Commentary & News

Liam Hehir, Stuff's token moderate, has decided to call it quits. His reasons are fairly noble: he wants to spend more time with his family and having to write a weekly column is too much pressure.

The government is remaining tight-lipped on how well the gun confiscation programme is going. They release the total figure of firearms purchased to date, but 15,276 firearms means nothing without some context.

It was the first week of June when my friend Jesse Anderson tragically took his own life. We had been creating the Right Minds Podcast together for nearly three months, meeting most Tuesday nights to have dinner, chat, plan, and record.

The government has announced that it plans to introduce reforms to New Zealand's abortion law reforms.

I've written on Folau twice. First during the minor skirmish with the anti-Christian media last year, and then I covered it a second time during the opening salvo of this new war. I genuinely expected things to die down.

Death and taxes, they say, are the two unavoidable facts of existence. But taxes can be avoided if you sleep in Albert Park and play the bongo drums for spare change outside McDonald's. Death, on the other hand, comes for us all.

About a year ago I drafted an obituary for the ACT Party. I didn't publish it, but with all the flailing about and bizarre antics Seymour was doing trying to stay relevant while being dead in the polls, I thought it was about time to write them off.

This is the sixth episode of the Right Minds Podcast, hosted by Dieuwe de Boer and Jesse Anderson, recorded on the evening of Tuesday 21st May, 2019.

A year and a half out from the cannabis referendum and the air is thick with pot-head panegyrics to the delights of Mary Jane. Well I’m here to tell you the dope fiends have got it wrong. It’s almost as if their minds have been befuddled.

This is the main problem with Newshub's "Because It Matters" series: it's not about journalism, it's just political activism designed to push for changes to our laws.

One Te Puke Kiwifruit Orchardist Drove all the way to Te Awamutu tonight to stare National Party MPs Barbara Kuriger and Chris Bishop in the eye and tell them how the new Arms Act they helped enact has grievously impacted on his business.

The crusade against free speech has been around for millennia, but it really kicked off in August 2018 when YouTube banned famous American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

Newshub has published a preview of a new special show they're airing called "Because It Matters", with the tagline for the episode being "Hidden in plain sight: #Newshub's Patrick Gower investigates racism in New Zealand."

This is the fifth episode of the Right Minds Podcast, hosted by Dieuwe de Boer and Jesse Anderson, with special guest Elliot Ilikei, recorded on the evening of Tuesday 7th May, 2019.

Do we understand the driving forces behind what we term as radicalization or is this so fractured that we cannot even join any of the dots up at all? Young people tend to join violent extremist organizations more than any other age groups.

This is the fourth episode of the Right Minds Podcast, hosted by Dieuwe de Boer and Origen, recorded on the evening of Tuesday 30th April, 2019.

A reader has sent in two videos he took on Anzac Day of a man being threatened with arrest for his sign, with the police taking his details. The sign had a simple Christian message on one side and a tribute to his uncle on the other.

Last Thursday, Elliot Ikilei, the deputy leader of the New Conservative Party logged on to his Twitter account to find out he had been suspended from the platform. What was his crime? Did he say something hateful or dishonest?

This is the third episode of the Right Minds Podcast, hosted by Dieuwe de Boer and Jesse Anderson and recorded on the evening of Thursday 25th April, 2019, due to Easter and ANZAC holidays.

This is the second episode of the Right Minds Podcast, hosted by Dieuwe de Boer and Jesse Anderson and recorded on Tuesday 16th April, 2019.