New Zealand
Giving six-figures to racism
The New Zealand Human Rights Commission recently spent $1.3 million on Voices of Racism, the second wave of the 2017…
Jacinda Ardern’s resignation has saved New Zealand’s Labour party
Many expected the abrupt resignation of Jacinda Ardern to fatefully deprive New Zealand’s government of its best asset. However, the…
Hate speech or free speech? Balancing religious sensitivities with liberty
The New Zealand government’s most recent failed attempt to enact hate speech laws shows just how difficult it is to…
Backsliding on Democracy: New Zealand knows it well
Australia beware, rent-seeking is a term you may have to look up if your life path has yet to cross…
Saint Jacinda’s fall
Media fawning wasn’t enough to save her
Ardern escapes election judgment
On the morning of August 26, 2021, my wife and I arrived at Christchurch Airport, New Zealand, for our flight…
Sea life: cruising after Covid
The former Premier of New South Wales, Gladys Berejiklian, probably never wanted to see the Ruby Princess again. Three years…
New Zealand mourns the ‘loss’ of its kind princess
Whether you admire or loathe Jacinda Ardern as the Prime Minister of New Zealand, you have to admit, she was…
Jacinda Ardern: New Zealand’s failed feminist icon
Jacinda Ardern’s resignation as Prime Minister has seen commentary varying from hagiographic flim-flam to an accurate accounting of what was promised,…
New Zealand’s PM is a welcome change from Jacinda Ardern
Chris Hipkins can afford to feel pleased with his first days in office as Prime Minister of New Zealand. In…
Will Christopher Luxon be New Zealand’s prime minister?
Following the resignation of Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s Labour government will select its new leader, and the country’s next prime…
Jacinda Ardern was the queen of coercive kindness
Jacinda Ardern has resigned as Prime Minister of New Zealand. After a period of reflection over the summer break, she…
The insipid cult of saint Jacinda Ardern
Watching Jacinda Ardern’s departure speech, I reflected that even though I invented the word cry-bully – ‘a hideous hybrid of…
Joe Biden should follow Jacinda Ardern out the door
I have a question for New Zealand’s outgoing prime minister Jacinda Ardern: can you take President Biden with you? Ardern…
Jacinda Ardern over-promised and under-delivered
And just like that, she’s gone. In one of the biggest shocks to hit New Zealand politics since that late…
Jacinda Ardern’s tattered legacy
Wellington, New Zealand Jacinda Ardern has announced she will be stepping down as the prime minister of New Zealand, saying…
Why Jacinda Ardern is stepping down
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will stand down on February 7. In an announcement in Wellington, choking back tears,…
Jacinda Ardern resigns: the beginning of the end for Labour?
‘I don’t have enough in the tank,’ complained 42-year-old Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand. ‘For me, it’s time,’…
Harry and Meghan have put Jacinda Ardern in an awkward position
A trailer was released this week for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s new Netflix documentary series, Live to Lead,…
Now even Saint Jacinda snubs Meghan
Are the wokest couple in all the West losing their star power? The first-half of the Sussexes’ new ‘explosive’ documentary…
Blame Jacinta
Kiwis have been pushing us around for millions of years
Lying, deceit, and prevarication throughout our New Zealand politburo
On this side of the Tasman, the circumstances relating to the ramming through Parliament under urgency of the now misnamed…
Jacinda Ardern caught on camera name-calling rival
Jacinda Ardern’s political philosophy is simple. When the New Zealand PM was asked to explain the qualities that led to…
New Zealand’s Covid inquiry: reckoning or rubber-stamp?
New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, this week announced a Royal Commission of Inquiry into New Zealand’s Covid response. ‘A…
I told you so, Kiwis
Activist judges are here to stay
