Commentary & News

Last Friday, my wife and I were a couple out of the 800+ delegates at the annual "Forum on the Family" held by Family First NZ. Bob McCroskrie had put together an impressive lineup of speakers.

The story was a big one and the "talk of the town" in Christian circles. A maths teacher was deregistered for refusing to use false pronouns and names for a 14 year old girl who was being transitioned by the school.

New Zealand has a gang problem. There has been much discussion about this problem in recent weeks, especially with everyone gearing up for the election season.

I listened to Liam Hehir's podcast with Thomas Coughlan from the NZH and there were some very key things talked about that confirm I am on the right track.

The summit organised by Peter Mortlock was on the North Shore at 7pm on a Tuesday evening, so I arrived late. It was very well attended, perhaps 700 people and we needed to park on the road.

There are a few topics this week that I considered weighing in on: bi-lingual road signs, drug prescriptions, and accusations of homophobia. There is a common thread that runs through these stories.

A little bit of a bizarre situation has formed in the wake of New Zealand's COVID lockdowns and forced vaccination policies. The opposition to these things was chaotic and disorganised.

The Media Council is somewhat of a strange beast. Sometimes it delivers good and interesting verdicts on issues of media balance, but most of the time it seems to share the heavy left-wing bias of the organisations it represents.

Not all technological advancements are good. The ability for the government to harass you via the device you carry in your pocket is one of those extremely negative developments.

It has been well over 3 years since Police raided my family home at dinner time on the hunt for illegal firearms.

I confess that I don't really know anything about the "Dominion Post" other than occasional references to it in media. On 14th April the owner and CEO of Stuff proudly announced that the word "dominion" was going to disappear from the newspaper's name.

A week is a long time in politics. I started off a Saturday morning in late March escorting Helen Houghton from New Conservative to speak at Kelly-Jay Keen's "Let Women Speak" event in Albert Park.

There has been some debate on the right as to the meaning and purpose of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The media is reporting again on the Labour government's inability to implement a mining ban promised in 2017.  The ban would infringe on the property rights of Ngāi Tahu, which was awarded ownership of all pounamu (greenstone) in its 1997 Treaty se

Ever since I accepted the invitation to join New Conservative, I've been thinking.

New Zealand experienced two very important events this week that are more closely related than you might think. First, the chairman of the social housing ministry was sacked for making political statements in public.

The "poem" in question has been praised by some critics as a work of empowerment that challenges New Zealand's colonial past.

Why do we accept that it is best to separate children from their parents as early and for as long as possible?

New Zealand often plays an insignificant part in greater geopolitical schemes. But we've been part of the current world order since before the outbreak of the Great War.

While I've enjoyed many summer birthday celebrations, I was born in the winter. The cold and wet weather of this year's birthday felt like something of a flashback to 28 years ago.