The Good Oil Podcast – Episode 33 – Barry Soper
If you enjoy proper yarns about New Zealand politics with zero filter, this one’s for you.
NZ Politics
Is Whānau Ora Lifting Student Attendance?
Outcomes are expressed in terms of number of engagements and the odd case study, alongside broad-based expressions of improved lives and expectations. This type of ongoing reporting was obviously insufficient to satisfy the new government post 2023.
We Should Pity the Young
The category conspicuously absent from Woke’s hierarchy of victimhood.
Gender Lobby Gains Access to High Schools
The presenters named are not independent health educators. Each is a registered member of PATHA – the Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa – the activist organisation currently waging a court battle against the New Zealand Government’s puberty blocker ban.
The Phillips Case Should Not Drive Home-School Legislation
Home education communities deserve better than to be caught in the crossfire of a government seeking a visible policy response to a tragedy it contributed to.
The Public Service Head Count Cuts
And there you have the answer to the Minister Willis’s conundrum. We can prove that, by simply not employing that extra 14.7 equivalents, we have effectively reduced our theoretical headcount by this number.
To Draw a Line
The proposal is, at its core, an attempt to answer a question that sounds simple but is not: what should professional regulation actually be for? Personal beliefs should be of no interest to the regulators.
Labour’s Nasty Underbelly Exposed in Leaked Audio
For a party that spent six years telling us they were kind and caring, this recording rips the mask off.
Seymour Sticks the Boot Into Red Radio as Boss Bails
Thompson’s exit is long overdue. Seymour is right to push for change. New Zealanders deserve better than state media that treats them like fools who need the correct opinions fed to them daily.
Stanford Has Been Accused of ‘Undemocratic’ Conduct
Homeschooling laws reportedly added after select committee process.
I Just Saw Something the West Has Largely Forgotten
On 17 May 2026 – America’s 250th anniversary – I found myself in a small Texas town called Celina, witnessing something profound... that I hadn’t seen in a long time.
This Universalism Has an Asterisk
For Helen Clark and much of the international activist class, universal values increasingly appear to come with one glaring exception: the Jewish state.
Last Budget Before Winston Ruins Everything
The one party whose support will provide National with a second-term will probably become such a millstone that it destroys any hope of being re-elected for a third.
Who to Vote for Being Made Easier
Chris Hipkins believes we don’t really care about the details re the Future Fund. What an abjectly ignorant little prat! This is one of his party’s cornerstone policies yet he expects that we will blindly vote for it because we are supposedly not interested in the details.