> ## 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 - 2026/143 - URL: https://goodoil.news/your-daily-ten-10-2026-143/ - Published: 2026-08-06T22:00:15.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-06T22:00:14.000Z - Description: 10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You - Author: Cam Slater - Tags: Ten@10, NZ Politics, World Politics, Media Bias, Free Speech **This is edition 2026/143 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/2026/08/6c264afc-99db-4480-8cd1-29da1f79d6ed_800x500.webp) ## 1\. Democracy Briefing: Luxon Can’t Control Winston Peters *Bryce Edwards — The Democracy Project* - 🔥 Luxon calls FM Peters’ “go back to your own country… lie like a flatfish” to Xu-Nan “racist” and “offensive,” wants apology — Peters refuses. Confidence retained; no sack; Cabinet Manual silence; “vote National if you don’t like it.” Accountability deferred to 7 Nov. - ⚖️ Post editorial: Luxon PM de jure only; Peters de facto. Overreach on full control, right on the informal veto — NZ First votes keep the lights on. - 🎩 “Two hats” fails Cabinet Manual 2.56 (“at all times”); Lockwood Smith: FM is always FM. Chinese Embassy dealt with MFAT, not NZ First HQ. Helen Clark: “Don’t take any notice of the foreign minister” = preposterous. - 🗳️ Willis/Mitchell/Pugh: MMP stability > sanction. Options short of sack unused. (Further sections paywalled.) - 🎯 Takeaway: standards that can’t bite a coalition partner aren’t standards. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1885783&post%5Fid=209876331&isFreemail=true&r=2psd49&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjQyNDYxMjEsInBvc3RfaWQiOjIwOTg3NjMzMSwiaWF0IjoxNzg1OTAyNDQ3LCJleHAiOjE3ODg0OTQ0NDcsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0xODg1NzgzIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.0GrdFaqbRourokTuSuK2ZDwx30FTdEjsuQiIauzc5EM&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/80bc9ec7-2805-4ae8-b86a-76378af7a1fa_730x444.webp) ## 2\. Tūwharetoa Water Shake-Down Creep *John McLean* - 🌊 1992 deed: lakebed + feeder streams to Tūwharetoa Trust Board as “symbolic” with public recreational access forever. 2007 deed: commercial licences and charges OK. 2017 affirm + more goodies. - ⚖️ Aug 2017 High Court bid for carte blanche on commercial users; 2021 declaration under Justice Cheryl Gwyn (ex-SIS head, Treaty/Crown Law track, leaky-home settlement) — 7% levy on fishing guides’ gross. Guides quitting. - 📜 No fiscal cap; trespass threatened; cash economy tip. Molesworth to Ngāi Tahu management under Potaka; SI water claim pending. Nat won’t legislate extinguishment or limits. - 🎯 Takeaway: tribal commercialisation of common waters — Parliament never expressly greenlit this rort. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1709690&post%5Fid=209961711&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA5OTYxNzExLCJpYXQiOjE3ODU5NTQ2NTYsImV4cCI6MTc4ODU0NjY1NiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTE3MDk2OTAiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.p7%5FlgoeOl9otmsDjNW0%5FC0r6b0-yMEMdyk%5FKKyNjo5M&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/photo-1622580999956-71db3b0f3178.jpeg) ## 3\. The (Non-Libertarian) Case for Freedom of Speech *Liam Hehir — The Blue Review* - 🗣️ Rights-balancing fails when expression must compete with dignity, safety, inclusion — old freedoms whittled by worthy ends. - 🏏 Oakeshott: enterprise association (teleocratic — cricket team has a win condition; captain picks tactics) vs civil association (nomocratic — laws of cricket; umpire doesn’t favour a result). State is umpire, not national captain. - 📣 Teleocratic state scores speech by official end; dissent = administered problem (“misinformation,” cohesion). Fraud/threats = conduct rules; misinfo regimes = directing the national mind. - 🗳️ Poll-booth buffer zones OK as content-neutral process rules — not libertarian harm-principle pure, but civil-order integrity. Rights matter as features of civil order, not the whole foundation. - 🎯 Takeaway: protect speech by keeping government in its lane — laws, not ideology engines. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=478996&post%5Fid=209875756&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA5ODc1NzU2LCJpYXQiOjE3ODU5MTMzMjMsImV4cCI6MTc4ODUwNTMyMywiaXNzIjoicHViLTQ3ODk5NiIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.F98TTaPFhRsZ%5FdJUURuUAnU%5FupR1U1y-NIqHDqmof2M&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/77pcCHORkYBP.jpg) ## 4\. Australia Finalizes Its Plan to Force Tech Platforms to Pay News Media *Cindy Harper — Reclaim The Net* - 💰 News Bargaining Incentive finalised: 2.5% charge on digital ad revenue of platforms ≥A$250m (search/social) unless ≥6 deals with AU publishers. 150% credit large / 200% small; full clearance ≈1.5% revenue. - 📈 April draft 2.25% on total revenue → narrower base, higher rate, 4→6 deals. LinkedIn exemption gone. 3-year review. - 📜 Sequel to 2021 Bargaining Code (Meta blocked news, then paid; deals lapsed 2024). Canada: Meta walked, news stays off FB/IG. - 🇺🇸 Meta: discriminatory retroactive tax, FTA breach. White House: “foreign extortion.” - 🎯 Takeaway: prop legacy brands or pay the state — second bite at the same apple. [Read More](https://reclaimthenet.org/australia-finalizes-its-plan-to-force-tech-platforms-to-pay-news-media?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/460575eb-21d2-4884-9465-f72f67b52274_674x340.webp) ## 5\. Can Universities Recover Their Mojo in the AI Age? *John Raine* - 🎓 NZ extreme case of DEI/Te Ao Māori capture; Treaty Principles still in eng/med/nursing/law/teaching despite speech reforms. Staff silence, redundancy or exit. - 🤖 AI commoditises content/micro-credentials; unis keep edge in labs/clinics/studios, critical reasoning, research-led teaching, rigorous exam authenticity. Avatar lectures + AI tutors coming; fact-vs-propaganda vigilance required. - 📊 Admin bloat 1.5 non-academic : 1 academic (Aus/UK/US \~0.8). Cap enrolments for excellence; cut ratio to ≤0.9; AI admin; less marketing. - 📜 Bologna 1988: morally/intellectually independent of political authority and economic power. Decolonisation activism out of taught curriculum; mātauranga optional, separate from science. - 🎯 Takeaway: rebuild MoE culturally neutral; unis as truth-seekers, not activists. (User link resolved via pub archive after app-link 404.) [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=8118646&post%5Fid=209806655&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA5ODA2NjU1LCJpYXQiOjE3ODU5MTkwNjIsImV4cCI6MTc4ODUxMTA2MiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTgxMTg2NDYiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.VW74yiBAE63FXdAy6bKkXev26CxMImky8N9QQoSSXFg&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/d466afbe-2789-4612-837a-fa511a6138fd_1960x1348.webp) ## 6\. It’s Embarrassing It Took This Chinese Grad Student to Ask Christopher Nolan Hard Questions About “The Odyssey” *Michael Shellenberger — Public* - 🎬 Multiracial cast, no Greek principals, “Dad,” rapper tattoos — progressive translator: “nothing convincing to say.” Press soft until Yiyang Zhuge (BC PhD; Plutarch Moralia → Chinese bestseller). - ❓ “Bard for a civilization at dusk?” Atonement not in Homer — Christianised? “We live in an age that demands apology from greatness.” Nolan: yes we apologise “or the audience rejects the greatness.” Oppenheimer dusk sensibility carried over. - 📚 West closing classics depts while China drinks from the fountain free of guilt-laden self-castration. Rousseau→Marx→Derrida: civilisation as trauma. Padilla Peralta wanted classics to die of white supremacy. - 🎯 Takeaway: shame isn’t that a Chinese scholar asked — shame is that she had to. 6M+ views. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=279400&post%5Fid=209734609&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA5NzM0NjA5LCJpYXQiOjE3ODU5MzI2NTYsImV4cCI6MTc4ODUyNDY1NiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTI3OTQwMCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.4Fn7l8Lpvtcv3BKfax-rqwMMvZijsEdIC9%5F8r3SjLUM&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/cohen_08_aug_post.webp) ## 7\. Luck of the Irish *David Cohen — The Spectator Australia* - ☘️ Aussie Irish-citizenship-by-descent apps +133% 2022–25; 1,880+ via Foreign Births Register in 2025 (record since e-records 2013); Kiwis still surging. “Fairy gold dust passport.” - 🇪🇺 EU free movement + CTA with UK — O’Mahony: study, work, unrestricted Europe. Nana’s Cork birth cert is infrastructure now; genealogy boom among people who couldn’t name a second cousin. - 🔄 Map flipped: once Aus/NZ rich and Ireland basket case; now Ireland top-tier per capita, South Seas slipped. Return ticket on the old exit story. (President Connolly flotillas noted.) - 🎯 Takeaway: romance of native land after leaving — now paperwork and a burgundy booklet. [Read More](https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/08/luck-of-the-irish/?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/weisser_08_aug_post.webp) ## 8\. The Secret Diary of Anthony Fauci (Aged 85¾) *Rebecca Weisser — The Spectator Australia* - 📓 Rand Paul dump = Adrian Mole with tenure. 111 Fifths despite Biden pre-emptive pardon (state AGs still hunting: LA, SC, AL, FL). - 📊 Private IFR \~0.2–0.3% (bad flu); public 1–3% — up to 15× overstate. 15 Mar 2020: bragged persuading de Blasio to close NYC schools; Newsom followed TV Fauci. 27 Feb: “Stock Market crashing! Amazing day!” - 🌟 Fame diary: Julia Roberts, Streisand butt-dial, “most famous person in the country.” Demonised GBD authors and DeSantis while Florida kept schools/bars open — Brandeis laboratory of liberty. - 🇦🇺 Aus federalism offered no DeSantis — plenty of mini-Faucis, Dan Andrews worst, same script everywhere. - 🎯 Takeaway: where was our Ron when we needed him? [Read More](https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/08/the-secret-diary-of-anthony-fauci-aged-85%c2%be/?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/talacko_08_aug_post.webp) ## 9\. Nobody Paid for This Article *Cristina Talacko — The Spectator Australia* - 💸 Albanese $67.6m Journalism Assistance Fund: 2,000+ journos / 185 orgs; up to $39k per FTE over 3 years to 2028\. On GrantConnect — not on the mastheads doing energy politics. - 📰 Nine entities >$16m; Conversation $1.03m, Crikey $737k, Saturday Paper $300k, Michael West $129k… Nuclear = “fantasy,” “brain fart”; renewables = half-price proof. Legitimate views — undisclosed govt support isn’t. - ⚡ Labor locked 82% renewables by 2030, CIS underwrites 40GW, nuclear banned federally — then funds the newsrooms covering the bet. Nameplate ≠ continuous; full-cost nuclear vs generation-only wind/solar. - 🛠️ Fix free: standing disclosure on site + byline tags; independent admin; no ministerial discretion. Jefferson preferred newspapers without government to government without newspapers. - 🎯 Takeaway: if the policy is strong, it survives scrutiny; if the subsidy is fine, it survives daylight. Spec took no grant for this piece. [Read More](https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/08/nobody-paid-for-this-article/?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/e7e62fb2-ab79-44a0-9c83-14368cb42b90_1024x620.webp) ## 10\. Rod Dreher: Tucker Carlson’s Antisemitism *Rod Dreher — The Free Press* - 🎙️ Common defence: “he’s only criticising Israel.” Jews do that daily. Carlson insists he’s no antisemite — religion forbids hating people for birth; no donors to please. AmericaFest reply to Shapiro who hadn’t even called him that. - 🧾 Shapiro’s actual charge: silence on Owens/Erika Kirk conspiracy, soft-hosting Fuentes (Hitler-apologist lane, Vance smears), Tate, Darryl Cooper — mainstreaming without challenge. - 🔍 Dreher’s method: look past the disclaimer to claims he lets pass and the cumulative picture they paint. (Full forensic case paywalled.) - 🎯 Takeaway: saying you’re not antisemitic doesn’t settle it — the unchallenged guests and patterns might. [Read More](https://www.thefp.com/p/rod-dreher-tucker-carlson-antisemitism?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\. 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