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The bodies are being recovered. The memorial services are being held. The inquiries are being announced. But as New Zealand moves from the immediate horror of the Mount Maunganui tragedy into the familiar ritual of official review, a harder set of questions is emerging. Not just *“what went wrong at 9.30am on January 22?” but “why does this keep happening?” and “what, exactly, is the plan?”* The answer to that last question, as far as anyone…

The Government is negotiating with the US to provide access to our critical minerals, while a memo before the Waitangi Tribunal says a backdoor deal violates obligations to Māori Resources minister Shane Jones has adopted a Trumpian slogan, and hopes New Zealand's mining industry can benefit from Trump's desire for critical minerals. Photo: Facebook New Zealand has been holding closed-door discussions with the United States on the supply of…

The world is moving toward a multipolar order in which sovereignty is becoming central, Maksim Oreshkin has said *Russian deputy head of the presidential administration Maksim Oreshkin. © Sputnik / Aleksandr Kazakov* The old model of globalization that dominated in recent decades has ended, and the world is moving away from a unipolar order as other countries begin to take the lead, the deputy head of the Russian…

Unpaid dues and reduced funding could halt the world body’s core operations by mid-2026, Antonio Guterres has warned *UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. © Getty Images / Anadolu / Contributor* [RT] The United Nations is at risk of running out of cash as unpaid dues and funding shortfalls by member states threaten to disrupt key operations, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned. Guterres issued the warning in…

For ordinary households, the “energy crisis” is no longer a headline—it’s a permanent line item. The price shock that began during the COVID era and intensified after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has not cleanly reversed. In many Western countries, energy costs have settled into a new, higher plateau—one that acts like a stealth tax on families, small businesses, and national competitiveness. Some will argue this is merely the unavoidable price…

When Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced today that Judith Collins would become the next President of the Law Commission, he reached for familiar talking points about her “astute legal knowledge” and her service to the country. What he didn’t mention was far more significant: this marks the first time in the Law Commission’s 40-year history that a current serving politician has been appointed to lead this supposedly independent…

2019 heralded the start of a new era, but not perhaps the new age that many had hoped for. The advent of mass biotechnology has signalled a complete break with the past, not just the immediate past but virtually the whole of human history. Biotechnology cuts across every prior human relationship, cultural norm, political system, physiological mechanism and scientific concept. It does so by irrevocably altering the vehicle of human existence—the…

History leaves patterns. When money creation is examined not as an abstract theory but as a mechanism of power, a consistent record emerges — one rarely discussed in mainstream economics. Nations that attempt to reclaim monetary sovereignty, restrain debt-based banking, or challenge reserve-currency privilege tend not to be debated on their merits. They are pressured, isolated, destabilised, or destroyed. Neo-Piracy Preface — Part 3: When…

Wellington — Winston Peters has used the first sitting of Parliament in the 2026 election year to deliver a wide-ranging and combative address, sharply criticising the former Labour-Green Government’s economic record while positioning New Zealand First as a party of experience, delivery, and “real-world” governance. Speaking after opposition leaders’ contributions, Peters said the moment called for vision, credibility and confidence, but…

Auckland, New Zealand — After a challenging 2025, Kiwibank economists are forecasting a marked economic turnaround next year (2026), with signs of recovery emerging across key sectors and confidence rising among households and businesses. **2025: A Difficult Year, But Momentum Building** Economists at Kiwi Bank describe 2025 as a year where the New Zealand economy struggled to gain sustained momentum. Throughout the year, higher interest rates…

Inflation has moved back above the Reserve Bank’s target range, driven less by discretionary spending than by unavoidable household bills. Council rates and electricity costs are now biting hardest, pushing inflation higher even as families cut back elsewhere. *Summarised by Centrist* Statistics New Zealand figures show the consumer price index rose 0.6 per cent in the December quarter. This has lifted annual inflation to 3.1 per cent. That…

The picture is firming up, and it’s devastating. Six people are dead at the foot of Mount Maunganui because, over four critical hours on the morning of 22 January, New Zealand’s emergency management system failed. Not just failed, but failed repeatedly, in ways that now look systemic. And what’s becoming clearer with each new revelation is that this wasn’t just bad luck or an unforeseeable tragedy. This was a disaster waiting to happen, built…

Erin Gourley left New Zealand in 2024 for Europe, and says there's a 'huge risk' of New Zealanders forgetting to vote even if they're politically minded. Former local government reporter Erin Gourley forgot to vote in last year’s council elections. She was living in Sweden, where she moved to study law in 2024. Now registered as an overseas voter, Gourley says she won’t be making that mistake again. “It’s crazy, because I used to be a local…

Dietary vitamin C rapidly enters skin tissue and improves structural density and epidermal renewal within 8 weeks. by ***Nicolas Hulscher, MPH*** Vitamin C (ascorbate) is present in every major compartment of human skin, and its biology is well established: it supports collagen-related processes in fibroblasts, helps buffer oxidative stress, and can influence keratinocyte behavior. Most of the popular conversation focuses on topical…

A new documentary might be the most mind blowing report we've ever seen on the covid vaccine. If took the shot your body is acting as a transmitter. One of the most eye opening scenes from the trailer shows signals being received... and then camera pans back and you realize the signals are coming from underground... in the corpses in the graveyard... people that had taken the shot... now dead... but still sending a signal. Clayton Morris of…

How intercourse slipped down the list of life’s priorities *By **Dmitry Samoilov**, journalist and literary critic © Getty Images / praetorianphoto* [RT] Here’s the thing: the world many of us grew up in has vanished, and not because of geopolitics. Because of sex. No, this is not a personal confession. It is an observation about culture. Sex, once treated as central to modern life, is quietly retreating. And the shift is…

So we should be asking how the current coalition government has performed since taking over at the 2023 election, and asking what the other parties have got to offer for our future in the upcoming election battle Nationals Leader, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon told the nation in his state of the nation speech that National is concentrating on fixing the basics and building the future. My question for him is simply what part of the basics…

Parents naturally want their children to feel special – but showering them with praise can sometimes do more harm than good Tom Howarth When most of us think of personality disorders, we imagine them springing from difficult childhoods – abuse, neglect or harsh environments. But narcissism is different. A growing body of research suggests that children can develop narcissistic traits at the *other* extreme of upbringing: when they’re…

For more than five decades, New Zealand has been trapped in a quiet, grinding decline. Productivity has flat-lined. Living standards have slipped down the OECD rankings. Wealth has concentrated upward while poverty has spread downward. Our young and capable leave in record numbers, chasing wages and opportunity elsewhere. Those who remain are told this is normal, inevitable, and global. It isn’t. And it doesn’t have to be this way. At Davos…

The globalist world order ‘left American workers behind’, Howard Lutnick has said *RT: Howard Lutnick speaks during an event at the White House in Washington DC, December 19, 2025 © Getty Images / Alex Wong* Globalization is a *“failed policy”* that has *“left America behind,”* US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick declared in Davos on Tuesday, accusing the World Economic Forum (WEF) of pushing a globalist agenda that…