Opinion: The millions spent on urgent Waitangi Tribunal inquiries deserve scrutiny. But treating the bill as the whole story misses why the pressure has built.
Tag: Opinion
Wellington should stop treating the Golden Mile as a nice-to-have
The Golden Mile debate is not only about buses, retailers or paving. It is about whether New Zealand’s cities can still complete public projects without losing their nerve.
Driving with cognitive decline should not be left to families to police alone
A fatal wrong-way driving case raises a hard public question: New Zealand needs a kinder, clearer system for cognitive fitness to drive.
Police AI should not be restarted quietly when public trust is the whole point
If police want to use AI, the public needs more than internal sign-off. Accuracy, bias, language and accountability have to be visible from the start.
New Zealand should learn from Williamson’s quiet excellence before it turns it into nostalgia
Kane Williamson’s retirement should make New Zealand ask why understated excellence is often appreciated most clearly after it leaves.
Emergency alerts should be treated as a trust system, not just a phone feature
New Zealand’s emergency mobile alerts are technically simple for users, but socially delicate: people need to know when to trust them, and why.
Public transport should not need an emergency fund to prove it is essential
New Zealand’s public transport funding debate shows the country still treats essential urban mobility as optional until the bill arrives.
New Zealand cannot fix housing by treating density as a culture war
Opinion: New Zealand’s housing debate needs fewer slogans and more honest trade-offs about land, infrastructure, renters and future households.
New Zealand should regulate AI before it becomes another trust problem we fix too late
New Zealand does not need panic about AI. It needs boring, enforceable rules before automated systems become embedded in welfare, health, education and policing without enough public accountability.
After seven deaths, New Zealand needs to stop treating holiday road trauma as a seasonal surprise
The King’s Birthday weekend road toll is not just a tragic statistic. It is a recurring warning that New Zealand’s road safety conversation still swings between grief and forgetfulness.