New Zealand

Blame Jacinta

17 December 2022 9:00 am

Kiwis have been pushing us around for millions of years

Lying, deceit, and prevarication throughout our New Zealand politburo

14 December 2022 10:00 am

On this side of the Tasman, the circumstances relating to the ramming through Parliament under urgency of the now misnamed…

Jacinda Ardern caught on camera name-calling rival

13 December 2022 10:36 pm

Jacinda Ardern’s political philosophy is simple. When the New Zealand PM was asked to explain the qualities that led to…

New Zealand’s Covid inquiry: reckoning or rubber-stamp?

7 December 2022 4:00 am

New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, this week announced a Royal Commission of Inquiry into New Zealand’s Covid response. ‘A…

I told you so, Kiwis

3 December 2022 9:00 am

Activist judges are here to stay

New Zealand’s Supreme Court is playing a foolish game of politics

24 November 2022 11:56 pm

If you are still trying to come to grips with our Supreme Court’s delicate relation with the politics of Scottish…

Should Australia freeze out foreign buyers?

22 November 2022 4:10 pm

Canada has banned foreign ownership of residential real estate for two years to ‘cool’ an overheated housing market. Official information…

NZ hate speech laws: legislation is no antidote to hate

21 November 2022 12:02 pm

Time has been called on overhauling ‘hate speech laws’ in New Zealand. After sitting in Labour’s manifesto for years, and…

Is this the beginning of the end for Jacinda Ardern?

13 November 2022 7:30 pm

Many people envisage Jacinda Ardern’s 2017 electoral victory as a romp, a 1997 Tony Blair-esque sea change of optimism. In…

Jacinda Ardern – presiding over Marxist propaganda and racial bullying

12 November 2022 9:00 am

New Zealand is hurtling towards a dystopian future

Blackboxed: New Zealand’s expensive management consultants

9 November 2022 8:00 am

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?

7 November 2022 11:00 am

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

3 November 2022 4:00 am

New Zealand sheep farmers have been singled out to bear the brunt of our country’s efforts to stop the planet…

Jacinda: just go!

2 November 2022 4:02 pm

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

27 October 2022 11:00 am

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

22 October 2022 9:00 am

On our woke judges and a disgraceful miscarriage of justice in New Zealand

New Zealand’s pandemic science is cracking up

15 October 2022 11:00 am

Government behaviour during Covid presented a chilling precedent for future pandemic event responses

Jacinda & Ursula

15 October 2022 9:00 am

What are these authoritarians up to?

Tyranny’s higher education production line

14 October 2022 2:26 pm

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

1 October 2022 9:00 am

The end of an era

Ardern ‘an extremely poor substitute’ for the Prince

25 September 2022 11:23 am

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?

20 September 2022 9:00 pm

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

15 September 2022 12:00 pm

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?

13 September 2022 10:01 pm

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday that her government will not be pursuing any moves toward changing…

Political dystrophy

27 August 2022 9:00 am

New Zealanders let down by the political party system