> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://goodoil.news/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/115 - URL: https://goodoil.news/your-daily-ten-10-2026-115/ - Published: 2026-06-28T22:00:23.000Z - Updated: 2026-06-28T22:00:22.000Z - Description: 10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You - Author: Cam Slater - Tags: Ten@10, NZ Politics, World Politics, Media Bias **This is edition 2026/115 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. Enjoy! --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/06/2deb8621-fbc8-4aea-89e0-e6e78d5e81e5_1828x1316.webp) ## 1\. Could Hipkins Be the Next Starmer? *Grant Duncan — The Conversation* - 🇬🇧 Keir Starmer won a "landslide" 411-seat UK majority in 2024 on barely one-third of the popular vote and turnout of just 59.7% — meaning only about one in five eligible voters backed Labour. - 📉 Within two years Labour’s support collapsed to 20% or lower as voters defected both right (over immigration) and left (over insufficient progressivism), united by dissatisfaction with Starmer himself. - 🥀 Duncan diagnoses a wider crisis of social-democratic parties retreating to "thin labourism" — neither post-war social democracy nor Third Way Blairism, but a diluted mix of growth, competition, and cost-of-living tweaks. - 🇳🇿 New Zealand still looks like a two-party contest, but combined support for Labour and National may be at a 30-year low. - 🗳️ Hipkins could return to power in November 2026, but if he does he will face the same structural trap: an electorate fragmenting to the progressive left and the populist right while he competes with Luxon for the centre. - 📉 Hipkins’ preferred-prime-minister ratings have often fallen below 20% and his approval has slipped into negative territory. - ⚠️ Luxon is no breakout figure either — the contest features "two contestants with weak or declining leadership capital." - 🎯 Labour’s proposed capital-gains tax to fund GP visits is cited as the kind of modest tax-and-transfer tweak that signals ideological thinness. - 🔥 Winston Peters is already targeting traditional Labour territory — the West Coast and South Auckland Pacific communities — with anti-mainstream, immigration-sceptical messaging. - 🎯 Takeaway: a Hipkins victory is possible, but the conditions that destroyed Starmer are already visible in New Zealand. [Read More](https://theconversation.com/as-nzs-chris-hipkins-pursues-power-what-can-he-learn-from-keir-starmers-downfall-286017?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/06/7d2c7c6d-0878-4c3e-9aa1-84eeda937a3c_1205x567.webp) ## 2\. The 2026 Greens Tax Policy: The Good and the Bad *Natalia Albert — Substack* - 💰 The Greens’ 2026 tax policy has three themes and eight clauses, scored by the author as six solid and two questionable. - 🏠 The headline shift: a 2.5% wealth tax now kicks in at \*\*$10 million\*\*, not the previous $2 million threshold, with the family home exempt. - 🧑‍🌾 The author argues the higher threshold is strategic: it spares Waikato dairy farmers, Wellington couples with rentals, and provincial business owners who would have been hit at $2 million. - 📜 A 33% Capital Acquisitions Tax (inheritance/gift tax) applies only above $1 million in lifetime receipts, with family homes and family farms carved out. - 🏢 Company tax returns to 33%, but only for the largest 0.7% of firms — banks, supermarkets, and energy companies. - 💵 A new 45% top income-tax rate applies above $160,000, cutting in $20,000 sooner than the current 39% rate. - ✅ The author praises honest modelling: the Greens assume 28.5% of the super-rich tax will be lost to avoidance, an admission of political maturity. - ❌ The bad: the framing conflates "the shitty rich-lister with the helipad" with "the couple with one rental and the family running a panel-beating shop." - ❌ The 45% top rate is described as too sharp a jump; the author suggests 41% or 42% would be more defensible. - 🎯 Takeaway: the Greens have produced their most electorally disciplined tax policy in a decade, but the anti-wealth framing may still alienate the asset-holding middle. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1694954&post%5Fid=203470614&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2...bMdc&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/06/Kiwisaver-changes-v2__FillWzg1MCw1MDBd.png) ## 3\. Who Really Wins From Compulsory KiwiSaver? *Bryce Edwards — The Democracy Project* - 🏦 National has proposed auto-enrolment for every newborn with a $1,500 "Baby Boost" and contribution increases to 6% each from workers and employers by 2032. - 📊 That would direct a combined 12% of most employees’ pay into KiwiSaver or equivalent retirement schemes by law, in perpetuity. - 📈 A Post poll found 71% public support — before voters had seen the detail. - 🔄 National’s conversion is striking: it ran the 1975 "Dancing Cossacks" campaign against compulsory super, opposed Winston Peters’ 1997 compulsory-savings referendum, and spent years chipping away at KiwiSaver. - 🚨 Richard Harman calls the move a "circuit breaker"; Chris Trotter detects "the unmistakable note of panic" and compares it to David Shearer’s KiwiBuild launch. - 💡 The author argues compulsory KiwiSaver is less about retirement savings than about quietly shifting NZ Super from a universal public promise to an individual private account. - 🗣️ Nicola Willis has hinted a "subtle combination" of KiwiSaver and Super will be needed, while industry figures say you don’t need both systems. - ⚠️ Critics warn the real endgame is a future government raising the retirement age or means-testing the pension, using private savings as political cover. - 💸 Fees managers will collect from forced savings are another winner, while low-income workers absorb a compulsory pay cut. - 🎯 Takeaway: the policy has genuine positives, but its most important effect may be on the politics of NZ Super — advanced quietly through a popular savings initiative. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1885783&post%5Fid=203648604&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2...o1AI&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/06/d910164b-8ad7-45bd-b737-87d5749af5f5_710x670.webp) ## 4\. Pride Cometh Before the Fall: The Sporting Backlash *Ani O’Brien — Thought Crimes* - 🏳️‍🌈 Ani O’Brien, who identifies as gay, argues it is time to end Pride campaigns in professional sport because they have shifted from tolerance to compelled political performance. - 🎭 She says modern Pride initiatives have been "hijacked by the identitarians" who demand public affirmation rather than peaceful coexistence. - ⚽ Sport historically brings together people who disagree; turning games into "compulsory political sermons" erodes that shared space. - 🇮🇷 FIFA designated an Iran vs. Egypt fixture in Seattle as a Pride Match — even though both countries criminalise homosexuality, with Iran still executing gay people. - 🤝 Both football federations objected on cultural, religious, and legal grounds; FIFA rejected the protests, treating the Pride branding as a local initiative. - 🏉 The 2022 Manly Sea Eagles Pride jersey saw seven Pacific-Island players stood down after refusing to wear it; the coach admitted the club had failed to consult. - ⚾ The York Revolution baseball team forfeited an entire game after players refused rainbow-sleeved uniforms rather than find a compromise. - ⚾ San Francisco Giants pitchers wrote Bible verses on Pride caps; MLB warned them for uniform violations while previously allowing Black Lives Matter messaging. - 📉 O’Brien’s core warning: activists are mistaking visibility for acceptance and burning through goodwill by demanding performance rather than respect. - 🎯 Takeaway: the essay argues genuine inclusion looks like coexistence, not coerced branding. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=3921014&post%5Fid=202668393&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2...M5kw&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/06/bd9cb7e5-968a-4219-9edd-a6b2560ce698_483x583.webp) ## 5\. OPPORTUNITY… *John McLean — John’s Substack* - 📈 A 1 News–Verian poll conducted 13–17 June put The Opportunity Party at 4.6%, trending toward the 5% MMP threshold. - 👔 Leader Qiulae Wong got the job after applying through a national recruitment campaign, including a SEEK listing; deputy Daniel Eb calls himself a "social impact founder in the food & fibre sector." - 🕵️ General manager Iain Lees-Galloway is a former Labour MP sacked by Jacinda Ardern in 2020 over an affair with a staffer. - 🗳️ McLean argues Opportunity’s only realistic route to power is a Labour/Greens/Māori Party/Opportunity coalition, since NZ First has ruled out working with Labour. - 🎙️ Wong attacked NZ First and Winston Peters in a 10 June RNZ interview with Guyon Espiner, reportedly asking "what has he really done for New Zealand." - 🌱 The party’s palette is "teal": fiscal conservatism + environmental activism + social liberalism. - 📜 It supports a Te Tiriti reinterpretation under which Māori did not cede sovereignty, opposes NZ First’s Definitions of Woman and Man Bill, favours no jail for offenders under 26, and backs unelected citizens’ assemblies. - 💰 A 1.75% annual land tax and ETS changes to tax farmers for animal emissions are part of the platform. - 💵 Les Mills founder Phillip Mills donated $100,000; he reportedly "hates NZ First" and wants a Labour-led government. Les Mills received $4.5 million in COVID subsidies from Labour. - 🎯 Takeaway: McLean frames Opportunity as a media-favoured, elitist leftist construct whose coalition arithmetic points left regardless of its centrist branding. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1709690&post%5Fid=203750284&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2...0r7U&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/06/9e0c297e-9be8-44d6-a346-f826bea9800a_1248x832.webp) ## 6\. Opportunity Knocks *Liam Hehir — The Blue Review* - 🤼 Hehir uses a professional-wrestling analogy: the recent rise of The Opportunity Party is a "push" — the promotion decides to give a wrestler favourable storylines and main-event bookings. - 📰 Evidence of the push: RNZ sit-down with Guyon Espiner, a warm 1News profile by Mava Moayyed, and a long NZ Herald premium piece by Derek Cheng. - 📊 This culminated in "surprise surge" stories after a single Verian poll put TOP at 4.6%. - 📉 The author notes TOP was previously stuck in a 1–2% rut despite earlier media relaunches — "the press can no more conjure enthusiasm from nothing than a wrestling promotion can." - 🆕 What may be different this time: electoral attrition and the party acting more like a normal, disciplined political operation rather than a novelty gimmick. - ⚠️ Hehir discloses he would never vote for TOP and opposes its UBI, land-value tax, and devolutionary Treaty stance. - 🧠 His central point: media amplification can put a party on the card, but the crowd still decides whether to cheer. - 🎯 Takeaway: if TOP’s poll rise is real, it is at least partly organic; if it fades, the media push will look like another failed attempt to manufacture momentum. [Read More](https://thebluereview.substack.com/p/opportunity-knocks) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/06/treaty_signingpic.webp) ## 7\. Luxon’s Silence on Te Tiriti o’ Waitangi Is Undemocratic and Deafening *William Ludbrook — Brash & Mitchell* - 📝 William Ludbrook, great-great-grandson of Treaty translator Archdeacon Henry Williams, argues Prime Minister Luxon is failing to defend Crown sovereignty against expanding iwi influence. - 🗣️ In April 2025 Luxon said he had been talking to iwi leaders for 12 months; Ludbrook counters that the issue is iwi leaders assuming a privileged role in shaping government policy. - 🏛️ The National Iwi Chairs Forum objected to the government’s review of Treaty clauses and complained of insufficient consultation before Cabinet considered reforms. - ⚖️ Ludbrook’s response: the government was elected by all New Zealanders and has a democratic mandate to review legislation; iwi veto power is not democracy. - 📜 He states Henry Williams translated "sovereignty" as "Kawanatanga Katoa" — Governor for all / Government — and argues Māori ceded sovereignty in 1840. - 🚫 He rejects the view that Māori retained independent sovereignty through tino rangatiratanga, calling modern interpretations deliberate revisionism. - ⚠️ Ludbrook describes co-governance and race-based laws as a "toxic culture of division" and "apartheid, plain and simple." - 📉 Past prime ministers from Bolger to Ardern are accused of extending Waitangi Tribunal powers and then "running away" from the consequences. - ✅ His remedy: equality before the law, individual rights, and a shared national identity rather than "racial favouritism" or "endless guilt-tripping." - 🎯 Takeaway: Ludbrook frames Luxon’s quiet engagement with iwi as a failure to defend one-law-for-all democracy. [Read More](https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/william-ludbrook-luxon-s-silence-on-te-tiriti-o-waitangi-is-undemocratic-and-deafening-in-2026?utm%5Fcampaign=bae52d35-0dbd-4511-a0b6-6265e3cad6fa&utm%5Fsource=so&utm%5Fmedium=mail&utm%5Fcontent=914d3f60-fad3-4323-af79-ac2353f5ac39&configurationId=1e868109-7e9f-4852-82bf-5cd5dcb47468&actionId=923601ea-11e6-975b-c01e-42db2a0af372&cid=39daa79b-294e-4bc5-9457-02b1d5857d3c) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/06/7b14b8_620fff021c904598852e6b880ea86822-mv2.jpg) ## 8\. TOP's Citizen's Income Policy *Lindsay Mitchell — Brash & Mitchell* - 💰 Lindsay Mitchell argues The Opportunities Party under-costs its proposed Citizen’s Income and overstates administrative savings. - 📊 TOP’s 2024 net CI costing was $15.788 billion; Mitchell’s updated estimate puts the net cost at \*\*$20.438 billion\*\*. - 🧮 Headline cost: $19,400 per adult × 4.16 million adults = $80.7 billion, minus tax clawback and replaced benefits. - ❌ RNZ’s Lisa Owen reportedly described the CI as tax-free; Mitchell says it is not — TOP would tax income up to $50,000 at 28%, clawing much of it back. - 👶 Supplementary supports include Child Support Income payments, sole-parent allowance, disability allowance, superannuitant top-ups, and housing support — all abated from household income between $50,000 and $75,000. - 📉 Mitchell’s audit of supplementary supports produces a running total around \*\*$17.33 billion\*\*, while TOP budgets only $15.614 billion — she is "dubious." - ⚠️ The central contradiction: TOP claims to abolish means-testing and punitive effective marginal tax rates, but abatement \*\*is\*\* means-testing and creates the same work-disincentive problem. - 🏛️ Mitchell argues the policy would still need a large bureaucracy to verify status, track income, and prevent fraud. - 🎯 Takeaway: Mitchell treats TOP’s flagship welfare reform as mathematically optimistic and conceptually inconsistent with its own rhetoric. [Read More](https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/lindsay-mitchell-top-s-citizen-s-income-policy?utm%5Fcampaign=bae52d35-0dbd-4511-a0b6-6265e3cad6fa&utm%5Fsource=so&utm%5Fmedium=mail&utm%5Fcontent=52502efb-a870-42e4-bf8f-30cb359ba4ae&configurationId=1e868109-7e9f-4852-82bf-5cd5dcb47468&actionId=923601ea-11e6-975b-c01e-42db2a0af372&cid=39daa79b-294e-4bc5-9457-02b1d5857d3c) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/06/GettyImages-1494677095-1-scaled.webp) ## 9\. Why We Cannot Talk About Climate Change *Richard Prebble — Brash & Mitchell* - 🌡️ Prebble, former Labour MP and ACT leader, says climate policy in New Zealand has become tribal — sensible debate is almost impossible. - 📉 After writing about carbon pricing, he received 90+ responses: only one discussed carbon pricing; the rest either called climate change a hoax or accused him of understating the threat. - 🌍 He argues the question of whether climate change is man-made or natural is largely irrelevant for NZ policy because trading partners accept the Paris framework and NZ cannot walk away. - 🔬 The science has moved on: methane breaks down after about 12 years and the resulting CO₂ is reabsorbed by the grass livestock eat, so stable agricultural methane does not accumulate warming like CO₂. - 🐄 NZ methane emissions are already falling, mainly because sheep numbers have declined, and new feed additives and vaccines could deliver larger cuts. - 💡 Prebble’s opportunity: make NZ the world’s leading centre for methane-reduction research and sell the technology globally. - 🏛️ National, Labour, and the Greens insist NZ must meet Paris exactly as written; Treasury says this could cost billions; ACT wants to renegotiate or leave; NZ First says Paris doesn’t fit the Pacific. - ✅ Prebble’s proposal: take Oxford analysis seriously and argue that reducing agricultural methane could contribute to cooling, which Paris should recognise. - 🎯 Takeaway: Prebble says the science has moved on and it is time the policy did too — but expects the same polarised response. [Read More](https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/richard-prebble-why-we-cannot-talk-about-climate-change?utm%5Fcampaign=bae52d35-0dbd-4511-a0b6-6265e3cad6fa&utm%5Fsource=so&utm%5Fmedium=mail&utm%5Fcontent=d9d50466-1235-43d9-907c-8e30d56629b9&configurationId=1e868109-7e9f-4852-82bf-5cd5dcb47468&actionId=923601ea-11e6-975b-c01e-42db2a0af372&cid=39daa79b-294e-4bc5-9457-02b1d5857d3c) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/06/fcb67d4d-d691-4121-8cfb-b9a043b81eb9_602x183.webp) ## 10\. A Good Bill and a Bad Detour *A Halfling’s View* - 📷 Laura McClure’s member’s bill amends the Crimes Act and Harmful Digital Communications Act to extend the definition of an "intimate visual recording" to cover AI-generated or altered sexually explicit material made without consent. - ✅ The author calls it a "clean, proportionate, conduct-focused fix" that regulates behaviour, not speech; satire, art, and legitimate generative uses are untouched. - 🎙️ Coming from ACT, a party with no appetite for content regulation, the bill is framed as genuinely about conduct rather than speech control. - 🔊 InternetNZ’s narrower suggestion to also capture audio deepfakes is endorsed as reasonable and technology-neutral. - ⚠️ But InternetNZ also calls for a sweeping new independent digital regulator with "real-time audit powers," "dynamic compliance," and the ability to impose industry standards. - ❌ The author argues that proposal is vague, procedurally improper, and an attempt to win by adjacency what could not be won on the merits. - 🗳️ New Zealand has already rejected similar regulator models twice: the DIA Safer Online Services review was shelved in 2024, and the Ministry for Culture and Heritage media reform direction was reversed. - 🧩 The remit would cover violent extremism, CSAM, misinformation, hate speech, self-harm, and cyberbullying — a sprawling list mixing serious crime with contested lawful speech categories. - 🏛️ The author says a generational decision about state power over online speech needs its own legislation, RIA, consultation, and mandate — not a rider on a deepfake bill. - 🎯 Takeaway: support the deepfake amendment, but reject the regulator detour. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1581391&post%5Fid=203043675&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2...L74E&ref=goodoil.news) --- ## What our members are saying about Ten@10 **Elizabeth** These articles are compulsory reading for me and the perfect addition to the usual list of Goodoil items! **Lynne** Absolutely brilliant to receive these current and thought provoking articles. **Jonathan** Just wanted to let you know that I’m loving this new 10@10\. Much appreciated from someone who chooses to read/watch almost NO mainstream media. **Murray** Cam, relish your output as the newspaper in Christchurch is so intent on non news. Thankyou **Fred** Thanks for Ten @ Ten, really enjoy reading it.Keep it up. All the best, keep healthy. **Jocko** Wonderful info not otherwise available in NZ. More power to your elbow! Thanks.