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Remigration NZ and the politics of expulsion threatening New Zealand
- Declan Ashford
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Election Day reckoning is coming. Christopher Luxon needs to be fired by the people
- Bennett Carter
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Chris Hipkins is the leader New Zealand needs and the ‘Better Prime Minister’ Kiwis deserve
- Sam Hudson
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Christopher Luxon wants another three years, but why should New Zealanders trust his promises?
- Anne K. Rutherford
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Dame Jacinda Ardern’s kindness and compassion set to inspire a new generation of leaders
- Sam Hudson
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Winston Peters will not be Prime Minister under my watch
- Sam Hudson
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Remigration NZ and the politics of expulsion threatening New Zealand
- Declan Ashford
- Nov 7, 2026
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OPINION: Professor Mohan Dutta’s account of intimidation in May this year should unsettle anyone who believes New Zealand is a country where difficult ideas can be debated without fear. The…
Election Day reckoning is coming. Christopher Luxon needs to be fired by the people
- Bennett Carter
- Nov 6, 2026
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OPINION: On Saturday, New Zealanders will deliver its verdict on Christopher Luxon. After three years of promises and assurances that better days were coming, the Prime Minister faces scrutiny…
Chris Hipkins is the leader New Zealand needs and the ‘Better Prime Minister’ Kiwis deserve
- Sam Hudson
- Nov 6, 2026
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OPINION: What good is a Prime Minister’s promise of recovery when the weekly shop still feels like a financial emergency? That is the question Christopher Luxon should be answering, and the…
Christopher Luxon wants another three years, but why should New Zealanders trust his promises?
- Anne K. Rutherford
- Nov 3, 2026
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OPINION: Christopher Luxon wants New Zealanders to give his government another three years. With election day approaching on 7 November, the question is whether his record gives voters enough…
Dame Jacinda Ardern’s kindness and compassion set to inspire a new generation of leaders
- Sam Hudson
- Oct 31, 2026
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OPINION: Good on you, Dame Jacinda Ardern. The world of politics is dominated by outrage, division and point-scoring, but I find it genuinely heartening that a leader who advertised kindness…
Winston Peters will not be Prime Minister under my watch
- Sam Hudson
- Oct 21, 2026
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OPINION: Winston Peters may dream of becoming prime minister, but he should understand one thing, it will not be happening under my watch. After decades being involved in New Zealand politics,…
Winston Peters is overdue for the political Retirement Home. New Zealand deserves Better
- Sam Hudson
- Oct 11, 2026
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OPINION: Winston Peters is overdue for the political retirement home. New Zealand deserves leadership focused on the mounting bills at the kitchen table, not another round of pathetic…
Christopher Luxon’s body language during the Leaders’ Debate was quite revealing
- Anne K. Rutherford
- Oct 7, 2026
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OPINION: Christopher Luxon’s words were only part of the problem during Tuesday night’s TVNZ Leaders’ Debate. The pictures told their own story. Again and again, Luxon looked down towards the…
Chris Hipkins won the Leaders’ Debate by a thousand miles, Christopher Luxon struggled
- Sam Hudson
- Oct 7, 2026
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OPINION: If Tuesday night’s TVNZ Leaders Debate was supposed to prove Christopher Luxon remains the man in command, it achieved almost the opposite. Chris Hipkins won this debate by a thousand…
Does the Free Speech Union deserve authority, or does it need challenging from within?
- Sam Hudson
- Oct 6, 2026
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OPINION: The Free Speech Union is asking New Zealanders to join their membership programme. I am asking about something more than membership. Specifically, what authority should it actually…
Matthew Horncastle wants to sell me a measly box. I already own a Mansion
- Sam Hudson
- Oct 4, 2026
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OPINION: Matthew Horncastle says he wants to “sell houses to everyone” which sounds wonderfully democratic until you remember that some of us are already quite comfortable with the type of…
When calls for ‘civility’ collide with Academic Freedom and the right to dissent
- Mohan Dutta
- Oct 1, 2026
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OPINION: Civility is the velvet glove. Peel it back and you find the fist. The word comes most often from the mouths of people who already own the microphone. They hold the endowments. They…