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Given the UK’s Rishi Sunak sacking Suella Braverman for saying what many others would feel – that the police were…
New Zealand’s coalition goes to war with Jacinda Ardern’s legacy
New Zealand finally has a government again. It’s been 40 days since Labour was defeated in the country’s election, but the…
The worst Noel? Why Kiwis are turning against wealthy foreigners
Wealthy foreigners are flocking to New Zealand, but not all Kiwis are happy about their arrival: not least locals who…
Poetic justice in New Zealand
A double victory for conservatism down under
Is New Zealand about to return to the world stage?
After six years of Labour party rule in New Zealand, the country’s foreign policy brings to mind the line about…
How the National party toppled Labour in New Zealand
Just three years on from Jacinda Ardern’s phenomenal outright victory, New Zealand’s Labour government has collapsed, slumping to half its…
An end to pandemonium in New Zealand?
With the New Zealand 2023 General Election taking place very soon and voting now open both abroad and at home,…
There is still everything to play for in New Zealand’s general election
With two weeks to go before New Zealand’s general election, the contest is so close that many have stopped bothering…
Febrile, fractious and frayed
Unhappy New Zealanders are poised to ditch Labour
The dire state of New Zealand
Kiwis are fleeing. For good reason
New Zealand’s election spells trouble for Hipkins’ Labour party
New Zealand’s parliament adjourns this week, officially kicking off six weeks of political campaigning ahead of a general election on…
Winston Peters is no Kiwi Messiah
Our New Zealand regular contributor, Amy Brooke, usually talks sense, and her article in this week’s magazine, about identity and…
Hipkins insists there’s ‘nothing to fear’ in co-governance
It can’t be long now until a supporter of co-governance repeats President Roosevelt’s famous exhortation at his first inauguration during…
Diary of an ‘Expert’ (She/Her) + boosters 100 per cent masked
Dear Diary, Well, it’s happened. Deep down I knew it might, but I still can’t believe it. Today, Chris Hipkins…
Hipkins’ government is a lame duck
It has been a little over six months since Jacinda Ardern handed the Prime Ministerial reins to her friend ‘Chippy’,…
New Zealand mourns after Auckland gun rampage
Two people are dead after a gunman armed with a pump-action shotgun stormed a building in Auckland’s central business district…
Co-governance smoulders in election run-up
In New Zealand, the general election on October 14 will be, to some extent, a judgment on the extensive co-governance…
Come fly with me? Not at that price
How does Qantas get away with charging so much more other airlines?
Will social justice activists destroy New Zealand universities?
Can academic freedom survive in an ethnocentric climate of fear?
Free speech benefits the weak
Censorship is the prerogative of the powerful
Close polls puzzle pundits as NZ election looms
Centre-right voters are increasingly wondering how many more disasters it will take to seriously dent the government’s poll numbers. Whether…
Will New Zealand regret kowtowing to China?
New Zealand is reliant upon China, a country that makes up about a third of its export market. So, when…
Second term government, third term problems
They say a new broom sweeps clean, and that is certainly the case with the premiership of Prime Minister Chris…
New Zealand: are bilingual road signs safe?
At a time when the dilapidated state of New Zealand’s roads are a major public concern and the government has…
From comrade to Dame in a New York minute
They say that a week is a long time in politics and indeed that seems to be truer now than…
