Michael Laws says mainstream and Māori media are failing the country by refusing to confront the scale of child abuse and welfare dependency within Māori communities, warning that real solutions are impossible without honest discussion.
Methamphetamine use in New Zealand has doubled in just months, with warnings that the country is losing its fight against organised crime and facing a saturated black market.
A ministerial advisory group compared the situation to the Titanic: “New Zealand is losing the fight against transnational, serious, organised crime.”
Australians head to the polls on May 3, with early voting already breaking records. More than 650,000 New Zealanders living in Australia could be directly or indirectly affected by the outcome.
For Kiwis in Australia’s rental market or trades sector, both platforms offer different forms of relief.
John McDonald, editor of CityWatch NZ, argues that proposed road pricing laws would not just add new charges for drivers but fundamentally change the balance of freedom and government control in New Zealand.
He warns that “governments will likely attempt to take away your rights and then sell them back to you as privileges,” turning the right to travel freely into a conditional, state-managed activity.
In an opinion piece for Bassett, Brash & Hide, Scott Kennedy, the principal of Manukau Christian School, argues that attacks on Christian schools like KingsWay reflect a deeper bias in New Zealand’s education system that punishes traditional values while forcing parents to fund a secular moral agenda they may not share.
Kennedy criticises recent media coverage of KingsWay School, claiming that outlets like Stuff are using isolated misconduct allegations to smear Christian education as a whole.
New Zealanders living in Australia can expect their direct citizenship pathway to remain in place after the federal election, with both major parties backing the current rules.
The policy, introduced in 2023 by the Albanese Labor Government, allows most Kiwis to apply for Australian citizenship after four years of residence without needing permanent residency first.
A new study suggests that receiving the shingles vaccine could lower the risk of developing dementia later in life, with researchers finding a 20 percent reduction among those who were vaccinated.
The study, published in Nature and based on health records from 280,000 older adults in Wales, compared individuals eligible for the zoster vaccine at age 79 to those just slightly older who were not.
