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Christopher Luxon National Party Leader Student achievement has significantly declined over the past three decades, jeopardising kids’ future livelihoods and threatening New Zealand’s future prosperity. To turn around this falling achievement, students need to focus on their schoolwork during their precious classroom time. Many schools and parents are concerned
Graham Adams commonroomnz.com Graham Adams is a freelance editor, journalist and columnist. He lives on Auckland’s North Shore. This article was first published by The Common Room It has been a little over six months since Jacinda Ardern handed the prime ministerial reins to her friend “Chippy”, who
The latest Taxpayers’ Union/Curia Poll is out and, like the other latest polls, it has shown a sharp slump in Labour’s numbers and now matches all the other polls showing NZ First has crossed the dreaded 5% threshold. Winston’s back, and we are looking at a change
This is exactly what I’ve been saying for months: If you keep a keen ear on National leader Christopher Luxon’s news conferences and media interviews, you’ll have noticed a new recurring line, “it’s not actually about me or Chris Hipkins”. The assertion is usually followed up
The psychopathic path to success Psychopathic tendencies may be present to some extent in all of us. New research is reframing this often sensationalized and maligned set of traits and finding some positive twists. By David Adam 7.19.2023 Think of a psychopath and any number of Hollywood villains
The greatest problem facing centre and right-of-centre voters across the Western world is finding a clear point of difference between major parties. Supposedly conservative parties today only seem to offer an alternative of left, rather than far-over-the-cliff left. In Australia, we’ve long dubbed them
Thankfully, the Indigenous Voice referendum seems unstoppably headed for defeat. Australians, sensibly, are increasingly revolting against the idea of turning Australia into an apartheid state, with Constitutionally-mandated racial separatism. If the chaos unleashed in Western Australia by that state’s Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act isn’t warning enough, Australians
Australia’s spiciest defo case is slowly grinding its way through the NSW courts. As I’ve written previously, a flamboyantly homosexual MP has taken one of Australia’s most notorious political bruisers to court. All over a tweet graphically describing gay sex. When I first wrote about this, I
Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll Senior Lecturer Above the Bar University of Canterbury It seems clear that adoption law reform won’t be a priority before the October general election. This will be bitterly disappointing for many New Zealanders. Despite some significant progress, the Ministry of Justice has revised its timeline for
Kevin B Fear is a powerful natural human emotion. It is “the unpleasant feeling you have when you think that you are in danger” (Collins Dictionary). Sadly, the wicked in society know how to generate and manipulate fear as a weapon against society in order to sell books, manipulate election
Part-time Stuff journalist and owner of Club Burlesque on Auckland’s K Road, Verity Johnson is appalled. She says neither National nor Labour politicians understand the appeal of public transport in Auckland. Verity says we (Aucklanders) are obsessed with getting around. It’s all we talk about. Therefore Verity
The Guardian has launched a new poll, and it shows pretty much the same as the last three public polls in New Zealand have shown, that a change of government is on the cards. A new political poll has put New Zealand’s centre-right opposition solidly ahead of the
A man accused of dishonestly obtaining just over $1.4 million of Government funds during his time at the helm of a Covid response team was arrested at an airport as he was about to embark on a $92,000 holiday. Alister Thorby was contracted by Capital and Coast District
Brownstone Institute brownstone.org The Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research is a nonprofit organization conceived of in May 2021 in support of a society that minimizes the role of violence in public life. The ongoing release of the Facebook Files reveals the target of the White House’s
Is Australia on the verge of dodging a very nasty bullet? It looks like it, but campaigners for the No case in the Indigenous Voice referendum are warning against complacency as opinion polls continue to plummet. For the first time, support for a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous voice has fallen below
