New Zealand
Blackboxed: New Zealand’s expensive management consultants
There’s a lot going on across New Zealand government agencies, and I suspect that the government is not too keen…
Chris Luxon: where is National in the fight for free speech?
Minister of Justice Kiri Allan confirmed on Sunday, after almost a year of silence on the issue, that the proposed…
Climate injustice: a personal account from a Kiwi farmer
New Zealand sheep farmers have been singled out to bear the brunt of our country’s efforts to stop the planet…
Jacinda: just go!
The Ardern regime in New Zealand has been an embarrassment to the West. During her short tenure as Prime Minister,…
NZ passes anti-free speech language compliance law
New Zealand Labour, supported by the Greens, and Māori Party, have passed ‘plain language’ legislation, which will require all branches of…
Best of times, worst of times
On our woke judges and a disgraceful miscarriage of justice in New Zealand
New Zealand’s pandemic science is cracking up
Government behaviour during Covid presented a chilling precedent for future pandemic event responses
Jacinda & Ursula
What are these authoritarians up to?
Tyranny’s higher education production line
Reflecting on Jacinda Ardern’s recent attack on free speech at the United Nations, British pundit Brendan O’Neill astutely declared that…
Shadows over New Zealand
The end of an era
Ardern ‘an extremely poor substitute’ for the Prince
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has stood in for Prince William at a UN conference, describing herself as ‘an…
Why does this university want to bin Queen Victoria?
Spare a thought for New Zealand’s Victoria university. For years now, this Kiwi institution of higher learning has been pulling…
Godzone is coming to Oz
Back in the 70s, I lived in New Zealand, (known locally as God’s own country, or ‘Godzone’ for short). A…
Will New Zealand ever become a republic?
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday that her government will not be pursuing any moves toward changing…
Political dystrophy
New Zealanders let down by the political party system
A very talented family
Conflicts of interest at the heart of the Ardern government
New Zealand’s Three Waters coup
New Zealand’s mainstream media has finally named the elephant in the room. Late last month, the nation’s biggest newspaper, the New…
The shine comes off Saint Jacinda's halo
Cast your mind back to 2020. Back then, in the dark days of Covid, a ray of light was apparently…
Government is not the divine source of ‘truth’
‘Unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth,’ declared New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, in a…
No more mask mandates, please
New Zealand epidemiologist Michael Baker has just called for the government to reintroduce widespread mask mandates as Covid cases rise in an…
Adding race to politics is not a good idea
It seems it is not only Indigenous Australians, but also some resident Kiwis, that may be given an extra voice…
Can you feel the empathy?
This week the newly minted Teal Member for Kooyong Monique Ryan gushed on social media about meeting New Zealand Prime…
Ardern: 'war is never the answer'
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has revealed her solution to Chinese aggression – diplomacy, diplomacy, diplomacy! With China threatening…
Jacinda Adern’s tricky China policy
New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Adern, has had a busy week on the international circuit. On Friday she appeared in…
Incompetence and corruption
Now rife in New Zealand
