The Wound Is in the Living Room
We medicate children rather than transforming homes. This essay explores how parenting, trauma, and emotional maturity are the roots of New Zealand’s education failures.
NZ Politics
PM Reacts to Smiths City Closure
Smiths City was founded in Christchurch in 1918 and is a long-standing name in New Zealand retail, selling home appliances and furniture. The company has been under increasing financial pressure, with sales continuing to fall despite store closures and downsizing measures.
Know Them by the Company They Keep
Take careful note of who’s fawning over Xi’s little brag-parade.
Roy Morgan Poll Spells Trouble for National: Kiwis Forgetting the Mess of the Last Lot?
If National doesn’t sort itself out, and quick, that nightmare could become reality.
Stanford’s Underwhelming Response to a Key Question
Stanford might be better than Hipkins and Tinetti, but that is a VERY low bar.
Do Rising House Prices Damage Growth?
Just when this trend looks like it might gradually make housing more affordable, with immense social benefits and, apparently, considerable benefits in improving our disappointingly poor record in productivity growth, the prime minister panics.
All Is Now Laid Bare
We are witnessing what a left-wing government will look like and the ensuing dire consequences for the country. Hipkins will simply cave or the radicals will bring him down. They won’t be there to protect Hipkins or keep him in power.
PM Says Amazon Will Invest $7.5 Billion in New Zealand
The development is expected to create around 1000 jobs and add $11 billion to the country’s GDP.
Labour’s Poll Surge on Cost of Living: Voters Have Short Memories, National Needs a Wake-Up Call
The fact that Labour is viewed as best for 14 of the top 20 issues should cause National’s caucus to pull their heads out of their fundaments and sort it out.
The Media Has Only Itself to Blame
Increasingly, New Zealanders are having to get their news from sources other than our newspapers, radio and television. If that ultimately sees papers like the Herald collapse then their staff have nothing else to blame but their own sloppy standards.
Still Relevant After All These Years
Why Family First plays a key role in modern New Zealand.
Would You Like Some Weed With Your Pizza?
As an ex-weed user who has actually put cannabis on pizza, I call tell you that weed on pizza is pretty gross.