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Greta's Aid will get through, thanks to the new Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

Ironically unlike past NZ Aid - more likely straight to a terrorist's stomach

11 June 2025
opinion

The 2025 NBR Rich List once again shows who runs this country

While the NBR frames its yearly celebration of the ultra-wealthy as recognising “wealth creators” who generate jobs and economic activity, a closer reading reveals something far more troubling: a roadmap of oligarchic power in New Zealand.

10 June 2025
opinion

When bureaucrats promote racism: a cautionary tale

As you can imagine, I went ape (hopefully, intellectually ape but ape nonetheless). I charged that we were taking $2 million a year from hard-pressed ratepayers.

22 May 2025
opinion

Keep calm and carry on speaking

Anti-democratic approaches are no longer stigmatised. Many now embrace illiberalism online, not just in fellow democracies but here too in NZ.

13 May 2025
opinion

Six Major Reasons to Oppose Road Pricing

The authorities are planning to take you on “a journey” into a society with more surveillance and more taxes.

01 May 2025
opinion

Auckland Uni students react to Treaty ‘indoctrination’

Compulsory first-year courses come under fire.

28 April 2025
opinion

Don Brash: NZME can get stuffed - the ad they rejected

Their decision to yet again reject one of our ads is appalling. It’s prejudiced, censorious, and it’s wrong.

14 April 2025
opinion

What Should We Be Talking About - And Aren't?

A topic even more inflammatory than gender.

11 April 2025
opinion

When apologies and silence replace inquiries and dissent

I’m not a security expert, and the Free Speech Union is interested solely in that: free speech. But this is exactly the sort of situation free speech helps us avoid; contexts where approved narratives dominate and where uncomfortable realities are swept under the carpet.

09 April 2025
opinion

Seymour unbowed by hostile Treaty bill submissions

The public debate shows the 1840 agreement to be a tangled mess.

08 April 2025