indicate, there is frustration and impatience in voter land.
This Poverty Is a Modern Man-Made Monster
Paying able-bodied people to stay at home and not earn their living is probably the biggest social miscalculation of the last 60 years. Unwinding it won’t be easy.
News Briefing: 3 July 2025
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WATER Janet Wilson (Post): Coalition finds a handy distraction in council bashing (paywalled) ODT Editorial: Less of the bombast, please (paywalled) Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Government begins negotiations with councils for regional deals Mandy Te (Interest): Negotiations start for 'city and regional
National’s Polling Plight: Gender Divide, NZ First Surge and a Caucus in Crisis
National needs to stop playing it safe. They’re coasting on their coalition partners’ momentum – NZ First’s anti-woke surge and ACT’s steady libertarian appeal – while their own brand stagnates.
The Desire to Stay Alive
We have arrived at a time where nature itself is regarded as a pathogen, something to be replaced with man-made invasive and essentially destructive technologies.
Foreign Religions Threaten NZ’s Way of Life
“NZ Patriots – if there’s ever been a time to rise up, it’s now,” Tamaki concluded, calling on supporters to mobilise.
I Will Never Forget
I’ll never forget the pain. The suicides. The divorces. The broken families. The lost jobs. The lost years. They called it kindness. But I remember what it really was.
Opening the Floodgates to Unvetted Degrees
It’s time for New Zealand to wake up and reverse this shortsighted decision before it’s too late. The country deserves better than to become a dumping ground for dubious degrees and unchecked ambition.
Join the Fun Fight Against Decolonisation
Such guerrilla action is the only way we’ll fight those who want to drag us all back to the era before 1769.
Can the State Schools Be Secular?
If you say schools shouldn’t ‘indoctrinate’ children or ‘force a religious view’ on them, allow me to point out to you that the schools have been indoctrinating children with secular humanism and forcing its religious views on them for decades. Now the shoe is on the other foot.
The State of Local Government
The coalition cannot ignore this state of affairs. They not only need to include in their reforms legislative provisions to remove advisory groups from councils, but they actually need to get on with the job.
News Briefing: 2 July 2025
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards YOUTH PARLIAMENT Russell Palmer and Giles Dexter (RNZ): Youth MPs accuse government of 'censoring' them, ministry says otherwise Russell Palmer and Giles Dexter (RNZ): Youth MPs told to remove criticisms of government from speeches Janhavi Gosavi (Re:News): Youth MPs claim censorship
Erica Stanford’s Treaty Clause Fiasco: Another National Party Sellout
The truth is: most Kiwis just want a fair go. They’re tired of being told that one group’s culture or history matters more than anyone else’s. National’s refusal to stand up to this divisive agenda shows they’re more interested in looking progressive than delivering results.
FDA Forces Pfizer to Expand Heart Warning
After mounting evidence of vaccine-linked myocarditis.
Invercargill Council Gets It Right
Other councils would do well to learn from this. Targeting Israel alone for boycott and exclusion is not a principled stance – it is a political one, dressed up in moral language.