New Zealand

The religion of gender

12 April 2023 8:00 am

I don’t know about you, but the days following the Let Women Speak riot in Auckland have changed my life.…

Identity politics and the challenge to conservatism

10 April 2023 12:23 pm

In the aftermath of Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull’s visit to New Zealand, Prime Minister Hipkins was embarrassed at his regular post-Cabinet press…

Watch: Jacinda Ardern’s final cringeworthy speech as PM

5 April 2023 10:36 pm

It’s a bad time for soporific narcissists in office. Just weeks after the self-indulgent grandstanding of Nicola Sturgeon’s farewell press…

Ardern’s last speech to Parliament commits her to climate action

5 April 2023 7:40 pm

Remember when Jacinda Ardern said, rather tearfully, ‘I don’t have enough in the tank.’ A sniffle later, the former Prime…

Watch: Jacinda Ardern’s successor struggles to define a woman

3 April 2023 10:22 pm

Is Labour’s state of confusion about sex and gender going global? Labour leader Keir Starmer was widely mocked this weekend…

Letter from down under

1 April 2023 9:00 am

The mob lunged towards me, screeching and grabbing, and I knew that if I fell I would never get up.…

The death of New Zealand’s MSM

1 April 2023 5:00 am

Until recently I was a member of the mainstream media in New Zealand. A proud member. I have loved being…

New Zealand has much to learn from the treatment of Posie Parker

28 March 2023 10:00 pm

A promotional clip for New Zealand uploaded to social media the other day looked like the usual decorous fare churned…

The Posie Parker mob has embarassed New Zealand

27 March 2023 8:54 pm

New Zealand has, until recently, dwelt in splendid isolation during the culture wars. Kiwis have typically been reluctant to discuss…

New Zealand shows us how the Voice will work

27 March 2023 4:00 am

There were two important announcements on Thursday March 16, concerning the question that will be asked at the Voice to…

The shameful persecution of Posie Parker in New Zealand

26 March 2023 12:29 am

This is what it must have been like when women were marched to the stake. Yesterday in Auckland the British…

Giving six-figures to racism

13 March 2023 4:30 am

The New Zealand Human Rights Commission recently spent $1.3 million on Voices of Racism, the second wave of the 2017…

Jacinda Ardern’s resignation has saved New Zealand’s Labour party

26 February 2023 6:00 pm

Many expected the abrupt resignation of Jacinda Ardern to fatefully deprive New Zealand’s government of its best asset. However, the…

Hate speech or free speech? Balancing religious sensitivities with liberty

25 February 2023 4:14 pm

The New Zealand government’s most recent failed attempt to enact hate speech laws shows just how difficult it is to…

Backsliding on Democracy: New Zealand knows it well

22 February 2023 5:00 am

Australia beware, rent-seeking is a term you may have to look up if your life path has yet to cross…

Saint Jacinda’s fall

11 February 2023 9:00 am

Media fawning wasn’t enough to save her

Ardern escapes election judgment

7 February 2023 6:00 am

On the morning of August 26, 2021, my wife and I arrived at Christchurch Airport, New Zealand, for our flight…

Sea life: cruising after Covid

5 February 2023 4:30 am

The former Premier of New South Wales, Gladys Berejiklian, probably never wanted to see the Ruby Princess again. Three years…

New Zealand mourns the ‘loss’ of its kind princess

29 January 2023 4:00 am

Whether you admire or loathe Jacinda Ardern as the Prime Minister of New Zealand, you have to admit, she was…

Jacinda Ardern: New Zealand’s failed feminist icon

28 January 2023 5:00 am

Jacinda Ardern’s resignation as Prime Minister has seen commentary varying from hagiographic flim-flam to an accurate accounting of what was promised,…

New Zealand’s PM is a welcome change from Jacinda Ardern

25 January 2023 5:36 pm

Chris Hipkins can afford to feel pleased with his first days in office as Prime Minister of New Zealand. In…

Will Christopher Luxon be New Zealand’s prime minister?

22 January 2023 8:00 pm

Following the resignation of Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s Labour government will select its new leader, and the country’s next prime…

Jacinda Ardern was the queen of coercive kindness

21 January 2023 9:43 pm

Jacinda Ardern has resigned as Prime Minister of New Zealand. After a period of reflection over the summer break, she…

The insipid cult of saint Jacinda Ardern

21 January 2023 5:42 pm

Watching Jacinda Ardern’s departure speech, I reflected that even though I invented the word cry-bully – ‘a hideous hybrid of…

Joe Biden should follow Jacinda Ardern out the door

21 January 2023 4:30 am

I have a question for New Zealand’s outgoing prime minister Jacinda Ardern: can you take President Biden with you? Ardern…