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Final Election Predictions, The Problem with Political Unity, and Campaign Fails | The Select Committee
Toxic Campaigning, Undecided Voters, and a Flaw in Our Electoral System? | The Select Committee
Labour’s Gang Problem, Getting Kids Outside, and Voter Suppression? | The Select Committee
Fiscal Plan Face-Off, ACT and Labour Agree, and Will TOP Be Kingmaker? | The Select Committee
National’s List MPs on the Line, Nuclear Power, and Broken Debates | The Select Committee
TOP’s Bottom Lines? Finance Minister Chlöe Swarbrick? Tactical Voting? | The Select Committee
The Government’s Highs, Lows, and Who Won the Coalition? | The Select Committee
Breaking Up Supermarkets, Freezing Minimum Wages, and the Rise of AI Politics | The Select Committee
KiwiMart, Labour’s Poll Shock, and Is Climate Politics Dead? | The Select Committee
Gutting the Public Service, Attacks on an MP, and Te Pāti Māori’s Tax Plan | The Select Committee
Labour’s Financial Fight, Voter Fraud Claims, and ACT’s One Law for All | The Select Committee
2026 Sir John Graham Lecture - Dr Sarah Irving-Stonebraker
TOP’s “Car Crash,” TPM’s Overhang Plan, and National’s Coup Fallout | The Select Committee
National's Civil War, Labour's Polling Woes, and What's Next for the Election? | The Select Committee
NZ First Baby Bonus, Classroom Discipline, and Parliament’s Double Standards | The Select Committee
Russian Spy Claims, National Rules Out TOP, and Minor Party Politics | The Select Committee
Kiwi Power, Council–Iwi Agreements, and Cook Strait Ferry Names | The Select Committee
Paul Henry Joins ACT, the Polls Tighten, and New Zealand–India Ties Deepen | The Select Committee
Voting Rights, VPNs, and China’s Missile Diplomacy | The Select Committee
Emergency Housing Targets, Political Centrism, and the Data Centre Panic | The Select Committee
The Greens’ Wealth Tax, Compulsory KiwiSaver, and Political Neutrality | The Select Committee
Public Sector Scandal, Election-Year Sparring, and Wellington Hears a Hooton | The Select Committee
The China Ban, Labour’s Campaign Kick-Off, and will the Rural Vote Turn Red? | The Select Committee
Defence Freeloaders, AI Welfare Decisions, and Winston’s Rugby Rescue | The Select Committee
Budget Cake, Climate Courts, and Duck-Faced Horses | The Select Committee
Slashing the Public Service, Banning Social Media, and Buying BNZ | The Select Committee
Corruption, Superannuation, and Fake Polls | The Select Committee
The Modern Slavery Bill
Immigration, Marriage, and National Defence | The Select Committee
Truancy, Trade Deals, and the National Party Pivot | The Select Committee
Luxon, Supermarkets, and the State of the Planet | The Select Committee
Clickbait, Selective Framing, and Trust in Media
Euthanasia Amendment Bill Threatens Conscience Rights
National’s Billion-Dollar Gas Terminal
NZ’s Housing Debate: What’s Driving the Divide
Why Palliative Care Matters: A Conversation with Hospice NZ’s Wayne Naylor
The $200m Initiative Changing Social Housing: Steven Moe on Impact Investing
The Promise of Social Impact Bonds
Stephenson’s Euthanasia Amendment Bill Is Not What Kiwis Voted For
End of an Error: What Replaces NCEA?
Dignity, Death, and Choice: Amanda Achtman on Euthanasia and Culture
Lessons from Canada: Euthanasia in New Zealand
Tim Wilson | Grievance Rules? Why Distrust Needn’t Destroy Us
Dr Juliet Chevalier-Watts | Why an Atheist Academic Changed Her Mind on Churches’ Tax Status
Maryanne Spurdle | Our Jenga towers are tipsy
Jason Heale | Feeding our children or dependence?
Thomas Scrimgeour | The world is cooling
Tim Wilson | Posie Parker, Destiny Church, and Policing Protest
Josiah Brown | Can we rebuild together?
Maryanne Spurdle | Tech advances won’t fix humanity’s reckless streak
Jason Heale | The TikTok dilemma
Tim Wilson | Christmas Burnout: Symptom of a Deeper Malaise
Josiah Brown | Climate finance is a hot mess
Thomas Scrimgeour | Resurrectionists
Maryanne Spurdle | Health providers’ rights facing a dead end
Jason Heale | Parents, not policies: Our best defence against social media
Tim Wilson | Why Taylor Swift lost the US election
Thomas Scrimgeour | Rocking chair to nowhere: America and New Zealand 2024
Stephanie Worboys | Why our young are leaving, why they may not return
Maryanne Spurdle | Euthanising oversight
Jason Heale | Super-Ageing Disgracefully
Marcus Roberts | Don’t Believe In God? Why you still need Religious Freedom
Tim Wilson | A Defence of Inauthenticity
Alexandra Lay | Digital dilemma: Why Gen Z needs books more than ever
Professor Nicholas Aroney | Why NZ didn't become part of Australia
Thomas Scrimgeour | Where social investment fears to tread
Maryanne Spurdle | Living in the red chair
Dr Stephanie Worboys | Pandora’s Box: The perils of gene technology
Jason Heale | The geopolitics of our energy crisis
Josiah Brown | Time to trade in: NZ healthcare needs an upgrade
Tim Wilson | The Conspiracy Olympics
Maryanne Spurdle | Even public schools need charter schools
Thomas Scrimgeour | Know your limits
Jason Heale | What makes Kiwis Kiwi?
Josiah Brown | Populism: Democracy’s stress test?
Tim Wilson | A Hymn to Handwriting
Madeleine Smith | Want to buy your child anxiety? Get them a smartphone
Maryanne Spurdle | Why choice in education really is choice
Thomas Scrimgeour | Between the devil and the deep blue sea
Jason Heale | A Prescription for Our Defence (and other) Ills: Conscription
Josiah Brown | Crime’s jigsaw: The missing pieces
Tim Wilson | How to see through squid ink
Maryanne Spurdle | Everyone pays when speech isn’t free
Dr Stephanie Worboys | Why Trust is a Must
Thomas Scrimgeour | How Will We Remember Them?
Marcus Roberts | Immigration: Getting Beyond the Number 8 Wire
Jason Heale | Rethinking MP’s Remuneration
Tim Wilson | Protesting Too Much
Josiah Brown | Un-Civil religion at the end of the rainbow
Maryanne Spurdle | Cake one day, crumbs the next
Thomas Scrimgeour | How to build political immortality
MIC 17 | Hijacking the school bus: Ideologies, curriculum, and teacher training
Marcus Roberts | A slow-moving, silent revolution
Jason Heale | What Newshub’s Death Really Means
Natasha Baulis | While We Were Sleeping
Josiah Brown | Putting the ‘local’ back in local government
Maryanne Spurdle | Only better tech can recharge the EV revolution
Tim Wilson | The Treaty Debate: What People Are Getting Wrong
Marcus Roberts | An “independent foreign policy”? No thanks.
Jason Heale | Our character deficit and how to fix it