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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…
Kiwis are tiring of New Zealand’s blundering prime minister
It’s all going wrong for New Zealand’s prime minister Chris Hipkins. Hipkins’s laidback, convivial persona and managerial skills were seen…
Saint Jacinda becomes a dame
‘I was in two minds about accepting this acknowledgment,’ says the now Dame Jacinda Ardern, reflecting on how ‘humbled’ she…
Has New Zealand found the key to the UK’s housing crisis?
It may be difficult to imagine a housing crisis more dismal than the one Britain is experiencing right now, but…
New Zealand’s opposition embroiled in AI-attack ad storm
New Zealand’s opposition National party has admitted using artificial intelligence (AI) to generate fake images for its political attack ads.…
What is a woman? Don’t ask!
New Zealand’s PM apparently doesn’t know
Is New Zealand that bothered about becoming a republic?
The prime minister of New Zealand, Chris Hipkins, has said he wants his country to end constitutional ties with Britain…
Ardern’s Aotearoa adieu
Her trademark empathy on full display, Jacinda Ardern, the antipodean icon of female empowerment, recently delivered her farewell speech to…
Jacinda Ardern’s disappearing act
Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern bade farewell to parliament a few weeks ago. Ardern had resigned as PM in…
New Zealand’s Voice divided us
As a nation that stood proudly on the world stage as one of the most tolerant and inclusive societies in…
The religion of gender
I don’t know about you, but the days following the Let Women Speak riot in Auckland have changed my life.…
Identity politics and the challenge to conservatism
In the aftermath of Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull’s visit to New Zealand, Prime Minister Hipkins was embarrassed at his regular post-Cabinet press…
Watch: Jacinda Ardern’s final cringeworthy speech as PM
It’s a bad time for soporific narcissists in office. Just weeks after the self-indulgent grandstanding of Nicola Sturgeon’s farewell press…
Ardern’s last speech to Parliament commits her to climate action
Remember when Jacinda Ardern said, rather tearfully, ‘I don’t have enough in the tank.’ A sniffle later, the former Prime…
