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NZ Politics
Anzac Day Address 2026
NOTE: I was asked to be the guest speaker at the Cromwell Anzac Day service. This address is similar to one I gave at the small Southland community of Waikaka in 2023.
How New Zealanders Came to Worship Their Own Submission
New Zealanders increasingly shoulder Treaty burdens not theirs to carry – learning Māori rites, obeying Crown guilt, and performing cultural submission. Here’s why.
An Open Letter to the Prime Minister
Prime Minister, the country is running out of time – and you are running out of excuses. Enough. New Zealand cannot survive more soft leadership.
Luxon Shows His Yellow Streak by Running from Tova
Running from a weekly interview slot is not a shrewd move. It is weakness on display. New Zealand deserves better than a leader who bends over and points at his own backside while claiming the sun shines out of it.
The Government Failed and So Now?
They failed at Bondi so they are punishing the people.
Victoria Is a Crystal Ball for Swarbrick
Australia’s wokest state has barely started transitioning to ‘full electrification’ and it’s already a disaster.
Luxon Isn’t Talking to Me
And it’s not just him. Hipkins is the same. They talk to this particular group. Is it their group? Their friends and colleagues? Or is that the group that contains the swinging voters?
Pushing the Views That Suit Them
Would RNZ have been remotely interested in her view on National’s leadership imbroglio if she had said Luxon was secure and deserved to lead the party into this year’s election? Somehow I don’t think so.
This Is Evidence of Control Creep
How the Department of Internal Affairs is building a social media surveillance regime before parliament has spoken.
Why This Last Inquiry Was Always Going To Disappoint
The Covid era was a reckoning. It showed us that rights – the basis of our democratic nations – only matter unless someone decides they don’t any more and the reasons for that decision can be side-stepped and not really talked about.
The New Zealand Herald’s Shameful Attempt
Trying to overthrow a democratically elected prime minister.
National’s Desperate Attack on Winston Peters Reveals the Old Playbook and Deep Panic
National can keep ignoring the polls and the voters if they wish. They will reap what they sow.
Maree’s Book Review: Killed to Order
Killed to Order: China’s Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America’s Biggest Adversary, by Jan Jekielek
Rinse and Repeat
National's current woes are not unique to them as a political party, but instead indicative of cultural and structural problems within New Zealand’s political landscape.