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.
New Zealand doesn’t take its universities seriously, despite them being major export earners and productivity engines.
RNZ dismissed 1930s heat data by claiming sites can’t be compared, even though NIWA now routinely does, undermining their own record-breaking headline.
The Crown is being audited for failing to meet an undefined ideological benchmark created by the previous government.
An NZ Herald article on bowel cancer screening appears to have been discreetly sanitised post-publication.
Given the concerns over Grenon’s minority involvement with NZME, the media silence over Stuff’s new half-owner exposes how easily concerns may melt away when the people in charge already think the same way as the press gallery.
Jacinda Ardern’s memoir may have made headlines, but lacklustre sales and lukewarm reviews suggest Penguin’s $1.5m gamble isn’t paying off.
