The smoking gun in the Mahuta saga
A journalist’s question about a niece’s contract made the minister uncomfortable.
Jacinda Ardern’s tilt towards the West continues at the UN
Jacinda Ardern intends to continue a more pro-Western foreign policy strategy, if her agenda from a hectic week of diplomacy is anything to go by.
Who represents the greater threat to democracy right now - Action Zealandia or the Dominion Post?
I see Stuff’s feverish witch-hunt for malignant local government election candidates has claimed a victim.
Time for the Auditor General to investigate Mahuta contracts
Allegations and revelations are mounting up, meaning this issue can no longer be ignored.
On Rachel Stewart and freedom of speech
I see that former New Zealand Herald columnist Rachel Stewart is positioning herself as a champion of free speech.
National’s unsatisfactory exoneration of Sam Uffindell
National didn’t just commission an investigation to determine Sam Uffindell’s fate, but also to attempt to clear the party itself of wrongdoing or a lack of integrity in its processes.
Jacinda's waste of public interest journalism funds
Do we need any more evidence that this government tolerates waste of taxpayers’ money?
Did Pakeha really crush traditional Māori medicine?
The truth about the Tohunga Suppression Act is rarely told.
Labour’s fraught battle to retain the Māori vote
This all raises the question of whether Labour’s Māori MPs have focused on the right issues. Or, perhaps the question is whether Labour has become too focused on more elite or middle class Māori concerns.
House prices - where to from here?
Ironically, with rising interest rates and a net outflow of people, this may just be the straw which tips the housing market into a very significant decline.