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Friday, November 22, 2024

Peter Williams: Te Pati Maori End Game

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Could they claim the balance of power? The country’s youngest MP has revealed the answer to the question many have been asking for some time...

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 22/11/24

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More young offenders will get boot camp, bus drivers will get some protection – and there’s relief for southern farmers The Government has s...

David Farrar: Do the KCs believe in democracy

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Liam Hehir points out : Forty-two senior lawyers, known as King’s Counsel, have written to the government with a scathing critique of the Tr...

Barry Soper: The hīkoi was Māori Party's crowning glory

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The Māori Party will be well pleased with the hīkoi this week.  There was the long-planned haka in Parliament’s debating chamber last week, ...
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Olivia Pierson: A Hikoi vs A Country

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New Zealand’s history is messy, fascinating, and occasionally absurd. The Maoris weren’t exactly sitting around in a utopia when the Europea...
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Breaking Views Update: Week of 17.11.24

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Friday November 22, 2024  News: Te Pāti Māori files complaint against Gerry Brownlee as coalition targets haka Te Pāti Māori has l...
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Dr Bryce Edwards: Does the Treaty Hikoi signify the birth of a new Māori nation?

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On the first day of the Coalition Government’s parliamentary term in December of 2023 Te Pāti Māori called for a National Māori Action Day, ...
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Graham Adams: Seymour’s opponents need better arguments

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Academic and legal elites embarrass themselves in the Treaty debate. It is always astonishing just how dumb very smart people can be. A week...
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Professor Robert MacCulloch: NZ Descends into a S*!# Show on the World Stage.....

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NZ Descends into a S*!# Show on the World Stage. MPs Mock Judges. Legal "Royalty" Mock MPs. Other MPs Mock their own Parliament. W...

Kerre Woodham: Should we be raising the alarm over drug use?

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Remember yesterday when we were talking about the declining rates of hazardous drinking among young people? Good news. And then so many of y...

Lindsay Mitchell: Sharp departure in child poverty approach

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Released today, the government's new Child and Youth Strategy might, at first glance, look like a rehash of Jacinda Ardern's child p...
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Thursday November 21, 2024                       ⇩
Thursday, November 21, 2024

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 21/11/24

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Three minutes after midnight, police make arrest under new gang patch law – but the boot camp news is disappointing The good news on the law...

Mike's Minute: The ComCom Transpower decision is madness

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It's ironic that we mention the Commerce Commission yesterday and here we are today, indulging in a bit more of its madness. Lines charg...
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Brendan O'Neill: Why they refuse to see Jews as victims

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The left’s pitiless cynicism about the pogrom in Amsterdam confirms how morally lost they are. It was the speed with which the racism fearmo...
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Dr Oliver Hartwich: Lessons for Australia in NZ's polarising Treaty debate

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For decades, Australian advocates for indigenous reconciliation have pointed to New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi as a model. Where Australia...
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Dr Eric Crampton: Finally proposals to set access charges

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Getting from Auckland to Cathedral Cove means a two-and-a-half-hour drive over 178 kilometres, the last third of which is a windy path throu...
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Guest Post: A submission in support of the Treaty Principles Bill

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Ann Arnold's submission first published on Waikanae Watch The original Treaty of Waitangi February 1840 was written in English and tran...
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Ele Ludemann: Public must have trust and confidence in police

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Soon to be Police Commissioner, now deputy, Richard Chambers has a welcome perspective on policing by consent :
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Simon O'Connor: The path to irrelevance

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With so much media reporting at odds with public sentiment or clearly one-sided - be it in New Zealand or as we have seen recently in the Un...
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