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‘Aotearoa’ declining in popularity, as NZ First pushes name bill
With support for ‘Aotearoa’ collapsing, Peters pushes to settle the country’s name in law, and voters are firmly behind him.
August 6, 2025
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With support for ‘Aotearoa’ collapsing, Peters pushes to settle the country’s name in law, and voters are firmly behind him.
David Seymour has been identified by Māori activists as the major threat to their push for an ethno-state.
“The bill simply suggests that any such regulation must demonstrate that the benefits outweigh the costs. In any case, the bill is non-binding and Parliament is not precluded from passing regulation that fails this test.”
The same old flawed NIWA research keeps getting quoted to support the climate change narrative. When are the media, science communicators, the public service and politicians going to realise you can’t base expensive policies on bad data and keep the public’s trust?
A single court ruling could upend contractor work in New Zealand, and force Uber to shut down.
RNZ’s latest coverage of protest flag vandalism near Levin blurs the line between reporting and rallying. And the public paid for it.
New Zealand’s pay equity laws were meant to correct historic prejudice. But the system ballooned into an ideological industry that assumed discrimination wherever women outnumbered men by an arbitrary percentage. In addition to being contentious, it was costly and, in its one-sided logic, coercive.
A simple school vaccine form is a subtle system of behavioural control, nudging families toward consent, compliance, and disclosure under the guise of choice.
The type of managerialism and politicisation afflicting New Zealand universities is present in other countries to a greater or lesser degree.
If you want to attack anyone for what you and a few of your fellow ideological travellers see as doctrinal error, you really shouldn’t make your target the grieving parents of a child who died alone of starvation in a motel room.