‘They threatened to kill us at gunpoint,’ says NZ Gaza flotilla activist
A New Zealander came home from the Gaza flotilla with a story Wellington would rather not hear: guns, beatings, threats — and silence from our leaders.

A New Zealander came home from the Gaza flotilla with a story Wellington would rather not hear: guns, beatings, threats — and silence from our leaders.

National wants credit for rents going down. The ugly truth? Rents are softening because Kiwis are leaving, demand is collapsing, and the economy is bleeding.

The Government calls it modernisation. The Greens call it a bulldozer through public conservation land, and once it is gone, it is gone.

Luxon says he is preparing New Zealand for a rainy day. The climate experts say he has refused to buy the umbrella.

The Government is celebrating a 0.1% dip in unemployment while youth joblessness and city unemployment continue climbing. That’s not recovery. That’s drift.

More Kiwis are out of work, wages are falling behind inflation and entire communities are being hit by closures. And Labour says National has no answer.

Nine years of Winston Peters? Critics imagine a future of endless culture wars, deregulation and political horse trading stretched across a decade.

Snap election rumours. Immigration dog whistles. Iran war fallout. The Bradbury Group dives headfirst into the political chaos tearing through Election 2026.

If the Prime Minister truly believes Winston Peters put politics ahead of the national interest, how can he possibly keep him as Foreign Minister?

Chris Finlayson’s call for “war” on NZ First says something brutal about National right now: one of the few people still willing to fight no longer sits in caucus.