More Cold Water
Politically, pouring ‘cold water’ onto challenging issues in New Zealand is common place – be it the recent police scandal or instances of foreign interference. It’s time to sustain conversations.
NZ Politics
Luxon’s Leadership on the Brink: Denials Can’t Hide the Growing Flames
Luxon might insist it is not a question, but the reality is staring him in the face. National needs a reset and the mutterings in the caucus suggest it could come sooner than he thinks.
The Agendas of Biotech Are Now Being Put on the Table
It is long past time for a public discussion of the limits of what is actually known about DNA and the risks to human life that are being recklessly hazarded.
The Choir of Experts
Where are the medical professionals supporting the ban on puberty blocker prescription?
This Is Out of Control
For the clinicians and nurses who just want to look after patients, the whole situation is beyond frustrating. They are watching a health system in crisis and, instead of fixing the basics, the leadership seems obsessed with political symbolism.
The Good Oil Podcast – Episode 21 – Geoff Upson
Geoff has spent years waging a one-man war on crumbling roads, bureaucratic inertia and the maddening gap between what officials promise and what actually gets fixed.
There Is a World of Possibilities
Now is the time for conversation (with or without TPM): it’s time to regroup, not just as Māori but as a people and a nation. Our country is at risk of being lost to foreigners and foreign influence and it has been that way for far too long.
This Backlash Is Only the Media
Athletes should be free to play and free to say “no thanks” to political messaging without the threat of cancellation hanging over them.
The KiwiSaver Revolving Door Power Loop
Simon Power’s KiwiSaver advocacy is therefore less about retirement savings than about profit, influence and the audacity of a system where cashflow is guaranteed, risk is socialised and reward is private.
One Law for All
Stand for a New Zealand where every child gets the education they deserve.
Blockers Are Banned for Our Kids
Casey Costello says they stared down the mob to get there.
Distrusting the Boys in Blue
Trust must be earned and when the NZ Police decided to get political around the rainbow alphabet they seriously shot themselves in the foot, so to speak.