> ## 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 - 2026/124 - URL: https://goodoil.news/your-daily-ten-10-2026-124/ - Published: 2026-07-12T22:00:16.000Z - Updated: 2026-07-12T22:00:15.000Z - 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 2026/124 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/2026/07/92510091-4ac0-40e1-aa3e-f042dbe84ae4_1934x1724.webp) ## 1\. Homelessness Is a Political Choice *Bryce Edwards — The Democracy Project* - 🏥 Edwards highlights RNZ’s Lauren Crimp investigation on rough sleeping and health: GP Dr Bruce Arroll at Auckland City Mission’s Calder Centre says it serves “the sickest I’ve ever worked with.” - 📉 Calder Centre (2,300 patients, mostly homeless or formerly rough-sleeping) records a death every fortnight; average age of death is 55 for men and 54 for women — versus one death every three or four months at Arroll’s old suburban clinic of 5,000. - 📊 Hospitalisations of homeless people doubled in six years: 971 in 2018–19 to 1,954 in 2024–25; seven of those hospitalised last year were babies under four; 25 were discharged from maternity wards. - ⛺ A Salvation Army/Community Housing Aotearoa survey found Auckland rough sleeping more than doubled in the year to September 2025 — from 426 to 940. - 🗣️ Auckland City Missioner Helen Robinson: “I have never seen this scale of homelessness in my 13 years… there’s totally unmet need.” - ⚖️ Edwards argues the Government’s signature response has been move-on powers for police, not housing; a December aide-mémoire warned Treasury, Crown Law, Corrections, Police, MSD, the housing ministry and Oranga Tamariki all had concerns. - 🗣️ Conservative Liam Hehir: the law “amounts to a power to move people on for being homeless. Not for threatening anyone. Not for blocking anyone’s path. For the fact of having no home.” - 🎯 Takeaway: homelessness is framed as the predictable product of political choices — who gets housed, who gets subsidised, and who gets moved along — not a natural disaster. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1885783&post%5Fid=206371468&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA2MzcxNDY4LCJpYXQiOjE3ODM2Mzk1NjUsImV4cCI6MTc4NjIzMTU2NSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTE4ODU3ODMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.JNdq3SUbyhJj1A9jKhGXJ3Id-e5-Cpsfj5eD3tF0eTQ&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/aeccfa9e-3e1e-4f65-9afe-948a16f58b25_1542x1025.webp) ## 2\. NZ First’s Xenophobic Voting Policy *Natalia Albert — Less Certain* - 🗳️ NZ First has announced it will campaign to restrict general and local election voting to citizens only; permanent residents can currently vote under law dating from 1975. - 🗣️ Winston Peters (Warkworth, 5 July): voting “should be a privilege of those who have sworn allegiance to New Zealand… If you haven’t… we are happy to let you live here permanently, but why should you get a say?” - 🌏 Albert notes dual-citizenship barriers: China, India, Japan, Singapore and Indonesia (among \~50 countries) restrict dual nationality — taking NZ citizenship can mean surrendering the home passport. - 💰 Naturalisation requires five years’ residence, 240 days in-country per year, English proof, character checks, and a $560 adult fee (up 19% after 22 years unchanged). - 📜 She places the policy in a franchise-restriction tradition: Māori had no secret ballot until 1938, voted on a separate day until 1951, and lacked Māori-seat rolls until 1949. - ⚖️ Legal academics note the Supreme Court has read electoral-qualification entrenchment as locking in only the age of 18 — so the citizens-only change may pass on a bare majority. - 🎯 Takeaway: Albert calls the policy xenophobic, poorly sized (no public count of PR voters on the roll), and a waste of NZ First’s political capital while it holds major portfolios. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1694954&post%5Fid=205980024&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA1OTgwMDI0LCJpYXQiOjE3ODM1NDQzMjEsImV4cCI6MTc4NjEzNjMyMSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTE2OTQ5NTQiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.qEizs2yNEB2QK%5FEaB41wYvtH7IauCXz8XES97WIUx6g&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/84978d55-a18a-44af-9fea-dff4fdf5ee3a_602x377.webp) ## 3\. The VPN Ban *A Halfling’s View* - 🛡️ The Education and Workforce Select Committee’s Online Harms report flags VPNs as a way under-16s could evade proposed social-media age restrictions and urges the regulator and platforms to explore limits. - 📰 Henry Cooke (The Post) reported sources saying a VPN ban or restriction was part of Education Minister Erica Stanford’s plan and heading toward Cabinet. - 🔐 The piece explains legitimate VPN uses: public Wi-Fi security, remote work (including Ministry of Justice remote access), protection from ISP profiling, journalists and dissidents, and access to geoblocked content. - ⚠️ ACT and the Greens opposed VPN restrictions; the UK has also contemplated and then stepped back from a VPN ban for social-media age rules. - 🏛️ The author warns that banning the tool punishes millions of legitimate users while criminals simply break the ban — cars, encryption and cash all have the same dual-use problem. - 🎯 Takeaway: enforcing youth social-media bans via VPN restrictions risks turning privacy technology into a regulatory target and may be both unworkable and authoritarian. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1581391&post%5Fid=205962736&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA1OTYyNzM2LCJpYXQiOjE3ODM1Mzc0MzgsImV4cCI6MTc4NjEyOTQzOCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTE1ODEzOTEiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.IwDpOwb4213d0nEtRAmKpQSVjSepSz633orNPFDL3xY&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/Blog-Ian-Wishart.webp) ## 4\. A Very Kiwi Coup *Ian Wishart — Reality Check Radio* - ⚖️ Wishart responds to former High Court judge Robert Fisher KC’s claim that New Zealand is already a republic “in all but name.” - 📜 He argues the real elephant is the “secret NZ constitutional coup of 1986”: the Constitution Act 1986 and Imperial Laws Application Act 1988, which he says seized Crown authority from Westminster without popular ratification. - 🇮🇪 Ireland’s 1930s independence, by contrast, required a public vote (autocthony) to establish a new source of constitutional authority. - 👑 Wishart’s claim: New Zealanders remain “subjects” of a parliamentary monarchy in Wellington rather than sovereign citizens who delegated power to Parliament. - 🗣️ “It was the ultimate smoky backroom deal, a quiet revolution. A very kiwi coup.” - ⚖️ He says neither UK nor Lange–Palmer could lawfully transfer the Crown without ratification by the people — and that Australia and Canada sit in the same boat. - 🎯 Takeaway: mere legislative tweaks won’t fix what Wishart calls an illegal, unratified parliamentary seizure of supreme power that has “intoxicated politicians ever since.” [Read More](https://realitycheck.radio/a-very-kiwi-coup/?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/f705a034-8bc5-4117-95c0-1ad1f9876ef1_1024x683.webp) ## 5\. Truth Is on Trial in Charlie Kirk’s Assassination *Douglas Murray — The Free Press* - 🔫 Murray argues the conspiracy theories around Charlie Kirk’s 10 September 2025 assassination are collapsing as the preliminary hearing for accused shooter Tyler Robinson proceeds in Provo, Utah. - 📹 Evidence cited: surveillance of Robinson leaving the rooftop, a handwritten confession, texts to his lover, and his mother’s recognition of him from an FBI photograph; he turned himself in on 11 September after a family friend (a retired sheriff’s deputy) intervened. - 🗣️ Online commentators blamed the Israeli government, Egyptian spy planes, Turning Point USA colleagues, Kirk’s widow, and crowd members in maroon shirts — almost everyone except Robinson. - 🎙️ Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson, once close to Kirk, spent nearly a year poking holes in the government’s case and pointing elsewhere. - ⚖️ A judge will decide whether the evidence is strong enough to go to trial; Robinson has not entered a plea. - 🎯 Takeaway: Murray frames the case as a real-time test of whether evidence can finally overtake months of noxious conspiracy theorising. [Read More](https://www.thefp.com/p/charlie-kirk-assassination-trial-conspiracy-theories?utm%5Fsource=substack&utm%5Fmedium=email) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/Kaitiakitanga-in-Matariki.webp) ## 6\. This Is Kaitiakitanga *SPANIARD — Brash & Mitchell* - ⛏️ Ka Rūnaka of Ngāi Tahu is claiming a kaitiaki role against Santana Minerals’ Bendigo–Ophir Gold Project in Central Otago. - 🦤 SPANIARD lists species extinguished pre-settler arrival — eastern and giant moa, Haast’s eagle, Finsch’s duck, New Zealand raven, Markham’s frog, greater short-tailed bat and more — plus climate and soil damage from extensive burning. - 🗣️ “This is kaitiakitanga, as practised then and now. It’s tribal: undemocratic, unscientific, opportunistic, and self-serving.” - 💰 Santana chair Peter Cook says Ngāi Tahu has requested significant payment — upward of the reported $100 million Meridian agreed for Waitaki hydro consents — and even company shares. - 📜 The tribe has consultation rights under the Fast-track Approvals Act, RMA and Treaty settlement legislation; SPANIARD says the claims are “woolly, self-aggrandising and gratuitous.” - 🎯 Takeaway: customary stewardship belongs in its lane; empirical science should lead technical decisions; “standover behaviour has no place in a modern democracy’s processes.” [Read More](https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/spaniard-this-is-kaitiakitanga?utm%5Fcampaign=bae52d35-0dbd-4511-a0b6-6265e3cad6fa&utm%5Fsource=so&utm%5Fmedium=mail&utm%5Fcontent=e54b79c7-d18a-4a70-9972-cbff58c58e7c&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/2026/07/15d54849-0f3d-4833-8147-e802eb794df0_2048x1452.webp) ## 7\. A Guide to a Muscular Liberalism *Roger Partridge — Persuasion* - 📖 Partridge argues liberalism’s answer to “the good life” — freedom — tells you what to protect, not what to do with it; that silence is wise but, under assault, liberalism needs a more muscular defence. - 🧠 Drawing on Aristotle, Mill, and Deci & Ryan, he lists four dimensions of flourishing: capabilities, meaningful relationships, purposeful work, and directing one’s own life. - 🔍 Forms of flourishing cannot be prescribed in advance (Hayek on dispersed knowledge; Popper on conjecture and refutation; Mill’s “experiments in living”). - 🇭🇺 He uses Orbán’s Hungary as a warning: press freedom fell to 74th globally; public universities were captured by loyalist foundations; the young and educated left; Orbán was defeated in April 2026. - ⛪ Post-liberals (Reno, Deneen) are charged with hubris: treating the forms of the good life as known and licensed rather than discovered. - 🎯 Takeaway: liberalism is not relativism — the dimensions of flourishing are knowable; the forms must stay open — and liberals must cultivate the ecology of freedom without trampling rights. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=61579&post%5Fid=206444131&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA2NDQ0MTMxLCJpYXQiOjE3ODM3MDY2MDksImV4cCI6MTc4NjI5ODYwOSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTYxNTc5Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.7mobn8a79r79z0k5FZp9M-H72Mm-vig0X8pH8sOaq78&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/d0d75249-1b10-49af-88ca-82266e150322_1784x1350.webp) ## 8\. Iran and America: Contradictory Powers *Grant Duncan — Politics Happens* - 🇮🇷 The late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was assassinated in an Israeli–American missile attack on 28 February; final burial was scheduled for 10 July in Mashhad, timed to rain on America’s 250th Independence Day. - 📈 Duncan argues the assault strengthened the clerical–military system via a rally-round-the-flag effect; regime-change hopes among some Iranians have not materialised. - 📊 About two-thirds of Iranians in a 2022 poll disapproved of government by religious law; a leaked 2024 government poll found 72.9% agreed religion must be separated from the state. - 🌍 The Iran–US conflict is framed as a clash between national self-protection and global platform capitalism, with fossil fuels in the mix. - ⚖️ Duncan argues liberal-democratic universalism always struggled with limits of toleration; identitarian hatred now defines both domestic politics and international relations — a gift to platform capitalism’s divide-and-rule model. - 🎯 Takeaway: religious heritage and platform capitalism are the twin poles defining the age; Iran’s resilience and America’s fallibility both reshape the Middle East and beyond. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1343614&post%5Fid=205477627&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA1NDc3NjI3LCJpYXQiOjE3ODM2MjAwOTIsImV4cCI6MTc4NjIxMjA5MiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTEzNDM2MTQiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.ZOT00mJDB%5FSWRSwrafgT73w9nEvqKrN8x1Dmu3udZGc&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/4LGVZKS_Gisborne_Nicks_head_tif.webp) ## 9\. Memory Is a Terrible Statistician *Oliver Hartwich — Brash & Mitchell / NZ Initiative* - 📚 Hartwich and Bryce Wilkinson’s *New Zealand by Numbers* (2026) traces 100+ measures of NZ life, mostly back to 1970, to counter nostalgia and doom alike. - 🚗 1973 saw 843 road deaths (worst on record); last year’s provisional toll was 272, with far more people and cars. - 👶 Infant mortality: almost 17 of every 1,000 babies died before age one in 1970; last year it was four. - ⏳ Life expectancy has risen almost eleven years since 1970; smoking and the 60% top tax rate are gone. - 📉 The bad news: NZ ranked 3rd for income per head in the 1950s and 37th by 2024; the OECD productivity gap widened from 34% (1996) to \~40%; school results have slid for 25 years. - 🏠 Houses still cost far too much; ageing demographics tighten the worker-to-retiree ratio each year. - 🎯 Takeaway: “Countries do not decline or improve in one piece.” Stop trusting memory; check the long record. [Read More](https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/oliver-hartwich-memory-is-a-terrible-statistician?utm%5Fcampaign=bae52d35-0dbd-4511-a0b6-6265e3cad6fa&utm%5Fsource=so&utm%5Fmedium=mail&utm%5Fcontent=f463c873-0f11-400d-b50a-d81a58b4d10b&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/2026/07/89016d1f-23ca-4031-b3aa-ca1225642204_5276x3522.webp) ## 10\. Ban the Hardware, Not the Software *Ani O’Brien — Thought Crimes* - 📱 O’Brien accepts the evidence that social media harms children (Haidt’s *The Anxious Generation*, US Surgeon General risk warnings, RCTs showing reduced use improves wellbeing) and supports restricting kids’ access. - 🤝 National and Labour both back an under-16 social-media ban; ACT and NZ First oppose; Greens have reservations — a “grand coalition” in the middle. - 🚫 She rejects VPN bans and universal age verification that force every adult to identify themselves online, destroying anonymity for whistleblowers, abuse survivors and dissidents. - 🧠 The harm is not only content but platform architecture: infinite scroll, autoplay, variable rewards and engagement algorithms — “pokie machines” for the thumb. - 👧 Freya India’s work on girls: adolescence becomes public performance; identity formation is no longer private; boys face rising loneliness and declining real-world socialising (Twenge). - 💡 Her alternative: ban or tightly regulate the *hardware* for minors — smartphones and always-on internet devices in childhood — rather than building an authoritarian software-and-identity state for adults. - 🎯 Takeaway: save childhood without destroying adult privacy; the method matters as much as the objective. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=3921014&post%5Fid=206296015&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA2Mjk2MDE1LCJpYXQiOjE3ODM3OTg1MTMsImV4cCI6MTc4NjM5MDUxMywiaXNzIjoicHViLTM5MjEwMTQiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.edyBZRQ4GOkvdVhxcfoJJX2cauNaTCge6l7rQ5CuRG0&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. 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