Sam Hudson

Sam Hudson
Feb 20, 2026

OPINION: Resources Minister Shane Jones is directing roughly $80 million of taxpayer money into mining expansion. He frames it as economic development. But the financial structure of modern mining raises…

Sam Hudson, Bennett Carter
Feb 15, 2026

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested after allegedly robbing another teenager at knifepoint and fleeing across Auckland’s North Shore on a stolen electric bike. Newsletter Banner Weekly Newsletter Stay informed…

Sam Hudson
Feb 9, 2026

OPINION: Winston Peters has once again whinged about mainstream journalism, criticising high profile journalists. With Kiwis facing real issues, patience for performative politics appears to be wearing thin. Newsletter Banner Weekly…

Sam Hudson
Feb 2, 2026

OPINION: New Zealand is drifting through a noisy, fractured political age. Everyone is hungry for certainty and short on trust, one familiar name keeps resurfacing in conversations. Dame Jacinda Ardern.…

Sam Hudson
Jan 29, 2026

OPINION: Here we are again with Brian Tamaki, the man who seems to think the Auckland Harbour Bridge is some giant red carpet laid out just for his latest performance.…

Sam Hudson
Jan 26, 2026

OPINION: Every personality driven campaign reaches a reckoning between rhetoric and reality. Heal the Nation is drifting towards that line. Newsletter Banner Weekly Newsletter Stay informed with journalism that puts…

Sam Hudson
Jan 24, 2026

Dr Ashley Bloomfield has spent two decades working in and alongside the World Health Organisation, long enough to see both its strengths and its structural flaws. After co-chairing the complex…

Sam Hudson
Jan 23, 2026

OPINION: An op-ed on power in leadership, narrative from the podium of truth, and why kindness still wins; even as our political regime grows more defensive. Newsletter Banner Weekly Newsletter…

Sam Hudson
Jan 19, 2026

Video: A short exposé video article by Samuel Hudson summarising how blogger Cameron Slater’s latest “Good Oil” coverage of an internal Manukau Urban Māori Authority employment dispute was framed as…

Sam Hudson
Jan 14, 2026

OPINION: Based on Martel Wikeepa’s own public statements, TikTok rants, and grifting appeals made while using the alias Shubz, he advances a narrative of persecution and a movement under siege…

Shane Jones’ mining push raises a blunt question. Who is really benefiting?

Teen crashes stolen e-bike after knife-point robbery

A nation waiting for the return of the Podium of Truth

The bridge might break, Brian Tamaki

Where are the receipts behind Heal the Nation?

Dr Ashley Bloomfield warns pandemic risks persist, WHO vital

I keep talking about Dame Jacinda Ardern

When the Whale Oil playbook stopped working

Shubz and the Grift of the Nation