Simon Court attacking the Greens while defending Israel may play well inside ACT’s culture war bubble, but for many New Zealanders the conversation is now shaped by Gaza, Mossad controversies and decades of unresolved occupation and violence.
The Taxpayers’ Union has perfected the art of manufacturing fury around public sector payouts, but strip away the slogans and many of these so-called ‘golden handshakes’ turn out to be contractual obligations dressed up as scandal.
The anti-vaccine movement’s obsession with Jacinda Ardern shows how COVID-era anger has hardened into a permanent grievance culture.
Critics say National’s latest “tough on crime” move is more emotional posturing that risks creating a harsher, more dangerous prison system.
After cutting housing and social support, the Government now wants police powers to move on and punish the homeless its own policies helped create.
National claims the NCEA replacement will lift standards, but critics see something far darker… An education system rebuilt around competition, conformity and private interests.
New Zealand panics about immigration while making it economically impossible for working people to have kids. Erica Stanford’s comments touched a nerve because nobody wants to admit the system is broken.
KiwiBank was created to protect New Zealand’s economic independence. Selling it off now would hand even more power to Australian banks already extracting massive profits from Kiwi households.
Rocket Lab’s soaring profits and expanding US military ties are forcing a bigger question: has New Zealand quietly become part of America’s war machine?
Mayor Wayne Brown outlines the ‘stupid’ and the ‘sensible’ for Auckland, as Chris Hipkins comes to town Auckland Mayor Wayne…