Centre Left will Entrench Te Tiriti & Co-Governance will be the start.

Michael Laws on The Platform says forget co-governance - the Centre Left will entrench Te Tiriti and co-governance will and it will only be the start.

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Electoral Commission Requiring Staff To Learn The Treaty Of Waitangi

Dr Muriel Newman and Sean Plunket discuss the Electoral Commission requiring staff to learn the Treaty of Waitangi on The Platform

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Peter Williams: The BSA's digging its own grave

Two decisions highlight the need for its rapid disestablishment

If more evidence was needed about the relevance or irrelevance of the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) then a couple of judgements they made this week have rammed home the point.

The decision about Sean Plunket on The Platform has been widely reported and commented on.

My take is simple.

Mike Butler: The long march to tribal control

NZCPR has published a number of articles on New Zealand’s “the long march through the institutions", the non-violent path to achieve Marxist revolution. This article, which is a bit of a long read, looks at the nuts and bolts of how the strategy has been applied here and gives an evaluation of where we are at.

The long march is a political strategy that seeks to create radical social change by infiltrating and subverting the core organizations of a society rather than using violent revolution. The strategy is accomplished by:

David Harvey: The Demise of the Broadcasting Standards Authority?

An announcement. But will there be action?

On 6 May 2026 the Minister for Broadcasting, Mr. Paul Goldsmith, announced that the Broadcasting Standards Authority would be disestablished.

A process had been put in place to wind down the BSA and investigate self-regulation options. There is, of course, a little more to it than that. The BSA was created by the Broadcasting Act 1989 and it is referred to in a number of statutes. There will be legislative work involved as well.

John McLean: BSA BS continues unabated

What’s the best response to the Broadcasting Standards Authority’s unrelenting lawless lunacy?

The Broadcasting Standards Authority is now formally considering additional complaints against The Platform’s founder and CEO, Sean Plunket. Complainant Richard Faneslow’s original complaint is that Plunket’s “mumbo jumbo” epithet to describe Māori tikanga (mystical Māori rules for how Māori should go about daily life) was RACIST. Fanselow’s additional complaints allege that Plunket uses hurty words.

David Harvey, A Framework For Media Regulation In The Digital Age

A standalone proposal for the reform of media and communications regulation in New Zealand

Preliminary Note
This article contains a standalone proposal for the reform of media and communications regulation in New Zealand. It sets out both the theoretical and analytical foundations for reform and a concrete institutional model for a unified regulator.

Simon O'Connor: BSA - Ideologically compromised?

The Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) decision to include online broadcasting under its jurisdiction is an overreach, ideological, but also part of a global push to control speech.

So the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) has just granted itself more powers, notably to empower the complaining class an opportunity to harass those online sharing their views.

David Farrar: Abolish the BSA

The Broadcasting Standards Authority announced:

The Broadcasting Standards Authority has confirmed it has jurisdiction to consider a complaint about content transmitted by an online broadcaster.

In a decision published today, the Authority determined it can accept, and is required to consider under the Broadcasting Act, complaints about The Platform’s Live Talkback programme, because the programme meets the Act’s definition of ‘broadcasting’.

Michael Laws: The NZ Medical Council’s Attempt To Impose Marxist & Racist Demands

On The Platform, Michael Laws exposes the NZ Medical Council’s attempt to impose Marxist and racist demands upon all our country’s primary health staff.

John McLean: Blobudsman shows his true colours

New Zealand’s Chief Ombudsman unlawfully sides with the forces of opaqueness and censorship

On 17 November 2025, Sean Plunket, Founder and CEO of media channel The Platform, complained to New Zealand’s Chief Ombudsman, John Allen.

Plunket’s asked Allen to “urgently investigate and review” the Broadcasting Standards Authority’s refusal to provide Plunket with all correspondence and documentation relating to the BSA’s “Provisional Interlocutory Decision” that the BSA has jurisdiction to consider complaints against The Platform. Plunket had formally requested that information from the BSA, under the Official Information Act 1982. Here’s Plunket’s request to the Ombudsman:

John McLean: Bullsh*t State Sponsored Arrogance

The Broadcasting Standards Authority’s war on media channel The Platform is heating up and could well explode in 2026. I’ve covered the BSA’s ideologically driven attempt to assert jurisdiction over The Platform in a previous Substack:

David Farrar: The silence of the media

Cameron Slater exclusively reported on allegations by long-time union leader Matt McCarten against Willie Jackson and his wife around bullying at the Manukau Urban Maori Authority. I blogged about this four days ago.

With the exception of The Platform, no media outlet has reported on the allegations. This is highly unusual. Even if you don’t think the allegations stack up, the fact a union leader is accusing a Labour MP of workplace bullying and locking a union out is newsworthy. You would expect the media would at least do a “He says, she says”.

Garrick Tremain: His decision with Euthanasia - Part 4

In the final part of this 4-part interview on The Platform, terminally ill Garrick Tremain talks to Sean Plunket about his decision with Euthanasia.

Garrick Tremain: Racism, Regrets & Central Otago - Part 3

In Part 3 of this 4-part interview on The Platform, terminally ill Garrick Tremain talks to Sean Plunket about who to trust in the media, racism, regrets and Central Otago.

Garrick Tremain: The Best And Worst Prime Ministers To Draw - Part 2

In Part 2 of this 4-part interview on The Platform, terminally ill Garrick Tremain talks to Sean Plunket about the best and worst Prime Ministers to draw.

Garrick Tremain: Cartoons, Cancel Culture, And Cancer - Part 1

In Part 1 of this 4-part interview on The Platform, terminally ill Garrick Tremain talks to Sean Plunket about cartoons, cancel culture, and cancer.

Damien Grant: Our self-important broadcasting censors need to be reined in

In terms of bureaucratic overreach, few rival that of Sejanus building statues to himself. He was Emperor Tiberius’ man in Rome, while the degenerate sovereign luxuriated on Capri and, left alone for too long, Sejanus believed himself impervious to supervision.

He wasn’t, and his career was ended in a typically brutal Roman fashion.

There are many similar examples in the two millennia since, where middling civil servants assume more power than is good for them. It is a classic principal-agent problem and we have had a perfect example last week in the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA).

Claire Deeks: The BSA Didn't Go Rogue - It Went First

The backlash against the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) has been fierce and deserved. Its attempt to claim jurisdiction over The Platform has triggered outrage with ACT Leader David Seymour saying Parliament “never asked” the BSA to police the internet, while NZ First Leader Winston Peters accused the Authority of “acting like some Soviet-era Stasi.”

Barrie Saunders: The BSA power grab: Post 2

Media and Communications Minister, Paul Goldsmith’s handling of the BSA power grab follow 80 years of abysmal leadership by National Party governments re broadcasting, which have consistently betrayed their rhetoric about supporting competition and private enterprise.

The National Party Holland/Holyoake government of 1949-1957, did nothing of consequence to roll back the Savage/Fraser Labour governments nationalisation of radio. No private radio under National then nor any TV at all.