Your Daily Ten@10 - 2025/173

This is edition 2025/173 of the Ten@10 newsletter.

Hi all,

This is the Ten@10, where I collate and summarise ten news items you generally won't see in the mainstream media.

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• 🗳️ Incoming Government: Christopher Luxon is set to become New Zealand’s next Prime Minister with support from Act’s David Seymour and NZ First’s Winston Peters.
• 🔄 Call for a “Re-set”: Author urges the coalition to go beyond mild conservatism and deliver a sweeping course correction after 20 years of progressive cultural change.
• ⚖️ Confronting “Woke Authoritarianism”: Those holding cultural power should be told to abandon “woke” policies or leave their positions.
• 🏛️ Rapid, Decisive Action: Government must clearly state its new values, act faster than inquiries or commissions, and be willing to remove senior bureaucrats to assert authority.
• 📰 Free Speech & Media: Attorney-General should punish efforts to silence unpopular ideas; journalists expected to meet stricter fairness and balance standards.
• 🚨 End the “Thug’s Veto”: Strong enforcement against disrupting public meetings or intimidating lawful speech, while protecting peaceful protest rights.
• 🏢 Public Service Overhaul: Abolish the Public Service Commissioner, reclaim Cabinet’s power to appoint CEOs, and demand immediate resignations from uncooperative leaders.
• ✂️ Institutional Cuts: Dismantle “minorities’ ministries” and replace the Human Rights Commission with a body more aligned to the new government’s vision.
• 🤝 Treaty of Waitangi Shift: Meet iwi leaders to assert a revised Crown interpretation of the Treaty, block wider co-governance, and resist judicial challenges.
• 📚 Education System Reset: Completely restructure the Ministry of Education, recruit top global educators (e.g., Finland), and force teachers to cooperate or see unions destroyed.
• ⚠️ High Stakes: Without bold reforms, the author warns of New Zealand’s decline toward “Third World status,” dubbing the coalition’s opportunity a “Last Chance Saloon.”