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Only Cheats Change the Rules Mid-Game

Sneakily stacking the deck against war heroes.

3m ago·4 min read·718 words

What’s the Problem with ‘Populism’?

It’s a threat to the established elite.

1h ago·6 min read·1093 words

Hospital pressure points NZ: work under way to ease strain

New Zealand’s hospital system is under strain, and work is under way to ease “hospital...

2h ago·2 min read·257 words

NZ firms gas transition loans: Thousands eligible for government-backed support

Thousands of New Zealand firms are now eligible for NZ firms gas transition loans under...

3h ago·2 min read·271 words

Former Labour ministers reject MP’s critique of Ardern Government

Former Labour ministers have moved to dismiss a Labour MP’s “critique” of the Ardern Government,...

3h ago·2 min read·256 words

Camilla Belich and the fake John Campbell episode

Camilla Belich has described being duped by a “fake John Campbell” in a new One...

3h ago·2 min read·250 words

Bracket Creep: The Stealth Annual Tax Increase

If politicians or bureaucrats want higher taxes, let them say so openly. Let them introduce the legislation, debate it, and face the voters. Until then, bracket creep remains what it has always been: …

3h ago·7 min read·1246 words

Inside the FDA’s ‘Cover-Up’ Over Child Deaths

Insider accounts, leaked memos and Congressional scrutiny reveal what happened behind closed doors at the FDA after reports of paediatric deaths following Covid vaccination.

3h ago·7 min read·1213 words

Now Do Palestine

New Zealand’s “grave concerns” risk looking less like principled diplomacy and more like a performance of selective morality.

4h ago·8 min read·1436 words

NZ budget 2025: priorities versus need in a tight fiscal year

As the NZ budget 2025 nears, the core question is whether scarce New Zealand public...

4h ago·2 min read·264 words

It Seems the Uniparty Says No

Will they support the bill to define biological sex in law all the way?

5h ago·6 min read·1160 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/093

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

6h ago·3 min read·484 words

Fuel prices New Zealand: poll ranks issue fourth-biggest

A New Zealand poll reported by RNZ news says fuel prices in New Zealand have...

6h ago·2 min read·262 words

MPs Who Can’t Tell Boys From Girls

The first reading exposed something alarming: a chunk of our political class has less grasp of biological reality than the average three-year-old.

6h ago·3 min read·524 words

The Late Homeschooling Law Changes

PILLAR is calling on the minister to halt the progression of the bill before its third reading and engage in extensive consultation with the homeschooling sector before granting sweeping new powers to…

7h ago·3 min read·470 words

Budget 2026 NZ: What has been announced so far

Budget 2026 NZ is taking shape through staged releases, with RNZ tracking what has been...

7h ago·2 min read·247 words

Be Careful What You Wish For

The frightening underside of digital reforms.

7h ago·5 min read·944 words

The Good Oil Podcast – Episode 33 – Barry Soper

If you enjoy proper yarns about New Zealand politics with zero filter, this one’s for you.

8h ago·1 min read·123 words

Good Oil General Debate

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9h ago·1 min read·196 words

Pacific diplomats faced quake and fire risks for years – review – RNZ

A New Zealand building safety review has found Pacific diplomats in Wellington were exposed to...

9h ago·2 min read·245 words

Face of the Day

For almost half a century, we knew her as Camp Leader, one half of the Kens, Raylene to her sister’s Brenda, and a national treasure.

9h ago·1 min read·140 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… occidental (adjective, noun) - adjective 1: of, relating to, or situated in the Occident : western 2: of or relating to Occidentals noun (capitalised) : a member of one of th…

9h ago·2 min read·226 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.

10h ago·1 min read·61 words

NZ political donations: $1m linked to fast track applications revealed

RNZ has identified about $1 million in NZ political donations from entities connected to “fast...

10h ago·2 min read·257 words

Ipsos survey NZ finds Labour most trusted on key problems

New Ipsos survey NZ results reported by Stuff show the Labour Party is “most trusted”...

10h ago·2 min read·274 words

Pacific visa fees cut leaves Govt facing revenue hit

The New Zealand Government is facing a “revenue hit” after cutting Pacific visa fees and...

10h ago·2 min read·278 words

National Party NZ faces vote leakage to NZ First, Derek Cheng says

A growing voter shift NZ is testing National Party NZ’s grip on its centre-right base,...

10h ago·2 min read·273 words

NZ migrant worker English requirements extended to more visas

New Zealand is tightening its NZ migrant worker English requirements from next week, with 1News...

15h ago·2 min read·274 words

Night Cap

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19h ago·1 min read·130 words

Willis apology accepted after Edmonds ‘duck-faced horse’ comment

The Willis apology story shifted in Wellington this week as Nicola Willis accepted an Edmonds...

19h ago·2 min read·235 words

Manly Monday

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19h ago·1 min read·130 words

Tameem Barakat From Centrist On Digital ID Being Introduced In NZ

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20h ago·1 min read·43 words

Rod Drury allegations prompt political parties NZ to cut ties

NZ political parties have cut ties with former donor Rod Drury in New Zealand, after...

20h ago·2 min read·262 words

Shane Jones Explodes Over $500 Million Tauranga Port Redress Claim

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20h ago·1 min read·138 words

“Ka pai, bro” - Seymour has fun with Rawiri and Chippie

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21h ago·1 min read·139 words

Good Oil Backchat

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22h ago·1 min read·165 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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22h ago·1 min read·34 words

Mayor no confidence councillor after police conduct complaint – NZ Herald report

A New Zealand mayor has declared “no confidence” in a controversial councillor after a police...

22h ago·2 min read·268 words

Comedy Corner

Welcome to Politically Incorrect Comedy corner: the one place on The Good Oil where you are allowed to read and share naughty and offensive jokes that make us all laugh even though we are not supposed…

23h ago·1 min read·108 words

The Rise of the Meme Disease

These meme diseases turned out to be phantoms that mysteriously disappeared. These conditions also represented examples of the treatment being much worse than the purported disease.

23h ago·8 min read·1475 words

CBC ‘Prank Show’ Humiliates Retired Mounties

A struggle session with a canned laugh track.

1d ago·4 min read·790 words

Green Party bill seeks to ban mining on conservation land

The proposed legislation would also require mining permits to be surrendered if protected wildlife species are discovered within permit areas.

1d ago·2 min read·269 words

‘Duck-sized horses’ and ‘old town ponds’: Leaked Labour session reveals campaign mood

Edmonds later apologised to Willis.

1d ago·2 min read·313 words

Māori electorates face growing fragmentation ahead of Election 2026

Radio Waatea reports a new political party linked to former NZ First MP Tukoroirangi Morgan is currently being formed.

1d ago·2 min read·279 words

What is a comeback? – Stuart Nash returns to politics with NZ First

“I would be naive to think all New Zealanders will forgive me.”

1d ago·3 min read·423 words

Ethical investment sector hit by ‘green fatigue’

“Woke capitalism”

1d ago·2 min read·239 words

Islands of the Imagination and Sinking Utopias

There’s just something about islands.

1d ago·5 min read·896 words

Your Writing May Be an Indication of Alzheimer’s Disease

The new research may not be relevant for younger generations.

1d ago·5 min read·964 words

The Rewriting of Animal Farm

A new animated ‘Animal Farm’ transforms Orwell’s anti-authoritarian satire into an anti-capitalist fable, ideologically inverting its original warning.

1d ago·10 min read·1904 words

Two-Tier Kier Is at It Again

Ex-cop stripped of citizenship while jihadis and rapists stay put.

1d ago·6 min read·1090 words

Is Whānau Ora Lifting Student Attendance?

Outcomes are expressed in terms of number of engagements and the odd case study, alongside broad-based expressions of improved lives and expectations. This type of ongoing reporting was obviously insu…

1d ago·6 min read·1172 words

We Should Pity the Young

The category conspicuously absent from Woke’s hierarchy of victimhood.

1d ago·7 min read·1284 words

This Is Not Just a ‘Jewish Problem’

Australia’s canary has dropped off its perch.

1d ago·5 min read·999 words

Myth, Memory and the BNZ

Winston should be ashamed.

1d ago·10 min read·1984 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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1d ago·1 min read·83 words

Gender Lobby Gains Access to High Schools

The presenters named are not independent health educators. Each is a registered member of PATHA – the Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa – the activist organisation currently wag…

1d ago·3 min read·522 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/092

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

1d ago·2 min read·388 words

The Phillips Case Should Not Drive Home-School Legislation

Home education communities deserve better than to be caught in the crossfire of a government seeking a visible policy response to a tragedy it contributed to.

1d ago·4 min read·785 words

The Public Service Head Count Cuts

And there you have the answer to the Minister Willis’s conundrum. We can prove that, by simply not employing that extra 14.7 equivalents, we have effectively reduced our theoretical headcount by this …

1d ago·9 min read·1629 words

To Draw a Line

The proposal is, at its core, an attempt to answer a question that sounds simple but is not: what should professional regulation actually be for? Personal beliefs should be of no interest to the regul…

1d ago·11 min read·2045 words

Good Oil General Debate

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1d ago·1 min read·196 words

Face of the Day

He faced life for importing meth, importing MDMA and gun and ammunition charges. The judge allowed a 40% reduction. “At 48 years of age, with the help and support of your whānau, you are likely to be …

1d ago·3 min read·492 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… metathesis (noun) - : a change of place or condition: such as a: transposition of two phonemes in a word (as in the development of crud from curd or the pronunciation \ˈpər-tē…

1d ago·2 min read·272 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.

1d ago·1 min read·73 words

Night Cap

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1d ago·1 min read·130 words

Standup Sunday

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1d ago·1 min read·130 words

Is Cultural Identity A Pass For Misconduct At The NZ Teaching Council?

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1d ago·1 min read·44 words

Shane Jones: We cannot tolerate this type of weaponised cultural extortion.

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1d ago·1 min read·139 words

“$450 MILLION FOR ONE HAPŪ?” - Port of Tauranga Dispute

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1d ago·1 min read·138 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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1d ago·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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1d ago·1 min read·165 words

Budget 2026 NZ: Defence boost of $1.6b targets “ageing fleet” and new drones

Budget 2026 NZ marks a clear shift in New Zealand defence spending, with the NZ...

2d ago·2 min read·223 words

TVNZ recognised at NZ Media Awards for news and current affairs

TVNZ’s 1News has been honoured at the NZ Media Awards, with its New Zealand current...

2d ago·2 min read·207 words

Diving Into Obscurity: MC 900 Ft Jesus

The cult musician who walked away from the biz.

2d ago·6 min read·1073 words

Seun Kuti on Nigeria politics and the politics of music

Afrobeat star Seun Kuti has used a new NZ Herald interview to sharpen the link...

2d ago·2 min read·315 words

More than Just a Cheesy Kid’s Show

An often surprisingly deep and thoughtful kid’s show.

2d ago·8 min read·1432 words

Labour Party NZ attacks Temporary Additional Support changes

Labour Party NZ has criticised government changes to “Temporary Additional Support”, arguing the NZ government...

2d ago·2 min read·262 words

Good Oil General Debate

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2d ago·1 min read·196 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… island (noun, verb) - noun 1: a tract of land surrounded by water and smaller than a continent 2: something resembling an island especially in its isolated or surrounded posit…

2d ago·2 min read·326 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

2d ago·1 min read·67 words

New Zealand cost of living: why everything feels harder, slower and more expensive

New Zealand is confronting a New Zealand cost of living squeeze that, as Stuff reports,...

2d ago·2 min read·318 words

Good Politics vs Good Govt: Inside a Cabinet minister’s office in New Zealand

The NZ Herald’s “Good Politics vs Good Govt” turns the spotlight on a Cabinet minister...

2d ago·2 min read·283 words

Budget 2026 NZ: $81.5m customs crackdown on drug pipelines

Budget 2026 NZ redirects $81.5 million to a customs crackdown targeting drug pipelines into NZ,...

2d ago·2 min read·282 words

Members bills NZ: how the biscuit tin shapes lawmaking

New Zealand Parliament’s members bills NZ process is a quiet but consequential part of NZ...

2d ago·2 min read·293 words

Night Cap

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2d ago·1 min read·130 words

Threats to MPs prompt security boost across Parliament

New Zealand’s Parliament has moved quickly after “threats to MPs,” with NZ politics now focused...

2d ago·2 min read·243 words

Science Saturday

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2d ago·1 min read·130 words

Barry Soper On His Book ‘One Last Question, Prime Minister’

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2d ago·1 min read·42 words

Wellington mayor reacts to Government public sector cuts plan

The Wellington mayor says he was “surprised” by the Government public sector cuts plan, a...

2d ago·2 min read·226 words

Public Service Cuts Poll Results & Why Labour Is Staying Silent

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2d ago·1 min read·139 words

Is Chris Hipkins Hiding From the Media? Labour’s Policy Drought Exposed

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2d ago·1 min read·139 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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2d ago·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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2d ago·1 min read·165 words

What the ABC Fought to Hide

The ABC spent 50 years fighting to bury a pro-paedophilia broadcast.

3d ago·5 min read·938 words

Why Should the Taxpayer Reward Media Mendacity?

The legacy media are dying because they deserve to.

3d ago·5 min read·841 words

How Has Legalised Weed Worked Out?

A whole lotta hype and baloney from both sides.

3d ago·5 min read·913 words

Put Down the Controller and Do Something with Your Life

The luxury of boredom ought to be a gift to modern Westerners.

3d ago·7 min read·1202 words

Australia Is Grateful It Never Had Rogernomics

Best of MountainsideFM.

3d ago·1 min read·102 words

A licence on your phone is only the beginning

Digital driver licences, NZ Verify, Govt.nz, and online age verification are starting to form part of the same digital verification ecosystem.

3d ago·4 min read·724 words

Good Oil General Debate

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3d ago·1 min read·196 words

Thomas Coughlan warns of unintended consequences in NZ Herald column

Thomas Coughlan’s latest NZ Herald political commentary NZ argues that New Zealand politics is wrestling...

3d ago·2 min read·261 words

Face of the Day

Mather said Thompson advised the board of his plan in December. They were planning to tell staff, and confirm his departure, later this year.

3d ago·1 min read·145 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… autochthonous (adjective) - 1: indigenous, native 2: formed or originating in the place where found Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Ancient Athenians considered their a…

3d ago·2 min read·232 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

3d ago·1 min read·65 words

Night Cap

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3d ago·1 min read·130 words

Friday Fur

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3d ago·1 min read·130 words

Jordan Williams From Taxpayers’ Union On Cuts To Public Service

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3d ago·1 min read·42 words

NZ Public Service Cuts: Duncan Garner On The Wellington Job Losses

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3d ago·1 min read·139 words

Is Winston Peters Right About BNZ? The Audience Reacts

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3d ago·1 min read·137 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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3d ago·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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3d ago·1 min read·165 words

Authoritarianism Doesn’t Arrive With a Coup

It arrives with a login.

3d ago·11 min read·2156 words

Melbourne Is Getting Sharia by Force

Muslim gangsters are trying to shut down Melbourne’s nightlife.

4d ago·4 min read·715 words

A Plea: Wake Up, America

Socialism’s “soft boil” is leading straight to communism’s darkness.

4d ago·12 min read·2385 words

How To Lose Billions of Dollars: Trust the US Government

Add it up and you get roughly $64 billion of real capital that was incinerated in less than a year.

4d ago·4 min read·759 words

A Free Kick for a Floundering Opposition

And Keating keeps yelling at clouds.

4d ago·5 min read·945 words

Stanford Has Been Accused of ‘Undemocratic’ Conduct

Homeschooling laws reportedly added after select committee process.

4d ago·2 min read·258 words

New Zealand’s Bird Flu Racket

Pandemic performances.

4d ago·10 min read·1902 words

The ABC Tries Polishing a Twig

Their ‘good billionaire’ may not be so virtuous as they want us to believe.

4d ago·5 min read·821 words

I Just Saw Something the West Has Largely Forgotten

On 17 May 2026 – America’s 250th anniversary – I found myself in a small Texas town called Celina, witnessing something profound... that I hadn’t seen in a long time.

4d ago·5 min read·983 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

Take our Daily Opinion Poll and see how your views compare to other readers and then share the poll on social media. By sharing the poll you will help even more readers to discover The Good Oil.

4d ago·1 min read·83 words

The Orange and the Green Are Getting on Fine

Greenland isn’t ‘rejecting crazy Trump’ – the grown ups are still talking.

4d ago·5 min read·845 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/091

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

4d ago·2 min read·365 words

This Universalism Has an Asterisk

For Helen Clark and much of the international activist class, universal values increasingly appear to come with one glaring exception: the Jewish state.

4d ago·4 min read·768 words

Who to Vote for Being Made Easier

Chris Hipkins believes we don’t really care about the details re the Future Fund. What an abjectly ignorant little prat! This is one of his party’s cornerstone policies yet he expects that we will bli…

4d ago·5 min read·867 words

We Should Be Prepared

The fraying of the international rules-based order and various conflicts – either happening now or possible in the future – should see New Zealand preparing now. There are no excuses for inaction.

4d ago·5 min read·990 words

Good Oil General Debate

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4d ago·1 min read·196 words

Face of the Day

“I did four drug tests in camp and passed them all and then I fail on fight day. Who in their right mind would take drugs on fight day, especially when you’ve had the best camp of your life?” – Joseph…

4d ago·2 min read·348 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… artisan (noun) - 1: a worker who practices a trade or handicraft : craftsperson 2: a person or company that produces something (such as cheese or wine) in limited quantities of…

4d ago·2 min read·272 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.

4d ago·1 min read·77 words

Night Cap

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4d ago·1 min read·130 words

Tiny Home Thursday

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4d ago·1 min read·131 words

Sean Plunket Reacts To National’s Major Cut To Public Service Jobs

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4d ago·1 min read·43 words

Winston Peters BNZ Policy Debate and Public Servant Cuts

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4d ago·1 min read·137 words

Deputy PM David Seymour Unleashed

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4d ago·1 min read·133 words

Digital ID was not a public priority. So why the rush?

OIA papers show the government treated digital driver licences as a major priority despite limited evidence New Zealanders were demanding them.

4d ago·4 min read·644 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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4d ago·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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4d ago·1 min read·165 words

The United States Bites ISIS in Nigeria

After years of limited responses to terrorists in Africa, Trump turns up the heat.

4d ago·4 min read·747 words

Why Does the Hammer and Sickle Get a Free Pass?

On body count alone, communism ought to inspire even more revulsion than Nazism.

5d ago·5 min read·871 words

The Decade That Made Secession Seem Normal

It’s a cause for optimism. The people running these institutions are finding out the hard way that everyone has a vote – at the ballot box, with their feet, and with their wallets.

5d ago·5 min read·898 words

The Bulwark Against Populism Is Cracking

If this trend continues, pollsters predict that One Nation could win 12 seats at the next election, enough to become a genuine force in parliament.

5d ago·11 min read·2101 words

Dispatches From Ground Zero of the Woke Reich

The final straw seems to be indulging the natives to the point of making tribal leaders de facto co-governors of the province while doing nothing to repeal the provincial legislation that implements D…

5d ago·6 min read·1174 words

Judges Who Think They Know Better

A strong democracy requires not only independent courts, but also judges who recognise their proper role.

5d ago·5 min read·974 words

Is the Golden State Turning Red?

The Democrats’ iron grip on California may be about to end.

5d ago·4 min read·667 words

This Is Your Year

For those tired of the Uniparty.

5d ago·7 min read·1388 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/090

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

5d ago·3 min read·477 words

They Were Better than You’ll Ever Be

Why the modern left hate the Classics

5d ago·5 min read·938 words

We Have a Culture of Complaint

An institutional problem.

5d ago·14 min read·2795 words

The NYT Is Still Doing Its Thing

That ‘thing’ being telling lies for monsters.

5d ago·5 min read·933 words

The Public Service Isn’t a Welfare Scheme

Some quick thoughts on the public service reforms.

5d ago·10 min read·1940 words

Good Oil General Debate

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5d ago·1 min read·196 words

Face of the Day

Regulation Minister David Seymour said the mapping exposed decades of overlap and complexity, revealing a “twisted spaghetti of regulators” that drives up costs, creates long delays, and weakens accou…

5d ago·2 min read·209 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… quondam (adjective) - : former, sometime Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Looking for an unusual and creative way to say "former"? Quondam (which came to English in the …

5d ago·2 min read·236 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

5d ago·1 min read·47 words

Night Cap

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5d ago·1 min read·130 words

Wednesday Weapons

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5d ago·1 min read·130 words

Nicola Willis and the public sector - she really needs an axe

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5d ago·1 min read·140 words

Michael Laws On why The Waitangi Tribunal Must Go. And Now.

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5d ago·1 min read·43 words

Richard Prebble: how the undemocratic Treaty principles originated.

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5d ago·1 min read·136 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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5d ago·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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5d ago·1 min read·165 words

The Forever War We Cannot Escape

Why execution matters more than slogans for Iran.

5d ago·9 min read·1749 words

Do They Actually Want to Sink?

This is exactly why the coalition are irrelevant.

6d ago·4 min read·734 words

How to Alienate Voters and Lose Friends

Zippy should have named his budget ‘Scott’.

6d ago·5 min read·881 words

Universities in Scotland Are Helping Spread Antisemitism

But they’re so dumb they don’t even know they’re doing it.

6d ago·6 min read·1171 words

£11.5 Million to Vaccine Victims in UK

While Ireland drags hero doctors through fitness hearings for warning the public.

6d ago·3 min read·485 words

The de Facto Referendum on Israel

Why Eurovision matters right now.

6d ago·5 min read·818 words

The Kids Might Be Alright

Just as I was shuffling out of the venue, one mushroom-headed beanpole tapped me on the arm and said, “Thanks for giving us your wisdom tonight,” he said, as I tried stifling a giggle. “Because no one…

6d ago·6 min read·1119 words

IEA warns global oil stockpiles ‘depleting very fast’ amid Iran conflict

“Major implications.”

6d ago·2 min read·322 words

Thousands of public sector jobs to go as government pushes AI overhaul

Bloated after a “period of largesse”.

6d ago·2 min read·308 words

Stanford confirms universal age verification coming. But what exactly is being built?

“That is the only detail the public has been given.”

6d ago·2 min read·274 words

Hipkins can’t say what’s in ‘cornerstone’ policy, what it costs or what it creates – blames Treaty issues

You have to vote for them to find out.

6d ago·2 min read·353 words

NZ birthrate falls again as Māori population grows faster than national average

But you're not comparing apples to apples.

6d ago·2 min read·337 words

AI agent deletes startup database after being given broad system access

“Gone rogue.”

6d ago·2 min read·257 words

Just 7 of 147 food items cheaper than a decade ago as economists warn worse is coming

Egg prices rose 151 per cent over the decade.

6d ago·2 min read·268 words

NZ First proposes buying back BNZ and merging it with Kiwibank

“National Bank of New Zealand”

6d ago·2 min read·286 words

A Stone Age Culture Is No Fit for the Modern World

The corruption isn’t a bug, it’s a feature of a tribal society.

6d ago·5 min read·984 words

Stanford and the Digital ID Backlash

Riley claimed the policy followed what he called a “Commonwealth speech crackdown playbook”, arguing governments often introduce online controls under the justification of “protecting children” before…

6d ago·2 min read·319 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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6d ago·1 min read·83 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/089

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

6d ago·3 min read·469 words

Beyond the ‘Stolen Land’ Slogan

New Zealand’s land history.

6d ago·14 min read·2644 words

Not Really About Selling Butter to India

The India FTA promises exporters freer access to markets, but behind the sales pitch sits a familiar Wellington miracle: fewer tariffs, more officials.

6d ago·5 min read·979 words

How to Win Big Revealed in Poll

If National reads these poll results, they might realise how out of touch they are with their voter base. The ‘woke’ MPs, including the PM, need to ditch their nonsense, grow a spine and start giving …

6d ago·4 min read·750 words

Now Parliament Passing Legislation Is... Undemocratic?

Whacky reactions to proposed legislation extinguishing crazy climate Court cases. Mendacious Mike’s only role in court should be as defendant, for such things as his chainsaw vandalism of One Tree Hil…

6d ago·6 min read·1175 words

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6d ago·1 min read·196 words

Face of the Day

There are currently just over 63,000 full-time public servants, which is a slight decrease under this coalition government from the high of approximately 65,000 in the 2024/25 year.

6d ago·1 min read·195 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… regalia (plural noun) - 1: royal rights or prerogatives 2a: the emblems, symbols, or paraphernalia indicative of royalty b: decorations or insignia indicative of an office or …

6d ago·2 min read·233 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.

6d ago·1 min read·49 words

Night Cap

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6d ago·1 min read·130 words

Taste Tuesday

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6d ago·1 min read·130 words

Suzanne Levy On The Shocking Turn In The Tickle Vs Giggle Case

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6d ago·1 min read·44 words

The Terrifying New Political Party Spreading Jew Hatred

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6d ago·1 min read·136 words

Compulsory KiwiSaver vs BNZ Nationalisation: Maurice Williamson & Ashley Church

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6d ago·1 min read·138 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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6d ago·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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6d ago·1 min read·165 words

The Best Thing for England Might Be the End of Britain

If Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland genuinely believe they would flourish independently, England should wish them well. Cheerfully. Calmly. Amicably. Then quietly get on with becoming the most eco…

6d ago·7 min read·1214 words

A Tax Haven with Sheep?

Is NZ ready to become Australia’s own little Cayman Islands?

May 19·5 min read·814 words

Albo Is Just Copying Jacinda’s Homework Again

There’s not a failed idea from across the ditch Albo doesn’t love.

May 19·5 min read·977 words

Leaders Look To Crack Down on Barbecues

Anarcho-tyranny in LA.

May 19·5 min read·832 words

By Targeting Dairy Farmers, ESG Wants To Decide Your Milk

Hopefully, in the months and years to follow, more Americans and policymakers will become aware of the harms associated with incorporating ESG metrics into farming. American farmers feed the nation, a…

May 19·4 min read·783 words

Auckland FC Into Grand Final, Rest of Country Braces

Auckland behaves normally.

May 19·5 min read·874 words

Protecting Our Children: Unmasking the Industry

While in Wales, our Penny Marie sat down with Steve James to discuss the New Zealand educational landscape and her deep dive research into the ‘industry’.

May 19·3 min read·567 words

Why the Word Aotearoa Should Be Discarded

The name that unites us – the name recognised throughout the world – the name carried through war, peace, hardship, triumph, and generations of shared endeavour – is New Zealand.

May 19·4 min read·670 words

These Priorities Are Just Wrong

Skilled manufacturers wait in limbo while bureaucracy rolls out the red carpet elsewhere.

May 18·5 min read·825 words

A de Facto Marriage: Islam and Marxism

The Red-Green alliance assaults the foundational principles of human dignity, reason and bodily integrity.

May 18·3 min read·559 words

The Creation of an Online State Regulator

History demonstrates that broad censorial powers rarely remain narrowly confined.

May 18·3 min read·525 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/088

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

May 18·3 min read·436 words

The Silence on Welfarism and Children

Problems don’t go away because you don’t talk about them. Talking about them is an essential prerequisite to progress.

May 18·5 min read·816 words

Hipkins Drags Out Phoney War With Coalition

If Labour leads the next government, He Puapua will undoubtedly be back at full throttle – even though Hipkins will undoubtedly not mention it by name.

May 18·7 min read·1256 words

It Is a BoNkerZ Idea

No Winston, we should not buy a big bank.

May 18·5 min read·918 words

The Good Oil Podcast – Episode 32 – Tameem Barakat

A thoughtful and sometimes provocative conversation that gives listeners the real context behind one of New Zealand’s most discussed new platforms.

May 18·1 min read·145 words

Good Oil General Debate

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May 18·1 min read·196 words

Face of the Day

Christopher Luxon has ruled out agreeing to the idea – even if Peters brings it to coalition talks as a non-negotiable.

May 18·1 min read·151 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… diminutive (noun, adjective) - noun 1 grammar : a word, affix, or name usually indicating small size : a diminutive word, affix, or name 2: one that is notably small : a dimin…

May 18·2 min read·315 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

May 18·1 min read·47 words

Night Cap

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May 18·1 min read·130 words

Manly Monday

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May 18·1 min read·130 words

Eric Crampton From NZ Initiative On What To Look For In The Budget

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May 18·1 min read·45 words

Eric Crampton From NZ Initiative On What To Look For In The Budget

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May 18·1 min read·141 words

Why Are Air New Zealand So Crap?

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May 18·1 min read·135 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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May 18·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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May 18·1 min read·165 words

Comedy Corner

Welcome to Politically Incorrect Comedy corner: the one place on The Good Oil where you are allowed to read and share naughty and offensive jokes that make us all laugh even though we are not supposed…

May 18·1 min read·108 words

George Washington, Father of the Country, Killed by Doctors

The lesson did not stick because then and now, the prevailing medical wisdom gets a pass even when it kills people. Even the Father of the Country. 

May 18·10 min read·1929 words

Trump Announces Chinese Investment In American Industry

President Donald Trump said that Chinese leader Xi Jinping has committed to purchasing American energy commodities, soybeans, and jets.

May 18·3 min read·431 words

Few Arrests at Unite the Kingdom Rally

All told, then, a protest that could be described as “largely peaceful” without irony.

May 18·4 min read·633 words

Another FDA Official Gone

Exclusive: Høeg says she first learned about rumours of her departure through media reports before being told by FDA officials to resign or be terminated.

May 18·6 min read·1032 words

A Giant Leap Forward

Texas Attorney General Paxton forces Texas Children’s Hospital to open the nation’s first detransition clinic, pay $10 million, and fire the doctors who harmed kids.

May 18·8 min read·1478 words

Let Them Eat Big Macs

Equity, Big Macs and the pursuit of happiness.

May 17·4 min read·687 words

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Rotorua café bans English.

May 17·4 min read·767 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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May 17·1 min read·83 words

One Nation’s Race Against Time in Victoria

The party has the momentum: now they need the candidates and the state leader.

May 17·5 min read·867 words

STV Time Is Up

Time to remove a complicated voting system.

May 17·5 min read·910 words

Dems Would Rather Iran Win

Sure, Trump could send in the troops. But why risk American lives? The Iranian regime is a dying rat. All Trump has to do is watch it die. 

May 17·4 min read·731 words

The Stories RNZ Doesn’t Want You To Hear

What will it take to get Goldsmith to act?

May 17·6 min read·1094 words

Good Oil General Debate

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May 17·1 min read·196 words

Face of the Day

He said no victim should have to sit in a courtroom and hear how the person who robbed them of their dignity deserves a discount at sentencing because of a statement from a former running coach or a p…

May 17·2 min read·276 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… winnow (verb, noun) - transitive verb 1a(1): to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air (2): to get rid of (something undesirable or unwanted) : remove - often u…

May 17·3 min read·411 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city.

May 17·1 min read·55 words

Night Cap

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May 17·1 min read·130 words

Standup Sunday

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May 17·1 min read·130 words

Why NZ Super Is Unaffordable and How Means Testing Could Work

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May 17·1 min read·139 words

Is Co-Governance Finally Being Eradicated From Local Government?

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May 17·1 min read·40 words

Duncan Garner Slams Ngāi Tahu Internal Newsletter "Puffery"

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May 17·1 min read·136 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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May 17·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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May 17·1 min read·165 words

Stanford blinks after accusing curriculum critics of playing politics

“I’m here, and I’m not going to be slowed down by a union.”

May 16·2 min read·341 words

Not happy with ‘full and final’, multibillion-dollar iwi entity resists accountability reforms

How “full and final” are Treaty settlements when policy changes trigger fresh claims of lost influence?

May 16·2 min read·377 words

National admits NZ needs immigration to avoid population decline

"We are going to rely on migration.”

May 16·2 min read·335 words

The enemy of my enemy…: Opposition parties team up to push back against social media ban

The select committee recommended wider measures.

May 16·2 min read·337 words

Te Pāti Māori revives old attack dog after MPs walk out

At the time, Harawira famously referred to former colleagues as “dickheads”.

May 16·2 min read·346 words

Williams says local elections should be simple enough to understand

“Any election outcome determined by a computer programme that includes fractions of votes can surely not be regarded as a system with integrity.”

May 16·3 min read·536 words

Has New Zealand built a study-to-work-to-residence loophole?

“It’s nothing to do with getting an academic qualification..."

May 16·3 min read·509 words

What If the Lizard People Were Real?

The Silurian Hypothesis: Fun speculation even if it’s not exactly science.

May 16·6 min read·1152 words

Good Oil General Debate

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May 16·1 min read·196 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… pediculous (adjective) - : infested with lice : lousy Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Count on the English language's Latin lexical options to pretty up the unpleasant.…

May 16·2 min read·236 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?

May 16·1 min read·43 words

Night Cap

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May 16·1 min read·130 words

Science Saturday

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May 16·1 min read·130 words

Australian Journalist Avi Yemini On His Ban From Britain

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May 16·1 min read·41 words

NZ Superannuation Crisis: Why the Retirement Age Must Hit 72

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May 16·1 min read·138 words

NZ Election Polls Update: Is the Left Making a Comeback?

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May 16·1 min read·138 words

Good Oil Backchat

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May 16·1 min read·165 words

Pauline Pisses with the Big Boys

One Nation’s budget reply speech is sign of the new political reality.

May 16·6 min read·1200 words

Too Little, Too Late, as Coalition Talks Tough at Last

The coalition’s new immigration policy smells like desperately grabbing at One Nation’s coattails.

May 16·4 min read·716 words

Halley’s Comet: Better Luck Next Time?

If I can live as long as a Mediaeval monk, maybe.

May 15·4 min read·654 words

Their Fingers Are Itching for Your Dead Granny’s Savings

If Albo and Zippy deny it, you can bet it’s coming.

May 15·5 min read·940 words

Who Says We Cannot Afford Super?

Best of MountainsideFM.

May 15·1 min read·67 words

Good Oil General Debate

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May 15·1 min read·196 words

Face of the Day

Ngarewa-Packer labelled Jones “insecure” because “that little iwi took you on and won” in their battle against mining the Taranaki seabed.

May 15·2 min read·246 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… crapulous (adjective) - 1: marked by intemperance especially in eating or drinking 2: sick from excessive indulgence in liquor Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Crapulous…

May 15·2 min read·277 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.

May 15·1 min read·77 words

Night Cap

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May 15·1 min read·130 words

Friday Fur

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May 15·1 min read·130 words

Will A Wealth Tax Trigger A Mass NZ Exodus?

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May 15·1 min read·41 words

Peter Thompson On Media Regulation & Freedom Of Speech In NZ

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May 15·1 min read·139 words

Willie Jackson Vs Sean Plunket Part 2

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May 15·1 min read·135 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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May 15·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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May 15·1 min read·165 words

This Hantavirus and the WHO

We need to, as citizens and as a public health community, insist that institutions such as the WHO do better, or insist on replacing them with something better.

May 15·6 min read·1070 words

Kicking Desperate Men While They’re Down

The femcel-industrial complex berates suicidal men as ‘perpetrators’.

May 15·5 min read·934 words

186,000 Dead People on Food Stamps

Every benefit-paying agency in the federal government has near-term deadlines to identify their most fraud-prone programs and start screening recipients for things like… you know… being alive.

May 15·5 min read·829 words

State Dept Rejects Invitation to Pro-Migration Conference

The use of taxpayer dollars on migrants was largely driven by UN agencies and their partners, “which did not just facilitate the invasion of our country, but proceeded to redistribute our own people’s…

May 15·3 min read·509 words

The Importance of Building Food Resilience

Histamine intolerance and fermented foods.

May 15·10 min read·1901 words

Asked To Stop Doing Tricks at Checkout

Shelf price magic.

May 15·5 min read·839 words

Police Hit the Snooze Button Before Bondi

Security agencies asleep at the wheel while jihadis mustered.

May 14·5 min read·920 words

Is He Sniffing the Winds?

The joke at the moment across the Western democracies is that you’re often seeing coalitions in all but name via the so-called “uni-party” where parties simply exchange power but maintain the same ove…

May 14·4 min read·615 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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May 14·1 min read·83 words

Ancestor Annihilation: Our Own Cultural Revolution

Call it what it is: a cultural revolution by other means.

May 14·5 min read·833 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/086

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

May 14·2 min read·231 words

TPM Is Failing Its People

The people walking out are the ones who tried to challenge that axis and lost.

May 14·6 min read·1177 words

IAN WISHART: An open letter to political leaders on climate extremes

New OIA material says NIWA did no historic storm research on Hawke’s Bay as Cyclone Gabrielle approached, raising fresh questions about missed warnings, flawed risk assessment, and what ministers were…

May 14·9 min read·1630 words

Elite Panic: The Basket of Deplorables Just Got a Whole Lot Bigger

Yet another poll confirms: One Nation are cementing their poll gains.

May 14·5 min read·894 words

The Sting in the India Trade Deal

That is the real issue raised by this agreement: not trade, but whether constitutional change in New Zealand will occur by democratic choice or by political stealth.

May 14·14 min read·2740 words

Quick Hit FTA: Dairy Demands Nearly Blew Up Talks, NZ Official Admits

New Zealand went into these talks wanting dairy and came out with crumbs and a migration side-door.

May 14·2 min read·215 words

Face of the Day

Reflecting on the six-word sentence, which gained viral attention, Collins said she and her husband were “disgusted” by the response it received.

May 14·2 min read·215 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… contraband (noun) - 1: illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling 2: goods or merchandise whose importation, exportation, or possession is forbidden, also : smuggled g…

May 14·2 min read·224 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?

May 14·1 min read·57 words

Night Cap

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May 14·1 min read·66 words

Tiny Home Thursday

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May 14·1 min read·67 words

Discussing Suicidal Empathy

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May 14·1 min read·19 words

Richard Harman On Maiki Sherman’s Resignation From TVNZ

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May 14·1 min read·72 words

John Tamihere, Performance Art, And The Fall Of Te Pāti Māori

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May 14·1 min read·75 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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May 14·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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May 14·1 min read·22 words

Europe’s Green Deal Is Now Unraveling

Europe’s centrally planned climate agenda has collided with economic reality, weakening growth and fueling political backlash.

May 14·1 min read·22 words

Jim Chalmers Joins Rachel Reeves in the Great Churn

Labor’s tax-and-spend socialism is off the leash.

May 14·1 min read·16 words

Trust the Science Says the Guy Deleting Emails

The indictment of Dr Morens will not suddenly repair all. But a bit of accountability is at least a step in the right direction.

May 14·1 min read·32 words

The University System Is Not Working

My son’s generation deserves better than glossy brochures, origami rabbits and lifelong repayments for experiences that deliver neither wisdom nor wages.

May 14·1 min read·27 words

NBN: Never Been Necessary

Every now and then an act of government incompetence and waste is so egregious that it’s enough to wake the beast within.

May 14·1 min read·26 words

In Praise of Sheep

By all means call the people sheep – there is no higher accolade.

May 14·1 min read·17 words

The Great Replacement We Weren’t Supposed to Notice

Until it snatched our country from under our feet.

May 13·1 min read·17 words

Willie Jackson claims ‘right-wing lynch mob’ drove Maiki Sherman from TVNZ

He claimed TVNZ had “let her down so badly”.

May 13·1 min read·20 words

Fuel squeeze sparks protest push as government prepares rationing plan

“Unfortunately, yes it would mean prices going higher..."

May 13·1 min read·18 words

Government moves to block climate lawsuits against major emitters

The change would block current and future tort claims.

May 13·1 min read·18 words

Crumbs of evidence: toaster footage links troll account to former Labour staffer

"We’re not feeding any current material to that person.”

May 13·1 min read·21 words

New party short on policy, but willing to work with anyone in Parliament to form next government

“If you go out by yourself, your chances are very, very slim”.

May 13·1 min read·29 words

Luxon tells business: ‘social stability’ comes first

On immigration, Luxon said New Zealand should learn from what he described as “failed” policies in Europe and North America.

May 13·1 min read·27 words

WHO accused of hyping hantavirus outbreak while malaria and TB kill thousands daily

The current media panic concerns “about one thousandth of the cases expected this year”.

May 13·1 min read·27 words

Newman says two law changes could stop unelected influence over councils

Newman proposes two legislative fixes.

May 13·1 min read·16 words

‘Rubbish’: Luxon dismisses OECD warning as government keeps LNG plan alive

"We are very interested in it."

May 13·1 min read·17 words

The Worst Poetry I Have Ever Read

AUT’s little manifesto of hatred.

May 13·1 min read·12 words

The Tribal Big Men Grow Fat and the Squalor Persists

$45 billion a year disappears into the sinkhole of the Aboriginal industry.

May 13·1 min read·22 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/085

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

May 13·1 min read·14 words

Where Has the Far Left Gone?

Precision in language is important. Calling anyone slightly right of the moderate left - 'far right' - while rarely challenging those clearly on the far-left, is degrading our democracy.

May 13·1 min read·35 words

A Picture Paints My Thousand Words

Personal perspectives on a remarkable photograph.

May 13·1 min read·12 words

Good Oil General Debate

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May 13·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

“It could well be that critical minerals are needed for hearing aids. And I rather fear, Mr Speaker, that hearing aids are needed for the member from Western Māori sitting to my right” – Minister Shan…

May 13·1 min read·41 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… verbose (adjective) - 1: containing more words than necessary : wordy, also : impaired by wordiness 2: given to wordiness Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : There's no sho…

May 13·1 min read·81 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

May 13·1 min read·20 words

Night Cap

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May 13·1 min read·66 words

Wednesday Weapons

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May 13·1 min read·66 words

Chris Trotter On The Latest Political Polls Overseas & In NZ

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May 13·1 min read·27 words

Maiki Sherman TVNZ Exit: Duncan Garner Exposes Media in Parliament

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May 13·1 min read·74 words

Ani O’Brien: Why I Revealed the Mikey Sherman Scandal

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May 13·1 min read·73 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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May 13·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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May 13·1 min read·22 words

One Blueprint and Three Powers

How the Soviet Union, Russia, and China have systematically subverted the United States – and what the results look like.

May 13·1 min read·25 words

No Cap in Pauline’s Hand

Is it the coalition’s turn to beg for scraps from One Nation’s table?

May 13·1 min read·18 words

A Polar Plan for Banking

A banking boom is unlikely in Antarctica, but there doesn’t need to be one. What matters is the ability of a people to participate in their micro-economies unsevered from civilization. If the coldest …

May 13·1 min read·50 words

Why Is the WHO Driving This Panic?

There is a path for an organisation such as the WHO to act in an ethical, proportionate manner that serves humanity rather than parasitising it.

May 13·1 min read·32 words

Work, Meaning and the Long Road Home

'What did you get done this week?'

May 13·1 min read·14 words

Is the West Really Moving to the Far Right?

The next time you see, or hear, the media use the term ‘far right’ – you can understand what it actually means. They’re referring to you, me, and the traditional values that made our societies great…

May 13·1 min read·45 words

Little Children Sacred? Not When ‘Culture’ Comes First

Aboriginal child torn from a loving, safe foster home and shipped back to the Stone Age culture that abused him.

May 12·1 min read·28 words

Lying and Gaslighting Is What They Do

A Labor mean girl lies and doubles down on the globalist assault on families.

May 12·1 min read·21 words

A New Look for Local Government

Are wholesale mergers really the answer?

May 12·1 min read·12 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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May 12·1 min read·43 words

Old Grudges Could Yet End a Bright Career

Could the Roberts-Smith trial sink Andrew Hastie?

May 12·1 min read·15 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/084

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

May 12·1 min read·14 words

Is Mallard Living in a Fantasyland?

Mallard’s claim has a slightly loony, off-the-wall, quality. If he has evidence, he should front up with it. Otherwise people will be justified in concluding it was a case of Mallard in Fantasyland.

May 12·1 min read·39 words

The Right Is On a Roll

The political/voter tide is on the turn. It is going out on parties promoting globalism and climate alarmism. It is coming in for parties with policies promoting a ‘country first’ approach.

May 12·1 min read·37 words

This Is a Betrayal

What this disastrous chapter in our history reveals is not only that the Labour Party can longer be trusted, but that tribal leaders have become increasingly deceptive and greedy in their relentless p…

May 12·1 min read·48 words

Quick Hit: Poll of Polls – The Margin of Victory Is Growing, And It’s Not Going Where the Herald Thinks

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May 12·1 min read·50 words

Good Oil General Debate

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May 12·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith said the change, which will ban tort-based claims for climate-related damage, will provide certainty for businesses and shore up investment confidence. It will also sto…

May 12·1 min read·40 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… revolt (verb, noun) - intransitive verb 1a: to renounce allegiance or subjection (as to a government) : rebel - often used with against b: to act in or show opposition or diso…

May 12·1 min read·96 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Eli…

May 12·1 min read·56 words

Night Cap

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May 12·1 min read·66 words

Taste Tuesday

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May 12·1 min read·66 words

I Travelled Across New Zealand by Train In First Class

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May 12·1 min read·26 words

You Have to PAY to Ride This New Zealand Road

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May 12·1 min read·74 words

Editor in Chief's Sunday Session: David Seymour, Shane Jones, & Chlöe Swarbrick

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May 12·1 min read·76 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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May 12·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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May 12·1 min read·22 words

Is This Hantavirus a Bioweapon?

If hantavirus is spreading from person-to-person, then it’s been weaponized, and the evil bioterrorists that are responsible need to be held to account for it.

May 12·1 min read·30 words

The Watchers Are Handing Nonces the Keys to the Kids

“We keep saying we want to protect children, but… we can’t even implement basic safety measures.”

May 12·1 min read·26 words

A Field Study on the Rise of Feeling Without Thought

Dissecting emotional collapsology. Faced with contrary evidence, the response is not reconsideration but defensiveness: manoeuvring, bile, denunciation and the familiar attempts to exclude or silence …

May 12·1 min read·40 words

These 2025 Statistics Serve as a Cautionary Tale

Germany’s detailed 2025 figures provide a data-driven mirror and highlight the value of nationality-specific monitoring, targeted integration programs, and selective policies that prioritize skilled m…

May 12·1 min read·37 words

Is Cannabis Really a Danger to Society?

The argument that marijuana is a gateway drug and causes psychosis, violence and crime has long been used to support its criminalisation, the war on drugs, and draconian control measures. In this arti…

May 12·1 min read·51 words

RIP BSA

An unlamented loss.

May 12·1 min read·5 words

Equal Rights Are Being Quietly Euthanised

The push for a tikanga/bijural legal system is a masterclass in academic and judicial capture.

May 12·1 min read·21 words

Labor Fiddles While Melbourne Burns

Melbourne cannot be turned back into a liveable city without hurting the feelings of the minority groups causing the problems. Police resources should be redirected away from speech and thought crimes…

May 11·1 min read·48 words

The Importance of a Unifying Story

Why New Zealand's lack of national narrative keeps me up at night.

May 11·1 min read·18 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/083

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

May 11·1 min read·14 words

ISIS Cheers Bondi as ‘Instruction Manual’

Islamic terrorism hasn’t backed down an inch since Bondi, but the media won’t tell you that.

May 11·1 min read·22 words

Five Prayers a Day and Nobody Asked Your Permission

When cultural activity becomes religious imposition, it’s time for New Zealanders to start asking hard questions.

May 11·1 min read·25 words

And You Think Luxon Is Bad

Starmer has said that he wants to stay prime minister for at least ten years in order to “finish the job”. It wouldn’t surprise me if, after the election when Labour get trounced, he will do everythin…

May 11·1 min read·50 words

Human Remains Are All That’s Left

The media feeding frenzy.

May 11·1 min read·10 words

Quick Hit – Luxon and Peters Wedge Labour: No Grand Coalition as TPM Implodes

🔴 VIP EARLY ACCESS Rapid Intelligence Briefing | 12 May 2026 | Stuff.co.nz + open source | High Confidence | Medium-High Urgency EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has categorical…

May 11·1 min read·92 words

Good Oil General Debate

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May 11·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Whanau’s evidence was to the Tribunal’s Mana Wāhine inquiry into issues affecting Māori women, including whether the Crown’s systems and institutions failed to protect and support Māori women in leade…

May 11·1 min read·38 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… interregnum (noun) - 1: the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes 2: a period during which the normal functions of government or contro…

May 11·1 min read·93 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him.

May 11·1 min read·33 words

Night Cap

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May 11·1 min read·66 words

Manly Monday

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May 11·1 min read·66 words

Why The Green Party Wealth Tax Could Crash The IRD System

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May 11·1 min read·75 words

Budget 2026 Preview: Nicola Willis and the End of Lolly Scrambles

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May 11·1 min read·75 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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May 11·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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May 11·1 min read·22 words

Comedy Corner

Welcome to Politically Incorrect Comedy corner: the one place on The Good Oil where you are allowed to read and share naughty and offensive jokes that make us all laugh even though we are not supposed…

May 11·1 min read·55 words

The Unspoken Message to Congress

This is what happens when incompetent fools refuse to enforce the law equally, charge outrageously high taxes, and prioritize woke, leftist fantasies over productivity and national interest.

May 11·1 min read·32 words

How Schools Are Teaching Kids to Hate Their Own History

This is not education, it’s cultural self-harm by design.

May 11·1 min read·19 words

How the G-G Spent the First Day of Bondi RC

Swastikas, sheikhs and Albanese’s selective ‘social cohesion’.

May 11·1 min read·17 words

Raiding Pensions for Short-Term Spending

Delaying pension contributions may ease immediate pressure on New York City’s budget, but the shell game reveals deeper weaknesses in the city’s finances.

May 11·1 min read·28 words

Marsha Blackburn: ‘Root Out the Rot’

The spate of such incidents has fueled bipartisan alarm on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers have questioned whether the agency is structurally equipped to protect its principals at a moment when threats …

May 11·1 min read·45 words

From Voyager to Sherman: election-year scandals test media standards and loyalties

Election-year pressure builds.

May 11·1 min read·14 words

Some NZ cops turn to food banks while record numbers poached by Australian police

“They’ve offered a lot more money.”

May 11·1 min read·20 words

‘Not all idiots’: Lawyer vents after Standards Committee overturns puberty blocker letter censure

“So hostile to basic elements of practice and freedom of speech.”

May 11·1 min read·24 words

Environment Ministry to be folded into new mega ministry

The new structure would “not significantly change the functions of the current ministry”.

May 11·1 min read·22 words

Waikato’s constitutional ‘mission’ leaves unanswered questions

Waikato claimed she does not want to be an MP, but is doing it because she “has to”.

May 11·1 min read·24 words

New Zealand’s first whole-community managed retreat could open the door to major private property disputes

Not everyone wants to move.

May 11·1 min read·20 words

Engineers and academics argue Net Zero 2050 is economically impossible for New Zealand

“Climate change alarmism has become a quasi-religion.”

May 11·1 min read·20 words

Victoria’s Sunk Costs Are Drowning It

Wouldn’t you lose $7 to save $40?

May 11·1 min read·13 words

What Each Country Actually Gave Up

The NZ-India Free Trade Agreement.

May 11·1 min read·11 words

One Last Question, Prime Minister

Barry Soper’s honest reflections from the halls of power.

May 11·1 min read·14 words

‘Dreamtime Healing’ Another Predator’s Con

Aboriginal ‘spiritual healer’ on trial for raping patients.

May 10·1 min read·13 words

The Courage To Question Compliance

How rules survive long after reason has left the building.

May 10·1 min read·15 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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May 10·1 min read·43 words

Rubio Meets With the Pope

If they had a nuclear weapon, make no mistake, when they consider the time is right, they would not hesitate to use it. The religious terrorists will stop at nothing in order to achieve their aims.

May 10·1 min read·41 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/082

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

May 10·1 min read·14 words

This Is Building for the 19th Century

The City Rail Link is a $5.5 billion monument to backward thinking.

May 10·1 min read·19 words

The Climate Mythology and Bias

This is a figure so small it’s effectively imperceptible and far below margins of error in any temperature that instruments measure. Less even than the effect that opening your fridge door for a few s…

May 10·1 min read·48 words

How the Wokerati Got to a White Male

The sad Stobo saga.

May 10·1 min read·12 words

Quick Hit: National to Campaign on Raising Super Age

Luxon delivers Winston Peters a ready-made wedge and stick.

May 10·1 min read·18 words

Good Oil General Debate

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May 10·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

“I don’t feel sorry for the media in general for what’s coming. We’ve had this coming” – Heather du Plessis-Allan

May 10·1 min read·24 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… quiescent (adjective) - 1: marked by inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest 2: causing no trouble or symptoms Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : As you might expect fro…

May 10·1 min read·92 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.

May 10·1 min read·40 words

Night Cap

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May 10·1 min read·66 words

Standup Sunday

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May 10·1 min read·66 words

Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown Tells Wellington - Leave Us Alone!

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May 10·1 min read·26 words

Kash Patel Uncovers Secret FBI Documents: The De-Weaponization Plan | Hang Out with Sean Hannity

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May 10·1 min read·79 words

David Seymour & RNZ News At War - Why The ACT Leader Is Right

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May 10·1 min read·78 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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May 10·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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May 10·1 min read·22 words

Diving Into Obscurity: Robert Anton Wilson

Books both wonderfully bonkers and usefully thought-provoking.

May 9·1 min read·13 words

Her Image Outlived Everyone Who Knew Her

Seen every day by millions, but almost never remembered.

May 9·1 min read·16 words

Good Oil General Debate

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May 9·1 min read·23 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… wiseacre (noun) - : one who pretends to knowledge or cleverness Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Given the spelling and definition of wiseacre, you might guess that the …

May 9·1 min read·91 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

May 9·1 min read·28 words

Night Cap

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May 9·1 min read·66 words

Science Saturday

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May 9·1 min read·66 words

The $180 Million Gold Mine Fight That Changes Everything

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May 9·1 min read·25 words

That BSA Decision & What It Means For Free Speech In NZ

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May 9·1 min read·76 words

Why the BSA Lost Its Way and Social Media Ban

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May 9·1 min read·74 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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May 9·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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May 9·1 min read·22 words

George Orwell Was an Optimist

“It is not at present possible, indeed, that antisemitism should become respectable” – George Orwell.

May 9·1 min read·20 words

Here We Go Again

Another Labor government using taxpayer’s money to buy re-election.

May 9·1 min read·13 words

Renewables: ‘Saving’ the Planet by Wrecking It

Yet more tales of the unintended consquences of green utopianism.

May 8·1 min read·17 words

Hot Food and Clean Clothes Are So Last Century

Swarbrick’s ‘electrify everything’ zealotry meets reality yet again.

May 8·1 min read·17 words

A Story Behind the India Free Trade Agreement

Best of MountainsideFM.

May 8·1 min read·11 words

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May 8·1 min read·23 words

Face of the day

Maiki Sherman confirmed Friday was her last day at TVNZ in a post on social media.

May 8·1 min read·20 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… seder (noun) - : a Jewish home or community service including a ceremonial dinner held on the first or first and second evenings of the Passover in commemoration of the exodus…

May 8·1 min read·93 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

May 8·1 min read·44 words

Night Cap

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May 8·1 min read·66 words

Friday Fur

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May 8·1 min read·66 words

Can The Green Party and Chlöe Swarbrick Solve the Cost-of-Living Crisis?

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May 8·1 min read·27 words

Jillaine Heather On Renee-Rose’s Battle For Freedom Of Speech

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May 8·1 min read·73 words

Sean Plunket Reacts To The BSA Being Scrapped By Paul Goldsmith

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May 8·1 min read·75 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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May 8·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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May 8·1 min read·22 words

Make ‘Never’ Actually Mean Never for Iran

By building resistance first – youth leaders shielded, networks professionalized, and Artesh pragmatists flipped – and then enabling a decisive operation at Isfahan, the United States can finally make…

May 8·1 min read·39 words

Say Her Name – Her Real Name

‘Culture’ is killing and brutalising Aboriginal children.

May 8·1 min read·14 words

Soros Pumped $204M Into Groups Badgering Charities

Be wary anytime a collective push from the left to protect their bottom line springs up like this. It’s never organic or grassroots.

May 8·1 min read·30 words

From Barbie Doll Delivery to Death Row

FedEx driver sentenced to die for brutal murder of seven-year-old Athena Strand.

May 8·1 min read·19 words

That’s Not What Plumbing Was Invented For

There is only so much a pipe can be expected to process before it starts taking things personally. The Rotorua fatberg.

May 8·1 min read·28 words

Ditch the Ick Tick

Which large media corporate has done this and does it matter?

May 8·1 min read·15 words

Scorpions Really Are Metal AF

Nature’s heavy metal warriors.

May 7·1 min read·9 words

“Man of My Word” My Arse

Albo welcomes yet more ‘ISIS brides’ with open arms.

May 7·1 min read·15 words

Stanford Admits Kiwis Don’t Want To Work

Decade after decade governments have failed to successfully tackle the problem. They tinker at best. The issue is poor policy.

May 7·1 min read·27 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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May 7·1 min read·43 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/081

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

May 7·1 min read·14 words

Closed Minds and Fists on the Left

The left are a narrow cluster of extremist outrage.

May 7·1 min read·16 words

Blind Spots in the Battle Against Extremism

How did individuals whose own public statements minimised, reframed, or in some cases celebrated acts of mass violence against civilians come to hold influential roles in a government-funded initiativ…

May 7·1 min read·42 words

A Cost of Living Crisis?

It’s a cost of government crisis that is hurting Australian economy.

May 7·1 min read·16 words

‘Family Feud’ Will Be a Good Watch.

There is no doubt that what Winston is saying will resonate with the public. Nicola has the unenviable task of convincing the voters to think otherwise.

May 7·1 min read·33 words

Who Wants a Grand Coalition Between Labour and National?

The whole idea is borne of establishment panic.

May 7·1 min read·17 words

Quick Hit – English Language Bill: Peters Lands a Symbolic Bomb on te Reo Virtue Signalling

Peters is forcing the political class to confront that English is the language that actually unites the country.

May 7·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil General Debate

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May 7·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

The authority said the majority of members found the comments appeared intended as a humorous anecdote focused on Henry’s friends’ unfortunate travel experiences and could not be said to implicitly re…

May 7·1 min read·43 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… domicile (noun, verb) - noun 1: a dwelling place : place of residence : home 2 law: a person's fixed, permanent, and principal home for legal purposes verb law: to establish …

May 7·1 min read·97 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint.

May 7·1 min read·39 words

Night Cap

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May 7·1 min read·66 words

Tiny Home Thursday

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May 7·1 min read·67 words

The media pile-on and the stories they ignore

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May 7·1 min read·24 words

Don Brash On The UNDRIP Inclusion In The India FTA

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May 7·1 min read·74 words

Government To Disestablish The BSA

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May 7·1 min read·69 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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May 7·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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May 7·1 min read·22 words

African Big Game Hunting Protects the Animal

It is counterproductive for some short-sighted green groups to try to stop professionally managed hunting. Stopping hunting can do more harm to animal herds than the controlled hunting quotas.

May 7·1 min read·36 words

How Antisemitism Went Mainstream in Aus

Left-elite silence and weak government fuel the scourge.

May 7·1 min read·14 words

Enoch Burke To Stay in Prison

He has again rejected the court order on school trespassing.

May 7·1 min read·16 words

Adidas Just Broke the Two-Hour Marathon

Nike spent a decade lecturing customers.

May 7·1 min read·12 words

Silvey Joins the Luvvy Predator Club

Educators’ favourite author pleads guilty to child exploitation charges.

May 7·1 min read·15 words

Did We Vote for That?

The challenge is not to revisit the decision of 2017, but to confront its broader implications. Social progress does not occur in isolation, and reforms often carry consequences beyond their original …

May 7·1 min read·37 words

The Showdown Over Puberty Blockers for Children

PATHA v the government.

May 7·1 min read·11 words

Academics Just Love Them an Authoritarian Daddy

Australia’s universities are ‘the soft underbelly’ of foreign interference in Australia.

May 6·1 min read·18 words

Fuel stocks fall enough to trigger review, but government says none needed

“Officials have advised Ministers that a review of the phase levels is not necessary given stocks remain within normal ranges..."

May 6·1 min read·32 words

‘Grasp all, lose all’: BSA to be scrapped after attempt to assert jurisdiction over The Platform

“Absolutely fantastic news for freedom of speech in New Zealand”.

May 6·1 min read·26 words

Would-be Kiwis to face mandatory citizenship test

“People seeking citizenship should understand New Zealanders believe in certain rights, like freedom of speech, or that no one person or group is above the law.”

May 6·1 min read·33 words

IPCC-linked climate scenarios labelled ‘implausible’

The research community had “moved on”.

May 6·1 min read·11 words

Audrey Young sketches how a National-Labour Cabinet could work

"Grand-coalition"

May 6·1 min read·10 words

Is the push for renewable energy creating new environmental conflicts?

The energy transition is “equally a political and ethical project”.

May 6·1 min read·20 words

FMA chair resigns after investigation cites praise for Treaty Principles Bill and coalition government

“Aspects of Mr Stobo’s public commentary did not meet the standards of political neutrality..."

May 6·1 min read·28 words

Roomba creator developing AI robot pet for the home

“I want to feel like the machine I’m building actually cares about me.”

May 6·1 min read·22 words

Standover Tactics: $180 Million for a Gold Mine

New Zealand was built on secure property rights and equal treatment under law. Race-based planning has corrupted that foundation. Scrap it. Restore one law for all.

May 6·1 min read·34 words

Are We Enjoying the Multiculturalism Yet?

Middle Eastern crime gangs’ reign of terror in Melbourne.

May 6·1 min read·15 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/080

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

May 6·1 min read·14 words

ACT Wants Tougher Immigration Rules

So why did they back the India FTA?

May 6·1 min read·13 words

Play the Ball, Not the Man

Read Auckland Grammar’s email correspondence below.

May 6·1 min read·12 words

The Legal Elite Are Winning the War

The Woke Legalerati is taking over and the current government is giving up the fight.

May 6·1 min read·22 words

Quick Hit – BSA Scrapped: Coalition Kills Regulator After It Tried to Muzzle the Platform

The Platform case exposed how the 1989 act was being stretched to capture internet livestreaming. Removing the BSA reduces the compliance burden on independent outlets and shifts power back to audienc…

May 6·1 min read·49 words

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May 6·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

“... we could try and extend the brief of BSA far into sort of social media, or we could say, well, actually, why don’t we just rely on the self-regulation that works fine for print journalism and set…

May 6·1 min read·52 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… apogee (noun) - 1: the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth also : the point …

May 6·1 min read·100 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

May 6·1 min read·33 words

Night Cap

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May 6·1 min read·66 words

Wednesday Weapons

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May 6·1 min read·66 words

David Seymour On ACT’s New Immigration Policy

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May 6·1 min read·23 words

Shane Jones Explains Why Treaty Clauses Are Still In So Much Legislation

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May 6·1 min read·76 words

The REAL Reason Why Craig Stobo Lost His Job As FMA Chair

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May 6·1 min read·76 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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May 6·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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May 6·1 min read·22 words

What They Think Socialism Means

Before you carry that flag – before you cast that vote, before you cheer that candidate – I ask one thing: know what is behind it. My family paid for that knowledge with their bodies, their decades, t…

May 6·1 min read·59 words

Who Runs NZ? Not Luxon’s Limp Nationals

Luxon’s lettuce-leaf Nationals are just more weak, woke ‘moderates’.

May 6·1 min read·16 words

Robbing Peter to Buy Paul’s Vote with Peter’s Own Money

It’s our money, Jim.

May 6·1 min read·14 words

North Korea Quietly Menacing as the World Watches Iran

Bad boy of the Indo-Pacific, Kim Jong Un is still causing trouble.

May 6·1 min read·21 words

We Need To Protect This Minority

This is the text of a speech I made opposite Downing Street last Thursday at a protest organised by the Campaign Against Antisemitism.

May 6·1 min read·29 words

At Last a Win on Wind for Rural Australia

Bald Hills case blows the whistle on wind farm tyranny.

May 6·1 min read·19 words

A Pathway to Justice

Pushing back against the Covid steamroller.

May 6·1 min read·10 words

The University Cauldron Where It All Starts

Over time, institutions – such as the public service or the industrial relations system or higher education – become adept at building up defences and seeing off zealous reformers. The only option is …

May 6·1 min read·43 words

Your Child’s Brain Is the Product

TikTok’s own engineers admit it, so why shouldn’t they be liable for the damage?

May 5·1 min read·20 words

Where Are the Police?

Allegations last year raised serious questions about the priorities of the New Zealand Police, it seems they are more focused on policing online speech than addressing severe criminal behaviour.

May 5·1 min read·33 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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May 5·1 min read·43 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/079

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

May 5·1 min read·14 words

Good News the Media Won’t Tell You

As the media, through their newsrooms and reporters, refuse to do their jobs and report balanced news, we are reliant on contributing writers to ferret out the honesty of what is happening.

May 5·1 min read·39 words

What Are Our Councils Doing?

What is it with these people? If it was their own money, would they squander it so?

May 5·1 min read·22 words

Who Is Right About the India Free Trade Agreement?

Not a disaster. Not a breakthrough. Just a trade deal.

May 5·1 min read·19 words

Dear Damien Grant

NZ-India free trade agreement made my stress levels rise too.

May 5·1 min read·13 words

Quick Hit – Government Gives Councils Amalgamation Ultimatum – Fast-Track Local Government Reform Accelerates

🔴 VIP EARLY ACCESS Rapid Intelligence Briefing (6 May 2026 | The Good Oil – Political Intelligence | Confidence: High | Urgency: Elevated) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The coalition has issued a three-month …

May 5·1 min read·86 words

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May 5·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Neil Finn’s assistant confirmed to RNZ the musician had purchased Edinburgh Castle, which neighbours his existing Roundhead Studios.

May 5·1 min read·22 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… fillip (verb, noun) - verb 1a: to suddenly and forcibly straighten (a finger curled up against the thumb) as a way of gesturing or striking b: to strike or tap by filliping 2:…

May 5·1 min read·101 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

May 5·1 min read·44 words

Night Cap

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May 5·1 min read·66 words

Taste Tuesday

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May 5·1 min read·66 words

Duncan Garner SLAMS NZ Media Over Mikey Sherman, Barry Soper, and more

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May 5·1 min read·28 words

Penny Marie On Mainstream Media’s Latest Palestinian Activist Alliance

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May 5·1 min read·73 words

Sean Plunket Asks Why RNZ Is Platforming A Terrorist Adjacent Anarchist

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May 5·1 min read·75 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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May 5·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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May 5·1 min read·22 words

The Royal Family’s Association With Mike Bloomberg

The Royal Family is failing in its duty to uphold political neutrality. Prince William would do well to shed the Earthshot Prize, Mike Bloomberg and avoid the environmental activism of his father.

May 5·1 min read·39 words

Socialism, All the Way Down

Canberra copies Victoria: Labor’s tax-and-spend mutually-assured destruction.

May 5·1 min read·12 words

Nepean: Not Much to Grin About for Winner

One Nation surges in Victoria as Labor buys votes with Victorians’ grandkids’ future.

May 5·1 min read·21 words

Can Police Search Every Phone in a Crowd?

Rutherford urges Supreme Court to block police uses of dragnet cell phone surveillance.

May 5·1 min read·21 words

This Disturbing Reaction to a Would-Be Assassin

As Voltaire observed, a few decades before the bloody French Revolution, “Certainly anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.”

May 5·1 min read·37 words

What’s in a Name?

Cromwell’s new edifice and what it should be called.

May 5·1 min read·13 words

This MSD Treatment Is Revealing

On the face of it, MSD has no empathy for Covid fraudsters but no end of empathy for beneficiary fraudsters. So much for a neutral public service.

May 5·1 min read·32 words

Where Is the Gravitas in Political Journalism?

Authority, credibility, reliability.

May 4·1 min read·10 words

Seymour pitches migrant levy as Iran war squeezes prices

“Tough reality."

May 4·1 min read·11 words

Police visit over ‘New India’ post raises free speech concerns

Schwenke says police told her the post was “unkind,” “racist” and “unwelcoming to the Indian community.”

May 4·1 min read·26 words

Maersk lifts freight charges 27% as Iran war drives fuel costs

“Unprecedented cost environment.”

May 4·1 min read·14 words

Luxon signs Singapore fuel deal as diesel and jet fuel stocks climb

“With a third of New Zealand’s fuel refined in Singapore, this agreement turns trust into action, and right now, that’s keeping fuel flowing to New Zealand when it matters most.”

May 4·1 min read·42 words

Chris Hipkins defends Labour Party NZ plan for free doctors visits

Labour leader Chris Hipkins is defending a central Labour election promise to fund three free...

May 4·1 min read·26 words

NZ school building upgrades: six schools to get $56.6m

A $56.6 million commitment for NZ school building upgrades will reshape facilities at six schools,...

May 4·1 min read·24 words

This Is What Positive Discrimination Looks Like

Looking behind the curtain that shrouds a system of continual government-sponsored, race-centric, privilege.

May 4·1 min read·20 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/078

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

May 4·1 min read·14 words

Water off a Duck’s Back and a Bit of Mongrel

Can the conservative West be won again? 

May 4·1 min read·17 words

Markets regulator chair quits after neutrality rules broken

A New Zealand markets regulator chair has quit after a probe found “neutrality rules broken”,...

May 4·1 min read·23 words

On Auckland’s Butter Chicken Tsunami

Returning home to a city I barely recognise.

May 4·1 min read·13 words

Think AT Couldn’t Get Any More Retarded?

So now they get it that no one wants to ride a train where the destination is in some mythical place called Aotearoa. It’s not like everyone apart from sickly white liberals has been complaining about…

May 4·1 min read·46 words

Hamlet and the NZ Media

Some journalists recent behaviour, legal threats, hidden stories and an ideologically captured regulator. The state of New Zealand’s media is akin to a Shakespearean tragedy.

May 4·1 min read·30 words

The Good Oil Podcast – Episode 31 – Elliot Ikilei

Tune in for laughs, tough truths and a reminder that real change starts with honest conversations.

May 4·1 min read·26 words

Good Oil General Debate

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May 4·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Commissioner of Police Richard Chambers urged the minister to “use his discretion” to cancel and annul the awards.

May 4·1 min read·22 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… adroit (adjective) - : having or showing skill, cleverness, or resourcefulness in handling situations Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : The meaning and history of adroit …

May 4·1 min read·84 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

May 4·1 min read·19 words

National Party Tāmaki: can National reclaim the seat after Brooke van Velden?

National Party Tāmaki is back in focus as The Spinoff asks, “Can National win back...

May 4·1 min read·27 words

Night Cap

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May 4·1 min read·66 words

We Brought a Military Bridge Layer Back to Life

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May 4·1 min read·25 words

HOW WE FOUND THE CRAZIEST WAVE ON EARTH

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May 4·1 min read·72 words

Christopher Luxon vs Winston Peters: The Crisis Talks Explained

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May 4·1 min read·73 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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May 4·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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May 4·1 min read·22 words

Comedy Corner

Welcome to Politically Incorrect Comedy corner: the one place on The Good Oil where you are allowed to read and share naughty and offensive jokes that make us all laugh even though we are not supposed…

May 4·1 min read·55 words

The Strange Case of Lebanon’s ‘Ceasefire’

The Lebanese government is powerless unless it decides to engage in military conflict against Hezbollah. Even then, the outcome is uncertain, and losing is not an option.

May 4·1 min read·33 words

Trump’s Rallies: The Great American Soapbox, Reborn

Donald Trump and Abraham Lincoln both exemplified a great American tradition.

May 4·1 min read·18 words

Tay-Tay vs the AI Behemoth

Taylor Swift takes legal measures to protect her voice and image from AI.

May 4·1 min read·18 words

The Report That Bhattacharya Would Not Publish

It would be useful to know how many of the other studies that were used to prop up the continued rollout of the Covid-19 vaccines used the test-negative design.

May 4·1 min read·36 words

The Justice Department Indicts the Ministry of Love

To avoid ending up on the Hate List, people watch their words, meaning they watch their thoughts. If we accept the premise that we want to stamp out hate, we acquiesce in this erosion of our freedom o…

May 4·1 min read·56 words

Socialists Try What Hasn’t Worked... Again

‘Rising inequality’ is yet another modern myth.

May 4·1 min read·13 words

Why This Is a Matter of Public Interest

The Maiki Sherman-Lloyd Burr incident.

May 4·1 min read·13 words

The Renewal of the West and a Reckoning for New Zealand

A people who can no longer affirm their own worthiness to endure have chosen, quietly and finally, the path of extinction.

May 4·1 min read·32 words

Turns Out Diversity Is Not Canada’s Strength

Did they really believe knuckle-dragging savages would turn into respectable, ‘progressive’ Canadians?

May 3·1 min read·19 words

The Scarf, the Activist & the Media

A critical analysis: why NZ Herald’s keffiyeh story on Davien Gray is NOT what it seems.

May 3·1 min read·23 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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May 3·1 min read·43 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/077

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

May 3·1 min read·14 words

What Do the Letters TVNZ Stand For

Most don’t watch One News for these reasons. It brings to mind the Herman’s Hermits hit from 1966 – “A Must to Avoid”.

May 3·1 min read·30 words

Coalition government NZ ‘working well’ despite email clash, Simeon Brown says

The coalition government NZ is being described as stable even as internal tensions surface, with...

May 3·1 min read·26 words

David Seymour says Wayne Brown should go on Celebrity Treasure Island

David Seymour has publicly nudged Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown toward reality TV, telling Stuff NZ...

May 3·1 min read·26 words

The Hīkoi Threat Over Treaty Clauses Review

Fighting talk from a TVNZ journalist.

May 3·1 min read·13 words

Justice delayed, Justice denied?

A young man is dead. And that is a tragedy without qualification. But what does the court outcome actually represent?

May 3·1 min read·24 words

UNDRIP on the Sly

National, Labour and ACT are sneaking the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples into New Zealand law.

May 3·1 min read·24 words

David Seymour interview: NZ Herald highlights Acting Prime Minister on Newstalk ZB

Acting Prime Minister David Seymour appeared in a Seymour interview with Mike Hosking on Newstalk...

May 3·1 min read·27 words

Quick Hit – ACT Sniffs the Wind and Borrows NZ First Immigration Policy

This is ACT desperately trying to poach votes by copying NZ First’s successful playbook. They’re right on the policy, but it highlights ACT’s polling slump while NZ First surges.

May 3·1 min read·42 words

Good Oil General Debate

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May 3·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Former NZ PM Helen Clark says a female UN Secretary General would be ‘transformative’.

May 3·1 min read·18 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… pittance (noun) - : a small portion, amount, or allowance. Also : a meager wage or remuneration Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : It's a pity when you haven't anything bu…

May 3·1 min read·90 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

May 3·1 min read·31 words

NZ politics: ‘I never studied politics, I just lived it’ in NZ Herald profile

The NZ Herald has published a piece titled “I never studied politics, I just lived...

May 3·1 min read·29 words

Christopher Luxon Singapore trip signals fuel fix and strategic play

Christopher Luxon’s Singapore visit this week puts fuel security New Zealand and strategic diplomacy NZ...

May 3·1 min read·25 words

Night Cap

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May 3·1 min read·66 words

Aussie Mines vs NZ Jobs: Duncan Garner on Why Our Economy is Stalling

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May 3·1 min read·29 words

Does Everyone Really Hate TVNZ’s Maiki Sherman?

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May 3·1 min read·71 words

Wayne Mapp Says Winston Was Right & Stop The Scrapping

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May 3·1 min read·74 words

Auckland city deal: Auckland mayor calls it ‘quite underwhelming’

Auckland mayor Wayne Brown says the Auckland city deal is “quite underwhelming”, telling 1News Auckland...

May 3·1 min read·24 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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May 3·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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May 3·1 min read·22 words

David Seymour immigration policy announcement aired in NZ Herald Live

In an NZ Herald Live update, ACT Party leader David Seymour delivered an immigration policy...

May 3·1 min read·25 words

ACT Party immigration policy: stronger English requirements and a daily migrant tax

ACT has set out a new NZ immigration policy that would tighten English language requirements...

May 3·1 min read·27 words

Wayne Brown says Christopher Luxon a dog with ‘two tails wagging’ him

Auckland mayor Wayne Brown has reignited attention in NZ politics after telling the NZ Herald...

May 3·1 min read·27 words

US invites NZ to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz

The US invites NZ to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a move reported by...

May 2·1 min read·25 words

Diving into Obscurity: the JAMs

How to conquer the music biz and blow it all up in the suits’ faces.

May 2·1 min read·20 words

NZ prime minister confidence vote: what it could mean for the election

The NZ prime minister confidence vote has become a focal point in Wellington this week,...

May 2·1 min read·27 words

From Book Clubs to the RSL

Conquest’s Law: why everything drifts left and why conservatives keep losing.

May 2·1 min read·17 words

Good Oil General Debate

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May 2·1 min read·23 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… nimiety (noun) - : excess, redundancy Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : There's no scarcity of English words for too much of a good thing—words like overkill, plethora, s…

May 2·1 min read·91 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

May 2·1 min read·21 words

Night Cap

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May 2·1 min read·66 words

Science Saturday

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May 2·1 min read·66 words

Lesbian DEI Navy Ship Sinking 💥 The Final Moments Are HILARIOUS 🤣

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May 2·1 min read·28 words

They Protected Maiki Sherman. They Hunted Me

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May 2·1 min read·71 words

NZ Government Crisis: Winston Peters Leaks Emails To Humiliate Luxon

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May 2·1 min read·74 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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May 2·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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May 2·1 min read·22 words

Teacher’s Unions: The Left’s River of Gold and Blood

It’s no coincidence the latest would-be presidential assassin is a teacher.

May 2·1 min read·20 words

PM says he has nothing more to add over Peters Iran clash

The Prime Minister says he has “nothing more to add” over the Peters Iran clash,...

May 2·1 min read·27 words

Hipkins opens door to super means-testing, Peters vows to block it

“I think these need to be conversations across the Parliament.”

May 2·1 min read·21 words

Treaty clause rewrite plan could cap legal weight of Te Tiriti

The goal is to make Treaty provisions more “specific and consistent”.

May 2·1 min read·22 words

Greens defend candidate after flag-ripping video resurfaces

“Real, lived experience.”

May 2·1 min read·10 words

Fuel relief fades as priority list remains unclear

We need certainty around this... people need to plan.”

May 2·1 min read·17 words

India FTA puts CBDCs and digital payments on the table

New Zealand has agreed to make transfers to India happen “in real time”.

May 2·1 min read·23 words

How Dare He Play by Their Rules?

Avi Yemini is using an old leftist tactic, and the left are apoplectic.

May 2·1 min read·20 words

Read Between the Lines of Bondi Report

The interim Bondi royal commission report is tacitly damning.

May 1·1 min read·16 words

Why Does This Keep Happening?

Yet another innocent child lost to a violent, predatory scumbag from a violent, dysfunctional culture.

May 1·1 min read·20 words

ANZAC Poppy Day and Sylvia Park

Best of MountainsideFM.

May 1·1 min read·9 words

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May 1·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Beck was stood down from her role several weeks ago. The business advocacy group says she is still an employee.

May 1·1 min read·24 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… cadge (verb) - : to obtain (something) for free often by persuading or imposing on another : sponge Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Long ago, peddlers traveled the Brit…

May 1·1 min read·90 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

The Lord will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.

May 1·1 min read·40 words

Night Cap

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May 1·1 min read·66 words

Friday Fur

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May 1·1 min read·66 words

Centrist: Why Liberals Are In Charge Of NZ & The Bias Of Our Media

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May 1·1 min read·30 words

Media hypocrisy exposed: Where's their accountability?

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May 1·1 min read·70 words

David vs the Media: MAIKI SHERMAN BOMBSHELL

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May 1·1 min read·71 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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May 1·1 min read·34 words

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May 1·1 min read·22 words

The Willful Self-Deception of the Left

Regardless of how one counts the cases, left-wing violence remains a serious problem – undoubtedly the most serious.

May 1·1 min read·24 words

‘Sov Citizen’ Hero Just Another Predator

The dole-bludging, kiddy-fiddling ‘hero’ of the conspiracy nuts.

May 1·1 min read·14 words

Here We Go Again: Time to Jail the Judges

Judges tilt their heads in sympathy for intersectional paedophiles.

May 1·1 min read·18 words

The Fraudsters Get the FBI Treatment

Twenty-two businesses in the North Star State raided by the feds.

May 1·1 min read·17 words

What Do You Most Despise?

Today we need rear-guard actions and bravery, not vacillating invertebrates.

May 1·1 min read·15 words

The Great Slavery Hypocrisy of the Left

Only one civilisation spent blood and treasure to end the trade and then spent the next 200 years beating itself up about it.

May 1·1 min read·30 words

Oh, This Is Fine

The webbing over everything is ‘natural’.

May 1·1 min read·10 words

A Wahine Trumps a Gay White Man

The intersectionality trap.

May 1·1 min read·10 words

They Aren’t Even Hiding It Any More

Ethnic choir dumps Bondi memorial concert because Jews will be there.

Apr 30·1 min read·18 words

The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

Once again we see Simon Watts, as minister of local government, carrying the co-governance torch for Luxon, prioritizing unelected influence over equal rights. Watts is acting as a frontman for Luxon’…

Apr 30·1 min read·48 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Apr 30·1 min read·43 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/076

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Apr 30·1 min read·14 words

When Culture Becomes Compulsion

The karakia controversy.

Apr 30·1 min read·7 words

So the Media Lawyers Up

The chilling effect is coming from inside the house. I received a legal letter this week too.

Apr 30·1 min read·22 words

Clark Should Look to Her Own

It’s so pathetically obvious what these lefty journalists are trying to do.

Apr 30·1 min read·18 words

NZ’s Voter Sentiment

How the coalition responds to these intertwined pressures and delivers for those who backed it in 2023 – before parliament dissolves on 1 October – will be pivotal in shaping voter sentiment and, ulti…

Apr 30·1 min read·40 words

[The Good Oil] May 2026 Political Poll

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Apr 30·1 min read·35 words

Quick Hit: National’s Desperate War on Winston Peters

Attacking your own kingmaker instead of fixing your own failures is the behaviour of a government that knows it is sliding. It risks blowing up the coalition and hands the left a free narrative.

Apr 30·1 min read·42 words

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Apr 30·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

The filing states that Musk “can only be removed from our board or these positions by the vote of Class B holders” – super-voting shares with 10 votes apiece that he will control after the IPO, making…

Apr 30·1 min read·46 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… pique (verb, noun, noun) - verb 1a: to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff b: pride 2: to arouse anger or resentment in : irritate noun : a tra…

Apr 30·1 min read·95 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

Apr 30·1 min read·32 words

Night Cap

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Apr 30·1 min read·66 words

Tiny Home Thursday

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Apr 30·1 min read·67 words

Reaction To Maiki Sherman Using Vulgar Language At Parliament Function

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Apr 30·1 min read·26 words

Simeon Brown On Complaint Against TVNZ For Breaking Parliament Rules

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Apr 30·1 min read·74 words

Winston Peters On The India Free Trade Agreement

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Apr 30·1 min read·72 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 30·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Apr 30·1 min read·22 words

Five Big Things That Happened Today: April 30 news summary

1News used its April 30 news daily news roundup to frame the day’s New Zealand...

Apr 30·1 min read·25 words

Winston Peters orders staff training after Iran emails spat

Winston Peters has moved to tighten staff process after an Iran emails spat, signalling how...

Apr 30·1 min read·24 words

Winston Peters and the Iran war emails: confusion over handling

Winston Peters says he is “very confused” about how Iran war emails were handled, a...

Apr 30·1 min read·25 words

New Vehicles in the US To Be Equipped With a Kill Switch

We don’t want our vehicles to be surveillance machines. Enough is enough. If we don’t take a stand now, they will just keep pushing the envelope. Liberty is such a precious thing. Once it is gone, it …

Apr 30·1 min read·57 words

Another One to Send to Marama

Noble savage myth meets brutal reality yet again.

Apr 30·1 min read·14 words

Audrey Young on the Beehive slur event: what her column says

Audrey Young’s NZ Herald column examines “what really happened” between journalists at Parliament’s Beehive after...

Apr 30·1 min read·26 words

Gee, Thanks Malcolm

Snowy 2.0: The $42 billion monument to Net Zero madness.

Apr 30·1 min read·13 words

79 Convictions and Still Free

How did Ireland let this man murder his own mother?

Apr 30·1 min read·15 words

Undersized fish rule incentives questioned by fisheries minister NZ

New Zealand’s fisheries minister told RNZ this week that there is “no incentive to stop...

Apr 30·1 min read·24 words

The First COVID Indictment, Finally

David Morens has previously said that he would welcome time in prison provided he would be free “to speak out and write about what has been going on.” Prosecutors need to hold him to his pledge: “I wo…

Apr 30·1 min read·45 words

TVNZ reporters face possible Parliament ban as access questioned

TVNZ reporters could lose access to Parliament after Stuff NZ reported a “possible ban”, a...

Apr 30·1 min read·24 words

Playing Musical Chairs in a Burning Kitchen

Libs ‘kitchen table summit’ is a sign that reality is finally biting the ‘moderates’.

Apr 30·1 min read·21 words

How to Close the Iris

Deaing with antisemitism online.

Apr 30·1 min read·9 words

New Zealand’s Rot Starts in Empty Pews

Christianity is not nostalgia. It is the operating system that once made this country work. Time to reinstall it – before the hard drive crashes for good.

Apr 30·1 min read·34 words

NZ petrol stocks rise as diesel and jet fuel stocks all up

NZ petrol stocks, NZ diesel stocks and NZ jet fuel stocks are reported to be...

Apr 29·1 min read·27 words

The Old Soldiers Are Lucky They Didn’t Live to See This

Did they really fight and die just to see Australia destroyed by the elites?

Apr 29·1 min read·25 words

The Art of Not Deciding

Why New Zealand – a small, connected, relatively wealthy democracy – consistently fails to move from idea to action and what that paralysis is really protecting.

Apr 29·1 min read·31 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/075

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Apr 29·1 min read·14 words

Concerns Over Chinese Smart Vehicles

“In today’s security environment, these are no longer just cars. They are data platforms with the capacity to collect, store, and transmit sensitive personal and geolocation information,” said Nathan …

Apr 29·1 min read·40 words

Every Story Needs a Villain

Turns out you can farm your opposition and call it a win.

Apr 29·1 min read·17 words

‘Gotcha’ Tova Learns the Hard Way

The prime minister is effectively telling her to ‘get stuffed’. Good on him. Tova turned a ‘gotcha’ moment on herself. How clever is that? All the kudos goes to Luxon.

Apr 29·1 min read·36 words

Is This the Age of Substack?

If mainstream media won’t report on their own then others will have to.

Apr 29·1 min read·19 words

Quick Hit: The India FTA – McClay’s Win, Luxon’s Lifeline or... Labour’s Foot in the Door?

Quick intelligence briefing from Good Oil – Political Intelligence.

Apr 29·1 min read·25 words

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Apr 29·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Wilson took the stand for her second day of cross-examination on Wednesday, where MacInnes’s lawyer, Sue Chrysanthou SC, asked why Wilson could not produce some messages called for by the complainant.

Apr 29·1 min read·35 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… tontine (noun) - : a joint financial arrangement whereby the participants usually contribute equally to a prize that is awarded entirely to the participant who survives all th…

Apr 29·1 min read·89 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.

Apr 29·1 min read·25 words

Night Cap

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Apr 29·1 min read·66 words

Wednesday Weapons

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Apr 29·1 min read·66 words

Dr Michael Johnston On The Latest Manifestation Of The Te Tiriti Cult

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Apr 29·1 min read·28 words

Sean Plunket Reacts To Further Complaints From The BSA

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Apr 29·1 min read·73 words

Bryce Edwards On The National Party’s Complaint Against TVNZ

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Apr 29·1 min read·73 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 29·1 min read·34 words

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Apr 29·1 min read·22 words

The Power Play

How Trump is running the most aggressive geopolitical play in a generation – and why it has to be this way.

Apr 29·1 min read·24 words

One Step Forward After 10 Steps Back

Labor announces missile defence strategy.

Apr 29·1 min read·12 words

The Trade Offensive and China

Spain is the latest nation to court China’s markets.

Apr 29·1 min read·14 words

Why Was Security This Bad?

Democrats regularly compare Trump to some of the worst dictators throughout history. Yet again, we have seen another example of the violence that this sort of rhetoric can cause. Political violence is…

Apr 29·1 min read·52 words

Hasn’t Notre Dame Been Through Enough?

Now the globalists and ‘modern artists’ are coming for it.

Apr 29·1 min read·16 words

Government cracks down on large nitrous oxide canisters as misuse grows in New Zealand

The Government is “cracking down” on large nitrous oxide canisters in New Zealand as misuse...

Apr 29·1 min read·29 words

Consent-free granny flat rules to be expanded in New Zealand

New Zealand is preparing to expand consent-free granny flat rules, a shift in New Zealand...

Apr 29·1 min read·25 words

The Next GOP President Will Get the Same Treatment

Accepting, for argument’s sake, that these things are true, then his logic isn’t unreasonable and he comes across as sane while discussing the security failures that allowed him to get as far as he di…

Apr 29·1 min read·63 words

Labour’s small-target strategy may be working, but can it last?

Eventually, though, it will need to show what it would actually do.

Apr 29·1 min read·22 words

Maiki Sherman allegations resurface after a year of media silence

O’Brien says the incident was witnessed by multiple attendees and led to the event being shut down. 

Apr 29·1 min read·27 words

India-FTA may lift GDP just 0.07% after 10 years, while ‘affirming’ UNDRIP

The clause is qualified by each country’s “respective positions,” preserving the government’s stance that UNDRIP has no domestic legal effect.

Apr 29·1 min read·32 words

Parent taken to court as Seymour ramps up school truancy crackdown

“The truth is that a lot of people want to get to school, but if you're a ‘won't’ rather than a ‘can't’, then we are going to throw the book at you.”

Apr 29·1 min read·43 words

Missing man case raises questions over gender laws and police language

“His sex is directly relevant to a public safety alert.”

Apr 29·1 min read·21 words

Age reversal research shows promise, but human claims remain early

Summarised by Centrist Scientists are investigating whether cellular rejuvenation could one day treat disease, extend...

Apr 29·1 min read·25 words

Nine days of diesel shows how exposed NZ remains to global fuel shocks

Resources Minister Shane Jones said Channel Infrastructure was working quickly to prepare a storage tank, backed by up to $21.6 million from the Regional Infrastructure Fund.

Apr 29·1 min read·39 words

The Missing Man They Won’t Name

How New Zealand's law enforcement became an activist agency protecting a fiction, and the media reinforces the deception.

Apr 29·1 min read·24 words

What’s ‘Respectful’ About This Grift?

Anzac Day ‘Welcome to Country’ activist exposed.

Apr 28·1 min read·12 words

White Men Cause All Violence – Even When They Don’t

Marama Davidson’s toxic delusion.

Apr 28·1 min read·14 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Apr 28·1 min read·43 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/074

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Apr 28·1 min read·14 words

Pope Nowhere to Be Seen for Nigeria’s Christians

This is what ‘coexistence with Islam’ really looks like.

Apr 28·1 min read·17 words

Muldoon homophobia in focus as 1News revisits David Lange career

In a 1News New Zealand report, New Zealand political history is revisited through the lens...

Apr 28·1 min read·25 words

Would the Real Racist Please Stand Up

Who’s the racist-est?

Apr 28·1 min read·10 words

Luxon Has to Turn the Ship Around

National’s political ship needs to sail with the winds (voters), not against them. There’s a lot of water to go under the bridge between now and the election but the implementation of voters’ wishes w…

Apr 28·1 min read·48 words

Unreported for Nearly a Year

Inside the press gallery: power, silence, and the accountability gap in New Zealand media.

Apr 28·1 min read·19 words

Quick Hit: Right Bloc Leads Coalition Preference 45–39, NZ First Voters Lock It In

The current coalition retains the advantage on the only question that matters under MMP – who can actually form a government. The left still has significant work to do to become a credible alternative…

Apr 28·1 min read·48 words

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Apr 28·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

The 85-year-old’s remarkable life was cut short on Saturday morning in a crash near Ngongotahā on his way to the Ōhinemutu dawn parade in Rotorua to honour the Anzacs.

Apr 28·1 min read·33 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… ravenous (adjective) - 1: rapacious 2: very eager or greedy for food, satisfaction, or gratification Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Ravenous and ravishing are not syno…

Apr 28·1 min read·82 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

Apr 28·1 min read·33 words

Night Cap

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Apr 28·1 min read·66 words

Taste Tuesday

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Apr 28·1 min read·66 words

When Shelves Go Empty, These Soup Cubes Will Save You. 2 Years of Food for Pennies.

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Apr 28·1 min read·32 words

RNZAF Black Falcons | Part Two - The Routine

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Apr 28·1 min read·73 words

White House Dinner Shooting: They Say AR-15s Are Too Dangerous - Until They Need Them

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Apr 28·1 min read·79 words

TVNZ homophobic slur allegation: Maiki Sherman, Lloyd Burr and Nicola Willis office

The alleged use of a TVNZ homophobic slur by Maiki Sherman in a Wellington political...

Apr 28·1 min read·27 words

Winston Peters backs rail transport NZ over easing heavy vehicle restrictions

Winston Peters has signalled that rail transport NZ, not looser heavy vehicle restrictions, should sit...

Apr 28·1 min read·26 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 28·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Apr 28·1 min read·22 words

TVNZ faces renewed strain with The Beehive as relations hit new low

TVNZ and The Beehive have reached what The Post describes as a “new low” in...

Apr 28·1 min read·27 words

TVNZ political editor claims should be looked at, minister says

A minister has said TVNZ political editor claims “should be looked at”, bringing new scrutiny...

Apr 28·1 min read·25 words

NZ political news: Breakfast responds to Luxon withdrawal

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has withdrawn from a scheduled Breakfast interview, and 1News has responded...

Apr 28·1 min read·23 words

New Zealand India free trade agreement signed in landmark deal

New Zealand and India have signed a New Zealand India free trade agreement, a move...

Apr 28·1 min read·25 words

National accuses Labour over revenue gathering measures

In Wellington this week, the National Party accused the Labour Party of “misleading New Zealanders”...

Apr 28·1 min read·22 words

He Wrote an Op-Ed, Then Police Tracked Him

A legal case in Kansas shows how surveillance technology can distort policing priorities. When authorities can monitor anyone cheaply, the temptation to target critics increases.

Apr 28·1 min read·33 words

NZ trucking rule changes flagged as government fuel reduction policy shifts

The Government is signalling NZ trucking rule changes as part of a government fuel reduction...

Apr 28·1 min read·26 words

Small Nuclear Is Advancing Rapidly

Undoubtedly, in the nuclear power world, the future is not what it used to be.

Apr 28·1 min read·20 words

86% of AI Unemployed Will Be Women

AI is coming for Karen.

Apr 28·1 min read·12 words

How We Talked a Generation Out of Trades

The university myth and how to fix it.

Apr 28·1 min read·16 words

A Burgeoning Medical Revolution: the Parasite-Cancer Link

Despite horrific levels of censorship being foisted upon scientific and medical communities, a medical revolution is skyrocketing thanks to the gallant efforts of defiant, competent and ethical trailb…

Apr 28·1 min read·35 words

What the Medical Establishment Doesn’t Want You To Hear

A Welsh surgeon is speaking out – and the medical establishment has no answers.

Apr 28·1 min read·23 words

No One Told Me

Coming off antidepressants.

Apr 27·1 min read·7 words

The World’s Most Educated Countries

It is of note that NZ is not in the top 10.

Apr 27·1 min read·17 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/073

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Apr 27·1 min read·14 words

This Racist Relic Must Go

New Zealand was founded on the liberal promise of equal citizenship under one law for all. The Māori seats mock that promise. Abolish them.

Apr 27·1 min read·29 words

Trump Entertains the Cause of His Threats

These journalists will now get a second bite at the dinner, minus, hopefully, the drama of the first one. No doubt they’ll all turn up. After all, who wants to miss a feast provided by the enemy at hi…

Apr 27·1 min read·47 words

NZ population bombshell: experts warn New Zealand isn’t ready for a major demographic shift

New Zealand is being warned of a looming demographic upheaval, with the NZ Herald reporting...

Apr 27·1 min read·29 words

Backing Out of Interviews Is Poor Form

Luxon lacks courage.

Apr 27·1 min read·10 words

The Good Oil Podcast – Episode 30 – Shubz

Shubz joins me on the latest Good Oil Podcast. We talk iwi grift, “waste of Māori blood”, growing up political and why so many are still told Labour is their only option.

Apr 27·1 min read·41 words

Quick Hit: The Third Assassination Attempt on Trump and the Normalisation of Stochastic Terrorism

The outrage is the delivery mechanism, not a side effect.

Apr 27·1 min read·24 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Apr 27·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

RIP Greg Moore.

Apr 27·1 min read·7 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… epenthesis (noun) - : the insertion or development of a sound or letter in the body of a word Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : If you say film as "FIL-um," with two syll…

Apr 27·1 min read·99 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow.

Apr 27·1 min read·17 words

Night Cap

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Apr 27·1 min read·66 words

Manly Monday

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Apr 27·1 min read·66 words

Why Bohemian Rhapsody could only be recorded in 1975

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Apr 27·1 min read·25 words

Winston Peters UNLEASHED: Why he will NEVER work with the Left again

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Apr 27·1 min read·76 words

Can A CAR Beat A £181,000,000 GUIDED BUSWAY

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Apr 27·1 min read·72 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 27·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Apr 27·1 min read·22 words

Comedy Corner

Welcome to Politically Incorrect Comedy corner: the one place on The Good Oil where you are allowed to read and share naughty and offensive jokes that make us all laugh even though we are not supposed…

Apr 27·1 min read·55 words

More British History Needs to Be Taught

It is lunacy that my year-six son has had a Mayan Day where he ate tortillas but has not visited the nearby ruins of a Roman villa, the site of the Battle of Cheriton or learned anything at all about …

Apr 27·1 min read·53 words

The Curious Case of the Charming Penguins

What are physicists even talking about?

Apr 27·1 min read·13 words

No One Is Fooled by This Cheap Gambit

It was always a lie, so stop trying to bullshit us, anti-Semites.

Apr 27·1 min read·20 words

New Yorker Story on Maduro Comes off as Comedy

Does Maduro think that no one in Venezuela has noticed that he he gone? Yes, they have noticed, but the funny thing is they don’t even much care, including his vice-president who hasn’t really bothere…

Apr 27·1 min read·58 words

What Happened After Butler – And Why It Still Matters

This kind of reporting is not ideological. It’s not partisan. It’s a journalist holding powerful institutions accountable for catastrophic failures.

Apr 27·1 min read·30 words

What Happened After Butler – And Why It Still Matters

This kind of reporting is not ideological. It’s not partisan. It’s a journalist holding powerful institutions accountable for catastrophic failures.

Apr 27·1 min read·30 words

Aotea Great Barrier Island iwi meet govt over overfishing concerns

Aotea/Great Barrier Island iwi met with government officials this week to press “overfishing concerns” in...

Apr 27·1 min read·25 words

Muldoon homophobia and the rise of David Lange in NZ politics

A new 1News report says Muldoon homophobia in New Zealand political history helped propel David...

Apr 27·1 min read·26 words

This Is What We Get for Our Billion in Taxes

If the ABC was a dog, you’d put it down.

Apr 27·1 min read·20 words

It Is Better to Be King of Your Silence...

than a slave of your words. Judge Ema Aitken and the architecture of Greek tragedy.

Apr 27·1 min read·24 words

Pure Prebble Theatre, Zero Substance

Hosking’s “impeccable sources”.

Apr 27·1 min read·8 words

Time to Fire up the Wood Chipper

More horror stories of abusive gay parents.

Apr 26·1 min read·14 words

Anzac Day Address 2026

NOTE: I was asked to be the guest speaker at the Cromwell Anzac Day service. This address is similar to one I gave at the small Southland community of Waikaka in 2023.

Apr 26·1 min read·36 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Apr 26·1 min read·43 words

It All Depends on How It’s Done

Broader commercialisation doesn’t necessarily mean more harm.

Apr 26·1 min read·14 words

How New Zealanders Came to Worship Their Own Submission

New Zealanders increasingly shoulder Treaty burdens not theirs to carry – learning Māori rites, obeying Crown guilt, and performing cultural submission. Here’s why.

Apr 26·1 min read·32 words

A Response to Nathan Smith

The majority of Christians in history have seen war as legitimate, if regrettable.

Apr 26·1 min read·18 words

An Open Letter to the Prime Minister

Prime Minister, the country is running out of time – and you are running out of excuses. Enough. New Zealand cannot survive more soft leadership.

Apr 26·1 min read·32 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Apr 26·1 min read·23 words

India New Zealand free trade agreement due for signing in New Delhi

RNZ reports the India New Zealand free trade agreement is “due for signing” in New...

Apr 26·1 min read·27 words

Town of the Day

“In a time where these stories are more relevant than ever, with what’s going on around the world in terms of conflict, it really is one of our missions to keep this story alive and to learn from it f…

Apr 26·1 min read·52 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… comity (noun) - 1a: friendly social atmosphere : social harmony b: a loose widespread community based on common social institutions c: comity of nations d: the informal and vo…

Apr 26·1 min read·86 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

Apr 26·1 min read·40 words

Letters to the Editor highlights fuel thieves and the political blame game

NZ Herald Letters to the Editor have focused on fuel thieves and a “political blame...

Apr 26·1 min read·27 words

NZ politics AI: how MPs are using the tools in Parliament

A new report in The Post examines NZ politics AI and how MPs are using...

Apr 26·1 min read·26 words

Night Cap

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Apr 26·1 min read·66 words

Standup Sunday

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Apr 26·1 min read·66 words

Simon Court: Will The Government End The Iwi Mining Veto?

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Apr 26·1 min read·26 words

Campaign For Sex Offender “Good Character Discounts" To Be Scrapped

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Apr 26·1 min read·74 words

Nicole McKee On The New ‘Firearms & Education NZ’ Regulatory Body

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Apr 26·1 min read·75 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 26·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Apr 26·1 min read·22 words

Winston Peters meddling signals coalition dynamics NZ turning point

Winston Peters’ latest intervention has shifted the tone inside the New Zealand coalition government, with...

Apr 26·1 min read·24 words

Trump White House Dinner shots fired: Trump speaks after shooting

Donald Trump addressed a White House Dinner security incident in Washington after “shots fired” disrupted...

Apr 26·1 min read·25 words

Will National rule out Labour?

It may be the political class versus everyone else.

Apr 26·1 min read·14 words

Government investment cycle trail: $800,000 for NZ Cycle Trail repairs

The Government has committed $800,000 to NZ Cycle Trail repairs, a targeted government investment cycle...

Apr 26·1 min read·25 words

The House frames open mic night at Parliament as a test of debate

RNZ’s The House casts an “open mic night at Parliament” as a revealing moment in...

Apr 25·1 min read·28 words

By All Means, Bring up Ellis Island

It’s the best argument for remigration we could ask for.

Apr 25·1 min read·17 words

Who Do You Trust?

The war hero? Or the Swamp?

Apr 25·1 min read·10 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Apr 25·1 min read·23 words

Councils funding push for government natural hazard protections

New Zealand councils are pressing the Government to shoulder more of the cost for natural...

Apr 25·1 min read·23 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… predispose (verb) - 1: to dispose in advance 2: to make susceptible Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : What exactly is someone's disposition? And is it different from a pre…

Apr 25·1 min read·89 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind: the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down: the Lord loveth the righteous:

Apr 25·1 min read·27 words

Māori health and political agenda: Hingatu Thompson’s warning

In a NZ Herald commentary, Hingatu Thompson says Māori health is being “steamrolled by political...

Apr 25·1 min read·23 words

NZ climate fight highlighted in The Post analysis of New Zealand climate policy

The Post says New Zealand’s climate change debate is entering a harder phase as the...

Apr 25·1 min read·28 words

Night Cap

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Apr 25·1 min read·66 words

Science Saturday

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Apr 25·1 min read·66 words

David Farrar Breaks Down The National Caucus Tensions

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Apr 25·1 min read·24 words

Forget Waitangi Day: Let’s Make Anzac Day NZ’s True National Day

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Apr 25·1 min read·75 words

Centrist: Why Liberals Are In Charge Of NZ & The Bias Of Our Media

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Apr 25·1 min read·78 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 25·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Apr 25·1 min read·22 words

Winston Peters and a turning point in coalition dynamics NZ

Audrey Young’s NZ Herald politics column says Winston Peters has become a flashpoint in coalition...

Apr 25·1 min read·25 words

Urged to Wear an Olive Ribbon

Veterans back BRS this Anzac Day.

Apr 25·1 min read·12 words

Where Are the Adults When We Need Them?

Oh, for the good old days when Australia was government debt-free.

Apr 25·1 min read·19 words

Christopher Luxon Breakfast interview exit raises media strategy questions

Christopher Luxon has stepped away from the Breakfast slot, a decision now dissected in New...

Apr 25·1 min read·24 words

Should We Really Clean up Ocean Plastic?

Another case of environmentalists wreaking more harm than good?

Apr 25·1 min read·16 words

Two political foot-in-mouth moments, one awkward day

“Fumbled attempt at humour.”

Apr 25·1 min read·11 words

India trade deal raises questions over transparency, migration and investment clause

“Part of the issue is that the text hasn’t been released.”

Apr 25·1 min read·22 words

Govt pulls ad appearing to show under-16 social media ban is already being built

Cart before the horse.

Apr 25·1 min read·18 words

Water infrastructure bill could hit $49b over decade

Asked who will pay, Watts said “ratepayers first and foremost”.

Apr 25·1 min read·18 words

FNDC accused of taking power away from voters

“Subverting the fundamental tenets of local government”.

Apr 25·1 min read·15 words

US temperature extremes have declined since 1899, study claims

Both hot and cold temperature extremes have declined.

Apr 25·1 min read·17 words

This Week in Diversity Is Our Strength

Pooping isn’t the worse thing immigrants are doing on Australian streets.

Apr 25·1 min read·18 words

Twenty Per Cent of the Party Vote

Best of MountainsideFM.

Apr 25·1 min read·10 words

ANZAC Day: The Last Post

Apr 25·1 min read·5 words

NZ-US rare minerals deal revives debate as environmentalists split

A revived NZ-US rare minerals deal is forcing New Zealand’s environmental movement to take opposing...

Apr 24·1 min read·24 words

ANZAC Day: The band played ‘Waltzing Matilda’

Apr 24·1 min read·7 words

ANZAC Day - For our American friends

Apr 24·1 min read·7 words

NZ oil shock scenarios: Government outlines worst‑case economic risks

The Government has outlined “worst case” NZ oil shock scenarios, signalling how a severe oil...

Apr 24·1 min read·24 words

Barry Soper memoir reignites debate with ‘Jacinda Ardern imposter’ claim

Veteran political journalist Barry Soper has used his Barry Soper memoir to label former prime...

Apr 24·1 min read·25 words

ANZAC Day: True unsung heroes

Wyn Fountain served as a Welfare Officer in the Middle East and Europe and was away for over four years. Later he ran a very successful business in NZ and, with wife Shirley, grew a great family. At …

Apr 24·1 min read·53 words

ANZAC Day: For our Aussie mates

Apr 24·1 min read·6 words

ANZAC Day: Some gave all

Apr 24·1 min read·5 words

Luxon pulls out of weekly Breakfast interview, reshaping access

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has pulled out of his weekly “Breakfast” interview with 1News, changing...

Apr 24·1 min read·24 words

ANZAC Day: Gallipoli

In 2015 Dad and I were at the dawn ceremony at ANZAC Cove and then the service at Chunuk Bair. I carried the medals of my great-grandfather Harry Crozier with me. It was 100 years since ANZAC troops …

Apr 24·1 min read·95 words

ANZAC Day: Lest we forget

This is my ANZAC Day tribute posting. ANZAC Day means a great deal for me and my family. I suppose it is because we have a connection to the original ANZACs in 1915 and Gallipoli, and to a veteran of …

Apr 24·1 min read·98 words

Te Matatini stage controversy as haka translations spark racist weapon claim

A group has accused the Te Matatini stage in Aotearoa of being used as “a...

Apr 24·1 min read·26 words

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Apr 24·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

For LRDG drivers, it wasn’t simply a matter of getting from A to B.

Apr 24·1 min read·18 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… profusion (noun) - 1: lavish expenditure : extravagance 2: the quality or state of being profuse 3: great quantity : lavish display or supply Source : Merriam-Webster Etymol…

Apr 24·1 min read·89 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

Apr 24·1 min read·20 words

Christopher Luxon pulls out of weekly Breakfast interview

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has pulled out of the “weekly Breakfast interview” on TVNZ’s Breakfast,...

Apr 24·1 min read·23 words

Night Cap

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Apr 24·1 min read·66 words

Friday Fur

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Apr 24·1 min read·66 words

Jillaine Heather: Unpacking Sean Plunket vs Broadcasting Standards Stoush

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Apr 24·1 min read·25 words

‘Overreach’: Can BSA Police Terrestrial And Digital Platforms?

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Apr 24·1 min read·72 words

$180m Gold Mine Standoff: Is New Zealand Blocking Investment?

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Apr 24·1 min read·73 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 24·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Apr 24·1 min read·22 words

Is There Hope for Democracy?

A culture that has progressively replaced shared obligation with individual entitlement has eroded the sense of collective responsibility, without which self-governance is merely a slogan.

Apr 24·1 min read·30 words

Bludging, Breeding Criminals: What Labor Is Importing

Denmark’s experience of ‘Palestinian refugees’ is an alarming glimpse of Australia’s future.

Apr 24·1 min read·19 words

[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day

Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.

Apr 24·1 min read·21 words

The New Partnerships in Asia

The emerging Pacific security paradigm.

Apr 24·1 min read·10 words

The Government Failed and So Now?

They failed at Bondi so they are punishing the people.

Apr 24·1 min read·16 words

Victoria Is a Crystal Ball for Swarbrick

Australia’s wokest state has barely started transitioning to ‘full electrification’ and it’s already a disaster.

Apr 24·1 min read·22 words

‘Compliment Circle’ Will Boost Self Confidence and Self Worth Ahead of Election

Backing each other.

Apr 24·1 min read·15 words

Luxon Isn’t Talking to Me

And it’s not just him. Hipkins is the same. They talk to this particular group. Is it their group? Their friends and colleagues? Or is that the group that contains the swinging voters?

Apr 24·1 min read·38 words

Why This Lebanese Family Turned to Pauline

“Because everyone knows you’re for the people.”

Apr 23·1 min read·14 words

Pushing the Views That Suit Them

Would RNZ have been remotely interested in her view on National’s leadership imbroglio if she had said Luxon was secure and deserved to lead the party into this year’s election? Somehow I don’t think …

Apr 23·1 min read·41 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Apr 23·1 min read·43 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/072

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Apr 23·1 min read·14 words

‘Culturally Intelligent’ or Competent? Take Your Pick

How about they just do their job?

Apr 23·1 min read·14 words

This Is Evidence of Control Creep

How the Department of Internal Affairs is building a social media surveillance regime before parliament has spoken.

Apr 23·1 min read·23 words

Why This Last Inquiry Was Always Going To Disappoint

The Covid era was a reckoning. It showed us that rights – the basis of our democratic nations – only matter unless someone decides they don’t any more and the reasons for that decision can be side-ste…

Apr 23·1 min read·51 words

The New Zealand Herald’s Shameful Attempt

Trying to overthrow a democratically elected prime minister.

Apr 23·1 min read·14 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Apr 23·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Rebuilding the integrity of the police was listed as a “mission-critical” challenge following a 2025 Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) report that revealed integrity failings across a small …

Apr 23·1 min read·36 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… meretricious (adjective) - 1 formal + disapproving a: tastelessly showy and falsely attractive b: superficially (see superficial sense 2) significant : pretentious 2: of or re…

Apr 23·1 min read·88 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.

Apr 23·1 min read·23 words

Night Cap

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Apr 23·1 min read·66 words

Tiny Home Thursday

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Apr 23·1 min read·67 words

Ngāi Tahu Attempt Shakedown Of The Santana Mining Project

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Apr 23·1 min read·25 words

Michael Laws Breaks Down Luxon’s Leadership & His Real Ongoing Problem

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Apr 23·1 min read·75 words

Former Judge David Harvey On The False ‘Doctrine of Discovery’

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Apr 23·1 min read·74 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 23·1 min read·34 words

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Apr 23·1 min read·22 words

The Civil War in Sudan

Lost amid a crush of global geopolitical disasters, the African country is embroiled in a tragedy of enormous proportions.

Apr 23·1 min read·24 words

Who Trusts Labor to Fix What They Designed to Break?

The lunatics are running the asylum.

Apr 23·1 min read·16 words

NZ economy recovery delayed but not derailed, says Finance Minister

New Zealand’s Finance Minister says the NZ economy recovery is “delayed but not derailed”, a...

Apr 23·1 min read·25 words

Christopher Luxon faces election scenario scrutiny as The Guardian NZ highlights risks

Christopher Luxon is confronting renewed scrutiny over a New Zealand election scenario after a The...

Apr 23·1 min read·27 words

Shane Jones ‘butter chicken tsunami’ barb sparks anger

New Zealand political news flared after Shane Jones used the phrase “butter chicken tsunami”, a...

Apr 23·1 min read·23 words

NZ oil shock modelling lays out worst‑case economic scenarios

The Government has released new modelling on a potential NZ oil shock, setting out “worst...

Apr 23·1 min read·24 words

[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day

Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.

Apr 23·1 min read·21 words

Why the Government Runs Like a Bloated Chrome Tab

The point here isn’t to argue whether Jeff Bezos should or shouldn’t pay more tax. The point is that Congress’s approach is entirely wrong. They should instead invest their energy into ensuring maximu…

Apr 23·1 min read·56 words

A Stocktake of the Iran War to Now

Blowing things up is the easy part. Turning force into a political outcome is harder.

Apr 23·1 min read·23 words

One Nation Isn’t Going Away in Victoria

Polls show ON fixed as third party – at least.

Apr 23·1 min read·17 words

Winston Peters’ coalition role flagged as turning point, Audrey Young says

An NZ Herald analysis by Audrey Young says Winston Peters’ “meddling” has become a “turning...

Apr 23·1 min read·26 words

The Hidden Risks of Psych Meds

As cases like Jordan Peterson’s draw attention, longstanding questions about withdrawal, suicidality, and tapering can no longer be sidelined.

Apr 23·1 min read·25 words

Maree’s Book Review: Killed to Order

Killed to Order: China’s Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America’s Biggest Adversary, by Jan Jekielek

Apr 23·1 min read·24 words

Viral Video Sparks Gay Surrogacy Debate

Convicted paedophiles free to buy babies.

Apr 22·1 min read·12 words

The Price of Silence

How money, mimicry, and rear are eroding free inquiry worldwide.

Apr 22·1 min read·14 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/071

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Apr 22·1 min read·14 words

The Right Are Getting It Wrong

War always comes with a price but you have to weigh up if is it a price worth paying. Churchill thought so and so does Trump.

Apr 22·1 min read·32 words

Luxon Wins Confidence Vote, What Now?

Media fails to roll the prime minister.

Apr 22·1 min read·13 words

Quick Hit: Luxon’s Loyalty Purge – The Ghost of 1997 Returns

Will Luxon double down on the attack against Winston, or will he be forced into a humiliating retreat to save the government?

Apr 22·1 min read·33 words

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Apr 22·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

“They’re the guys that claim to be socially conservative and then put Jacinda Ardern into power,” Luxon said. 

Apr 22·1 min read·22 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… excrescence (noun) - 1: a projection or outgrowth especially when abnormal 2: a disfiguring, extraneous, or unwanted mark or part : blot 3: by-product Source : Merriam-Webste…

Apr 22·1 min read·84 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king round about.

Apr 22·1 min read·46 words

Night Cap

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Apr 22·1 min read·66 words

Wednesday Weapons

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Apr 22·1 min read·66 words

Opportunity Party Is A Leftist Wolf In Centrist Party Disguise

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Apr 22·1 min read·26 words

Winston Peters: India FTA Is Bad For NZ, MSM & Working With Labour

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Apr 22·1 min read·77 words

Luxon’s Lifeline: Three Ways The Prime Minster Can Save His Job

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Apr 22·1 min read·75 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 22·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Apr 22·1 min read·22 words

There Is No ‘Fair Share’ – There Is Only ‘More’

This is the opposite of what they should be doing. And instead of figuring out how to live within their means, they just demand more resources… even though it never works. Britain tried its 98 per cen…

Apr 22·1 min read·58 words

How Did This Pass Immigration Vetting?

Multiple scions of the banned IRGC are hiding out in Australia.

Apr 22·1 min read·17 words

[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day

Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.

Apr 22·1 min read·21 words

Astro-Turf Campaign Thrown at ON

Establishment billionaires throw massive funds into deceptive attack campaign.

Apr 22·1 min read·14 words

SAS Soldiers Resign en Masse

Outrage over recent war crime probes into Afghanistan and Syria, which have been branded ‘witch hunts’, are believed to be the main driving forces.

Apr 22·1 min read·29 words

NZ fuel stock still stable after another fall, government says

The government says NZ fuel stock remains stable despite “another fall”, signalling no immediate threat...

Apr 22·1 min read·25 words

Coalition spat deepens as Christopher Luxon fires back at Winston Peters

Christopher Luxon has responded to Winston Peters as a coalition spat widened in Wellington, with...

Apr 22·1 min read·26 words

Hundreds of Flights Axed as Jet Fuel Runs Dry

Holidaymakers could face summer disruption.

Apr 22·1 min read·14 words

Christopher Luxon blames NZ First for Jacinda Ardern’s rise

Christopher Luxon has escalated a New Zealand politics row with Winston Peters, saying NZ First...

Apr 22·1 min read·24 words

NZ politics: RNZ on responsibility and porkies in Parliament

RNZ news reports that a recent parliamentary debate NZ-wide has sharpened a political controversy in...

Apr 22·1 min read·24 words

Fetterman Calls Out Anti-Jew Dems

“The left has a serious issue with antisemitism.”

Apr 22·1 min read·13 words

The Weekly Grocery Shop Now Requires a Finance Pre-Approval

Grocery shock.

Apr 22·1 min read·11 words

Treat the Pope’s Views on the Middle East With Caution

An old hatred repackaged for the 21st century.

Apr 22·1 min read·18 words

Inflation stays above target before fuel shock hits

Markets are now bringing forward the prospect of rate hikes

Apr 21·1 min read·18 words

MBIE pressed over fuel stock secrecy

"Each time we’ve asked a very basic question: what exactly is commercially sensitive about publishing the names of fuel tankers and their cargoes? And each time, we’ve received no answer.”

Apr 21·1 min read·36 words

Luxon rebukes Jones over ‘butter chicken tsunami’ remarks on India deal

Luxon said NZ First was “frankly wrong” on the India FTA, just as it had been “wrong to oppose the China FTA.”

Apr 21·1 min read·33 words

Government quietly moves to amend and repeal some Treaty clause references

The review was part of the National-NZ First coalition agreement. It covered 23 pieces of legislation, excluding Treaty settlement laws, and was intended to assess laws containing references to Treaty…

Apr 21·1 min read·42 words

TPU targets Wellington water pay as bills loom

“At a time officials need to start tightening their own belts, costs look set to keep blowing out.”

Apr 21·1 min read·26 words

NZ First’s supermarket split misses the real chokepoints

“There is a gap...”

Apr 21·1 min read·12 words

Trans Dr Slithers Into Aus

They’ll go to the ends of the earth to get at women.

Apr 21·1 min read·17 words

Egg Timer

Cartoon of the Day by BoomSlang

Apr 21·1 min read·8 words

Jones butter chicken tsunami comment labelled scaremongering by PM

The Jones butter chicken tsunami comment has become a flashpoint in New Zealand political news,...

Apr 21·1 min read·24 words

This Is a Matter of Law, Democracy and Public Accountability

Your offices exist to intervene when statutory boundaries are crossed. Those boundaries have now been crossed. Immediate enforcement action is required. 

Apr 21·1 min read·31 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Apr 21·1 min read·43 words

Putin Is Not Waiting ’Til the Cows Come Home

I didn’t know that drones could be used on cows. But, yes, they have all sorts of uses.

Apr 21·1 min read·27 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/070

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Apr 21·1 min read·14 words

What Do Bad Laws Teach?

The wrong lessons.

Apr 21·1 min read·8 words

NZ First in the Box Seat

If he could do the job as well as he handles foreign affairs then the country would indeed be better off. Who knows what the polls might throw up between now and the election but one thing is for cert…

Apr 21·1 min read·54 words

Winston Peters says Luxon gave no warning on leadership vote

Winston Peters says Christopher Luxon did not warn him about a leadership vote, a claim...

Apr 21·1 min read·25 words

The Idea of Electrification as an Answer

Unawareness, blind ignorance and a sense of unreality.

Apr 21·1 min read·15 words

Quick Hit: Luxon’s Unanimous Trap – How to Mislead Parliament in Two Easy Steps

Christopher Luxon’s press conference and parliament performance reveals how explaining is losing in politics.

Apr 21·1 min read·28 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Apr 21·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Describing the conversation as “good and honest”, Luxon said the vote confirmed what he had been saying.

Apr 21·1 min read·21 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… foppery (noun) - 1: foolish character or action : folly 2: the behavior or dress of a fop Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : The word fop once referred to a foolish or sil…

Apr 21·1 min read·99 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.

Apr 21·1 min read·39 words

Sam Neill says New Zealand goldmine supporters have threatened him with violence

Actor Sam Neill says New Zealand goldmine supporters have issued violence threats against him, escalating...

Apr 21·1 min read·27 words

China complaint NZDF harassment raises wider China New Zealand relations questions

China has lodged a China complaint NZDF harassment issue, and an expert told RNZ it...

Apr 21·1 min read·26 words

Night Cap

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Apr 21·1 min read·66 words

Taste Tuesday

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Apr 21·1 min read·66 words

How Do You Stop NZ First’s Rise? Also Latest Polls Credibility

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Apr 21·1 min read·27 words

Health NZ Won't Use The Word "Mother" Unless They Really Have To

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Apr 21·1 min read·76 words

Luxon A Dead Man Walking? Why National’s Slide Isn’t A One-Off

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Apr 21·1 min read·75 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 21·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Apr 21·1 min read·22 words

Reveals Just How Harsh the Punishment Is

Melia’s new book, written as a prison diary, is filled with appalling dispatches from the low-grade Gulag Archipelago that 30 years’ worth of successive traitors to their own nation, from Blair to Sta…

Apr 21·1 min read·45 words

How Dare They Come for the Better Suburbs?

Suddenly, the legacy media are noticing African crime.

Apr 21·1 min read·16 words

[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day

Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.

Apr 21·1 min read·21 words

Making a Mountain Out of Bugger-All

Whipping themselves into a lather over nothing more than poll noise.

Apr 21·1 min read·17 words

He’s Doing It Again!

George Soros drops $50 million to buy 2026 midterms.

Apr 21·1 min read·13 words

What We Know and What We Don’t

A nightmare to unravel a conspiracy theorist’s dream.

Apr 21·1 min read·15 words

Has Bitcoin’s Moment Now Arrived?

The use of alternative payment methods during periods of conflict is not new. But the direction is becoming clearer. When trust erodes, systems do not collapse overnight, they morph and adapt. Quietly…

Apr 21·1 min read·44 words

The ‘Greater Israel’ Claim Examined

State behaviour, ideology, and the question of land.

Apr 21·1 min read·13 words

The Air New Zealand Pod Awaits You

What gets me is that the $495 is what you pay on top of your basic ticket price: it’s only for a four-hour period in The Pod and, as you can see, it’s a bunk-bed setup.

Apr 21·1 min read·43 words

Is This Only an Unlucky Coincidence?

One of Australia’s only two oil refineries up in flames during fuel crisis.

Apr 20·1 min read·19 words

Trump’s Pick for CDC Director Raises Eyebrows

After a year of turmoil, the priority appears to be getting a nominee through – rather than driving radical reform.

Apr 20·1 min read·27 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/069

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Apr 20·1 min read·14 words

Where to From Here for National?

The next few weeks will be interesting.

Apr 20·1 min read·13 words

This BSA BS Continues Unabated

What’s the best response to the Broadcasting Standards Authority’s unrelenting lawless lunacy?

Apr 20·1 min read·17 words

How to Change Your Polling Overnight

An open letter to Christopher Luxon. Here, at no cost to the taxpayer, are some things that could change everything almost overnight. You don’t need all of them. Pick three. Stand behind them. Mean th…

Apr 20·1 min read·46 words

This Is a Democratic Deficit

Far from being a democratic act, this stands as the complete antithesis of everything voters were promised in the 2023 election campaign. It is a total abandonment of campaign pledges. Do you see the …

Apr 20·1 min read·54 words

The Good Oil Podcast – Episode 29 – Nathan Smith

The Tyrannosaurus Machine: Nathan Smith on cancellation, media lies and the ‘shadow map’ of power.

Apr 20·1 min read·25 words

Quick Hit: The Poll of Polls Says What Luxon Can’t Admit – Winston Is the Government

The Good Oil’s Poll of Polls reveals Labour leading at 35.2 per cent vs National’s 29.6 per cent. The coalition survives with just a one-seat majority – and it’s entirely dependent on Winston Peters.

Apr 20·1 min read·50 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Apr 20·1 min read·23 words

NZ gold boom draws attention to the gold adjacent industry

RNZ news reports that a “gold-adjacent boom” is unfolding in New Zealand this year, with...

Apr 20·1 min read·25 words

Face of the Day

There is only one meat processor registered to slaughter and process horse meat for human consumption in New Zealand.

Apr 20·1 min read·23 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… eureka (interjection, adjective) - interjection : used to express triumph on a discovery adjective : marked by usually sudden triumphant discovery Source : Merriam-Webster …

Apr 20·1 min read·89 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

Apr 20·1 min read·31 words

Night Cap

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Apr 20·1 min read·66 words

Manly Monday

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Apr 20·1 min read·66 words

150mph Wrecking Ball Machine Vs Bank Safe

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Apr 20·1 min read·23 words

Teenagers take plane camping on remote NZ island!

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Apr 20·1 min read·72 words

Inflation Rises, Kiwis Paying More: Is There An End In Sight?

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Apr 20·1 min read·75 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 20·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Apr 20·1 min read·22 words

Comedy Corner

Welcome to Politically Incorrect Comedy corner: the one place on The Good Oil where you are allowed to read and share naughty and offensive jokes that make us all laugh even though we are not supposed…

Apr 20·1 min read·55 words

The FDA’s Quiet Blockade on Safer Nicotine

Progress has been stalled, not because the science is unclear, but because the decision to act has not been taken. In public health, delays do not remain abstract, they accumulate over time, and event…

Apr 20·1 min read·46 words

They All Belong in Prison

From the judges to the activists and the bureaucrats, all of them should be held to account.

Apr 20·1 min read·22 words

Laughter Is the Best Medicine

This regular daily post is the place to joke and banish negative thoughts.

Apr 20·1 min read·18 words

Metal Is Pretty Good for the Soul

For all the moral panic, heavy metal fans fare pretty well at life.

Apr 20·1 min read·20 words

What Unfolded Before ACIP Was Stopped

An insider account of internal tensions, contested decisions, and the questions that were never resolved.

Apr 20·1 min read·21 words

Sadiq Khan Is Gaslighting Us

By commissioning research that reframes public anxiety about crime in London as mis- and disinformation, Khan is gaslighting his critics.

Apr 20·1 min read·25 words

Is the Pope a Catholic?

It’s an open question, these days.

Apr 20·1 min read·11 words

I Changed My Mind on Luxon

How Liam Hehir convinced me I was wrong.

Apr 20·1 min read·14 words

The Little Excuses

What Wellington’s mayor can and should do to help fix New Zealand’s Capital City

Apr 20·1 min read·17 words

Southport Inquiry Raises Even More Questions

Most especially about the parents’ role.

Apr 19·1 min read·12 words

We’re Taking Gore District Council to Court

Bryce McKenzie, co-founder of Groundswell NZ, explains clearly what is happening in Gore and why it is relevant to all of New Zealand.

Apr 19·1 min read·30 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Apr 19·1 min read·43 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/068

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Apr 19·1 min read·14 words

Meet the Chuck Norris of the Bird Kingdom

They say that mother snakes used to tell their children not to bite Chuck Norris lest they die in agonising pain. But it’s also true that they tell their children to always look behind, or else the se…

Apr 19·1 min read·50 words

$27.6 Million… Why?

Luxon campaigned on eliminating “wasteful spending”. While this specific funding may not technically fit that strict definition, many would argue its justification. Given this precedent, how long befo…

Apr 19·1 min read·40 words

Church and State in Times of Crisis

This article is about dealing in reality and the consequences of not doing so – relevant to the church and state. I will preface it by saying I’m not anti-religion nor am I against a democratically el…

Apr 19·1 min read·47 words

The FNDC Debacle – Why Democracy Matters

The Local Government Act must be changed.

Apr 19·1 min read·14 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Apr 19·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Ben Roberts-Smith issues first statement after his release from Sydney jail on bail.

Apr 19·1 min read·17 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… corpulent (adjective) - : having a large bulky body : obese Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : The Duchess of Windsor may have said that you can never be too rich or too t…

Apr 19·1 min read·95 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

Apr 19·1 min read·23 words

Night Cap

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Apr 19·1 min read·66 words

Standup Sunday

If you have a great Youtube, Rumble or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@goodoil.news If you're loving this trusty, straight-up news on Kiwi politics and beyond, why not become a pa…

Apr 19·1 min read·66 words

The Panel: More Pressure on Luxon, As Winston Continues to Rise

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Apr 19·1 min read·27 words

Luxon And National Slip, Peters Surges In Latest Political Poll

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Apr 19·1 min read·74 words

Peter Boghossian On Self-Censorship & Free Speech

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Apr 19·1 min read·71 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 19·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Apr 19·1 min read·22 words

Could Aslan and Gandalf Have Ever Met?

Were Narnia and Middle-Earth shared worlds?

Apr 18·1 min read·13 words

Did the Cathars Even Exist?

Was a mediaeval ‘genocide’ just a modern invention?

Apr 18·1 min read·13 words

Quick Hit: Playground Predators and the Compassionate Justice Joke

How many other “high-risk” offenders are out there with conditions nobody is enforcing?

Apr 18·1 min read·22 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Apr 18·1 min read·23 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… melee (noun): homonym (noun) - 1a grammar : homophone b grammar : homograph c grammar : one of two or more words spelled and pronounced alike but different in meaning (such a…

Apr 18·1 min read·94 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy mercy.

Apr 18·1 min read·19 words

Night Cap

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Apr 18·1 min read·66 words

Science Saturday

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Apr 18·1 min read·66 words

Bob McCoskrie On Trust In The Mainstream Media

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Apr 18·1 min read·24 words

Bryce Edwards On Rumours Of New Leader Of National Party

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Apr 18·1 min read·74 words

National’s Leadership Problem - Michael Laws Breaks Down The Latest Rumours

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Apr 18·1 min read·75 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 18·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Apr 18·1 min read·22 words

Boofhead Is Beyond a Joke

How does someone this stupid float to the top of even the Labor punchbowl?

Apr 18·1 min read·19 words

What Caused the Geelong Refinery Blaze?

If it was deliberate, it couldn’t have been better planned to cause chaos.

Apr 18·1 min read·19 words

Can They Not Be Crazy for Just Five Minutes?

Yet more violently deranged ‘transgenders’.

Apr 17·1 min read·14 words

The Fools He’s Playing Are His Enemies

Underestimate Donald Trump at your peril, just ask the Ayatollahs.

Apr 17·1 min read·17 words

They Have Built an Industry Around Compliance

Best of MountainsideFM.

Apr 17·1 min read·10 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Apr 17·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Bashii arrived at the zoo from Australia Zoo in 2014.

Apr 17·1 min read·14 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… 1 British : a dealer in notions 2: a dealer in men's clothing and accessories Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : At various times throughout its history, the term haberdash…

Apr 17·1 min read·93 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore…

Apr 17·1 min read·59 words

Night Cap

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Apr 17·1 min read·66 words

Friday Fur

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Apr 17·1 min read·66 words

The Panel: Diesel Price Crisis - Why Fuel is Hitting $4 a Litre in NZ

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Apr 17·1 min read·31 words

Taine Randell Talks Politics Not Rugby

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Apr 17·1 min read·70 words

Sean Plunket Seeks The Truth From The Man Running The Trust In Media Survey

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Apr 17·1 min read·78 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 17·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Apr 17·1 min read·22 words

On the Evolving Security Doctrine

‘Ultra Prevention’ and the Trauma of October 2023.

Apr 17·1 min read·13 words

Just One Fire Can Cripple a Nation

Australia should never have been brought to this point.

Apr 17·1 min read·16 words

When a Million a Year Isn’t Enough

Lazy, grifting public servants are about to pay themselves even more.

Apr 17·1 min read·18 words

Trump ‘Shocked’ by Italian PM’s Comments

“Meloni doesn’t want to help us with NATO, she doesn’t want to help us get rid of the nuclear weapon,” he said. “She’s very different from what I thought.”

Apr 17·1 min read·35 words

Trump Threatens Trade Deal After Reeves’ Comments

What it comes down to is whether the world stands up to Iran and takes action that will curtail its genocidal ambitions, or whether merely symbolic gestures should be made while Iran advances towards …

Apr 17·1 min read·58 words

Why Won’t Feminists Talk About This Real Gender Gap?

Feminists would die(t) before admitting that boys are being ground underfoot by the matriarchy.

Apr 17·1 min read·23 words

Netherlands Hits Record of Euthanasia in 2025

The Dutch experience may serve as a warning that the risks of euthanasia represent less of a slippery slope and more of a runaway train.

Apr 17·1 min read·32 words

Where to From Here?

This can be an individual decision, but it can also become the goal of a society needing to change.

Apr 17·1 min read·23 words

We All Need a Rupert Lowe

Finally, a conservative who’s not cowed by the legacy media.

Apr 16·1 min read·16 words

Dialogue, Justice, and the Debate Over BDS

The academic paradox.

Apr 16·1 min read·10 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Apr 16·1 min read·43 words

Jacinda Ardern’s Memoir Promotion Event

Outside the venue, around 50 protestors held signs and banners to remind the former prime minister of her destructive legacy; in particular, her pushing New Zealanders to take Covid-19 jabs, which led…

Apr 16·1 min read·40 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/067

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Apr 16·1 min read·14 words

New Zealand Quietly Builds Discount Cigarette Underworld

Then acts shocked it attracted organised crime. A dodgy darts economy.

Apr 16·1 min read·18 words

What Counts as Significant?

When a decision is significant, the public must be properly consulted and involved in the decision making process.

Apr 16·1 min read·22 words

Why Courts Cannot Determine the Scope of Their Own Authority

What is not legitimate is constitutional change by judicial increment, case by case, without mandate and without the possibility of correction.

Apr 16·1 min read·31 words

Quick Hit: Winston's Surge Changes the Game - Coalition Back Above 50%

💡Quick Hits are an exclusive format from The Good Oil. Upgrade your membership to get every Quick Hit, plus deep dives, intelligence briefings, and more — delivered straight to you. The latest Talbo…

Apr 16·1 min read·97 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Apr 16·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

In a public tribute, family marked the death of Reef Connor Gurnick, who Stuff understands was the 15-year-old driver of the car.

Apr 16·1 min read·26 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… panegyric (noun) - : a eulogistic oration or writing, also : formal or elaborate praise Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : On certain fixed dates throughout the year, the …

Apr 16·1 min read·85 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book o…

Apr 16·1 min read·46 words

Night Cap

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Apr 16·1 min read·66 words

Tiny Home Thursday

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Apr 16·1 min read·67 words

It Was Actually The Catholic Church That Created “The Just War”

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Apr 16·1 min read·27 words

Gilda Kirkpatrick On Iran Conflict & The Peace Deal

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Apr 16·1 min read·73 words

Does NZ Really Trust Its Media? That Latest Survey And Why It’s Dodgy

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Apr 16·1 min read·77 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 16·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Apr 16·1 min read·22 words

From Pencils To Smartphones

Retelling Leonard Read’s story for the 21st century.

Apr 16·1 min read·12 words

What Is the ‘Merino Mafia’?

The brutal killing of a sheep farmer draws attention to Middle Eastern crime gangs targeting farms.

Apr 16·1 min read·21 words

And Yet Another Example of Two-Tier Britain

A short spell inside and a nice little bonus for having stuck it to the white man. Just another wonderful example of community solidarity in multicultural Britain.

Apr 16·1 min read·34 words

Swalwell and Gonzales Resign From Congress

Jumping before getting pushed?

Apr 16·1 min read·10 words

Celeb politicians NZ: Audrey Young on Taine Randell’s bid

Audrey Young’s latest NZ Herald column puts celeb politicians NZ under the spotlight as former...

Apr 16·1 min read·24 words

New Health NZ chair and board members announced

The Government has announced a New Health NZ chair and Health NZ board members to...

Apr 16·1 min read·23 words

NZ science job cuts leave researchers “homeless”, advocates warn

NZ science job cuts have left some researchers effectively “homeless”, science advocates say, as government...

Apr 16·1 min read·24 words

NZ government fuel companies warning over fuel shipment data sharing

The NZ government fuel companies warning has put the industry on notice, signalling in Wellington...

Apr 16·1 min read·25 words

A Dumb and Repressive Game Part 3

Banning symbols and slogans. Allowing groups such as neo-Nazis and other extremists to out themselves is the preferred option, so society can be more informed and aware of their presence and numbers.

Apr 16·1 min read·39 words

HIV Linked to Hospital Practices

For affected families, the consequences are lifelong, with children now facing chronic illness and social stigma from a virus they are believed to have contracted during treatment.

Apr 16·1 min read·32 words

New Zealand fuel crisis: should NZ follow Australia’s lead?

The New Zealand fuel crisis is testing policy choices as NZ political news focuses on...

Apr 15·1 min read·24 words

Tracy Watkins departure: The Post NZ and Sunday Star-Times change

Tracy Watkins is set “to depart” The Post NZ and the Sunday Star-Times, marking a...

Apr 15·1 min read·25 words

No Australians Should Have to Live like This

Don’t talk to me about ‘Islamophobia’ until Muslims have to put up with a fraction of what Jews do.

Apr 15·1 min read·27 words

Sports Academies in New Zealand Schools

Schools must not exploit young people for their own reputation in sport and MUST see that their academics/qualifications are of, at least, equal value.

Apr 15·1 min read·30 words

A Horror Which Never Should Have Happened

Yet Southport inquiry still fails to shed light on shadowy parents.

Apr 15·1 min read·18 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/066

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Apr 15·1 min read·14 words

The Tyrant Without a Face

Inspired by RCR Bites, a modern interpretation of Aristotle on how uncertainty, information overload, and ambiguity quietly shape power.

Apr 15·1 min read·24 words

IMF warns war could slow growth as NZ watches fuel stocks

A “textbook negative supply shock”.

Apr 15·1 min read·16 words

BSA faces the axe after The Platform ruling?

The current setup has become “arbitrary as to who’s covered and who’s not covered”.

Apr 15·1 min read·22 words

Why Are They Still Here?

Yet more rapey migrants who shouldn’t even be here.

Apr 15·1 min read·14 words

Former All Blacks captain Taine Randell to run for NZ First

Former All Blacks captain Taine Randell will run for NZ First, according to 1News, placing...

Apr 15·1 min read·26 words

A Comparison of Key and Luxon

No-frills leadership.

Apr 15·1 min read·8 words

NZ fuel stocks fall again as shipment delayed, PM says “no risk”

New Zealand fuel supply is back in focus after NZ fuel stocks fell again and...

Apr 15·1 min read·27 words

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Apr 15·1 min read·23 words

NZ rooftop solar subsidies: which political parties would support them?

With the election approaching, RNZ has put NZ rooftop solar subsidies under scrutiny by asking...

Apr 15·1 min read·25 words

Labour MP CGT policy question draws firm refusal

A Labour MP has refused to say whether the party’s capital gains tax policy should...

Apr 15·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Randell is reportedly set to contest the Tukituki seat, currently held by National’s Catherine Wedd.

Apr 15·1 min read·19 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… strait (noun, adjective, adverb) - noun 1a: a comparatively narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water —often used in plural but singular in construction b: isthmu…

Apr 15·1 min read·92 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.

Apr 15·1 min read·30 words

NZ news trust edges up, but avoidance still high – survey

NZ news trust has inched up, but New Zealand media still faces widespread disengagement, according...

Apr 15·1 min read·26 words

Night Cap

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Apr 15·1 min read·66 words

Wednesday Weapons

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Apr 15·1 min read·66 words

Sarah McLaughlin On Free Speech & Her Upcoming NZ Tour

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Apr 15·1 min read·26 words

‘Democratic Principles Being Tested’: Seymour On Far North Council

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Apr 15·1 min read·73 words

Further Media Coverage Of Anti-Gold Mining Groups On Santana Mines

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Apr 15·1 min read·74 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 15·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Apr 15·1 min read·22 words

New Study Links Cold to 20 Times as Many Deaths

Nearly every dollar we pour into preventing heat deaths will end up killing more people than it saves. It’s time climate ministries put more accurate costings on any policy aiming to reduce global tem…

Apr 15·1 min read·44 words

Don’t Let NZ Become a Dumping Ground

‘Fly-tipping’ incidents caught on camera by frustrated locals.

Apr 15·1 min read·15 words

New Zealand fuel stocks fall but remain stable, report says

New Zealand fuel stocks have dropped but are still described as “remain stable” in a...

Apr 15·1 min read·25 words

NZ news trust edges up as news avoidance remains high – survey

NZ news trust has “edged up” in a New Zealand news survey, yet “nearly four...

Apr 15·1 min read·27 words

India New Zealand FTA coverage: Asia Media Centre summary highlights Indian media focus

Asia Media Centre has released a summary for New Zealand readers on how Indian media...

Apr 15·1 min read·28 words

Former All Blacks captain Taine Randell to run for NZ First in election

Former All Blacks captain Taine Randell is moving from rugby leadership into the political arena,...

Apr 15·1 min read·28 words

Who Should Be the SA Opposition?

The Libs have claimed it, but One Nation is understandably bullish.

Apr 15·1 min read·17 words

Climate coverage keeps falling as sceptic writer says net zero messaging is losing its grip

"...narrative-driven drivel.”

Apr 15·1 min read·17 words

Electricity Authority concedes outage costing tool may be out of date

“a proxy that we use to value how painful a power outage is.”

Apr 15·1 min read·24 words

Business lobby pushes support for India FTA before Parliament sees final deal

“How they and the 28 other businesses and associations could have signed up to support the India FTA without knowing what is in it is an appalling commentary on them all.”

Apr 15·1 min read·43 words

American demand drives New Zealand golden visa surge

Investors are thinking about “stability first”.

Apr 15·1 min read·14 words

Fuel buffer holds, but Hormuz threat keeps NZ exposed

A global shock could still hit New Zealanders at the pump well before it shows up as a shortage in storage tanks.

Apr 15·1 min read·31 words

OIA review misses the real problem: hidden access

The Act’s purpose is to increase the availability of official information and promote accountability, not simply to reduce workload.

Apr 15·1 min read·27 words

Govt accused of overplaying cyclone threat as Luxon embraces ‘woke’ label and confirms iwi managed retreat talks

"I'll happily wear a woke label...”

Apr 15·1 min read·23 words

Mayor defends Far North committee where unelected appointees outnumber councillors

“Definitely not something new.”

Apr 15·1 min read·14 words

National prospect, seen as moderate on co-governance, switches to ACT

Christmas brings “intellectual grunt”.

Apr 15·1 min read·14 words

Musk fuels new row over German COVID vaccine death claims

“Felt like I was dying.”

Apr 15·1 min read·15 words

They Failed to Halt Killer’s Slaughter

Between 2019 and 2024, he was referred three times to the Prevent anti-terrorism programme, but all cases were closed without further action.

Apr 15·1 min read·28 words

The CCP Is Murdering Citizens for Profit

An estimated 25,000 to 50,000 Uyghurs are murdered annually for their organs, and organ harvesting has grown into a billion-dollar industry in recent years.

Apr 15·1 min read·31 words

‘Truth Telling’ and Truth Are Clearly Not the Same

The Aboriginal Industry grifting continues unabated.

Apr 15·1 min read·15 words

Banning Symbols and Slogans, Part 2

This is a dumb and repressive game.

Apr 15·1 min read·13 words

Christchurch Airport Sees a Lift in Arrivals

International visitors contributed $861 million to the South Island economy, supporting tourism operators, hospitality businesses, and the wider regional economy.

Apr 15·1 min read·27 words

More Questions Raised About AFP Conduct in BRS Case

The more we learn, the worse it stinks.

Apr 14·1 min read·17 words

NZ Immigrants Pull Their Weight

When it comes to those who could be working, Māori are massively over-represented. Whilst colonisation continues to be blamed for Māori ‘disadvantage’, every year thousands of immigrants come to New Z…

Apr 14·1 min read·40 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Apr 14·1 min read·43 words

The IRGC Have a Death Wish

Iran must be stopped for the funding of terrorism to cease. When that is achieved not only the Middle East but the entire world will be a safer place.

Apr 14·1 min read·35 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/065

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Apr 14·1 min read·14 words

The Wokerati Put on a Show

Clark foul play.

Apr 14·1 min read·9 words

Protect the Rights and Freedoms of New Zealanders

Unchecked surveillance powers.

Apr 14·1 min read·11 words

This Is a Warning for National

The move of National voters towards New Zealand First is following the same trend that’s underway in the UK and now Australia, where major parties are losing disillusioned supporters to parties that a…

Apr 14·1 min read·44 words

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Apr 14·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Rupe, who lives in St Marys Bay, has now copped a ban that prohibits him from running a company for eight-and-a-half years.

Apr 14·1 min read·26 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… excursion (noun) - 1a: a going out or forth : expedition b(1): a usually brief pleasure trip (2): a trip at special reduced rates 2: deviation from a direct, definite, or prop…

Apr 14·1 min read·91 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Apr 14·1 min read·29 words

Night Cap

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Apr 14·1 min read·66 words

Taste Tuesday

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Apr 14·1 min read·66 words

The Return Of John Campbell To RNZ News & The Bias He Brings

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Apr 14·1 min read·29 words

David Farrar On Whether Judge Ema Aitken Should Be A Judge At All

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Apr 14·1 min read·77 words

Jordan Williams Exposes Latest Kauri Dieback Grift & Those Responsible

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Apr 14·1 min read·74 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 14·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Apr 14·1 min read·22 words

The Moral High Ground and the Value of One Life

When leaders of a nation treat their citizens as cannon fodder, they reveal their moral bankruptcy. “Leave no man behind” says a lot about who we are as a people.

Apr 14·1 min read·40 words

Your Lego or Your Life

Money-laundering gets weirder by the day.

Apr 14·1 min read·11 words

[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day

Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.

Apr 14·1 min read·21 words

Inside the Deceptive World of AI

The evisceration of our capacity to use language – to think – will be a problem. Farrow and Marantz refer to it once. They say AI will likely cause “human enfeeblement”. Yes.

Apr 14·1 min read·38 words

A National Day of Strike and Protest

Organisers have signalled that Monday’s national day of strike and protest will mark a significant escalation to keep the momentum up, with further actions planned in the coming days.

Apr 14·1 min read·36 words

Those Who Spend the Money Should Raise the Money

What is missing is transparent accountability. A system where states raise what they spend would encourage competition in efficiency, innovation, and value.

Apr 14·1 min read·31 words

Wind Power Is Not a Harmless Energy Source

Taking a closer look and it becomes quickly apparent that wind farms come with their own high cost to the environment and our health.

Apr 14·1 min read·32 words

The Energy Storage Elephant in the Room

Bryan Leyland and John Raine Bryan Leyland is a semi-retired electrical and mechanical consulting engineer specialising in power systems. John Raine is an emeritus professor of mechanical engineering …

Apr 14·1 min read·83 words

This Is How Bad It Is

We NEED this government to change their approach quickly.

Apr 13·1 min read·15 words

Defining Women Without Fixing the Law

The Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill has been drawn from the ballot. I want to explain why I cannot endorse it.

Apr 13·1 min read·30 words

Was This Part of the Plan?

How Gillard’s NDIS became a UBI-by-stealth.

Apr 13·1 min read·12 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/064

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Apr 13·1 min read·14 words

Can This Be True?

The most expensive electricity on Earth is in countries with ‘cheapest’ sources of electricity.

Apr 13·1 min read·18 words

Look Sharp, Be Tough: Australia’s Youth Subcultures

Look Sharp, Be Tough: Australia’s Youth Subcultures.

Apr 13·1 min read·14 words

Using Psychedelics in Palliative Care

If drugs that ease physical pain are available there is no reason for drugs that relieve psychological pain not also being available. It is both morally and ethically irresponsible. 

Apr 13·1 min read·34 words

Can We Stand Up to Islam?

Or will we just submit?

Apr 13·1 min read·11 words

The Good Oil Podcast – Episode 28 – Alfred Ngaro

This isn’t a standard political interview: it’s an autopsy of the modern New Zealand political machine. Ngaro provides a rare insider’s perspective.

Apr 13·1 min read·32 words

Quick Hit: Winston’s India FTA Play – The Masterclass in Wedge Politics

If the FTA fails, Winston owns the populist victory. If it passes with concessions, Winston owns the win. He can’t lose.

Apr 13·1 min read·33 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Apr 13·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

‘We didn’t need a state of emergency. When you make a call like that, it means you are under the pump. I think it takes away the importance of a state of emergency’ – Little

Apr 13·1 min read·39 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… exoteric (adjective) - 1a: suitable to be imparted to the public b: belonging to the outer or less initiate circle 2: relating to the outside : external Source : Merriam-Webs…

Apr 13·1 min read·86 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:

Apr 13·1 min read·24 words

Night Cap

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Apr 13·1 min read·66 words

Manly Monday

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Apr 13·1 min read·66 words

Real Sumo Is TERRIFYING

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Apr 13·1 min read·20 words

The Night Mike Tyson Faced an UNDEFEATED SHOWBOATER!

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Apr 13·1 min read·72 words

Devalued Overnight: The Biggest Reset is NOW

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Apr 13·1 min read·71 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 13·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Apr 13·1 min read·22 words

Comedy Corner

Welcome to Politically Incorrect Comedy corner: the one place on The Good Oil where you are allowed to read and share naughty and offensive jokes that make us all laugh even though we are not supposed…

Apr 13·1 min read·55 words

Iran’s Next Move Is the Bomb – If the Regime Survives

If the regime survives, which is very possible, America and Israel must ensure its nuclear dreams are stymied completely and permanently.

Apr 13·1 min read·32 words

Is the Penny Dropping Yet?

The fuel crisis is just a brutal glimpse of the world the Climate Cult want.

Apr 13·1 min read·20 words

[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day

Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.

Apr 13·1 min read·21 words

Laughter Is the Best Medicine

This regular daily post is the place to joke and banish negative thoughts.

Apr 13·1 min read·18 words

Prime Minister Pulls Deal To Sacrifice Islands

‘Humiliating defeat.’

Apr 13·1 min read·9 words

Why did a ministry ask Herald to destroy sensitive information?

The NZ Herald has reported that a ministry asked the paper to “destroy sensitive information”,...

Apr 13·1 min read·25 words

Finally. Finally Justice Is Served

Just kidding.

Apr 13·1 min read·7 words

The Grassroots Launch of Heart of the Protest Book

From Canterbury garage to nationwide.

Apr 13·1 min read·14 words

While the World Holds Its Breath

The clock ticks down for the Iranian people.

Apr 13·1 min read·14 words

Just Give Them a Pepsi and Leave Them to Work It Out

“I went to your institutional learning facilities, so how can you say I'M crazy?”

Apr 12·1 min read·26 words

The President and the Ceasefire

Some reflections on Donald Trump's recent comments and the somewhat ceasefire in the Middle East

Apr 12·1 min read·20 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Apr 12·1 min read·43 words

NATO Is a Millstone on America’s Neck

Shrug it off and let Europe squeal.

Apr 12·1 min read·14 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/063

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Apr 12·1 min read·14 words

When Police Go Into Business With Netflix

Information damaging to police interests was consistently absent from what was initially made public, and consistently only emerged under pressure from persistent journalists. The OIA exists precisely…

Apr 12·1 min read·37 words

A Just War on a Global Enemy

Trump has already won, but the Trump-deranged will never admit it.

Apr 12·1 min read·18 words

The Rosy Resurrection of Helen Clark

Just don’t mention the foreshore and seabed.

Apr 12·1 min read·13 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Apr 12·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

In 2023, Christmas was ranked 28th on National’s party list before the general election. Christmas had been tipped for senior positions in government, should he enter parliament. However, Christmas wa…

Apr 12·1 min read·46 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… paragon (noun, verb) - noun : a model of excellence or perfection verb 1: to compare with : parallel 2: to put in rivalry : match 3 obsolete : surpass Source : Merriam-Webst…

Apr 12·1 min read·98 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to…

Apr 12·1 min read·52 words

Night Cap

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Apr 12·1 min read·66 words

Standup Sunday

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Apr 12·1 min read·66 words

Co-Governance Questions, Mayor Missing In Action: What’s Going On Up North?

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Apr 12·1 min read·27 words

'F** Off!': My Incredible Interaction With Far North Mayor

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Apr 12·1 min read·73 words

As Winston Rises, Is National Losing Control? The Panel Debates

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Apr 12·1 min read·74 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 12·1 min read·34 words

The Good Oil Political Intelligence – Weekly Round Up: 6 April–11 April 2026

A comprehensive weekly wrap of New Zealand politics: NZ First surges in the polls, Winston Peters meets US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Iran ceasefire developments and parliament heads into Easter …

Apr 12·1 min read·45 words

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Apr 12·1 min read·22 words

Reserve Bank Governor issues inflation warning NZ amid fragile ceasefire

Reserve Bank Governor signalled an inflation warning NZ audiences in a 1News headline, linking New...

Apr 12·1 min read·25 words

Quick Hit – The Judiciary Has Lower Standards Than the Northern Club

The Judicial Conduct Panel has set a precedent – and it’s the wrong one. It has told every judge in the country that you can publicly heckle a senior government minister, accuse him of lying, invoke y…

Apr 12·1 min read·59 words

Judge Ema Aitken censured over Northern Club incident but remains on bench

A “serious breach of comity”.

Apr 11·1 min read·17 words

Co-governance comes roaring back to life

“Nothing to do with Māori, it’s to do with the unelected officials running the show.”

Apr 11·1 min read·21 words

Charter schools: growing rolls, disputed costs, same old fight

ACT says fresh roll data shows 1,471 students enrolled across 16 charter schools as of 1 March 2026.

Apr 11·1 min read·27 words

The left revives Helen Clark, but not her toughest legacy

“Just don’t mention the foreshore and seabed.”

Apr 11·1 min read·17 words

Border flood: more drugs, bigger seizures, no sign of control

“This idea that New Zealand used to be far away and that we are somewhat isolated – that’s not the case anymore.”

Apr 11·1 min read·32 words

One man’s crap is another man’s treasure

There is a real “ick factor” around the process.

Apr 11·1 min read·16 words

Japan warns Auckland statue could damage ties

“Needlessly stirring up interest.”

Apr 11·1 min read·11 words

Far North District Council investigation ordered by Local Government Minister

The Local Government Minister has ordered a Far North District Council investigation, a move that...

Apr 11·1 min read·25 words

We Let These Basket Cases Vote

White progressive woman is “grateful” for being brutally raped by a black savage.

Apr 11·1 min read·19 words

NZDF to send 50 personnel to US drone exercise

The NZDF will send 50 personnel to the United States for a US military drone...

Apr 11·1 min read·24 words

Health NZ eye operations move toward private sector contracts

Health NZ eye operations are being sent to the private sector under “long-term contracts”, a...

Apr 11·1 min read·24 words

Unfortunately, I Was Right About the Maths

‘Net Zero’ is an unmitigated disaster.

Apr 11·1 min read·13 words

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Apr 11·1 min read·23 words

National Party NZ attorney-general prospect switches to ACT New Zealand

A former National Party NZ attorney-general prospect has switched allegiance to ACT New Zealand, describing...

Apr 11·1 min read·25 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… inhere (verb) - : to be inherent Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : You're probably familiar with inherent, the adjective meaning "part of the constitution or natural char…

Apr 11·1 min read·92 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

Apr 11·1 min read·25 words

Night Cap

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Apr 11·1 min read·66 words

Science Saturday

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Apr 11·1 min read·66 words

“Fxxx Off”: MSM Hypocrisy Says Moko Te Pania Can Say It But Donald Trump Can’t

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Apr 11·1 min read·31 words

Sam Neill enters New Zealand goldmine controversy near his vineyard

Actor Sam Neill has entered the New Zealand goldmine controversy, opposing a proposed mine near...

Apr 11·1 min read·25 words

Mercedes Has Built The Most Powerful & Luxurious Unimog Ever!

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Apr 11·1 min read·74 words

They Just Found BILLIONS in Gold & Silver in New Zealand

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Apr 11·1 min read·75 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 11·1 min read·34 words

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Apr 11·1 min read·22 words

How Will Ben Roberts-Smith Get a Fair Trial?

This legal travesty just gets worse and worse.

Apr 11·1 min read·16 words

The Case Against BRS Was a Sick Joke

Illiterate, unintelligible Afghans paid to vent their hate of ‘infidels’.

Apr 11·1 min read·18 words

Quick Hit – Winston’s Already Writing the Next Coalition Agreement

Watch the next round of polling – because if NZ First keeps climbing, the internal dynamics of this coalition shift fundamentally.

Apr 11·1 min read·31 words

Arctic Thaw and Greening Lakes, Oh My!

This is natural adaptation, not the climate apocalypse.

Apr 10·1 min read·15 words

Base-Edited Baby a Triumph of Targeted Therapy

How one toddler’s fight sparked a precision medicine revolution.

Apr 10·1 min read·16 words

When Representatives Stop Representing

Best of MountainsideFM.

Apr 10·1 min read·7 words

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Apr 10·1 min read·23 words

Nonce of the Day

The New Zealand Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal has censured Hamilton teacher Grant Daniel Spicer for serious misconduct and ordered that his register entry be annotated for two years.

Apr 10·1 min read·31 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… increment (noun) - 1: the amount or degree by which something changes, especially : the amount of positive or negative change in the value of one or more of a set of variables…

Apr 10·1 min read·94 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

Apr 10·1 min read·30 words

Night Cap

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Apr 10·1 min read·66 words

Friday Fur

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Apr 10·1 min read·66 words

Winston Peters On His Meeting With US Secretary Of State Mark Rubio

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Apr 10·1 min read·76 words

How Winston Peters Becoming Prime Minister Could Happen

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Apr 10·1 min read·24 words

Shubz On The Battle Of Free Speech In New Zealand

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Apr 10·1 min read·74 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 10·1 min read·34 words

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Apr 10·1 min read·22 words

The ‘Moral Imperative’ Behind the Rescues

Where does the moral imperative of ‘no one is left behind’ come from?

Apr 10·1 min read·19 words

The Elite Cancel Mob Come for BRS

They’ve convicted before the trial even starts.

Apr 10·1 min read·14 words

Deport the Thugs and Jail the Judges

An unprovoked cowardly gang-bashing, yet no conviction or deportation.

Apr 10·1 min read·16 words

The Lesson of the Lorax Isn’t What You Think

Property rights are an excellent way to ensure wise stewardship of natural resources.

Apr 10·1 min read·22 words

When Is a Hate Crime Not?

In two-tier Britain when it’s against whites.

Apr 10·1 min read·13 words

Once Again, I Am Asking Them to Jail the Judges

Calls brazen sexual assaulter ‘foolish’ – lets off without conviction.

Apr 10·1 min read·20 words

JH1.0 – The Antisemitism Virus

The real threat to modern civilisation.

Apr 10·1 min read·11 words

Quick Hit: The Media’s Fuel Crisis – Worse Than the Actual One

Two coordinated hit pieces on the coalition’s fuel response landed on the same day – one from the Spinoff, one from the Post. Both missed the point entirely.

Apr 10·1 min read·40 words

Starmer Is Damned by His Own Words

By his own bragging, he makes himself complicit in the institutional victimisation of an abused child.

Apr 9·1 min read·23 words

The Strait of Hormuz, Trump, and the End of Pretend Peace

A reality check for everyone.

Apr 9·1 min read·16 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Apr 9·1 min read·43 words

TDS Is Alive and Well

For a man of his age his workload is immense and his stamina is at least on a par with his ego. Yet, the media paint him as a bad man at every opportunity.

Apr 9·1 min read·39 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/062

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Apr 9·1 min read·14 words

It Is Worse Than You Think

Far North Council has been taken over.

Apr 9·1 min read·13 words

Who Asked Us?

Why are politicians making decisions without consulting New Zealanders?

Apr 9·1 min read·12 words

Luxon Still Hasn’t Got the Hang of Politics

He said he wasn’t going to play O’Brien’s game, but he did. Rather than feebly protesting at her question, he should have gone on the front foot and challenged her attempt to reduce cabinet appointmen…

Apr 9·1 min read·49 words

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Apr 9·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

‘Corrections is not a housing agency’ – Mitchell

Apr 9·1 min read·12 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… dubious (adjective) - 1: unsettled in opinion : doubtful 2: giving rise to uncertainty: such as a: of doubtful promise or outcome - a dubious plan b: questionable or suspect a…

Apr 9·1 min read·92 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

Apr 9·1 min read·26 words

Night Cap

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Apr 9·1 min read·66 words

Tiny Home Thursday

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Apr 9·1 min read·67 words

Jordan Williams On The Latest Political Poll

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Apr 9·1 min read·23 words

Gilda Kirkpatrick On Trump’s Latest Comments On The Iranian Regime

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Apr 9·1 min read·74 words

'No Accountability’: Far North Councillor On Co-Governance Power Shift

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Apr 9·1 min read·73 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 9·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Apr 9·1 min read·22 words

How ‘Giant’ Reopens the Question of Roald Dahl

The Irish diplomat and historian Conor Cruise O’Brien once said that antisemitism is a light sleeper. But does it ever rest?

Apr 9·1 min read·29 words

Labor Needs the Votes of Migrant Scammers

NDIS fraudsters are clustered in Labor electorates packed with migrants.

Apr 9·1 min read·17 words

The NATO Crack Up

Has its time come and gone?

Apr 9·1 min read·10 words

Trump Celebrates Stunning Rescue of Downed Us Pilot in Iran

The United States deployed three helicopters to extract the American pilot. He was rescued at midnight Eastern time on Easter Sunday. An air armada protected the rescue team, including tactical drones…

Apr 9·1 min read·45 words

NZ EV chargers: latest rollout welcomed, but can it go the distance?

RNZ EV news reports that New Zealand’s latest push to expand NZ EV chargers and...

Apr 9·1 min read·27 words

Labour Party NZ presses government for clarity on India FTA

The Labour Party NZ has escalated its scrutiny of the New Zealand government’s India FTA...

Apr 9·1 min read·25 words

NZ First poll surge: Audrey Young says credit lies beyond Winston

NZ First poll surge is the focus of a new Audrey Young analysis in the...

Apr 9·1 min read·26 words

It’s Only Half the Story

There is a noticeable trend of manosphere figures converting to Islam or expressing admiration for it. Sneako, who is featured in Theroux’s documentary, has converted. As has Andrew Tate who, although…

Apr 9·1 min read·52 words

Quick Hit – The Diesel Death Spiral: Luxon’s ‘Unaffordable’ Relief vs a $4 Litre Reality

Welcome to life at the end of the world’s supply chain.

Apr 9·1 min read·26 words

NZ fuel supplies lift in latest fuel stocktake

New Zealand’s latest fuel stocktake NZ shows NZ fuel supplies and fuel reserves New Zealand...

Apr 8·1 min read·23 words

National’s MMP problem meets its co-governance problem

Centre-right voters “can see straight through the BS”.

Apr 8·1 min read·15 words

Bryce Edwards says the OIA is at a crossroads

“It’s not their information. It’s ours.” 

Apr 8·1 min read·15 words

Elevator up, stairs down: Prices rocket on war, but drift down on peace

“...air bubble...”

Apr 8·1 min read·15 words

Sheep and beef profits set to double, lifting rural communities

Red meat farmers are on track to generate $8.5 billion on farm this year.

Apr 8·1 min read·24 words

Could blunt social media bans backfire?

Summarised by Centrist A new Science paper is pushing back against the growing fashion for...

Apr 8·1 min read·21 words

Reserve Bank keeps hike threat alive as fragile ceasefire scrambles inflation outlook

The OCR decision was “already out of date”.

Apr 8·1 min read·20 words

Peters meets Rubio hours before major ceasefire announcement

"This conflict has had wide-ranging impacts and disruptions”

Apr 8·1 min read·16 words

Why Are Our Taxes Helping Foreigners Buy Our Houses?

Tens of thousands of non-citizens have accessed the First Homeowner Grant.

Apr 8·1 min read·20 words

Government fuel policy in NZ politics faces a trap over New Zealand fuel prices

The Government’s fuel policy is now a political trap, as rising New Zealand fuel prices...

Apr 8·1 min read·29 words

What Is a Woman?

Private member’s bill will expose which MPs can define truth and biology.

Apr 8·1 min read·16 words

Hanson Nails It Yet Again

And the legacy media sneerers just can’t get it.

Apr 8·1 min read·14 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/061

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Apr 8·1 min read·14 words

Iran war NZ: Principals brace for truancy rise as fuel crisis bites

New Zealand principals are warning of a potential “truancy rise” as the Iran war NZ...

Apr 8·1 min read·27 words

Here Is My Request

To the pilots of the airwaves.

Apr 8·1 min read·10 words

Fog of War Will Cloud Case Against War Hero

Virtually none of those present can agree on what actually happened.

Apr 8·1 min read·20 words

When the Pressure Builds, Politicians React

This exactly where I think Chris Luxon finds himself right now. Especially in regards to race relations. Not every politician passes such a test, particularly when elections are approaching.

Apr 8·1 min read·35 words

NZ customs drugs surge exposes exponential rise in border interceptions

New Zealand Customs says an exponential rise in drugs intercepted at the border is testing...

Apr 8·1 min read·25 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Apr 8·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

John Campbell describes RNZ as “the soundtrack of my childhood”.

Apr 8·1 min read·14 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… signify (verb) - transitive verb 1a: to be a sign of : mean b: imply 2: to show especially by a conventional token (such as word, signal, or gesture) intransitive verb 1: to …

Apr 8·1 min read·95 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.

Apr 8·1 min read·29 words

Night Cap

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Apr 8·1 min read·66 words

Wednesday Weapons

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Apr 8·1 min read·66 words

Jillaine Heather On The Continued Battle For Free Speech

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Apr 8·1 min read·25 words

Willie Jackson On The BSA Dictatorship Of The Platform

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Apr 8·1 min read·73 words

An Opinion Poll The MSM Will Hate - The Rise And Rise Of NZ First

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Apr 8·1 min read·79 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 8·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Apr 8·1 min read·22 words

What Would Robert Louis Stevenson Say?

Don’t tell me that a Hyde-like creature isn’t going to get out eventually. There will be consequences.

Apr 8·1 min read·23 words

Is the ‘Microplastics’ Scare a Fake?

Most or all of the ‘microplastics’ are probably laboratory contamination.

Apr 8·1 min read·16 words

Gen-Z YouTuber Hammers Home Financial Responsibility

Foul-mouthed and fiery, Caleb Hammer is bringing sound financial advice and personal accountability to the YouTube-TikTok generation.

Apr 8·1 min read·23 words

Wyoming Wind Farms Are Death Traps

Wind power does more than kill the eagles that happen by: it repeatedly draws them in then kills them.

Apr 8·1 min read·25 words

Labor Thinks Running on Their Record Is a Good Idea

Attacking One Nation for not supporting socialist nonsense is not the flex they think it is.

Apr 8·1 min read·26 words

From Hamas to Hormuz

How 7 October uncovered a threat that affects us all.

Apr 8·1 min read·14 words

Quick Hit – Coalition Back in the Driver's Seat

If these trends hold, the coalition’s viability rests entirely on NZ First’s ability to sustain double-digit polling. National alone cannot deliver government. ACT alone cannot make up the difference.…

Apr 8·1 min read·38 words

Not Even Aborigines Are Interested in the ‘Voice’ Scam

Delegates elected with a handful or no votes at all.

Apr 7·1 min read·19 words

NZ diesel price relief again ruled out as unaffordable

In New Zealand political news, the Prime Minister has again said broader NZ diesel price...

Apr 7·1 min read·24 words

Finance Minister condemns Trump Iran threat over Iran civilisation risk

The Finance Minister has condemned Donald Trump over an Iran civilisation threat, RNZ politics reports,...

Apr 7·1 min read·25 words

Winston Peters says US open to supplying fuel to Pacific if Iran war continues

Winston Peters says the US is open to supplying fuel to the Pacific if the...

Apr 7·1 min read·29 words

Dipton Wants More Than Turbine Vibes

Dipton locals hear about another giant wind farm and immediately ask the only sensible question: ‘Cool, but who actually gets the good bit?”

Apr 7·1 min read·29 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Apr 7·1 min read·43 words

Who’d Sign up for This?

The hounding of Ben Roberts-Smith intensifies.

Apr 7·1 min read·11 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/060

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Apr 7·1 min read·14 words

Reprieve for Luxon as National stays under 30% in Taxpayers Union poll

A new Taxpayers Union poll reported by 1News gives Christopher Luxon a brief “reprieve”, but...

Apr 7·1 min read·27 words

Wellington Takes the Gold

NZ First’s mining proposal is a genuine attempt to correct incentive misalignment in one important sector. It deserves cross-party attention.

Apr 7·1 min read·24 words

TPU/Curia Poll Says It All

These issues need to be addressed post haste. Nothing less will satisfy the voter base. Here’s the scary thing: time is running out.

Apr 7·1 min read·28 words

Iran war shadow hangs over Peters meeting with Trump diplomat

Winston Peters’ meeting with a Trump diplomat comes as the prospect of an “Iran war”...

Apr 7·1 min read·25 words

New Zealand fuel crisis: Luxon says support can’t cover everyone

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says New Zealanders will understand the government “can’t support everyone” as...

Apr 7·1 min read·25 words

This Is a Fraud of Massive Proportions

The Waitangi Tribunal has forgotten its purpose and has run its race. It is time to stop the policy of appeasement, dismantle the grievance industry and return authority of this country to where it be…

Apr 7·1 min read·44 words

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Apr 7·1 min read·23 words

Winston Peters meets US Secretary of State Marco Rubio amid Trump ‘whole civilisation’ warning

Winston Peters met US Secretary of State Marco Rubio as the Trump administration escalated rhetoric...

Apr 7·1 min read·29 words

Face of the Day

The Victoria Cross recipient was arrested at Sydney Airport’s domestic terminal after a flight from Brisbane on Tuesday morning.

Apr 7·1 min read·23 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… colonel (noun) - : a commissioned officer in the army ranking above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : English colonel i…

Apr 7·1 min read·92 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

Apr 7·1 min read·39 words

Matthew Horncastle signals PM ambition in property to politics shift

Property figure Matthew Horncastle is positioning himself in NZ politics, telling the NZ Herald he...

Apr 7·1 min read·25 words

NZ First gender bill: coalition partners hold deciding votes

The NZ First gender bill has become a test of coalition unity in Wellington, with...

Apr 7·1 min read·24 words

Night Cap

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Apr 7·1 min read·66 words

Taste Tuesday

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Apr 7·1 min read·66 words

New Zealand Family SHOCKED with First American High School Football Experience

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Apr 7·1 min read·27 words

Shane Jones: There's no way the Matua could proceed with Labour's half-baked idea.

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Apr 7·1 min read·77 words

Chris Hipkins "pattern of behaviour public needs to know about"

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Apr 7·1 min read·74 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 7·1 min read·34 words

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Apr 7·1 min read·22 words

Trump Australia row: Trump says Australia “didn’t help us”

Donald Trump has reignited a Trump Australia row by saying Australia “didn’t help us”, a...

Apr 7·1 min read·24 words

The Price Britain Will Pay

There has been a chronic reduction in gas storage and oil. Moving to wind and solar hasn’t brought, and can’t bring, ‘security’.

Apr 7·1 min read·27 words

How Much Lower Can They Drag Us?

Now Japan has to save Australia from the incompetence of our elites.

Apr 7·1 min read·19 words

[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day

Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.

Apr 7·1 min read·21 words

One Nation Leading in Battleground State

The Liberals are toast – and Labor ought to start worrying.

Apr 7·1 min read·17 words

Quebec Bans Prayer and Symbols in Public

What happens when religious freedom becomes provocation or threatening?

Apr 7·1 min read·16 words

We Should Celebrate American Greatness

Thank God President Trump had the vision to restore our space program.

Apr 7·1 min read·17 words

This Is a Dumb and Repressive Game

Banning symbols and slogans, part one.

Apr 7·1 min read·13 words

Biotech Cannot Be Allowed a Right to Secrecy

They are still refusing to publicly acknowledge the extent of adverse effects. Like the Kentucky lottery winner, many benefited from a pandemic financial windfall, but having started down the GE medic…

Apr 7·1 min read·53 words

Quick Hit: Luxon’s Bishop Move – Clever Tactics or Self-Inflicted Wound?

If National’s polling doesn’t improve by mid-year, the leadership question resurfaces – and Bishop will be perfectly positioned with his big policy portfolios and nothing to lose

Apr 7·1 min read·38 words

Why the Platform Decision Gets It Wrong

A statutory misadventure dressed up as purposive interpretation

Apr 6·1 min read·15 words

Of Course It Does

Reality remains undefeated.

Apr 6·1 min read·7 words

The Good Oil Occupation Poll

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Apr 6·1 min read·42 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/059

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Apr 6·1 min read·14 words

How Low Do National Wish to Go

The aim should be not to win reliant on other factors but to win big yourself with policies that appeal to the majority of voters. In this regard National has some work to do.

Apr 6·1 min read·41 words

Hidden in the Agenda: When Your Vote Isn’t Enough

We cannot let this “Gated Democracy” become the new normal in Otago, Tasman, Taupō, Gore – or anywhere else in New Zealand, for that matter.

Apr 6·1 min read·34 words

Why Councils Need to Live Within Their Means

Councils must get back to basics, live within their means, and treat ratepayer money with the same care that families apply to their own budgets. Because, if they do not, the pressure on communities w…

Apr 6·1 min read·54 words

How Chris Luxon Is Using His Wife to Save His Political Skin

Are we witnessing organic ‘feel good’ stories about the PM’s wife? Or is it something else? And why does the NZ media call her our ‘First Lady’?

Apr 6·1 min read·39 words

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Apr 6·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Maipi-Clarke was invited to participate in the inaugural cohort of the Young Global Parliamentarians Initiative, bringing together 12 young legislators from around the world.

Apr 6·1 min read·28 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… libertine (noun) - 1 disparaging : a freethinker especially in religious matters 2: a person who is unrestrained by convention or morality, specifically : one leading a dissol…

Apr 6·1 min read·88 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren, to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do after the will of your God.

Apr 6·1 min read·36 words

Night Cap

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Apr 6·1 min read·66 words

Manly Monday

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Apr 6·1 min read·66 words

"You really are – not joking – a communist."

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Apr 6·1 min read·25 words

Winston Peters accuses BSA of 'fascist behaviour', demands its abolition

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Apr 6·1 min read·74 words

Shane Jones BLASTS Labour for dodging accountability and calls out Green's fairytales

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Apr 6·1 min read·76 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 6·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Apr 6·1 min read·22 words

Comedy Corner

Welcome to Politically Incorrect Comedy corner: the one place on The Good Oil where you are allowed to read and share naughty and offensive jokes that make us all laugh even though we are not supposed…

Apr 6·1 min read·55 words

The Invisible Shield Over Teheran

The unholy alliance.

Apr 6·1 min read·8 words

Just Leave Them to Impotently Squeal

America should wash its hands of perfidious Europe.

Apr 6·1 min read·14 words

[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day

Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.

Apr 6·1 min read·21 words

Time to Jail the Judges Yet Again

Make them share a cell with the monsters they let go free.

Apr 6·1 min read·19 words

Lithium Fire Is No Joke

The fire risk of electric vehicles and battery plants is all too real. We are unprepared.

Apr 6·1 min read·21 words

This Should Not Be a Government Service

MAiD is the creation of a health system that cannot or will not provide “basic, standard” service. Covid devastated the medical profession’s reputation. The shreds that remain will not survive MAiD. N…

Apr 6·1 min read·41 words

Time to Jail the Judges

They won’t jail migrant pack rapists, but they will jail you if you say mean things about migrant pack rapists.

Apr 6·1 min read·25 words

Pacific immigration policy NZ still failing Pacific communities, says Dawn Raids review

Pacific Media Network has revisited “Dawn Raids” in New Zealand and argues that Pacific immigration...

Apr 6·1 min read·27 words

Live fuel stocks update: government refreshes figures

The New Zealand government has issued a live fuel stocks update, reported by RNZ, signalling...

Apr 6·1 min read·22 words

They Must Embrace ‘Populism’ To Survive

Personally, I’d ignore all the conventional wisdom from the political advisers who got the coalition into this mess and firstly apologise for past sins. Then I’d announce a host of clear, unwavering p…

Apr 6·1 min read·49 words

Alleged Pyramid Scheme and Film Studios

The Commerce Commission confirmed it had opened initial enquiries into the operation.

Apr 6·1 min read·18 words

Quick Hit: Gangs Act Gets Its First Scalp – And the Apologists Are Already Crying

A Mongrel Mob member has been convicted for wearing gang insignia while driving home from a tangi. The High Court just upheld it on appeal.

Apr 6·1 min read·40 words

Greyhound racing ban faces shutdown deadline in New Zealand

A greyhound racing ban is pushing Greyhound Racing New Zealand toward a shutdown deadline, and...

Apr 5·1 min read·24 words

Foreign Minister Winston Peters meets US Secretary of State Marco Rubio

Foreign Minister Winston Peters is travelling to the United States to meet US Secretary of...

Apr 5·1 min read·26 words

Terrorists’ Family Loses Suppression Bid

Can dish it out, don’t like it in return.

Apr 5·1 min read·14 words

The Distant Yet Pervasive State

The shepherd and the flock: De Tocqueville’s warning and the New Zealand condition.

Apr 5·1 min read·18 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Apr 5·1 min read·43 words

The New Zealand Anglican Church

Ethnic division, gender politics, social justice language and the politics of identity.

Apr 5·1 min read·17 words

They Will Entrench This Further

“…the language is the lifeblood that fosters Māori identity”

Apr 5·1 min read·14 words

The Cartels Are Here

That the cartels are the reason for the price drop is almost certainly the case.

Apr 5·1 min read·19 words

More Advice Ignored and Targets Over Safety

What the documents reveal about dose spacing, myocarditis risk, and political priorities.

Apr 5·1 min read·19 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Apr 5·1 min read·23 words

Greyhound racing NZ faces shutdown deadline amid ban debate

A looming shutdown deadline has put greyhound racing NZ at the centre of a political...

Apr 5·1 min read·24 words

Faces of the Day

Jonathan Kirkpatrick is in custody and will be sentenced in May.

Apr 5·1 min read·15 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… Spartan (noun, adjective) - noun 1: a native or inhabitant of the ancient city of Sparta 2: a person of great courage and self-discipline adjective 1: of or relating to Spart…

Apr 5·1 min read·91 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Apr 5·1 min read·42 words

Every political party is in opposition now: The Spinoff highlights a shift in NZ politics

New Zealand politics is being reframed by a claim that “Every political party is in...

Apr 5·1 min read·30 words

Night Cap

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Apr 5·1 min read·66 words

Standup Sunday

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Apr 5·1 min read·66 words

Inside California’s Biggest Silver Mine: Smelting Silver Ore from Cerro Gordo

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Apr 5·1 min read·27 words

David Seymour optimistic about fuel supply continuity without NZ fuel restrictions

ACT leader David Seymour says the Government expects “continuity of fuel supply without restrictions” as...

Apr 5·1 min read·26 words

Where did the GURKHA KUKRI come from?

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Apr 5·1 min read·71 words

Viktor Orban REVEALS Europe's Two Deadly Mistakes...

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Apr 5·1 min read·71 words

Deborah Chambers on relationship property NZ and a “quiet revolution”

In a NZ Herald column this week, Deborah Chambers says New Zealand is in a...

Apr 5·1 min read·25 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 5·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Apr 5·1 min read·22 words

Health New Zealand perinatal loss guidelines released for families

Health New Zealand has released new perinatal loss guidelines for hospitals and community services, a...

Apr 5·1 min read·24 words

The kids are alright – but the system still isn’t

A new report shows that despite material hardships, improvements to children’s lives can happen. 

Apr 4·1 min read·24 words

NZ Parliament debate over MPs’ ability to “take mickey”

A light-hearted NZ Parliament debate in Wellington has become a pointed test of how far...

Apr 4·1 min read·24 words

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke skips Washington DC event over fuel price

Maori Party MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke has declined to attend a Washington DC event, telling 1News...

Apr 4·1 min read·24 words

Diving Into Obscurity: NZ’s Rock’n’Roll Explosion

When the Red Bands met the winklepickers.

Apr 4·1 min read·13 words

What Was the Stone Age?

The single longest period of human history – before we were even fully human.

Apr 4·1 min read·19 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Apr 4·1 min read·23 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… exult (verb) - 1: to be extremely joyful : rejoice 2 obsolete : to leap for joy Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Exult leaped into English in the 16th century as a verb …

Apr 4·1 min read·98 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;

Apr 4·1 min read·22 words

Iran conflict NZ economy: report says recovery hit

The Iran conflict NZ economy link has become a sharp focus after a Post report...

Apr 4·1 min read·23 words

Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke skips Washington DC event over fuel prices

Māori Party MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke has declined a Washington DC event, citing the “price of...

Apr 4·1 min read·24 words

TVNZ gang story fallout: internal emails show newsroom unease

The TVNZ gang story fallout has widened in NZ political news after internal emails revealed...

Apr 4·1 min read·24 words

Night Cap

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Apr 4·1 min read·66 words

Science Saturday

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Apr 4·1 min read·66 words

National Has ANOTHER Bad Poll And BSA’s Contentious Internet Ruling

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Apr 4·1 min read·26 words

BSA Overreach: Why the Government Should Scrap It

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Apr 4·1 min read·72 words

Go-Slow Of The Govt & Public Sector In Giving English Titles Their Proper Due

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Apr 4·1 min read·78 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 4·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Apr 4·1 min read·22 words

Why Have We Imported This?

‘Knives are the best way to get what you want.’

Apr 4·1 min read·15 words

NZ joins Hormuz push as allies demand route reopen

Summarised by Centrist New Zealand has joined a UK-led diplomatic push to reopen the Strait...

Apr 4·1 min read·24 words

Willie says the quiet part out loud on BSA creep

Summarised by Centrist Willie Jackson has now supplied the clearest political defence yet of the...

Apr 4·1 min read·25 words

Hipkins cut the gap to chase the numbers

Summarised by Centrist Commentator Ani O’Brien argues Chris Hipkins had enough warning about myocarditis risk...

Apr 4·1 min read·23 words

Government says serious youth offending down 25% from 2023

Summarised by Centrist A new annual report on the Child and Youth Strategy says serious...

Apr 4·1 min read·24 words

Luxon cites ‘workload’ as excuse for dumping Bishop as campaign chair

Summarised by Centrist Chris Bishop went into Christopher Luxon’s reshuffle widely expected to lose some...

Apr 4·1 min read·26 words

Artemis heads back to the Moon

Summarised by Centrist NASA’s Artemis II mission is no longer waiting to leave Earth orbit....

Apr 4·1 min read·21 words

Fuel strain needs planning, not panic

Summarised by Centrist In Debbie Ngarewa-Packer’s interview with Mihingarangi Forbes, the Te Pāti Māori co-leader...

Apr 4·1 min read·21 words

Doctor sends US embassy invoice over petrol price spike

Summarised by Centrist A Wellington doctor has sent the US embassy an invoice for $2,790.95,...

Apr 4·1 min read·24 words

One Nation Scores Record Fourth Seat

The Liberals are still trying to kid themselves.

Apr 4·1 min read·14 words

Crown Prosecution Service NZ debate raises checks and balances questions

A new Letters to the Editor NZ Herald exchange has put Crown Prosecution Service NZ...

Apr 3·1 min read·25 words

Lefty Snobs Think Sneering Is an Argument

And they wonder why the workers hate them.

Apr 3·1 min read·15 words

Read About It Before They Bury It

Synagogue attack was yet another Iranian sleeper attack.

Apr 3·1 min read·15 words

Marsden Point diesel storage boosted by $21.6m funding

The New Zealand Government has committed $21.6m to expand Marsden Point diesel storage, with the...

Apr 3·1 min read·23 words

AI Dehumanising, Really?

Best of MountainsideFM.

Apr 3·1 min read·6 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Apr 3·1 min read·23 words

Face of the day

Will Campbell, 25, was climbing near Calico Basin in Red Rock Canyon on March 28 when his foot became entangled in his rope, flipping him upside down and slamming his head against the rock face

Apr 3·1 min read·39 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… nomothetic (adjective) - : relating to, involving, or dealing with abstract, general, or universal statements or laws Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Nomothetic is ofte…

Apr 3·1 min read·81 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

Apr 3·1 min read·25 words

US pharmaceuticals tariff: Trump sets 100pc levy on some drugs

US President Donald Trump has announced a US pharmaceuticals tariff, imposing a “100pc tariff” on...

Apr 3·1 min read·25 words

Night Cap

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Apr 3·1 min read·66 words

Friday Fur

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Apr 3·1 min read·66 words

Former Judge David Harvey On The Legal Case Of The BSA Overreach

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Apr 3·1 min read·28 words

NZ alcohol restrictions bill passes in Parliament

Parliament has passed a bill to ease NZ alcohol restrictions on public holidays, marking a...

Apr 3·1 min read·22 words

NZ Fuel Crisis: How National And Labour BOTH Failed Us

If you have a great Youtube, Rumble or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@goodoil.news If you're loving this trusty, straight-up news on Kiwi politics and beyond, why not become a pa…

Apr 3·1 min read·74 words

National’s Broken Promise: Is NZ’s Economy Too Dependent On The Govt?

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Apr 3·1 min read·75 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 3·1 min read·34 words

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Apr 3·1 min read·22 words

The Hidden Church

Japan’s hidden Christians survived persecution, silence, and the atomic bomb. Then came the hardest test of all.

Apr 3·1 min read·20 words

One Nation Can’t Afford to Hand Free Kicks to the Left

Allowing obvious dickheads to slip through candidate vetting isn’t good enough.

Apr 3·1 min read·22 words

Inflated Grades Deflate Future Earnings

Grade inflation may feel harmless, but it quietly erodes learning. The real cost of an easy A? About $10,000 per student, according to new research.

Apr 3·1 min read·30 words

Socialists in Victimhood Games at Leadership Convention

The New Democrats became an instant online sensation.

Apr 3·1 min read·15 words

Entitled Millennial Demands More Middle-Class Welfare

Climate Cultists demand to keep rifling through taxpayer’s pockets.

Apr 3·1 min read·15 words

Can Money Be Removed From Politics?

Full public funding of election expenses is a bold attempt to reshape democratic practice.

Apr 2·1 min read·20 words

Vaccine Definition Broadened To Push New Therapeutics

If increasingly risky ‘vaccines’ are added to the NIP, we can expect the number of parents deviating from the schedule to continue on the current trajectory.

Apr 2·1 min read·33 words

It’s the Clowns vs the Clowns

Bolivia’s clowns are on the march.

Apr 2·1 min read·12 words

The Podium of Truth Is Wobbling

The truth would emerge eventually, and media is finally asking questions. And those who deceived us must be held accountable.

Apr 2·1 min read·26 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Apr 2·1 min read·43 words

Australia Is Run by Utter Loons

We’re one of the most resource-rich nations in the world – so why aren’t we living like it?

Apr 2·1 min read·24 words

This Is ‘Brown Optimism’

I don’t think I am ever going to behold this ‘monument’ with any sense of sympathy or warmth.

Apr 2·1 min read·22 words

PILLAR Welcomes Defence Pact

Warns of growing foreign interference threat.

Apr 2·1 min read·10 words

It Seems the BSA Is Ideologically Compromised

The Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) decision to include online broadcasting under its jurisdiction is an overreach, ideological, but also part of a global push to control speech.

Apr 2·1 min read·34 words

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Apr 2·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Luxon seemed surprised that his ditching Bishop for Simeon Brown as campaign chair would be a talking point.

Apr 2·1 min read·22 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… valuable (adjective, noun) - adjective 1a: having monetary value b: worth a good price 2a: having desirable or esteemed characteristics or qualities b: of great use or service…

Apr 2·1 min read·90 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him …

Apr 2·1 min read·46 words

Night Cap

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Apr 2·1 min read·66 words

Tiny Home Thursday

If you have a great Youtube, Rumble or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@goodoil.news If you're loving this trusty, straight-up news on Kiwi politics and beyond, why not become a pa…

Apr 2·1 min read·67 words

Laura McClure Calls For The BSA To Be Abolished

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Apr 2·1 min read·25 words

Winston Peters Reacts To Decision By The BSA On The Platform

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Apr 2·1 min read·75 words

Sean Plunket On The Latest Mumbo Jumbo From The BSA

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Apr 2·1 min read·74 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 2·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Apr 2·1 min read·22 words

White Terrorist Plays the Uno Reverse Card

Pleading the insanity defence.

Apr 2·1 min read·11 words

[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day

Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.

Apr 2·1 min read·21 words

AI Hammers in the Final Nail in Karl Marx’s Coffin

The machine was supposed to begin by replacing the worker. Artificial intelligence is beginning by replacing the people who sit near the middle and top of organizations.

Apr 2·1 min read·37 words

These Arguments Against Drilling Are All Wrong

The argument against domestic oil and gas production is not primarily technical or economic, but political. It deserves to be argued on those terms with honesty about the trade-offs involved.

Apr 2·1 min read·37 words

US Senators in Taiwan Urge Lawmakers To Pass Defense Budget

A big buy of American munitions is stalled in the Taiwanese legislature.

Apr 2·1 min read·22 words

This Is Government Induced Helplessness

It is tyranny when China does it, but civilised when we do it.

Apr 1·1 min read·18 words

When the Rules Fail

International law does not create states: it presupposes their existence. If powerful states conclude that the rules offer them no viable path to protect themselves, they will eventually abandon them.

Apr 1·1 min read·34 words

We’d Be Better Run by a Drunken Sailor

At least he’d only piss his own money against the wall.

Apr 1·1 min read·19 words

The Core Legal Truth

Iwi have no regulatory authority over private land.

Apr 1·1 min read·12 words

Judge Lets off Foreign Serial Upskirter

Who wants this pervert becoming a doctor?

Apr 1·1 min read·13 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/058

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Apr 1·1 min read·14 words

Another Timeline for Hipkins, Ardern and Bloomfield

If the government did not turn over every stone, it is an absolutely appalling episode in the history of our nation.

Apr 1·1 min read·28 words

Iran’s Neighbours Want the Mullahs Gone

While Europe vacillates, Gulf states urge Trump on.

Apr 1·1 min read·14 words

This Is a Wake-up Call

Energy security is not optional. It’s the foundation of economic strength, social stability, and national resilience. If we are to protect our industries, our households, and our sovereignty, future g…

Apr 1·1 min read·42 words

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Apr 1·1 min read·23 words

Face of the day

The council post said Sir Barry Curtis was a dedicated public servant who devoted nearly 40 years of his life to serving the people of Manukau and Auckland.

Apr 1·1 min read·32 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… perfervid (adjective) - : marked by overwrought or exaggerated emotion : excessively fervent Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : The adjectives "fervent," "fervid," and "pe…

Apr 1·1 min read·84 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of …

Apr 1·1 min read·54 words

Night Cap

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Apr 1·1 min read·66 words

Wednesday Weapons

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Apr 1·1 min read·66 words

Should Hipkins Resign? Ashley Church And Simon O'Connor Debate

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Apr 1·1 min read·25 words

'Must Act Now': The Case Against Chris Hipkins As Election Draws Closer

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Apr 1·1 min read·76 words

How MBIE Botched The Diesel Shortage Story

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Apr 1·1 min read·71 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Apr 1·1 min read·34 words

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Apr 1·1 min read·22 words

We Need to Understand Golden Dome Before It’s Too Late

A national security initiative of this scale deserves a national conversation. Golden Dome must be explained, not whispered about. It must be understood, not assumed.

Apr 1·1 min read·35 words

This Is Why We Should Take No One’s Word for It

‘Believe women’ is an inevitable recipe for injustice.

Apr 1·1 min read·19 words

[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day

Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.

Apr 1·1 min read·21 words

Violence Is the End Result of Idealism

Trust the Age to publish a weepy paean to an unhinged murderer.

Apr 1·1 min read·19 words

Winning in Iran Requires More Than Military Success

The enduring challenge is ensuring that those actions are part of a coherent strategy that accounts for what follows.

Apr 1·1 min read·27 words

The Immigration of a Different Theology

Some say Matt Goodwin is dangerous. He’s not dangerous. He’s accurate. In Britain today, those are the same thing.

Apr 1·1 min read·25 words

E-Karen Tries the Principal Skinner Approach

She hasn’t failed: it’s everyone else’s fault.

Apr 1·1 min read·13 words

How Do Fugitives Like Dezi Freeman Evade Police for So Long?

A person going off the grid is one of the greatest challenges police face in trying to find someone, because technology serves as a person’s electronic footprint.

Mar 31·1 min read·38 words

It Is More Than Dismal Now

My personal perspective on all this is much darker than Damien Grant’s. We have consistently failed to meet the challenges of the future over the last 25 years and each decade (or even half-decade) ha…

Mar 31·1 min read·52 words

Albert Park, three years on, and a lot has changed

The events at Albert Park in March of 2023 look less like the high-water mark of an unstoppable cultural consensus, and more like the moment the consensus began to crack.

Mar 31·1 min read·40 words

What Are the Polls Saying in Oz?

It’s not good reading for Labor or the Liberals.

Mar 31·1 min read·16 words

Alfred Ngaro: Back in the Arena

Alfred Ngaro, ex National MP, leader of NewZeal Party, is now getting behind New Zealand First. But is NZ First truly becoming a ‘socially conservative’ party?

Mar 31·1 min read·32 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Mar 31·1 min read·43 words

What Will It Take to End War?

We take this as the price of the relative peace and prosperity we have come to expect. And yet it somehow doesn’t keep delivering peace and prosperity. Instead, we now have endless war and the privati…

Mar 31·1 min read·49 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/057

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Mar 31·1 min read·14 words

Just More Woke Entrenchment

Mechanisms of ideological Identitarian societal capture…complete with a case study.

Mar 31·1 min read·14 words

The Catholic Church and Matariki

The issue is not mere cultural acknowledgement: it is syncretism.

Mar 31·1 min read·15 words

Of Fuel and Fury

How can a government ministry blatantly fund political and ‘furious’ activism, yet there be so little media scrutiny? And why the fuel crisis should have been anticipated.

Mar 31·1 min read·31 words

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Mar 31·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Duncan Garner was set to appear in court on Tuesday, however he is now due to appear next month.

Mar 31·1 min read·23 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… affable (adjective) - 1: being pleasant and at ease in talking to others 2: characterized by ease and friendliness Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : One of the peculiarit…

Mar 31·1 min read·88 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

Mar 31·1 min read·27 words

Night Cap

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Mar 31·1 min read·66 words

Taste Tuesday

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Mar 31·1 min read·66 words

The Panel: Chris Hipkins Pressure Builds, Fuel Crisis Fears Grow

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Mar 31·1 min read·26 words

Simon Bridges On Gentailers, Working From Home & Winston For PM

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Mar 31·1 min read·75 words

Hipkins’ Great Lie About Missing Covid Advice & Why He Should Resign

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Mar 31·1 min read·76 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 31·1 min read·34 words

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Mar 31·1 min read·22 words

Let’s Save Our Doctors’ Time for Sick People

Prevention makes sense only when applied where it matters, not for whom the balance of benefits and harms is negligible.

Mar 31·1 min read·28 words

‘Sov Cit’ Killer Meets His Predictable End

Violent nutbar ‘Dezi Freeman’ killed in shootout after seven months on the run.

Mar 31·1 min read·20 words

[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day

Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.

Mar 31·1 min read·21 words

Vic Libs Cut Their Own Throats Again

Trying to oust Moira Deeming with sleazy branch-stacking in order to buy ethnic votes.

Mar 31·1 min read·21 words

Who’s Winning the Social Media Arms Race?

Which platforms rule and reign.

Mar 31·1 min read·12 words

Islamologica in the UK

Everyone knows that the problem will be decisively evident when Islam is a majority faith, and when liberals can no longer pretend to be in control of the order. The question is what liberals will do …

Mar 31·1 min read·41 words

The Fight To Keep Electricity Flowing Freely

The Trump administration has taken a proactive, national security-focused approach to expanding and upgrading America’s electric grids that goes far beyond his push for nuclear energy and self-funded …

Mar 31·1 min read·44 words

Should Society Help You To Die?

The EU now has a case to answer.

Mar 30·1 min read·14 words

Woolworths Has an AI Bouncer

Applicants told to defeat AI bouncer before earning the right to stack yoghurt.

Mar 30·1 min read·18 words

The Power of an Idea

Sorting the good from the bad is the tricky bit.

Mar 30·1 min read·15 words

Questions New Zealand Needs To Answer

Countering Extremism – or Funding Advocacy?

Mar 30·1 min read·12 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Mar 30·1 min read·43 words

The Conveyor Belt

New Zealand’s fuel crisis: the full picture as at 25 March 2026

Mar 30·1 min read·15 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/056

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Mar 30·1 min read·14 words

Justice Should Be Seen by All

Why New Zealand’s courts were wrong to abandon X.

Mar 30·1 min read·15 words

Making It Up

What we have here is some pompous writer with TDS who thinks what he writes is soooo important. But this is what the left does. They make up stories or take stories written by others and present them …

Mar 30·1 min read·45 words

Are These Two…

the biggest threats to the continuance of democracy in New Zealand?

Mar 30·1 min read·14 words

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Mar 30·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

David Tamihere appealed to the Supreme Court last year, arguing the Court of Appeal should have quashed his convictions in 2025. He was released in November 2010.

Mar 30·1 min read·31 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… millennium (noun) - 1a: the thousand years mentioned in the book of Revelation in the Christian Bible during which holiness is to prevail and Christ is to reign on earth b: a …

Mar 30·1 min read·93 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.

Mar 30·1 min read·25 words

Night Cap

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Mar 30·1 min read·66 words

Manly Monday

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Mar 30·1 min read·66 words

College Freshman Explains Socialism To Cuban Who Escaped On A Raft

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Mar 30·1 min read·27 words

Labour Walters foreign affairs row: coalition accused of ‘one-sided’ stance

Labour’s Willie Jackson??

Mar 30·1 min read·13 words

Verity Johnson urges action in Stuff NZ crisis commentary

In a Stuff NZ opinion column, Verity Johnson uses NZ political news to argue that...

Mar 30·1 min read·24 words

LNG terminal NZ: New terminal looks doubtful as ministers consider options

The fate of a new LNG terminal NZ has been thrown into doubt after ministers...

Mar 30·1 min read·26 words

Wellington cathedral protest continues after ‘move on orders’

A Wellington cathedral protest escalated into an overnight vigil Wellington as demonstrators stayed put after...

Mar 30·1 min read·23 words

Labour Walters foreign affairs claim targets coalition’s balance

In Wellington this week, Labour MP Walters said the coalition Government was pursuing a “one-sided”...

Mar 30·1 min read·23 words

NZ First mining policy targets DOC powers and royalties

NZ First’s mining policy would curb the Department of Conservation’s role in DOC mining permits...

Mar 30·1 min read·24 words

NZ First West Coast candidate confirmed as former mayor

New Zealand First has confirmed its NZ First West Coast candidate for the next election,...

Mar 30·1 min read·24 words

Auckland protest over Government move-on orders draws hundreds

Hundreds of Auckland demonstrators recently gathered in central Auckland in an Auckland protest against Government...

Mar 30·1 min read·23 words

It’s Still the Winner for Making Templates: Tick Stick

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Mar 30·1 min read·73 words

The Biggest GOLD Reset Yet AHEAD

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Mar 30·1 min read·70 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 30·1 min read·34 words

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Mar 30·1 min read·22 words

Equal opportunity sexism: Study finds online hatred of men and women looks similar

Summarised by Centrist A new study covered by PsyPost suggests online communities built around hostility...

Mar 30·1 min read·28 words

Phone ban lifts focus, but senior students still lag in compliance

Fewer than 40% of year 12 and 13 students were complying.

Mar 30·1 min read·22 words

Little immediate relief as government floats retreat on future fuel tax hike

“Possibly unlikely.”

Mar 30·1 min read·14 words

Fuel stocks rise as government says supply remains stable

As of Wednesday night, New Zealand had nearly 60 days of petrol, just shy of 55 days of diesel and about 50 days of jet fuel either in the country or on the way.

Mar 30·1 min read·43 words

OIA paper trail raises questions over Hipkins’ myocarditis claims

“Total ignorance of the underlying risk much harder to believe.”

Mar 30·1 min read·19 words

Are wars abroad and economic anxiety at home crowding out Kiwis zeal for more climate policies?

Summarised by Centrist New Zealand’s climate consensus appears to be weakening, with new election study...

Mar 30·1 min read·31 words

Comedy Corner

Welcome to Politically Incorrect Comedy corner: the one place on The Good Oil where you are allowed to read and share naughty and offensive jokes that make us all laugh even though we are not supposed…

Mar 30·1 min read·55 words

Killed To Order: Organ Harvesting in China

The following is an excerpt from “Killed to Order: China's Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America's Biggest Adversary” by Jan Jekielek, published March 17, 2026, by Skyhorse Publishi…

Mar 30·1 min read·47 words

We Don’t Owe Africa Jack

Africans enslaved each other for centuries, then took our aid money for decades.

Mar 30·1 min read·18 words

[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day

Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.

Mar 30·1 min read·21 words

Oral Exams Catch Out AI Cheats

They can turn in a suspiciously perfect essay… but they don’t know a damn thing.

Mar 30·1 min read·21 words

The Last Lesson My Mother Taught Me

In the end, we cannot stop the circle of life. But we can decide how we meet its final turn. With fear or with clarity. With chaos or with dignity. With denial or with truth.

Mar 30·1 min read·42 words

Could Ilhan Omar Be Next?

People who committed crimes while in the immigration process are having their citizenships revoked.

Mar 30·1 min read·19 words

Now Mexico Has to Deal with Them

‘El Norte’ is done being Mexico’s stooge.

Mar 30·1 min read·14 words

Trump Didn’t Blink

To long for a peaceful world without violence is fitting for humans, but barbarians do not crave peace like we do. They can only be defeated with overwhelming violence.

Mar 29·1 min read·32 words

This Is Another Academic Freedom Case

How exactly I was supposed to incorporate ‘Māori and Pasifika perspectives’ into my courses on ancient Greece is still something of a mystery to me. But the important thing about these expectations is…

Mar 29·1 min read·50 words

Won’t Somebody Think of the Gang Rapists?

A vile Muslim gang rapist is afraid. Good.

Mar 29·1 min read·15 words

Talk About Underperforming and Underwhelming

Childish and churlish: that’s the calibre of the man who wants to resume the prime ministership come November.

Mar 29·1 min read·23 words

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Mar 29·1 min read·43 words

Call for Caution on Policing Amendment Bill

Public trust, once diminished, is difficult to rebuild and recent years of police misconduct should have woken our lawmakers up by now. It is essential that parliament takes the time to get this right…

Mar 29·1 min read·41 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/055

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Mar 29·1 min read·14 words

The Last Post

The Post, which is already only a ghostly echo of what it used to be, will fade away. Moving to Christchurch won’t save it and anyone who says it will is either in denial or dishonest.

Mar 29·1 min read·39 words

He Knew: The Paper Trail Chris Hipkins Can’t Explain

Either there was a massive conspiracy to deceive the minister in charge or that minister is lying.

Mar 29·1 min read·26 words

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Mar 29·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

‘I see the potential in somebody like him to be able to do enormous good for our country and especially for young people who love graffiti and love art.’

Mar 29·1 min read·33 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… ennead (noun) - : a group of nine Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Since ancient times, various groups of people have considered nine to be a very special and sacred num…

Mar 29·1 min read·90 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.

Mar 29·1 min read·31 words

Night Cap

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Mar 29·1 min read·66 words

Standup Sunday

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Mar 29·1 min read·66 words

Petrol Price Crisis: The Panel Debates National’s Response

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Mar 29·1 min read·24 words

Security Consultant Nicholas Dynon On Facial Recognition Trial In NZ

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Mar 29·1 min read·74 words

Gilda Kirkpatrick With An Update On The Iran Conflict

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Mar 29·1 min read·73 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 29·1 min read·34 words

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Mar 29·1 min read·22 words

Tova O’Brien steps into 1News Breakfast role

Tova O’Brien is taking on a new role at 1News Breakfast, and the latest Tova...

Mar 29·1 min read·22 words

NZ fuel plan: Ministry seeks regulatory feedback to avoid red tape

The Ministry has moved to test the NZ fuel plan with regulators, seeking early feedback...

Mar 29·1 min read·26 words

Tova O’Brien and 1News Breakfast: new role for the political journalist

Tova O’Brien has joined 1News Breakfast, moving into a new Breakfast role that places a...

Mar 29·1 min read·26 words

Weekly Wrap NZ tracks AI supply chain risk and RBNZ caution

The National Business Review’s Weekly Wrap NZ brings together NZ political news, AI supply chain...

Mar 29·1 min read·26 words

Tāmaki electorate contest: how a “safe” seat became live

The Tāmaki electorate in Auckland has moved from a presumed National stronghold to a “live...

Mar 29·1 min read·24 words

NZ alcohol reforms face community pushback over “profit over people” claims

Communities across New Zealand are challenging proposed NZ alcohol reforms, saying the alcohol law changes...

Mar 29·1 min read·26 words

NZ immigration changes: protections for migrants, broader deportation powers

NZ immigration changes are moving through Parliament in a bid to protect migrants while widening...

Mar 29·1 min read·24 words

NZ police minister addresses Kiwis’ drug use spike in new remarks

The NZ police minister has publicly addressed the reported “drug use spike NZ” in comments...

Mar 29·1 min read·26 words

Tova O’Brien and the 1News Breakfast role: a shift for a leading political journalist

Tova O’Brien is stepping into a 1News Breakfast role, a shift that brings a prominent...

Mar 29·1 min read·29 words

Danes Want Them Gone, Too

Hard swing to ‘remigration’ party.

Mar 28·1 min read·10 words

The Lawsuits Begin for ‘Big Social’

The Big Tobacco of the 21st century is finally being held to account.

Mar 28·1 min read·19 words

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Mar 28·1 min read·23 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… catechresis (noun) - 1: use of the wrong word for the context 2: use of a forced and especially paradoxical figure of speech (such as blind mouths) Source : Merriam-Webster …

Mar 28·1 min read·92 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

The Lord is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

Mar 28·1 min read·19 words

Night Cap

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Mar 28·1 min read·66 words

Science Saturday

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Mar 28·1 min read·66 words

Headmaster Tim O’Connor Says NCEA Is “An Inglorious Failure”

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Mar 28·1 min read·25 words

Tova O’Brien and the 1News Breakfast role reshape her political reporting spotlight

Tova O’Brien is moving into a new 1News Breakfast role, and the Tova O’Brien interview...

Mar 28·1 min read·27 words

NZ immigration changes: The House weighs protection and deportation

NZ immigration changes now before the House underline a sharpened tension in New Zealand politics:...

Mar 28·1 min read·24 words

David Cumin On Taxpayer Funding Going Toward Pro-Palestine Groups

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Mar 28·1 min read·73 words

New Zealand Diesel Supply Scare: MBIE In The Firing Line

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Mar 28·1 min read·74 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 28·1 min read·34 words

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Mar 28·1 min read·22 words

Oh, Boy – Albo Is on It

We feel so much better now.

Mar 28·1 min read·13 words

Covid vaccine NZ: Hipkins defends keeping under‑18 risk advice private

Health Minister Chris Hipkins has defended the Government’s decision to keep official Covid vaccine NZ...

Mar 28·1 min read·25 words

New Zealand politics and the ‘prime minister missing in action’ debate

A Stuff politics analysis has sharpened New Zealand politics by contrasting “the making of a...

Mar 28·1 min read·26 words

National fuel plan update: Nicola Willis, Shane Jones front 1News video

In Wellington on 1News, Nicola Willis and Shane Jones delivered a national fuel plan update,...

Mar 28·1 min read·26 words

NZ fuel alert system: what you need to know

New Zealand’s fuel alert system is designed to signal supply risk before it becomes a...

Mar 28·1 min read·24 words

NZ First pledges $15 million for Christ Church Cathedral rebuild

NZ First has put the Christ Church Cathedral rebuild at the centre of its NZ...

Mar 28·1 min read·25 words

NZ fuel alert system: what the framework means for New Zealand fuel supply

The 1News explainer places the NZ fuel alert system at the centre of current debate...

Mar 28·1 min read·28 words

Vaccine advice teens NZ: Hipkins says guidance arrived too late

Labour leader Chris Hipkins told Stuff that vaccine advice teens NZ received on teen vaccines...

Mar 28·1 min read·25 words

National fuel plan update: Nicola Willis and Shane Jones front media in full video

Nicola Willis and Shane Jones delivered a national fuel plan update in Wellington, with 1News...

Mar 28·1 min read·29 words

NZ fuel alert system: what you need to know

The NZ fuel alert system marks a clear shift in how New Zealand communicates fuel...

Mar 28·1 min read·24 words

Nicola Willis and the cost-saving campaign shift

In New Zealand politics, Nicola Willis has moved from attacking the Labour Party NZ “cost-saving...

Mar 28·1 min read·22 words

One Nation Surges in Teal Strongholds

Young people back the orange wave on the Northern Beaches.

Mar 28·1 min read·16 words

When Is ‘Quiet Faith’ No Faith at All?

The future head of the Church of England hardly ever bothers to attend the church.

Mar 27·1 min read·23 words

Minister claims police powers bill introduced on short notice will not lead to ‘mass surveillance’

The bill, following legal rulings that narrowed officers’ ability to photograph and record individuals in public, will continue to be debated through the select committee process.

Mar 27·1 min read·41 words

Government updates fuel plan amid Middle East disruption

“...currently no need for fuel restrictions...”

Mar 27·1 min read·14 words

Heinz Wattie’s confirms four site closures, about 300 jobs at risk

“...only way forward....”

Mar 27·1 min read·14 words

Government reverses fish size proposal but wider fisheries bill debate continues

“Net positive for the environment and for sustainability of our resource.”

Mar 27·1 min read·22 words

IOC restricts women’s Olympic events to biologically female athletes

The new Olympic policy will not apply retroactively, meaning past results will remain unchanged. 

Mar 27·1 min read·23 words

Businessman Jim Grenon becomes NZME’s biggest shareholder

The purchase lifts his holding to more than 19.90%.

Mar 27·1 min read·16 words

Free Speech Union questions courts’ move from X to Bluesky

“Public servants don’t get to pick their audience based on politics.”

Mar 27·1 min read·21 words

Cabinet paper undermines Hipkins’ COVID inquiry defence

“Alarming.”

Mar 27·1 min read·8 words

Iran’s Spies Find Open Arms in the US

Big Business and Big Academia are busily selling out their country.

Mar 27·1 min read·19 words

By Listener Reaction This is a Major Error of Judgement

Best of MountainsideFM.

Mar 27·1 min read·13 words

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Mar 27·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

A notice posted to the NZX announced Grenon had acquired 1,780,123 shares for $1.984m – meaning he now has more than 19.90 per cent of the company.

Mar 27·1 min read·31 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… congruous (adjective) - 1a: being in agreement, harmony, or correspondence b: conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation : appropriate 2: marked or enhance…

Mar 27·1 min read·88 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and…

Mar 27·1 min read·45 words

Night Cap

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Mar 27·1 min read·66 words

Friday Fur

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Mar 27·1 min read·66 words

Sean Plunket Exposes Taxpayer Money Being Spent To Support John Minto

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Mar 27·1 min read·27 words

‘Smart, Disciplined’: NZ Govt’s Fuel Price Package Is A Winner

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Mar 27·1 min read·74 words

Ed McKnight Breaks Down Petrol Prices And Inflation

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Mar 27·1 min read·72 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 27·1 min read·34 words

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Mar 27·1 min read·22 words

Energy Lockdown: The Drumbeat Begins

This is also six years later. We know the game. Millions do.

Mar 27·1 min read·17 words

No Lights, No Heating, No Food

This is the world if we really do ‘Just Stop Oil’.

Mar 27·1 min read·17 words

All That Pandering Was for Nothing

The Australian PM got a harsh lesson in what appeasement gets us – he’s just too thick to see it.

Mar 27·1 min read·26 words

A Warning to Us All

Ambition cannot replace realism.

Mar 27·1 min read·9 words

Blaming America Lets China off the Hook

For several years before the pandemic, the Wuhan team had been successfully genetically engineering sarbecoviruses and experimenting with these in the lab.

Mar 27·1 min read·29 words

Just Those ‘Skilled Migrants’ Again

Do you really want these creeps ‘wiping your bum at 90’?

Mar 27·1 min read·16 words

Forty Years of Empathy Gains Albanese Nothing

Naturally there have been no protests about this on universities across the West, nor in the streets, from all the usual suspects.

Mar 26·1 min read·29 words

Energy Lockdowns Down Under Like Covid?

Australia imports 90 per cent of its fuel, leaving it vulnerable to energy shocks.

Mar 26·1 min read·20 words

Just Another Normiecon Hit Piece on ON

The establishment is afraid – and clueless.

Mar 26·1 min read·14 words

Decisions Overseas Challenge Our Way of Life

We need to recreate a ‘buy Kiwi’ mindset. This extends to every field of life. It will help prepare us for an uncertain future. The government has to facilitate this process rather than turning a blin…

Mar 26·1 min read·53 words

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Mar 26·1 min read·43 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/054

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Mar 26·1 min read·14 words

This Is the Wrong Map

The map is wrong because it points to a destination that describes 2020 and does not describe 2026. Using it will generate the wrong expectations in citizens, the wrong reassurances from officials and…

Mar 26·1 min read·52 words

On Rising Above the Parapet

Prefiero morir de pie que vivir de rodillas – Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

Mar 26·1 min read·25 words

Winston up to His Old Tricks

Winston is doing himself no favours by playing silly games.

Mar 26·1 min read·16 words

The Truth About TOP

TOP isn’t above left and right. It’s just the left in better packaging.

Mar 26·1 min read·17 words

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Mar 26·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Colbert joined LOTR director Peter Jackson to reveal the news in a video announcement.

Mar 26·1 min read·18 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… nettle (noun, verb) - noun : any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs verb 1: to strike or sting …

Mar 26·1 min read·94 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

Mar 26·1 min read·17 words

Night Cap

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Mar 26·1 min read·66 words

Tiny Home Thursday

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Mar 26·1 min read·67 words

Brooke van Velden On Her Shock Exit From Parliament

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Mar 26·1 min read·25 words

Iran War Fallout: Is New Zealand Ready for a Fuel Shortage?

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Mar 26·1 min read·75 words

Shane Jones Explains Fuel Crisis: ‘Closing Marsden Point Left Us Vulnerable’

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Mar 26·1 min read·75 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 26·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Mar 26·1 min read·22 words

The US Must Prevail

No retreat, no surrender.

Mar 26·1 min read·8 words

Can Italians Find the Nuclear Man in the Boat?

The meaning of the headline will become clear soon enough.

Mar 26·1 min read·19 words

Golf Balls and Carbon Dioxide

How much of that yellow-dotted red golf ball could we have prevented this century? The answer is: virtually none of it. The ‘net zero by 2050’ target is just a fantasy.

Mar 26·1 min read·36 words

That’s a Fail

Here are a few of last week’s stories in case you missed them.

Mar 26·1 min read·16 words

Scullin’s Ghost at Albo’s Feast

A Labor history lesson the PM ought to study closely.

Mar 26·1 min read·15 words

Renewed Push for Oil and Gas Exploration

The application follows the government’s decision to remove the petroleum exploration ban in late 2025.

Mar 25·1 min read·22 words

On Slop

A response to Matua Kahurangi.

Mar 25·1 min read·7 words

Local Water Done Well

Your coalition government’s “Local Water Done Well” is not only an abject failure to honour an election pledge it is an attack on the equal rights of all New Zealanders.

Mar 25·1 min read·34 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/053

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Mar 25·1 min read·14 words

Labor Is Now the Party of the Rich

The workers are flocking to One Nation.

Mar 25·1 min read·15 words

Targeted Measures the Right Move

The fuel shock explained: what’s actually going on.

Mar 25·1 min read·13 words

Even the Wessi Are Turning to AFD

And it’s time to play our favourite legacy media drinking game.

Mar 25·1 min read·18 words

Te Kāika and the Broken Model

All three of these state-funded charities – Te Kāika, Waipareira Trust, Manukau Urban Māori Authority – have featured what looks like nepotistic governance structures.

Mar 25·1 min read·30 words

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Mar 25·1 min read·23 words

Darwin Award of the Day

On Tuesday, Christchurch Police Metro Area Commander Superintendent Lane Todd said the man was found critically injured and died at the scene.

Mar 25·1 min read·27 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… umpteen (adjective) - : very many : indefinitely numerous Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : There may not be a gazillion ways in English to refer to a large, indefinite n…

Mar 25·1 min read·91 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God, unto our fathers.

Mar 25·1 min read·25 words

Night Cap

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Mar 25·1 min read·66 words

Wednesday Weapons

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Mar 25·1 min read·66 words

Justice Now Favours Maori Radical Activists & Is Against The Rest Of Us

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Mar 25·1 min read·29 words

Iran War Fallout: Is New Zealand Ready for a Fuel Shortage?

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Mar 25·1 min read·75 words

Is This the End for Christopher Luxon? New Poll Results Are a Disaster

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Mar 25·1 min read·77 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 25·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Mar 25·1 min read·22 words

Opportunity Cost in the Age of AI

The challenge, then, isn’t to beat the machines but to learn to work meaningfully alongside them. Every major leap in technology has shifted what counted as valuable work, and this one is no different…

Mar 25·1 min read·41 words

Why Should We Reward Failure?

Victorian teachers are miffed they’re not as overpaid as their interstate counterparts.

Mar 25·1 min read·17 words

[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day

Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.

Mar 25·1 min read·21 words

The Dirty Secrets Behind the Clean Revolution

It might not be inaccurate to suggest that, in this, and all the other blind eyes turned to environmental devastation, they do not give a flying flittermouse.

Mar 25·1 min read·34 words

Lawyering Update Skips Trump and Then There’s Bill Gates

Last summer we saw the frenzy that Politico went into over someone it obviously detests, so is the opposite effect now happening in which Politico provides cover to one it favors despite the revelatio…

Mar 25·1 min read·47 words

How Many Quality Learing Centers Are There?

Migrant welfare fraud in Australia is off the charts.

Mar 25·1 min read·16 words

It Is None of the Government’s Business

Whether or not someone should be able to work remotely is a private matter between an employee and their employer. It does not require government intrusion.

Mar 24·1 min read·33 words

Covid Jab ‘Should Never Have Been Approved’

Pfizer’s former chief toxicologist speaks out.

Mar 24·1 min read·13 words

Luxon fuel support package: video outlines National’s plan

Christopher Luxon and Nicola Willis have released a “full video” via 1News outlining a Luxon...

Mar 24·1 min read·23 words

Winston Peters says New Zealand not ‘rushing to contribute military forces to this conflict’

Winston Peters says New Zealand is not “rushing to contribute military forces to this conflict”,...

Mar 24·1 min read·29 words

Fuel price surge NZ drives public transport use to seven-year high

A fuel price surge in NZ has pushed public transport use New Zealand to a...

Mar 24·1 min read·26 words

Northern Club says judge and others in Peters incident won’t be back

The Northern Club Auckland says a judge and others involved in the Winston Peters incident...

Mar 24·1 min read·27 words

Brooke van Velden retirement: ACT deputy leader to step aside

Brooke van Velden retirement plans have been confirmed, with the ACT deputy leader stepping aside...

Mar 24·1 min read·25 words

Thomas Coughlan: Nicola Willis tells Labour there’s a new sheriff in town

Nicola Willis’ message to the Labour Party that there is a “new sheriff in town”...

Mar 24·1 min read·27 words

Fuel prices NZ: Officials warn Labour costs will stay high

New Zealand fuel prices are set to remain elevated for months, officials told Labour, keeping...

Mar 24·1 min read·25 words

Fuel support limited to minority of working families

Roughly 92% of households get no direct help at all.

Mar 24·1 min read·18 words

Peters narrows Labour refusal to Hipkins-led party as it stands now

“Cheaters and liars.”

Mar 24·1 min read·14 words

Amberley Beach ‘managed retreat’ plan could become nationwide test case

Some say a house worth $700,000 or $800,000 could effectively be reduced to an empty section inland.

Mar 24·1 min read·27 words

CHD says CDC stripped death details from vaccine safety study before publication

The CDC did not publicly explain why the manuscript was changed. 

Mar 24·1 min read·23 words

Batchelor loses defamation case against TVNZ and researcher

Batchelor had sued over a 1News article published in August 2023.

Mar 24·1 min read·19 words

Heinz Wattie’s closure plan threatens Canterbury growers’ cash flow

Heinz Wattie’s proposed closure of its Christchurch processing plant is set to hit about 220 Canterbury vegetable growers.

Mar 24·1 min read·27 words

‘I’ve got one year left in me’: Brooke van Velden says she will leave politics

Van Velden will remain a minister until the election.

Mar 24·1 min read·24 words

The Watchers Need a Whole Lotta Watching

The globalist ‘human rights’ mob sure do ’ave ’em.

Mar 24·1 min read·16 words

Woke Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere – II

You know why.

Mar 24·1 min read·9 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Mar 24·1 min read·43 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/052

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Mar 24·1 min read·14 words

Was It Worth Saving Europe?

They’ll take our blood and treasure, but no more than a pittance of our beef.

Mar 24·1 min read·20 words

Is This a $110 Billion Illusion?

After nearly 20 years and billions in subsidies, no one has shown that KiwiSaver has made New Zealanders wealthier. Still, the instinct across the political spectrum is to make the scheme bigger. 

Mar 24·1 min read·38 words

How the World Lost Its Refining Buffer

Covid-era capacity destruction, post-pandemic concentration in Asia and the Middle East and what it means for New Zealand in 2026

Mar 24·1 min read·27 words

The Problematic Size of Government in NZ

It is an election year. Who will, with credibility, propose to shrink the size of government in NZ to a level that allows genuine comparison with the best of the OECD?

Mar 24·1 min read·38 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Mar 24·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

She said her reasoning was simple: “I want to try new opportunities.”

Mar 24·1 min read·16 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… impel (verb) - 1: to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure : force 2: to impart motion to : propel Source : Merriam-Webster Etymol…

Mar 24·1 min read·100 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Mar 24·1 min read·39 words

Night Cap

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Mar 24·1 min read·66 words

Taste Tuesday

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Mar 24·1 min read·66 words

Bryce Edwards On Winston Peters' State Of The Nation Speech

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Mar 24·1 min read·26 words

Winston Peters On His State Of The Nation Address

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Mar 24·1 min read·73 words

Alfred Ngaro On Why He’s Joined NZ First & What Deals Were Done

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Mar 24·1 min read·77 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 24·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Mar 24·1 min read·22 words

Guns, Iran’s Bravado, and Man’s Best Friend

Well, what would you expect from a regime that thinks it’s the year 1405?

Mar 24·1 min read·21 words

Big Business Betrays Us All

Selling their countries – sometimes literally – to the slime of humanity.

Mar 24·1 min read·17 words

[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day

Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.

Mar 24·1 min read·21 words

Secret Service Agent Is Suspended Again

Perez was one of six agents suspended without pay for 10 to 42 days for their connection to Butler. As part of Trump’s regular campaign detail, Perez served as the ‘site agent,’ in charge of developin…

Mar 24·1 min read·47 words

‘Remigration Is the Hill We Die On’

Eva Vlaardingerbroek delivers historic call to save Europe.

Mar 24·1 min read·15 words

Cost of living relief NZ: Government says plan is coming

The Government says cost of living relief NZ is on the way and it has...

Mar 24·1 min read·25 words

NZ fuel standards set to align with Australia, says Shane Jones

New Zealand is moving to align NZ fuel standards with Australia fuel standards, with Resources...

Mar 24·1 min read·26 words

NZ gun laws: Survey finds public backing for tougher rules after Bondi shooting

A fresh survey after the Bondi shooting shows New Zealanders want NZ gun laws tightened...

Mar 24·1 min read·28 words

Green Party NZ proposes cutting infrastructure projects for free public transport and relief payments

The Green Party NZ has floated a proposal in New Zealand that would cut or...

Mar 24·1 min read·29 words

PM Luxon announces new fuel supply measures in 1News video

PM Luxon, speaking in a NZ government announcement carried by 1News, has unveiled “new fuel...

Mar 24·1 min read·25 words

NZ EV chargers: more than 2500 to be rolled out nationwide

New Zealand is preparing a nationwide rollout of NZ EV chargers, with 1News reporting that...

Mar 24·1 min read·26 words

We Could Be Self Sufficient

How to solve the Australian fuel crisis.

Mar 24·1 min read·12 words

Will Petrol Sink Labor, Again?

Instead of closing down refineries and chasing green ideological pipe dreams, the government should (hey here’s a shocker) get out of the way.

Mar 23·1 min read·28 words

New Zealand Rejects WHO Pandemic Reform

Push back on globalist bureaucrats, national sovereignty cited.

Mar 23·1 min read·14 words

A Win for the Government?

When prices rise, families feel it immediately. When tax revenue rises, the government feels it immediately too – but silently.

Mar 23·1 min read·25 words

Woke Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere

Women will make sure of that.

Mar 23·1 min read·10 words

Hanson Vindicated at the Ballot Box

Malinauskas can celebrate for the cameras, but his party beancounters will be sweating bullets.

Mar 23·1 min read·20 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/051

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Mar 23·1 min read·14 words

This Was a Lost Opportunity

The Royal Commission report into Covid was an opportunity for people's voices to be heard. Sadly, it has failed, preferencing power over humanity.

Mar 23·1 min read·28 words

New Zealand’s Broken Supply Chain

How geopolitical disruption 10,000 kilometres away determines whether New Zealand’s economy functions in May 2026.

Mar 23·1 min read·20 words

Now the Eagle Has Floundered

Labourite Chatham Islands CEO comes a criminal cropper. Where are the coppers?

Mar 23·1 min read·17 words

The Good Oil Podcast – Episode 27 – Eeryk McRae

Passionate, articulate and sharply tuned to the political mood of the moment, Eeryk dives into government overreach, the rise of active young voices in online political debate and the increasingly fra…

Mar 23·1 min read·45 words

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Mar 23·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Alker won for the 11th time in 100 career starts on the PGA Tour Champions.

Mar 23·1 min read·19 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… equanimity (noun) - 1: evenness of mind especially under stress 2: right disposition : balance Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : If you think "equanimity" looks like it h…

Mar 23·1 min read·85 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.

Mar 23·1 min read·44 words

Night Cap

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Mar 23·1 min read·66 words

Manly Monday

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Mar 23·1 min read·66 words

Why is Gold CRASHING? (During a War?)

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Mar 23·1 min read·23 words

6 Years Living in a Ghost Town...Everything Depends on This

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Mar 23·1 min read·74 words

DEI Hire to be Charged – Pleads “Not Guilty”

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Mar 23·1 min read·73 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 23·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Mar 23·1 min read·22 words

Comedy Corner

Welcome to Politically Incorrect Comedy corner: the one place on The Good Oil where you are allowed to read and share naughty and offensive jokes that make us all laugh even though we are not supposed…

Mar 23·1 min read·55 words

The Left Is Clearly a Greater Threat To Free Speech

The evidence from Cambridge, and from Britain as a whole, points in one direction. It is the left – not the right – that poses the greater threat to free expression today.

Mar 23·1 min read·42 words

Trip or Treat? Psychedelics Fall Short

The mushies might let you talk to God, but they’re not curing jack.

Mar 23·1 min read·19 words

[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day

Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.

Mar 23·1 min read·21 words

Who Owns the Bus?

Issues of homelessness and vagrancy in public spaces and on public transportation are made worse because government ownership of the property does not allow for exclusion. Instead, we get the “tragedy…

Mar 23·1 min read·38 words

From Woke To Broke: Hochul Begs the Rich To Return

What ever happened to “jump on a bus and head to Florida where you belong”?

Mar 23·1 min read·25 words

You Had Decades to Fix This, Pal

Another long-term illegal immigrant deported? Cry me a river.

Mar 23·1 min read·16 words

Latest Benefit Numbers – Beware the Spin

What really matters is the year-on-year comparison.

Mar 22·1 min read·14 words

This Sudden Discovery of Restraint and Empathy

But is social media really the root of the evil of political scandals?

Mar 22·1 min read·20 words

The Squad-Left Take a Hammering

In one of America’s deepest-blue districts.

Mar 22·1 min read·11 words

Winston Peters acknowledges power companies may challenge split plan

Winston Peters has signalled the Government’s power companies split plan could face resistance, putting NZ...

Mar 22·1 min read·24 words

Ethnic Communities Ministry under scrutiny as MPs say progress is hard to judge

The Ethnic Communities Ministry is facing sharper scrutiny after MPs said it was “difficult to...

Mar 22·1 min read·28 words

RNZ-Reid Research poll: Labour extends lead over National in latest NZ election poll

Labour has widened its advantage over National in the latest RNZ-Reid Research poll, a fresh...

Mar 22·1 min read·28 words

RNZ-Reid Research poll shows pressure on Luxon and National

The latest RNZ-Reid Research poll in New Zealand politics shows Christopher Luxon poll numbers slipping...

Mar 22·1 min read·24 words

Christopher Luxon live in studio with Mike Hosking: NZ Herald focus

National leader Christopher Luxon went live in studio with Mike Hosking in a segment reported...

Mar 22·1 min read·26 words

Anne Salmond column highlights Kiwi entrepreneurs and Government scrutiny

In a Newsroom NZ column, Anne Salmond examines Kiwi entrepreneurs and community “heroes” in the...

Mar 22·1 min read·24 words

Papatoetoe election rerun: RNZ’s The Detail examines the stakes

RNZ’s “The Detail” turns its focus to the Papatoetoe election rerun, placing a local Auckland...

Mar 22·1 min read·24 words

NZ public EV chargers set to double under $50m plan

New Zealand has unveiled a “$50m plan to double the number of public EV chargers”,...

Mar 22·1 min read·25 words

Green Party NZ proposes axing NZ infrastructure projects for free public transport

The Green Party NZ has floated a plan to cancel some NZ infrastructure projects to...

Mar 22·1 min read·27 words

Lucy Needs Your Help So She Can Sue the Police

My hope is that if the defamatory press release put out about Lucy as a result of the botched police investigation results in findings against the police in court, then they will start caring about wh…

Mar 22·1 min read·50 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Mar 22·1 min read·43 words

You Can Always Go Home

If Indian immigrants are so concerned for their culture, why did they leave?

Mar 22·1 min read·18 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/050

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Mar 22·1 min read·14 words

NZ Must Heed the Warning

New Zealand Defence Minister Judith Collins recently described the current environment as “the most dangerous we have ever lived in”. 

Mar 22·1 min read·25 words

Govt makes digital ID an election-year priority

A spokesperson for Chris Bishop said the government was aiming to pass the bill “by mid-year”.

Mar 22·1 min read·23 words

Peters pitches power breakup, economic nationalism and COVID accountability

Peters said the big power companies should “no longer control both the power and the price”.

Mar 22·1 min read·25 words

Seven-week fuel buffer, but diesel risk grows as Greens pitch relief and government backs EV push

“Diesel is literally the lifeblood of the economy.”

Mar 22·1 min read·24 words

Investors asked to restore Chateau as unresolved iwi interests cloud future ownership

Chateau Tongariro is in a “poor state of repair”.

Mar 22·1 min read·21 words

Parallel dignity offers a challenge to trans orthodoxy in schools

“I respect your dignity, and you respect mine.” 

Mar 22·1 min read·18 words

Iran fuel shock adds pressure as Fitch warns New Zealand’s debt path is worsening

Debt reduction is now “more difficult to envisage”.

Mar 22·1 min read·22 words

Ani O’Brien says media’s sudden restraint is selective and self-serving

“The problem lies not in that social media created the behaviours, but in the fact that it has democratised them.”

Mar 22·1 min read·30 words

Let’s Just Call It Child Abuse

If you’re not horrified by this you should be.

Mar 22·1 min read·15 words

New Zealand’s Diesel Supply

How a Middle East conflict has exposed a structural vulnerability at the heart of the New Zealand economy.

Mar 22·1 min read·22 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Mar 22·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

“It’s disappointing that the court sees the offence occurred but did give the patch back. The gang patch is the ultimate gang symbol and provides the gang their ability to intimidate our communities a…

Mar 22·1 min read·46 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… stubborn (adjective) - 1a(1): unreasonably unyielding : mulish (2): justifiably unyielding : resolute b: suggestive or typical of a strong stubborn nature 2: performed or carr…

Mar 22·1 min read·90 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

Mar 22·1 min read·34 words

Night Cap

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Mar 22·1 min read·66 words

Standup Sunday

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Mar 22·1 min read·66 words

National Walking Away From Its Co-Governance Promises

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Mar 22·1 min read·23 words

The “Professional” Firefighter Strikes Are “Nothing Short Of Evil”

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Mar 22·1 min read·73 words

Ashley Church: Latest On The Middle East Crisis, Chris Hipkins & More

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Mar 22·1 min read·76 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 22·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Mar 22·1 min read·22 words

Kiwi ex-pat plea to NZ politicians after crossing the ditch

A Kiwi ex-pat in Australia has issued a public plea to NZ politicians after “crossing...

Mar 22·1 min read·25 words

New Zealand red tape in focus as book ‘Stupid Rules’ targets regulation culture

A new book in New Zealand is challenging the country’s regulation culture, with the NZ...

Mar 22·1 min read·28 words

Rakaia River wetland project targets salmon restoration NZ

New Zealand taxpayers are putting $784,000 into a new Rakaia River wetland in Canterbury, a...

Mar 22·1 min read·23 words

NZ proposed US critical minerals deal for months, despite Luxon’s ‘very preliminary’ claim

Documents show New Zealand officials had proposed a US critical minerals deal for months, despite...

Mar 22·1 min read·28 words

Facebook post controversy NZ: media scrutiny of the Opposition leader

A Facebook post has become a flashpoint in New Zealand media politics, with The Post...

Mar 22·1 min read·25 words

NZ government data security under strain as Treasury flags unvetted third parties

A Treasury report released this week says NZ government data security is being tested by...

Mar 22·1 min read·27 words

NZ government worst-case scenario on oil prices and inflation questioned

A 1News politics report has cast doubt on the New Zealand government’s “worst-case” scenario for...

Mar 22·1 min read·25 words

Rakiura Stewart Island council staff face ‘emerging tensions’, RNZ reports

RNZ has reported that council staff face “emerging tensions” on Rakiura/Stewart Island, a development that...

Mar 21·1 min read·25 words

Diving Into Obscurity: NZ’s Punk Explosion

When the Redlines met the Doc Martens.

Mar 21·1 min read·13 words

We’re Still Just Superstitious Monkeys

We think there are literally malignant ghosts in the machines.

Mar 21·1 min read·15 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Mar 21·1 min read·23 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… rhetorical (adjective) - 1a: of, relating to, or concerned with the art of speaking or writing formally and effectively especially as a way to persuade or influence people b: …

Mar 21·1 min read·89 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.

Mar 21·1 min read·21 words

Night Cap

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Mar 21·1 min read·66 words

Science Saturday

If you have a great Youtube, Rumble or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@goodoil.news If you're loving this trusty, straight-up news on Kiwi politics and beyond, why not become a pa…

Mar 21·1 min read·66 words

Will Fuel Rationing Become New Zealand's New Reality?

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Mar 21·1 min read·24 words

Dave Letele: Soaring Fuel Costs, And The Struggle For Regular Kiwis

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Mar 21·1 min read·75 words

Petrol Crisis Impacting NZ And Chris Hipkins Fallout

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Mar 21·1 min read·72 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 21·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Mar 21·1 min read·22 words

Hell Hath No Fury, Indeed

Epic stories of feminine revenge.

Mar 21·1 min read·10 words

Karma Comes Knocking for Albo

He might want to read up on his Labor history.

Mar 21·1 min read·15 words

Daniel Eb joins Opportunity Party as 2IC in New Zealand politics shift

Daniel Eb has entered New Zealand politics as the Opportunity Party’s “2IC”, a leadership change...

Mar 21·1 min read·27 words

Rural economy NZ and NZ election politics dominate Fieldays New Zealand

Fieldays New Zealand has become a stage where the rural economy NZ and NZ election...

Mar 21·1 min read·26 words

Chateau Tongariro restoration backed by govt, mayor calls it a ‘win’

The Government has confirmed NZ government support for the Chateau Tongariro restoration in Tongariro National...

Mar 20·1 min read·26 words

NZ digital ID app to let users drive and buy alcohol without physical ID

The New Zealand Government says the NZ digital ID app will soon allow users to...

Mar 20·1 min read·29 words

Mariameno Kapa-Kingi silent as Te Pāti Māori leaders await contact

Mariameno Kapa-Kingi has still not spoken with Te Pāti Māori leaders, according to RNZ, leaving...

Mar 20·1 min read·25 words

New Zealand credit rating downgrade shifts outlook to ‘negative’

A New Zealand credit rating downgrade has emerged through a move to a “negative” outlook,...

Mar 20·1 min read·24 words

Opportunity Party New Plymouth candidate brings prior political experience

The Opportunity Party New Plymouth candidate has entered the race with a profile already shaped...

Mar 20·1 min read·24 words

Iran war NZ: When NZ might send the Navy and who’s winning

New Zealand is being asked to consider its posture as the Iran war escalates, and...

Mar 20·1 min read·27 words

Cook Islands China deal still strains ties with New Zealand

The Cook Islands China deal remains a point of friction, with leaders in Rarotonga and...

Mar 20·1 min read·25 words

NZ politics: ‘Back on track’ promise faces real test

The Post’s latest analysis says NZ politics has reached a decisive moment in which the...

Mar 20·1 min read·24 words

Thomas Coughlan column spotlights pressure on Luxon and Hipkins

Thomas Coughlan’s NZ Herald politics column sets a stark frame for New Zealand politics, arguing...

Mar 20·1 min read·24 words

Political psychology NZ: why politics and the brain clash

A recent Psychology Today article reaching New Zealand audiences argues that political psychology NZ research...

Mar 20·1 min read·24 words

Government orders review of New Zealand dog control laws

The Government has ordered a nationwide “review” of New Zealand dog control laws, a move...

Mar 20·1 min read·24 words

New Zealand fuel supply: why empty petrol pumps persist

New Zealand has “weeks of fuel supply” on hand, yet motorists are still finding “empty...

Mar 20·1 min read·24 words

The Good Oil Chuck Norris meme tribute (Family friendly)

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Mar 20·1 min read·38 words

WokeFL Referred to Bondi RC

A deliberate insult to Jewish Australians, just to pander to Sydney’s anti-Semites.

Mar 20·1 min read·17 words

This Is Wanton Strategic Negligence

The Albanese government was warned for years and did nothing.

Mar 20·1 min read·15 words

Auckland Air Pollution: I Don’t Believe a Word of It

Best of MountainsideFM.

Mar 20·1 min read·13 words

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Mar 20·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Kapa-Kingi said since returning to parliament, all the she had received from party co-leader Rāwiri Waititi was a text message asking if she would be available for a short, 10-minute kōrero, and had n…

Mar 20·1 min read·48 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… concomitant (adjective, noun) - adjective : accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way noun : something that accompanies or is collaterally connected with som…

Mar 20·1 min read·84 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.

Mar 20·1 min read·42 words

Night Cap

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Mar 20·1 min read·66 words

Friday Fur

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Mar 20·1 min read·66 words

Wellington Sewage Failure: The ’Independent’ Investigators Revealed

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Mar 20·1 min read·23 words

The Hypocrisy Of Politicians Using Their Families As Political Pawns

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Mar 20·1 min read·74 words

Chris Hipkins Under Pressure As Private Drama Turns Political

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Mar 20·1 min read·73 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 20·1 min read·34 words

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Mar 20·1 min read·22 words

‘This Is a Case About Swinging Dicks’

Business and property owners have no rights. Their female patrons have no rights. Girls as young as 13, who are now forced to be nude in front of grown men, have no rights. Only they/them have rights.

Mar 20·1 min read·44 words

‘Islamist’, ‘Islamophobia’ and Other Lies

These are words designed to cloud and muddle the discourse.

Mar 20·1 min read·15 words

Free Speech in the Digital Age

By regulating online speech and expanding digital ID systems, governments are turning the natural right to free expression into a licensed activity.

Mar 20·1 min read·28 words

Iranian Women Soccer Players Withdraw Asylum Request

Protesting the regime back home took real courage.

Mar 20·1 min read·15 words

Government rejects WHO rule changes, says health decisions belong in Wellington

“New Zealand has decided to reject the 2024 amendments to the IHR.”

Mar 20·1 min read·23 words

Police fine frenzy signals a bigger crackdown on drivers

The number of officer-issued fines has surged from 402,000 in 2023 to 461,000 in 2024 and then to 538,192 last year.

Mar 20·1 min read·30 words

ERO brings in colour-coded school reports from term two

Summarised by Centrist The Education Review Office will introduce a new colour-coded, four-point scale for...

Mar 20·1 min read·24 words

National accused of reviving co-governance in local water plans

Summarised by Centrist Taxpayers’ Union board member Peter Williams says National is on the verge...

Mar 20·1 min read·24 words

Govt moves to tighten refugee rules after serious offenders found among asylum claimants

Summarised by Centrist The government is moving to tighten refugee and deportation laws after revealing...

Mar 20·1 min read·28 words

Still little sign of ‘austerity’ in the public service

Summarised by Centrist The latest public service workforce figures run counter to the idea that...

Mar 20·1 min read·24 words

NZ plans for fuel disruption as Middle East conflict drags on

Economists are also warning the shock could spread well beyond the pump, lifting the cost of groceries, freight, retail goods and other essentials.

Mar 20·1 min read·34 words

A Mudfish Wins Fish of the Year

The national champion is, in effect, a shy little swamp goblin with survival instincts and a strong preference for staying out of sight. This makes it a relatable icon. New Zealand is emotionally vul…

Mar 19·1 min read·52 words

CTV Families Back the Inquiry, but There Are Issues

As Tauranga faces dual inquiries and multiple investigations, CTV families are urging strong family representation, whistleblower protections and a genuinely open process.

Mar 19·1 min read·31 words

Even Migrants Want Immigration Slashed

Don’t let the media lie to you that only white rednecks hate mass immigration.

Mar 19·1 min read·19 words

Pros and Cons of This Fact-Finding System

Actually, just cons.

Mar 19·1 min read·10 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Mar 19·1 min read·43 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/049

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Mar 19·1 min read·14 words

Can Japan Help Even If It Wants To?

Hamstrung by its post-war constitution.

Mar 19·1 min read·13 words

This Campaign Is at Risk of Backfiring

Journalists are further degrading the public’s trust in them.

Mar 19·1 min read·16 words

Bondi RC Already Coming Apart at the Seams

It’s almost like that’s how it was planned.

Mar 19·1 min read·16 words

They Want To Lock-in Co-Governance of Our Water

I would argue that the very reason the Nats are doing poorly is precisely because they have not followed through on their mandate for change. We need them to take action now, before it is too late.

Mar 19·1 min read·45 words

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Mar 19·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

The blond-mopped public schoolboy plays up for the cameras, irritating legions of fans and opposing players, but his defenders say his “character” is good for the game and his attitude, on-field antic…

Mar 19·1 min read·44 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… quodlibet (noun) - 1: a philosophical or theological point proposed for disputation. Also : a disputation on such a point 2: a whimsical combination of familiar melodies or te…

Mar 19·1 min read·89 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loose…

Mar 19·1 min read·48 words

Night Cap

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Mar 19·1 min read·66 words

Tiny Home Thursday

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Mar 19·1 min read·67 words

Sean Plunket & Caller Mia Debate Over Chris Hipkins’ Private Life

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Mar 19·1 min read·75 words

Why The Proposed Under-16 Social Media Ban Won’t Work

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Mar 19·1 min read·25 words

Hipkins Press Conference, The Lies Told & The Media’s Surrender

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Mar 19·1 min read·74 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 19·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Mar 19·1 min read·22 words

Long Nightmare for Cuba Is Almost Over

After 67 years of totalitarian tyranny, the island nation approaches liberation day.

Mar 19·1 min read·19 words

‘Net Zero’ Hits the Rocks of the Real World

It’s all fun and games and virtue-signalling until the oil runs out.

Mar 19·1 min read·21 words

[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day

Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.

Mar 19·1 min read·21 words

Churches Are Being Set on Fire

Are sleeper cells involved?

Mar 19·1 min read·10 words

The Threat We’re Not Supposed to Discuss

If policymakers and the public want effective prevention, they must start with a clear-eyed assessment of the risks rather than with wishful thinking.

Mar 19·1 min read·30 words

Thank God for Scott Morrison, After All

They screamed at him, but he was absolutely right.

Mar 19·1 min read·16 words

Payroll Tax Is a Disincentive for Business

Right now, the system is telling us that theory is worth a gift – while practical skills are worth a tax invoice.

Mar 18·1 min read·29 words

AI Being Used to Scam

Example of false Facebook ad in New Zealand. Don't be fooled!

Mar 18·1 min read·16 words

The Rights of Cross-Dressing Pedos Must Be Respected

This is the Clown World we live in.

Mar 18·1 min read·16 words

Even More Lies and Deception

Hidden myocarditis warnings while mandating two doses for teens. Who will be held accountable?

Mar 18·1 min read·19 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/048

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Mar 18·1 min read·14 words

Yet More Reasons Why the Legacy Media Deserve to Die

AP has thoroughly debased itself.

Mar 18·1 min read·15 words

The Real Science

Behind the risk of myocarditis following mRNA vaccination.

Mar 18·1 min read·11 words

A Chip(pie) On Her Shoulder

However this messy scenario plays out, whatever way the wind blows, Chippie has done Labour no favours. The question now is whether they ditch him or, like the sheep they are, get in behind. Riveting …

Mar 18·1 min read·42 words

Wobbly Democracy in the Western World

It’s election year but are they listening?

Mar 18·1 min read·13 words

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Mar 18·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Dropping like flies.

Mar 18·1 min read·7 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… syllogism (noun) - 1: a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue…

Mar 18·1 min read·91 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in T…

Mar 18·1 min read·53 words

Night Cap

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Mar 18·1 min read·66 words

Wednesday Weapons

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Mar 18·1 min read·66 words

Mayor Wayne Brown's "Grand Coalition" Of National/Labour

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Mar 18·1 min read·23 words

Sean Plunket Reacts To Social Media Post From Chris Hipkins Ex Wife

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Mar 18·1 min read·76 words

REVEALED: What's Chris Hipkins' Future After Allegations Surface?

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Mar 18·1 min read·72 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 18·1 min read·34 words

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Mar 18·1 min read·22 words

The Brooklyn Bridge

A triumph of capitalism.

Mar 18·1 min read·7 words

The Irresolute and the Irrelevant

Europe is spineless, but Australia is a maritime irrelevance.

Mar 18·1 min read·14 words

Decades of Influence of ‘The Population Bomb’

The scientist passed away at 93, but his malign ideas live on.

Mar 18·1 min read·19 words

Scrap Net Zero

Dramatic new ice core evidence shows current century warming common throughout the last 400,000 years.

Mar 18·1 min read·18 words

Grace Tame Won’t Believe Jewish Women

Could this revolting woman sink any lower?

Mar 18·1 min read·13 words

Melania – The Movie

She has raised the bar for the role of first lady to an extraordinary level – and it feels like high time too.

Mar 17·1 min read·27 words

A Useful Tool or Dangerous Overreach?

The problem is that once a power like this exists, it rarely stays confined to one purpose. The same law that clears a footpath today could just as easily clear a protest tomorrow.

Mar 17·1 min read·39 words

It’s the Judges Versus the Voters

Win one, mark time on two, in Trump’s battle against institutional lawfare.

Mar 17·1 min read·18 words

Royal Commission Was Destined To Come up Short

Confidence we’d get a hard hitting report was low.

Mar 17·1 min read·17 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Mar 17·1 min read·43 words

Getting Away with Murder?

A German man who strangled a Tasmanian sex worker is walking free after just a couple of years.

Mar 17·1 min read·22 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/047

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Mar 17·1 min read·14 words

A Masterclass in Damage Control

And Labour's PR flunkies didn’t have to lift a finger.

Mar 17·1 min read·15 words

If ministers can’t interfere, who fixes state-media bias?

Editorial independence protects TVNZ from political interference, but it does not remove accountability when bias occurs. Ministers cannot direct coverage, but the board still has responsibility throu…

Mar 17·1 min read·40 words

The Concerns About Digital Driver Licences

Privacy breaches and government overreach.

Mar 17·1 min read·11 words

Tikanga on Trial

If the rule of law is to mean anything in this country, the creeping judicial elevation of tikanga must be dismantled. The integrity of our legal order, and the equality of every New Zealander before …

Mar 17·1 min read·43 words

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Mar 17·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

The assignment was extremely dangerous and difficult due to heavy mortar and small arms fire, and by the morning after the initial attack on 20 April, Manahi’s platoon of around 30 men was reduced in …

Mar 17·1 min read·57 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… Goldilocks (noun, adjective) - noun 1: a person with golden hair —used as a nickname 2a: a European composite herb (Galatella linosyris) with heads of yellow flowers resemblin…

Mar 17·1 min read·82 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean; from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

Mar 17·1 min read·39 words

Hypocritkins? Hipkins, privacy and the ‘very high standards’ problem

If you use private life to polish your public image, don't be shocked when people start asking whether the image was real.

Mar 17·1 min read·31 words

Night Cap

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Mar 17·1 min read·66 words

Taste Tuesday

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Mar 17·1 min read·66 words

Luxon's Lack Of Leadership And The Great Oil Supply Disruption

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Mar 17·1 min read·26 words

Elliot Ikilei On The Covid inquiry & The Latest In Politics

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Mar 17·1 min read·75 words

Jordan Williams From The Taxpayers’ Union On The Petrol Crisis

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Mar 17·1 min read·74 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 17·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Mar 17·1 min read·22 words

I Have My Doubts

About the “next global financial crisis”.

Mar 17·1 min read·10 words

One Nation Saps Labor Support

Australian voters are over and done with the ‘Laboral’ duopoly.

Mar 17·1 min read·15 words

[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day

Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.

Mar 17·1 min read·21 words

Are We Witnessing a Coordinated Attack on the Irish?

St Patrick’s day under siege by multicultural rebranding.

Mar 17·1 min read·17 words

Hillary Clinton’s Epstein Merch Not a Hit in the Heartland

Plus, Jasmine Crockett made an embarrassing mistake, students brought a knife to a gun fight and won, and Trump still isn’t racist.

Mar 17·1 min read·32 words

Blaze a Trail: Be a Libertarian

If you want to make real waves, give liberty a shot. It will uplift your family, friends, and community and better yet – you just might be the first person to do it.

Mar 17·1 min read·39 words

Exclusive: Calls for Recognition of Covid Vaccine Injuries

A policy document obtained by MD Reports acknowledges that people harmed by Covid-19 vaccination were failed by the medical system – and outlines reforms to address it.

Mar 16·1 min read·35 words

Fuel May Force Bosses To Discover Remote Work Again

This is where the satire bites hardest: remote work keeps being rediscovered in New Zealand the way ancient ruins are rediscovered by people standing directly on top of them.

Mar 16·1 min read·38 words

Going to Town

The Sisterhood of the Disagreeable Bigots.

Mar 16·1 min read·9 words

Open Letter to NZ Growers and Consumers

We need Kiwi First thinking from our government. Premium local organic production is the key to protecting our clean green Kiwi image and unlocking a sustainable economic advantage to secure New Zeala…

Mar 16·1 min read·40 words

Yet More Charges for Teachers’ Favourite Author

‘Jasper Jones’ author now charged with producing child exploitation material.

Mar 16·1 min read·17 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/046

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Mar 16·1 min read·14 words

This Is More Dangerous Than the Media

The real threat is the one that you don't recognise.

Mar 16·1 min read·17 words

The Truthful Politicians (A Work of Fiction)

I sat there stunned as the feed was terminated and my thoughts towards the prof were of the greatest admiration and benevolence. “So he did it,” I said to myself. “What a genius he is to get Napkins t…

Mar 16·1 min read·49 words

The Man Who Would Be King

Such are the skills of ‘the man who would be king prime minister’.

Mar 16·1 min read·19 words

The Good Oil Podcast – Episode 26 – Nathan Seiuli

Nathan is a Christian advocate for free speech, civil liberties and rights to privacy, and a strong believer in a public square that is moderate, reasonable and transparent.

Mar 16·1 min read·38 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Mar 16·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Ra hooked the winning fish on Saturday, the final day of the five-day surfcasting contest, earning him the $30,000 top prize for the heaviest snapper. He also took home $2500 for heaviest fish of the …

Mar 16·1 min read·40 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… vertiginous (adjective) - 1a: characterized by or suffering from vertigo or dizziness b: inclined to frequent and often pointless change : inconstant 2: causing or tending to …

Mar 16·1 min read·80 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.

Mar 16·1 min read·32 words

Night Cap

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Mar 16·1 min read·66 words

Manly Monday

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Mar 16·1 min read·66 words

Trump Sings to Starmer: We Don't Need Britain!

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Mar 16·1 min read·24 words

The Arrogance Of Power: COVID Inquiry Smashes Hipkins’ Record

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Mar 16·1 min read·73 words

Petrol Companies Are Kicking Kiwis To The Curb

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Mar 16·1 min read·72 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 16·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Mar 16·1 min read·22 words

Comedy Corner

Welcome to Politically Incorrect Comedy corner: the one place on The Good Oil where you are allowed to read and share naughty and offensive jokes that make us all laugh even though we are not supposed…

Mar 16·1 min read·55 words

My Drink With Pearl Harbor Attackers

When I walked up to the counter, rather than asking the standard atatemasu-ka?, they instead asked “are you American?” in English. I said yes, and one young man said “thank you for tomodachi” with a d…

Mar 16·1 min read·48 words

Moribund Economy Takaichi’s Greatest Challenge

Opting for tax relief and a ‘light hand’ rather than strict austerity.

Mar 16·1 min read·17 words

[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day

Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.

Mar 16·1 min read·21 words

Why Planet Left Is a Parallel Universe

Ignorant, misinformed and dementedly hateful.

Mar 16·1 min read·12 words

Cultural Marxism Masquerading as True History

As Wilson puts it, these are “not folks we can win over by presenting historical evidence.” The truth is that “we are not in a fight over historical interpretation; we are in a war against our culture…

Mar 16·1 min read·43 words

Trust fracture inside Te Pāti Māori laid bare after court rebuke

“The question remains whether Te Pāti Māori can be trusted..."

Mar 16·1 min read·21 words

Bruce Cotterill says TVNZ has become unbalanced and is failing the public

TVNZ “lost its way”.

Mar 16·1 min read·16 words

Peter Thiel takes ‘Antichrist’ lectures to the Vatican’s doorstep and Catholic institutions recoil

“One of the hottest tickets in the Vatican’s backyard.”

Mar 16·1 min read·22 words

Kiwi caretakers emerge as key figures in revived Epstein ranch probe

The Gordons’ current whereabouts are currently unknown.

Mar 16·1 min read·18 words

Mike Hosking says ministers were right to ignore ‘vague, wrong and made up’ advice on move-on orders

“Advice is not automatically right.”

Mar 16·1 min read·22 words

The ‘job wars’ are exposing a broken graduate bargain

Unemployment for 15 to 24-year-olds is now, “three times higher than the overall unemployment rate”. 

Mar 16·1 min read·24 words

‘When is Labour going to be held accountable?’: Memo questioned double-dose mandates for under-18s

“This information was not made public by Labour ministers or officials.”

Mar 16·1 min read·25 words

Just Whose ‘Stolen’ Land Is It?

The notion is utterly absurd. It is the product of vacuous thinking by dunces who can sing and chant slogans but have no grasp of even basic history. It should be tossed into history’s dustbin of stup…

Mar 16·1 min read·44 words

Fuel jitters spread as Gull stations run dry and petrol tops $3

“Some of our logistics providers are struggling..."

Mar 16·1 min read·19 words

The Left Vandalise Our Most Sacred Secular Space

The Long March left are trashing everything we hold dear.

Mar 16·1 min read·18 words

RNZ Catches up on News Reported Here Over a Month Ago

Let’s hope if the coalition survives the 2026 election, ACT gets to exercise far more influence in this area. Two forgotten words desperately in need of rehabilitation – Personal Responsibility.

Mar 15·1 min read·41 words

Yes, Women Are Different

And they’re changing the way we express ourselves. What this means for declining birth rates globally and the relationship between the sexes is unclear. Let’s just say, based on this research, the fut…

Mar 15·1 min read·51 words

‘Islamophobia’ Is a Big, Fat Lie

There’s nothing irrational about hating and fearing Islam.

Mar 15·1 min read·14 words

Farmers Will Be Extorted by the Iwi Mafia

Farmers aren’t imagining it. They are being gaslit. It is a mafia racket, not a matter of cultural respect.

Mar 15·1 min read·27 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Mar 15·1 min read·43 words

A Man After My Own Heart

We are given a nightly offering of news that resembles a dog’s breakfast. A dog would simply walk away and that’s precisely what many of us have done.

Mar 15·1 min read·34 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/045

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Mar 15·1 min read·14 words

Eagle and the Chatham Islands Integrity Collapse

For a community as vulnerable as the Chatham Islands, the damage done by Eagle’s tenure demands a full reckoning – from the police, from Labour, and from a political class that has tolerated this kind…

Mar 15·1 min read·48 words

Of Course Hipkins Owes Auckland an Apology

Ardern dictated that all of us should be subject to lockdown, even though the majority of us were not at any risk, apart from a bad case of the ’flu.

Mar 15·1 min read·37 words

Wrecking Race Hustler Gets a Free Pass

A new low from New Zealand’s criminal injustice system.

Mar 15·1 min read·16 words

The Good Oil Electoral Quiz

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Mar 15·1 min read·42 words

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Mar 15·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

It’s believed that could mean referring the matter to Internal Affairs regulators, or to the police.

Mar 15·1 min read·20 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… canoodle (verb) - : to engage in amorous embracing, caressing, and kissing : pet, fondle Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : The origins of canoodle are uncertain, but may …

Mar 15·1 min read·91 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.

Mar 15·1 min read·21 words

Night Cap

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Mar 15·1 min read·66 words

Standup Sunday

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Mar 15·1 min read·66 words

Health Minister Simeon Brown On The Covid-19 Inquiry

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Mar 15·1 min read·24 words

Damien Grant On Helen Clark’s Endless Commentary In The Media

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Mar 15·1 min read·74 words

Inconvenient History Of Moriori & Why Liberal Narrative Ignores Them

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Mar 15·1 min read·74 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 15·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Mar 15·1 min read·22 words

Christianity’s Dazzling Spread in the Ancient World

Leading by an example that astonished the Classical world.

Mar 14·1 min read·16 words

Diving Into Obscurity: Forgotten Punk Pioneers

From Dublin to Sydney, these pioneers laboured in obscurity.

Mar 14·1 min read·15 words

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Mar 14·1 min read·23 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… allegory (noun) - 1: the expression of truths or generalizations about human existence by means of symbolic figures and actions 2: a symbolic representation Source : Merriam-…

Mar 14·1 min read·85 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Ye are blessed of the Lord which made heaven and earth.

Mar 14·1 min read·17 words

Night Cap

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Mar 14·1 min read·66 words

Science Saturday

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Mar 14·1 min read·66 words

David Seymour On The Excessive Spending Revealed In The Covid Inquiry

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Mar 14·1 min read·27 words

David Harvey On The Te Papa Treaty Vandalism Charges Dropped

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Mar 14·1 min read·74 words

Winston Peters On Vax Injuries, COVID Smoking Guns, The MSM & Iran

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Mar 14·1 min read·76 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 14·1 min read·34 words

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Mar 14·1 min read·22 words

‘Autism’ Imposters Are a Sick Joke

Medical bandwagon-jumpers insult real sufferers and scam taxpayer.

Mar 14·1 min read·14 words

This Has to Be the World’s Biggest Joke

If Melbourne is the ‘best’, I’d hate to see the worst.

Mar 14·1 min read·19 words

Is AI Really the Devil?

Depraved humans turn new technology to their own sick purposes.

Mar 13·1 min read·15 words

One Nation Has to Deal with Its New-Found Popularity

Determined to hang on to their maverick outsider status.

Mar 13·1 min read·18 words

Covid-19 and New Zealand’s Dictatorship

Best of MountainsideFM.

Mar 13·1 min read·8 words

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Mar 13·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

‘I think it’s my time, I’ve given a lot here, and when you give a lot here it takes away from other spaces’ – Henare

Mar 13·1 min read·29 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… prototype (noun) - 1: an original model on which something is patterned : archetype 2: an individual that exhibits the essential features of a later type 3: a standard or typi…

Mar 13·1 min read·95 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

 And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve.

Mar 13·1 min read·40 words

Night Cap

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Mar 13·1 min read·66 words

Friday Fur

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Mar 13·1 min read·66 words

Where The NZ Media Went Wrong & Why They’ve Lost Our Trust

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Mar 13·1 min read·28 words

Fuel Price Shock: Is Christopher Luxon Losing The Room?

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Mar 13·1 min read·73 words

Covid Inquiry Mk II: Why Chris Hipkins Can't Be Trusted To Be PM

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Mar 13·1 min read·77 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 13·1 min read·34 words

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Mar 13·1 min read·22 words

Stanley Kubrick Left Hollywood in 1961 and Never Went Back

Every film he made after that was testimony about the same thing.

Mar 13·1 min read·22 words

Feminists Don’t Like Getting Their Own Treatment Back

Boys are sick of being treated like garbage and feminists are furious.

Mar 13·1 min read·20 words

How Our Taxes Fund Ethnic Vote Buying

‘Harmony in Diversity’ is really ‘Divide and Rule’.

Mar 13·1 min read·15 words

Our Patron Saint’s Day Rebranded

Shannon partnership holds crisis meeting amid public backlash.

Mar 13·1 min read·13 words

The EU Admits Nuclear Blunder

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has acknowledged that the bloc’s nuclear phase-out was a “strategic mistake”.

Mar 13·1 min read·23 words

Japan Isn’t Sitting by in the Face of China’s Rise

New home-developed missiles deployed in southern island.

Mar 13·1 min read·17 words

‘Feels Like a Kick in the Guts’

“This is part of an unfortunately familiar pattern of local manufacturing shutting down across Aotearoa. We’ve seen it with Carter Holt Harvey at Eves Valley, Sealord in Nelson, Kinleith Pulp and Pape…

Mar 12·1 min read·43 words

Epstein, Gates, the Pandemic Plan and NZ

The Epstein Files document a plan to turn global health emergencies into investment vehicles so by the time Covid arrived on the scene, the mechanisms to manage and profit from the so-called crisis, w…

Mar 12·1 min read·44 words

The Left Side with the Mullahs Again

They might ask the Iranian communists of 1979 how it’ll work out.

Mar 12·1 min read·19 words

And So Failure Becomes Proof

If we genuinely want a society that flourishes, the answer is not racial division, grievance politics, or endless attempts to save people from themselves. The answer is much older, much simpler, and f…

Mar 12·1 min read·40 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Mar 12·1 min read·43 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/044

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Mar 12·1 min read·14 words

Ngāi Tahu in Breach of the Law?

If one party in the coalition wants voting dominance then campaign on equality for all plus getting rid of the Waitangi Tribunal and the Māori electorates. Neither serves a useful purpose and both are…

Mar 12·1 min read·57 words

We Don’t Hate the Media Enough

We need a people’s commission into the media during Covid-19.

Mar 12·1 min read·16 words

The Refusal To Investigate This

Not interviewing the complainant is the most fundamental investigative failure that there is. Not only that, but not a single one of the police officers who arrested me and lied about me was interview…

Mar 12·1 min read·54 words

Why Can’t the Public Decide Public Interest?

The disgraceful dropping of the Te Papa vandalism case.

Mar 12·1 min read·16 words

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Mar 12·1 min read·23 words

Faces of the Day

The couple got engaged in 2024 and will marry after several years together in the Coromandel.

Mar 12·1 min read·20 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… paramour (noun) - : lover - specifically : an illicit or secret lover Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Paramour came to English from French (a language based on Latin), …

Mar 12·1 min read·97 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

Mar 12·1 min read·37 words

Night Cap

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Mar 12·1 min read·66 words

Tiny Home Thursday

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Mar 12·1 min read·67 words

Alon Roth-Snir On Iran War And New Zealand Response

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Mar 12·1 min read·25 words

Shane Jones: Our fuel security situation was fatally wounded once Labour shut down Marsden Point

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Mar 12·1 min read·79 words

The Villain Got Away With It

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Mar 12·1 min read·70 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 12·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Mar 12·1 min read·22 words

The Economic Fallout Six Years On

Avert not your eyes: life for civilized people entered into a period of barbarism from which we’ve yet to emerge.

Mar 12·1 min read·26 words

Normiecon Outraged Trump Is Winning Again

The unbearable feather-lightness of the normiecons and their impotent rage.

Mar 12·1 min read·16 words

Littleproud Buggers Off, Leaves Wooden Spoon Behind

Matt Canavan takes charge of the sinking ship.

Mar 12·1 min read·15 words

We Are Finally Waking Up

This is what late-stage institutional decay looks like. Not a dramatic collapse, but a slow, grinding loss of competence and legitimacy – where the government’s primary function shifts from solving pr…

Mar 12·1 min read·39 words

The US And Australia Must Lead the Minerals Race

We must ensure the materials of modern life are sourced, processed, and refined under the stewardship of free nations. If not, we risk ceding the foundations of our prosperity and defense to those who…

Mar 12·1 min read·60 words

Lessons Learned Phase 2 Report Released

The evidence still exists, someone is still responsible for the deaths and injuries that occurred, and the next theatre, the general election, is eight months away. We will continue to pursue every po…

Mar 11·1 min read·44 words

This Report Is a Scientific and Ethical Failure

The report is a scientific failure and its recommendation to enshrine vaccine mandates in law should be vigorously opposed. Any such provision would nullify the protections of the NZ Bill of Rights, w…

Mar 11·1 min read·51 words

Doctors urge government to replace Medical Council over Māori health proposal

“It is a political manifesto dressed in medical language.”

Mar 11·1 min read·20 words

‘You don’t get to run on kindness and do this’: Ardern championed diversity, now lives in one of Australia’s least diverse communities

“She’s found what must be the whitest, wealthiest place in Australia and said: ‘Yeah, this is where I’m going to move with my family.’”

Mar 11·1 min read·46 words

Air NZ debate exposes coalition split as fuel volatility hits airline outlook

“It’s a critical utility for a country called New Zealand. It’s our face abroad.”

Mar 11·1 min read·26 words

South Korea export ban fears raise fuel security concerns

“I’ve been advised that there is that speculation in the market, both by fuel importing companies here, and obviously, there’s been media coverage.”

Mar 11·1 min read·32 words

Wattie’s frozen food shutdown reflects rising costs and shrinking manufacturing margins

The manufacturing environment in New Zealand has become “increasingly difficult” in recent years.

Mar 11·1 min read·24 words

Charges dropped after tikanga defence surfaces in Te Papa Treaty protest case

He got away with it, then.

Mar 11·1 min read·18 words

NZ First calls for new inquiry into COVID vaccine injuries

“The lessons we should have learned have in many ways been covered up or not even investigated.”

Mar 11·1 min read·27 words

This Report Fails Its Primary Purpose

By trying to please everyone the Commission ends up pleasing no one.

Mar 11·1 min read·18 words

Attacks Ramp up in Canada

And so does the establishment denialism.

Mar 11·1 min read·11 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/043

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Mar 11·1 min read·14 words

This Should Raise Serious Questions About Hipkins

We were told “Trust the Experts.” The report shows ministers didn’t.

Mar 11·1 min read·18 words

When You Drop Your Stash off at the Op Shop

Dropping off the wrong bag was just the start of their misfortunes.

Mar 11·1 min read·22 words

The Pravda Post

The paper propagandising for a New Zealand neo-Marxist government in waiting.

Mar 11·1 min read·14 words

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Mar 11·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Lisa Marie Edmondson committed serious misconduct over several years, where she capitalised on her position to create explicit content for personal gain. The tribunal cancelled her registration. Edmon…

Mar 11·1 min read·38 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… vacuous (adjective) - 1: emptied of or lacking content 2: marked by lack of ideas or intelligence : stupid, inane 3: devoid of serious occupation : idle Source : Merriam-Webs…

Mar 11·1 min read·90 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened

Mar 11·1 min read·42 words

Night Cap

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Mar 11·1 min read·66 words

Wednesday Weapons

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Mar 11·1 min read·66 words

David Farrar Explains The Differences Between Various Polling Agencies

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Mar 11·1 min read·25 words

'No One Likes Him!': Luxon Under Pressure As Poll Fallout Grows

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Mar 11·1 min read·75 words

Christopher Luxon's 28% Disaster: Is The PM The New Andrew Little?

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Mar 11·1 min read·75 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 11·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Mar 11·1 min read·22 words

DEI May Be Gone in Name, but the Enforcers Still Hold the Power

Bureaucracies do not abandon governing philosophies: they preserve them. Winning the policy war is not enough. Lasting reform requires restructuring who decides – not simply rewriting what is declared…

Mar 11·1 min read·42 words

Lyin’ Legacy Media and Suicidally Useless Idiots

Muslim throw bombs and carry out mass-shootings, but the virtue-signalling goes on.

Mar 11·1 min read·19 words

Another Gouge from Vic Labor

They charge all the people a dollar’n’a’half just to see ’em.

Mar 11·1 min read·16 words

This Should Concern Every Taxpayer

The cost of it isn’t borne by the teacher, or by the college. It’s borne by every working person paying tax in this country – including the majority who will never come close to anything like it.

Mar 11·1 min read·42 words

When Transparency About Sugar Becomes Controversial

If Kennedy suggested that gravity existed, some media outlets might feel compelled to defend levitation. Which is how a debate about hidden sugar ends with a major newspaper defending the sugar indust…

Mar 11·1 min read·45 words

Why Governing for Us All and Respect for Every Voter Counts

If National loses the election this year, it is on them for doing a poor job and assuming that they would have two terms. It is also on their supporters for not holding them to account from the first …

Mar 10·1 min read·51 words

We Didn’t Realise How Lucky We Were!

Luxon is a very poor leader and a poor PM but gee whizz, Hipkins has failure stamped over every ministerial portfolio he has had in his hands.

Mar 10·1 min read·34 words

Iranian Women Athletes Defect in Dramatic Scenes

Reminiscent of Cold War drama.

Mar 10·1 min read·12 words

It’s Time To Get Over the Fear of Being Called Names

Honestly.

Mar 10·1 min read·12 words

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Mar 10·1 min read·43 words

The World Required Someone To Take Action

The United States did not inadvertently enter this conflict due to a polite request from Israel. It responded to a threat recognized by five decades of American presidents, which was largely postponed…

Mar 10·1 min read·41 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/042

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Mar 10·1 min read·14 words

Propaganda, Personality and the Single Source of Truth

Part 2 of a series, we zoom in on Ashley Bloomfield, the symbol he became and why... and what he's really saying on "Quarantine Nation", Stuff's new podcast series.

Mar 10·1 min read·37 words

Media at Airport Failed To Fly

The media, in terms of objectivity and in depth journalism, is failing to fly. This needs to change and the only person who can bring it about is the minister.

Mar 10·1 min read·36 words

The Rules-Based Order Is a Failure

Other than in the minds of UN junkies and some academics, the international rules based order has not been functioning properly for a long time.

Mar 10·1 min read·31 words

Free Speech Union criticises Medical Council draft statements

"...requiring doctors to endorse contested political theories about colonisation, privilege, and systemic power as a condition of keeping their practising certificate.”

Mar 10·1 min read·29 words

Luxon’s leadership wobble may be another false alarm

“Voters don’t reward party in-fighting.”

Mar 10·1 min read·13 words

Medicinal cannabis exports surge as Seymour eyes growth

“New Zealand could become, just as we are with wine, a high-value powerhouse.”

Mar 10·1 min read·21 words

Canadian law forces regulators to drop DEI committee

Should New Zealand follow suit?

Mar 10·1 min read·13 words

Oil price shock rattles NZ economy

“A pretty substantial shock that is negative for activity and growth.”

Mar 10·1 min read·17 words

NZ enters ninth COVID wave as hospitalisations rise

50 hospitalisations and 19 deaths involving COVID in the past week.

Mar 10·1 min read·19 words

Trump’s NZ ambassador pick targets defence and minerals

“In advancing the President’s agenda, we have few better partners than New Zealand.”

Mar 10·1 min read·21 words

Court ruling exposes unlawful expulsion inside Te Pāti Māori

“Perhaps most fundamentally, the relevant tikanga principles … were not applied in any way.”

Mar 10·1 min read·23 words

COVID inquiry backs core response but finds lockdowns, mandates and spending went too far

Technical advisers had warned that two-dose mandates for 12 to 17-year-olds carried an increased myocarditis risk and suggested a single-dose approach might be safer.

Mar 10·1 min read·38 words

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Mar 10·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

The prosecution was stayed due to medical evidence that he was “palliative” with “months to live”. He’s now been found living on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast and appears to be healthy enough to climb s…

Mar 10·1 min read·39 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… parabolic (adjective) - 1: expressed by or being a parable : allegorical 2: of, having the form of, or relating to a parabola Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : The two di…

Mar 10·1 min read·93 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

Mar 10·1 min read·35 words

Night Cap

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Mar 10·1 min read·66 words

Taste Tuesday

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Mar 10·1 min read·66 words

Winston Peters Updates On Evacuation Plans For Kiwis In Middle East

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Mar 10·1 min read·27 words

Graham Sharpe On The NZ Medical Council Cultural Guidelines

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Mar 10·1 min read·73 words

Jordan Williams On Friday’s Shock Poll & The Taxpayer Funded Kumara Patch

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Mar 10·1 min read·76 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 10·1 min read·34 words

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Mar 10·1 min read·22 words

From Ha’pennies to a Farthing

Britain’s pound hits historic low.

Mar 10·1 min read·10 words

[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day

Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.

Mar 10·1 min read·21 words

How To Ensure a Harmonious Future With AI

The possibility of creating an after-death sentient AI agent raises some thorny questions. The option would only be easily available to the rich. The idea of a brutal dictator having the power to live…

Mar 10·1 min read·46 words

Is the US at a Precipice?

A successful outcome could provide major benefit to the dollar for decades to come. Defeat could trigger the end of US geopolitical dominance. We’ll find out which way it goes over the coming weeks.

Mar 10·1 min read·40 words

The Liberals, the Senate, and Preferences

Unless the Liberals adjust their thinking to the realities of the voting system they introduced, their ability to govern will continue to be severely compromised.

Mar 10·1 min read·31 words

There Really Should Be No Surprise

Another Māori trust boss charged with stealing $2 million.

Mar 9·1 min read·15 words

Iranian Navy Requests Advice on Ships as Tourist Attractions

Iranian officials confirmed they are now studying the New Zealand model carefully. “If we cannot float the ships,” Admiral Abooat said, “we may simply lean into the scuba tourism angle.”

Mar 9·1 min read·39 words

The Timebomb Facing the West

Be careful what you wish for.

Mar 9·1 min read·11 words

More Propaganda: What This Podcast Tells Us

Part 1 of a series, looking at “Quarantine Nation”, Stuff’s new podcast series.

Mar 9·1 min read·20 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/041

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Mar 9·1 min read·14 words

The Going-Out-of-Business State

It’s like Victoria wants to go broke.

Mar 9·1 min read·10 words

What Delayed Motherhood Really Means

To celebrate delayed motherhood as empowerment without acknowledging its costs is to perpetuate a lie.

Mar 9·1 min read·20 words

What Are They Hiding?

Bureaucrats refuse to hand over puberty-blocker data.

Mar 9·1 min read·11 words

They Need Saving From Themselves

They want your sympathy, they want your welfare, but they don’t want to change.

Mar 9·1 min read·19 words

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Mar 9·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

A secretive figure, the younger Khamenei has not been seen publicly for days. He now stands at the heart of Iran’s theocracy and will have final say over all matters of state.

Mar 9·1 min read·36 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… animosity (noun) - : a strong feeling of dislike or hatred : ill will or resentment tending toward active hostility : an antagonistic attitude Source : Merriam-Webster Etymo…

Mar 9·1 min read·92 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage, and do it.

Mar 9·1 min read·26 words

Night Cap

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Mar 9·1 min read·66 words

Manly Monday

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Mar 9·1 min read·66 words

First Look: NZ’s Newest Electric Ferry Hits the Water

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Mar 9·1 min read·25 words

How the Iran Conflict and Oil Prices Threaten the NZ Budget

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Mar 9·1 min read·75 words

The knife-fight after the Council meeting

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Mar 9·1 min read·70 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 9·1 min read·34 words

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Mar 9·1 min read·22 words

Comedy Corner

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Mar 9·1 min read·55 words

A Look at the Disappearing Marxists

Whether the cultural Marxists are ‘real’ Marxists or not is beside the point. The more important concern is the threat posed by those who draw upon theories derived from Marxism to justify their destr…

Mar 9·1 min read·40 words

Gates: Bjørn Lomborg Was Right

The great climate catastrophist finally admits the ‘denier’ was right.

Mar 9·1 min read·15 words

Is the ABC Breaking the Law?

Telling easily provable lies breaches its statutory obligations.

Mar 9·1 min read·14 words

Detangling the Air Battle Over Iran

With hundreds of missions, how is all kept straight?

Mar 9·1 min read·15 words

They Track Every Dollar You Move

Yet, they ignored $378 million of Epstein’s. The entire Know Your Customer regime, the Currency Transaction Reports, the Suspicious Activity Reports, FATCA, the anti-structuring laws – all of it funct…

Mar 9·1 min read·39 words

What They Won’t Tell Us About Forced Marriage in Australia

Don’t mention the I-word!

Mar 9·1 min read·14 words

The Curious Case of the Disappearing Male Newsreader

Where have all the young men gone?

Mar 8·1 min read·15 words

The Politics of Analysing Crises

The fact that the legacy media still appears to be in a state of denial over this – clinging to a fictitious world view where they are the righteous gatekeepers of truth – explains, at least in part, …

Mar 8·1 min read·49 words

Yes, the Attacks on Iran Are Legal

The US and its allies have every right to bomb the mullahs out of existence.

Mar 8·1 min read·22 words

Māori Elite Have Never Given Up

Tukaki repeatedly blurs the line between belief and governance. He treats spiritual attachment as if it were a constitutional credential. It is not.

Mar 8·1 min read·29 words

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Mar 8·1 min read·43 words

The TDS Is Strong in This One

The idea of no free will is the ultimate get out of jail free card for psychopaths and sociopaths. Hell, you can even use it to bitch about Trump without any evidence and end it with ‘… but it’s not h…

Mar 8·1 min read·49 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/040

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Mar 8·1 min read·14 words

Making English Official Is a Sly Winner

Winston Peters snookers the naysayers.

Mar 8·1 min read·12 words

Get a Grip

Give Luxon a break, and turn your jeers into cheers, because nobody’s perfect. If you tear down Luxon, you’re only helping the crazy left.

Mar 8·1 min read·27 words

Would the Real National Party Please Stand Up, Please Stand Up

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe…which way will the Nats go?

Mar 8·1 min read·20 words

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Mar 8·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Dilworth Karaka, founding member and frontman of the New Zealand band Herbs, has died.

Mar 8·1 min read·18 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… meme (noun) - 1: an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online especially through social media 2: an ide…

Mar 8·1 min read·91 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

Mar 8·1 min read·31 words

Night Cap

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Mar 8·1 min read·66 words

Standup Sunday

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Mar 8·1 min read·66 words

ACT Says Inquiry Into Social Media Age Restrictions Was 'Predetermined’

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Mar 8·1 min read·26 words

Sean Plunket Calls Out Paddy Gower For His "Apology” To Anti-Vaxers

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Mar 8·1 min read·75 words

If The Nats Want To Win This Election, Change Their Leader NOW

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Mar 8·1 min read·76 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 8·1 min read·34 words

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Mar 8·1 min read·22 words

Exploding Weed Oil and Spilling Offal

And the latest in British ‘dental hygiene’…

Mar 7·1 min read·13 words

The Legacy of the Manson Children

The sins of the father…

Mar 7·1 min read·11 words

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Mar 7·1 min read·23 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… timorous (adjective) - 1: of a timid disposition : fearful 2: expressing or suggesting timidity Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Timid and timorous don't just have simil…

Mar 7·1 min read·87 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth.

Mar 7·1 min read·21 words

Night Cap

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Mar 7·1 min read·66 words

Science Saturday

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Mar 7·1 min read·66 words

Iran Announces Their New Supreme Leader

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Mar 7·1 min read·22 words

March Massacre: Luxon Heads Home To Consider Resignation

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Mar 7·1 min read·72 words

Former National Minister On Luxon's Murky Future

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Mar 7·1 min read·71 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 7·1 min read·34 words

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Mar 7·1 min read·22 words

This Case Gets Weirder

Who’s not talking and what is that slab about?

Mar 7·1 min read·13 words

How Dare Iranians Celebrate Their Liberation

They’re supposed to be chanting ‘death to America!’

Mar 7·1 min read·14 words

Youth boot camp pilot extended to four months

“There will be consistent therapeutic support throughout both the residential and community phases.”

Mar 7·1 min read·21 words

Poll tightens, but Luxon vows to stay as National dips

"...the election race is as close as it can be.”

Mar 7·1 min read·20 words

Iran war begins to ripple through New Zealand

In some parts of the country, motorists are already paying more than $3 a litre for 95 petrol.

Mar 7·1 min read·26 words

Crime falls, but TVNZ leads with gangs — then scrambles to fix the story

“Pretty unbalanced reporting."

Mar 7·1 min read·17 words

Paddy Gower’s Vaxathon regret comes years too late

"My journalistic ethics and some of the basic rules went out the window."

Mar 7·1 min read·21 words

Parliament backs tougher social media rules for under-16s

The report also notes that young people might circumvent restrictions using virtual private networks (VPNs), which can disguise internet traffic.

Mar 7·1 min read·28 words

‘A year 13 boys’ school’: Spy chiefs warn teenage boys driving many extremism investigations

"... these are largely people who are spending a lot of time online engaging with quite violent content.”

Mar 7·1 min read·32 words

Is the Anglican Church About to Schism?

A ‘white woke’ church is drifting further from the ‘brown conservative’ church.

Mar 6·1 min read·19 words

Giving up and Dropping Out

Young Chinese are like so many pandas.

Mar 6·1 min read·12 words

A Reason Why I Do Not Trust National

Best of MountainsideFM.

Mar 6·1 min read·11 words

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Mar 6·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

“I’ve often made the observation that a politician complaining about the media is like a farmer complaining about the weather. You might be right, but it makes no difference…” – Goldsmith

Mar 6·1 min read·35 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… syllepsis (noun) - 1: the use of a word to modify or govern syntactically two or more words with only one of which it formally agrees in gender, number, or case 2: the use of …

Mar 6·1 min read·98 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.

Mar 6·1 min read·23 words

Night Cap

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Mar 6·1 min read·66 words

Friday Fur

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Mar 6·1 min read·66 words

Samira Taghavi Claps Back At Helen Clark In The Mainstream Media

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Mar 6·1 min read·27 words

What Iran’s Conflict Means For Oil Prices, Your Wallet And NZ Overal

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Mar 6·1 min read·76 words

Kiwis Deserting NZ for Aussie: The Statistics Will Shock You!

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Mar 6·1 min read·74 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 6·1 min read·34 words

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Mar 6·1 min read·22 words

Applying the Weinberger Doctrine to Regime Change

Avoiding occupational hazards.

Mar 6·1 min read·10 words

Credentialled Quislings Collobarate with the Worst

There’s not an enemy of our country they won’t help out.

Mar 6·1 min read·17 words

How To Keep Your Privacy and Stay in Control Online in 2026

Put on your best progressive’s voice and repeat: in our lived experience ‘Linux user’ is a protected characteristic, and anyone who disagrees is actually, like, performing an illegal operation and mak…

Mar 6·1 min read·48 words

Then Comes the Day After

If the terrorist government capitulates, what are the possible outcomes?

Mar 6·1 min read·15 words

How Is This Not Supporting Terrorism?

Singing the praises of a terror leader is textbook terror support.

Mar 6·1 min read·17 words

The Good but Misplaced Intentions of Modern Slavery Laws

Proponents of such laws mean well. But, in my view, many policy makers in rich nations have little understanding of working conditions in poor countries or how humans respond to incentives. The road t…

Mar 5·1 min read·49 words

Solving Crises With ‘Not My Department’

Wellington solves parking crisis by entering a strategic partnership with ‘not my department’.

Mar 5·1 min read·19 words

How Does This Iran Thing End?

The Trump administration has learned from the failures of the past 30 years.

Mar 5·1 min read·19 words

Goodness Another Very Important Promotion

Helen Clark’s appointment as chair of the Gavi board is much more meaningful than most people realise.

Mar 5·1 min read·22 words

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Mar 5·1 min read·43 words

How Dare You Treat Us Like We Do You!

Glass-jawed Muslims whining like babies again.

Mar 5·1 min read·15 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/039

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Mar 5·1 min read·14 words

The Ideological Capture of Our Health Sector

The Nursing and Medical councils make political views compulsory.

Mar 5·1 min read·16 words

Letter from the North

It keeps on getting worse: even more allegations of sleaze.

Mar 5·1 min read·14 words

Get Rid of the Sole Parent Benefit

Get rid of the sole parent benefit. Lift aspirations for those mothers and better outcomes for their children will follow.

Mar 5·1 min read·27 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Mar 5·1 min read·23 words

Cry Baby of the Day

Air New Zealand elite-level Airpoints member Rachel Hart was boarding through the premium queue when she claims a staff member asked, “How’s the paw?”

Mar 5·1 min read·29 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… maritime (adjective) - 1: of, relating to, or bordering on the sea 2: of or relating to navigation or commerce on the sea 3: having the characteristics of a mariner Source : …

Mar 5·1 min read·91 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers.

Mar 5·1 min read·47 words

Night Cap

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Mar 5·1 min read·66 words

Tiny Home Thursday

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Mar 5·1 min read·67 words

David Seymour On The Debates In Parliament On Iran

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Mar 5·1 min read·25 words

The Marlborough Council Co-Governance Plan That's Sneaking Under The Radar

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Mar 5·1 min read·74 words

NZ Political Polls Explained, And Craig Renney Talks Global Conflict

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Mar 5·1 min read·74 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 5·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Mar 5·1 min read·22 words

Dollars, Cents and Trade-Offs of Drug Legalization

What would happen if all class one narcotics were legalized?

Mar 5·1 min read·17 words

Starmer’s Britain Couldn’t Rule a Ripple in a Pond

The final humiliation of the nation which once ruled the waves.

Mar 5·1 min read·20 words

Why Do We Let These Unis Go On?

The drones raining on the Middle East were partly designed in Australian universities.

Mar 5·1 min read·21 words

The Water Crisis Is Real

But AI is not to blame.

Mar 5·1 min read·11 words

Heads or tails: A great example of how arbitrary Justice can be

Cracks in the scales of justice.

Mar 5·1 min read·18 words

How many voters is the Labour Party alienating by allowing Michael Wood’s comeback bid?

Allowing a former minister to run again who insulted voters, abused basic conflict rules, and was rejected at the ballot box is not a good look.

Mar 5·1 min read·40 words

IAN WISHART: ‘Son, your ego is writing cheques your body can’t cash’

Investigative journalist Ian Wishart recalls how ideals collided with economic reality during the Rainbow Warrior crisis and asks whether New Zealand faces the same dilemma again.

Mar 5·1 min read·38 words

Waste From ‘Clean Energy’ Piles Up

The environmental impact of industrial-scale wind facilities extends far beyond the operational lifespan of turbine blades and related equipment.

Mar 5·1 min read·25 words

Milei’s Big Challenge Gets Bigger

Unions run to the courts to fight off reform.

Mar 5·1 min read·14 words

Real Name Policies and the Internet

A tool of bad actors.

Mar 4·1 min read·11 words

Hey Australia, Can We Have Pauline Hanson?

The era of halo politics is over. The appetite now is for grit, clarity and leaders who are not afraid of being unpopular if it means being honest.

Mar 4·1 min read·35 words

Now It’s Voter Fraud in Two-Tier Britain

‘Cultural sensitivity’ is no justification for voter fraud.

Mar 4·1 min read·15 words

Questioning ACOG After They Exit From Panel

Urato says restoring trust requires transparency, not a cover up. “One key step to restore public trust is to emphasise transparency – to let the public see what’s going on, to let the sun shine in,” …

Mar 4·1 min read·55 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/038

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Mar 4·1 min read·14 words

What Is It They Are All So Keen To Support?

Chris Bishop, David Seymour and even police.

Mar 4·1 min read·17 words

Shutting Out the Noise

Our task is to help the genuinely curious – not enable the haters.

Mar 4·1 min read·17 words

Time Was Now – Lawful or Not

Sorry Helen. Just like you didn’t win the Eden Park argument, you’re not going to win this one either. Sod off.

Mar 4·1 min read·28 words

And I Ran, Iran So Far Away

The world just got a little lighter, though I predict it may get a bit messy for a time. Let right be done.

Mar 4·1 min read·30 words

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Mar 4·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

“Over time, I got this idea that I really was a priest, even though I’m a university lecturer and an atheist,” she explained.

Mar 4·1 min read·27 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… aphaeresis (noun) - : the loss of one or more sounds or letters at the beginning of a word (as in round for around) Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Borrowed from Late L…

Mar 4·1 min read·94 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

Mar 4·1 min read·32 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 4·1 min read·34 words

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Mar 4·1 min read·22 words

The 92% Tax That Nobody Ever Paid

If they spent as much energy making it easier to build a business as they do dreaming up new ways to ‘soak the rich,’ the tax base would take care of itself.

Mar 4·1 min read·39 words

Will Taylor’s Dead Cat Keep Bouncing?

Not if he listens to the normiecon media.

Mar 4·1 min read·14 words

The Real Story Is Empty Ballot Boxes

No culture, however proud its monuments and history, endures for long once the people who built it withdraw from defending it.

Mar 4·1 min read·28 words

European Commission Wants Your Free Speech

X is in the way.

Mar 4·1 min read·11 words

What Is Iran Trying to Achieve?

There’s a desperate strategy at play.

Mar 4·1 min read·12 words

The Autopsy of a Canary

What the Bondi Beach Chanukah massacre reveals about antisemitism today.

Mar 3·1 min read·15 words

Hey Australia, You Can Have Jacinda, We Don’t Want Her

We are told she represents the best of us. For a large and growing number of Kiwis, she represents a period they would rather never repeat.

Mar 3·1 min read·36 words

Japan Strikes Deep Sea Gold

Vast deposits of rare earths claimed.

Mar 3·1 min read·11 words

Chroniclers of the Trans Titanic

They can’t help themselves.

Mar 3·1 min read·9 words

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Mar 3·1 min read·43 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/037

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Mar 3·1 min read·14 words

The Greens Really Do ’Ave ’Em

Foul-mouthed rants defending murderous Islamic regimes… just another day for the Greens.

Mar 3·1 min read·18 words

Blobudsman Shows His True Colours

New Zealand’s Chief Ombudsman unlawfully sides with the forces of opaqueness and censorship.

Mar 3·1 min read·18 words

What It Actually Costs To Live ‘Green’ Like Chris Hipkins

Forget ‘let them eat cake’, now it’s ‘let them have solar’.

Mar 3·1 min read·21 words

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Mar 3·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

The IPCA was satisfied that each investigation was handled professionally.

Mar 3·1 min read·14 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… diaphanous (adjective) - 1: characterised by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through 2: characterised by extreme delicacy of form : ethereal 3: insubstantial, vag…

Mar 3·1 min read·87 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The Lord, T…

Mar 3·1 min read·48 words

Night Cap

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Mar 3·1 min read·66 words

Taste Tuesday

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Mar 3·1 min read·66 words

Chris Trotter On New Zealand’s Stance In International Affairs

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Mar 3·1 min read·25 words

Gilda Kirkpatrick On Her Reaction To The Attacks In Iran

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Mar 3·1 min read·74 words

Helen Clark & The Left’s Moral Cowardice On The Despotic Iran Regime

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Mar 3·1 min read·76 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 3·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Mar 3·1 min read·22 words

This Is Inarguable: The Golden Dome

The secrecy is rational – the cost is manageable – and the imperative is inarguable.

Mar 3·1 min read·21 words

Know Them by Whom They Mourn

While Iranians celebrate, leftists and mosques mourn.

Mar 3·1 min read·13 words

They Knew What She Is, All Along

Academics knowingly threw taxpayer’s money at a hateful bigot.

Mar 3·1 min read·16 words

Why Lionel Shriver Really Left Britain

The two pieces are an interesting example of how two people can present the same event quite differently.

Mar 3·1 min read·24 words

The Time for Talk Is Over

It may take weeks of bombing, but America and Israel are setting about removing a diabolical and evil regime to allow the people of Iran to take over and start fresh.

Mar 3·1 min read·37 words

Garner says polling industry still treating NZ like first past the post

“Stop asking half the question because you’re only getting half the result,” he says, adding that the current approach “is misleading voters.”

Mar 3·1 min read·34 words

HMNZS Manawanui commanding officer among three to face court martial over sinking

“Negligently permitting a ship to be lost”,

Mar 3·1 min read·19 words

Labour leads on key issues as National narrows gap on cost of living – Ipsos

“I think I am impatient as well."

Mar 3·1 min read·22 words

AI creeping into NZ election campaigns as law struggles to keep up

“Bogus news sites have shared deep-fake AI videos purporting to show New Zealand politicians meeting at Waitangi and making policy announcements”.

Mar 3·1 min read·33 words

Markets slide as Middle East conflict hits NZ shares and exports

“The scale of the attacks, and Iran's response, has exceeded expectations, pointing to further demand for safe-haven assets and upward pressure on oil prices."

Mar 3·1 min read·35 words

NZ reopens luxury housing market to wealthy Americans

“We are a little bit short of capital, which is why we love our American friends.”

Mar 3·1 min read·24 words

France Pushes To Open the Door to Euthanasia

France’s debate will be a crucial one to follow. It highlights how rapidly a society can move from defending life to enabling death.

Mar 3·1 min read·31 words

NZ ‘acknowledges’ reasons given by US and Israel for attack on Iran, stops short of military support

"...to make sure Iran can’t threaten people.”

Mar 2·1 min read·24 words

Government, You Are the Problem

How freedom became the enemy and government our saviour.

Mar 2·1 min read·14 words

Government Introduces Traffic Light System For Beneficiaries

Immediately discovers New Zealand also needs jobs.

Mar 2·1 min read·14 words

Why Economic Freedom Does Matter

Economic freedom is not a luxury for the rich. It is a set of rules that make it possible for the vast majority of people to do well.

Mar 2·1 min read·33 words

The Subsumption of a Culture

Have you ever heard the term inverse acculturation? New Zealand is undergoing it.

Mar 2·1 min read·18 words

The Number of Parties Was Insane

Will NZ right-wing patriots fracture like in the last general election?

Mar 2·1 min read·17 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/036

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Mar 2·1 min read·14 words

What Will the Left Do Now?

There are three options.

Mar 2·1 min read·10 words

Left Leadership Blows the Mind

The Chamberlain strategy didn’t work then and it won’t work now. Peace through strength is what works and America has it in abundance.

Mar 2·1 min read·28 words

We No Longer Recognise Evil

As the Islamic regime in Iran begins to crumble, it is clear from comments of some politicians, academics, and activists that they no longer can discern between good and evil, right and wrong.

Mar 2·1 min read·38 words

The Good Oil Podcast – Episode 25 – Lucy Rogers

Lucy unpacks what happened, why she refused to be intimidated and what her case could mean for policing, protest rights and free expression in New Zealand.

Mar 2·1 min read·36 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Mar 2·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Hyrox, which was launched in Germany in 2017, combines eight kilometres of running with eight workout stations: ski erg, sled pull, burpee broad jumps, rowing, farmers carry, sandbag lunges and walls …

Mar 2·1 min read·50 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… sinuous (adjective) - 1a: of a serpentine or wavy form : winding b: marked by strong lithe movements 2: intricate, complex Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Although it p…

Mar 2·1 min read·89 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the Lord, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation…

Mar 2·1 min read·62 words

Night Cap

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Mar 2·1 min read·66 words

Manly Monday

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Mar 2·1 min read·66 words

Is The Holy Grail Hidden In This Scottish Chapel?

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Mar 2·1 min read·25 words

Mud , Views , and a good crew , South Canterbury 4x4 Club takes on Sherwood Range

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Mar 2·1 min read·81 words

TV host bursts out laughing as guest storms off over Kamala Harris

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Mar 2·1 min read·76 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 2·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Mar 2·1 min read·22 words

Comedy Corner

Welcome to Politically Incorrect Comedy corner: the one place on The Good Oil where you are allowed to read and share naughty and offensive jokes that make us all laugh even though we are not supposed…

Mar 2·1 min read·55 words

Who Has the Courage To Fix This?

Declaring something impossible doesn’t make the debt disappear. It just means that the reckoning will happen on worse terms, probably in a crisis, almost certainly at the worst possible moment.

Mar 2·1 min read·37 words

Some More Re-Wilding Success Stories

The stuff the environmentalists don’t want to talk about.

Mar 2·1 min read·14 words

[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day

Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.

Mar 2·1 min read·21 words

AI Smashes the Nuke Button

AI makes ‘Nuclear Ghandi’ look like a peacenik.

Mar 2·1 min read·13 words

Three More Silly Stories

Here are a few of last week’s most absurd stories in case you missed them.

Mar 2·1 min read·19 words

The Judiciary Is Out of Control

They have lost faith in majoritarian democracy and a hefty chunk of the top judges plucked from its members have adopted unconstrained and laughably implausible interpretive techniques. It’s bad in Au…

Mar 2·1 min read·52 words

Gay Liberation Was All for Nothing

Lesbians are being forced back into the closet by predatory men.

Mar 2·1 min read·17 words

The Medical Associations Trusted Belief Over Science

Should we trust the science? Sure, in theory – but only when the science in question has earned our trust through transparency and rigor.

Mar 1·1 min read·31 words

Make New Zealand Healthy Again

Not an original idea but a really, really, important one.

Mar 1·1 min read·15 words

Successfully Shopping for a Dr Death

Canada is a grim poster-boy for the slippery slope of medicalised suicide.

Mar 1·1 min read·18 words

Mutu and the Case Against

Why ancestry-based governance undermines democracy.

Mar 1·1 min read·10 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Mar 1·1 min read·43 words

You Just Can’t Hate the Media Enough

The Ayatollah Whatsisname must be in a bunker directing everything and not dead like the fake Israel media is reporting.

Mar 1·1 min read·27 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/035

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Mar 1·1 min read·14 words

A Class War or Culture War?

It's the cost of living AND the constitution, stupid!

Mar 1·1 min read·15 words

Letter from the North

It just gets worse. U-turn #16, plus further allegations of sleaze.

Mar 1·1 min read·15 words

Sallies Are Now Part of the Problem

While it’s true that they provide much-needed emergency services, they also fight against reforms that try to place at least some responsibility back on the shoulders of people receiving benefits.

Mar 1·1 min read·37 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Mar 1·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

It is very clear that the supreme leader was in the crosshairs from the earliest moments of Saturday’s strikes, with satellite imagery showing that his secure compound was heavily damaged in the initi…

Mar 1·1 min read·38 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… quintessential (adjective, noun) - adjective : perfectly typical or representative of a particular kind of person or thing noun : a quintessential element : something that is…

Mar 1·1 min read·89 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.

Mar 1·1 min read·18 words

Night Cap

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Mar 1·1 min read·66 words

Standup Sunday

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Mar 1·1 min read·66 words

Irene King On Air NZ & David Seymour Wanting To Sell Govt's Shares

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Mar 1·1 min read·29 words

Tama Potaka On The Position & Problems Besetting Maori In NZ

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Mar 1·1 min read·75 words

Hipkins' Empty Speech, Air NZ In Turbulence And Mistreated Kiwi Farmers

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Mar 1·1 min read·75 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Mar 1·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Mar 1·1 min read·22 words

Government weighs expanded biometric data sharing with US to preserve visa-free travel

The United States has given the 42 countries in its Visa Waiver Program until the end of the year to conclude negotiations.

Feb 28·1 min read·34 words

Ardern’s Australia reported move sparks petition backlash

“Ditch Jacinda Ardern — Send the Lockdown Queen back home”

Feb 28·1 min read·17 words

Police to log ‘sovereign citizen’ encounters in national intelligence system

“Not all SovCits are a threat to national security.”

Feb 28·1 min read·19 words

Child material hardship unchanged year-on-year, but higher than 2022 levels

Rates remain below 2019 levels.

Feb 28·1 min read·15 words

Government receives final phase of COVID Royal Commission report

“Large parts will stay restricted.”

Feb 28·1 min read·14 words

Hospitality and tourism industries face workforce exodus driven by low pay, burnout and rising customer aggression

“It’s the combination between not being paid enough to put up with a very difficult work situation.”

Feb 28·1 min read·33 words

Diving Into Obscurity: “Event Horizon”

How a critically-reviled flop became a cult classic.

Feb 28·1 min read·13 words

Three more gang members than police — but 49,000 fewer victims

“10,475 police officers and 10,478 gang members.” 

Feb 28·1 min read·18 words

Will There Be a Homo Spatialis?

Environmental pressure drives evolution and space is the most extreme environment humans can ever experience.

Feb 28·1 min read·21 words

[The Good Oil] March 2026 Political Poll

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Feb 28·1 min read·35 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Feb 28·1 min read·23 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… fleer (noun) - archaic : a word or look of derision or mockery Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Fleer first appeared in English as a verb (fleryen in Middle English) mea…

Feb 28·1 min read·94 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Feb 28·1 min read·34 words

Night Cap

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Feb 28·1 min read·66 words

Science Saturday

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Feb 28·1 min read·66 words

The Internet, Reinvented.

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Feb 28·1 min read·19 words

How To Have Your Say Against The NZ Medical Council

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Feb 28·1 min read·74 words

Simon Bridges: Why Our Power Market Is Broken And Needs Fixing

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Feb 28·1 min read·75 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Feb 28·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Feb 28·1 min read·22 words

The ‘Anti-Zionist’ Jig Is Up

Hateful Arab immigrant pinged for vilification.

Feb 28·1 min read·11 words

Why Us, Lord?

Time to fire up the 501s again…

Feb 28·1 min read·10 words

The Dr Who Kept Elvis Wired

“Dr Nick” was the King’s personal pharmacopeia.

Feb 27·1 min read·13 words

What We’ve Imported Into Our Hospitals

Anti-Semitism is rampant among Muslim health workers.

Feb 27·1 min read·13 words

We’ve Heard All This Fluff Before

Best of MountainsideFM.

Feb 27·1 min read·9 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Feb 27·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

“I do not recall ever encountering Mr Epstein,” Hillary Clinton said on Thursday (local time) in an opening statement she shared on social media.

Feb 27·1 min read·28 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… repartee (noun) - 1a: a quick and witty reply b: a succession or interchange of clever retorts : amusing and usually light sparring with words 2: adroitness and cleverness in …

Feb 27·1 min read·86 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:

Feb 27·1 min read·17 words

Night Cap

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Feb 27·1 min read·66 words

Friday Fur

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Feb 27·1 min read·66 words

Trump delivers State of the Union address, Va Gov. Spanberger gives Dem response

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Feb 27·1 min read·29 words

The NZ Medical Council’s Attempt To Impose Marxist & Racist Demands

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Feb 27·1 min read·75 words

It's Robbery! Power Prices Surge While Electricity Sector Banks Billions

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Feb 27·1 min read·74 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Feb 27·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Feb 27·1 min read·22 words

Trump’s Longest Speech

And his shortest margin for error.

Feb 27·1 min read·9 words

The Luvvies Have Disgraced Themselves for Good

Awarding anti-Semites as universities repeat history in the worst way.

Feb 27·1 min read·17 words

It’s Now Trendy To Identify as ‘Chinese’?

It is fun to get excited about hot drinks, slippers and traditional Chinese medicine. But let us not ever forget the tyranny that Chinese citizens must endure every single day of their lives.

Feb 27·1 min read·40 words

The UK Grooming Gangs Scandal

Whether this shift will endure remains uncertain, but the discussion itself felt like a decisive break from years of silence, deflection, and managed anarchy.

Feb 27·1 min read·29 words

Just Those ‘Good Muslims’ Obviously

Islamic gangs are targeting gay men in Sydney for vicious bashings.

Feb 27·1 min read·16 words

The Case for ‘Liberty’ Epigraphs

What has happened to our free press and their once fervent support for the freedom to speak and write?

Feb 26·1 min read·24 words

I Wouldn’t Trust OpenClaw

In my considered opinion it is an incredibly useful piece of software but I could never ever trust it. And I strongly recommend you don’t either.

Feb 26·1 min read·30 words

Credit Where It Is Due

Ngāti Manuhiri helped stop the rockpool plunder.

Feb 26·1 min read·12 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Feb 26·1 min read·43 words

Lynched by the Far Left

And posthumously smeared by the legacy media.

Feb 26·1 min read·12 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/034

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Feb 26·1 min read·14 words

Women’s Rights Get Rebranded

I came across a document ‘WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT PRINCIPLES’. This article unpacks its intention, influence and New Zealand law firms who have signed on to the related ‘Gender Equality Charter’.

Feb 26·1 min read·33 words

It Has to Be the Orange Man’s Fault

The Grauniad is clearly furious that a drug kingpin is dead.

Feb 26·1 min read·19 words

Let the Experts Decide Bendigo’s Future

It’s my neighbourhood.

Feb 26·1 min read·9 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Feb 26·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Ardern, husband Clarke Gayford and their daughter have attended open home viewings on Sydney’s northern beaches, according to the Guardian.

Feb 26·1 min read·24 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… estuary (noun) - : a water passage where the tide meets a river current, especially : an arm of the sea at the lower end of a river Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : A pa…

Feb 26·1 min read·95 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.

Feb 26·1 min read·37 words

Night Cap

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Feb 26·1 min read·66 words

Tiny Home Thursday

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Feb 26·1 min read·67 words

Damian Spring From Santana Minerals On Gold Mine Fast Track Bill

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Feb 26·1 min read·27 words

'I Don't Know What I'm Doing': What Hipkins Should Have Said In State Of Nation

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Feb 26·1 min read·79 words

NZ Political Polls: Why Labour Can Afford To 'Play It Safe'

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Feb 26·1 min read·75 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Feb 26·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Feb 26·1 min read·22 words

Ignoring the Science: The Curious Case of Cell Phone Bans

In Australia, youth experiencing high psychological distress dropped from 25 per cent in 2023 to 19 per cent in 2025, before any social media ban. Do not to let politicians retroactively take credit f…

Feb 26·1 min read·55 words

Yet Another Hatchet Job on One Nation

The media really are sleazy scumbags.

Feb 26·1 min read·13 words

Oxford Student To Go on Trial in Two Years’ Time

He was given conditional bail and told a trial date was set for January 17th 2028. Yet somehow Lucy Connolly was in court in under a month. Needless to say, unlike Connolly, Williams is out on bail.

Feb 26·1 min read·47 words

Welcome to the Lowest-Common-Denominator Society

It’s worth paying close attention, because Germany may be one of the worst offenders, but it isn’t the only Western nation making these choices.

Feb 26·1 min read·29 words

Bondi RC: Off to a Good Start?

Commissioner pledges to keep focus on anti-Semitism.

Feb 26·1 min read·14 words

Christchurch Airport Posts Strong Half-Year Growth

Passenger numbers increased 7.2 per cent to 3.4 million during the period, with international travel surging 15.2 per cent and domestic travel rising 4.8 per cent.

Feb 25·1 min read·32 words

A Brand New Home for Unemployed Immigrants

While Kiwis rot on the waiting list.

Feb 25·1 min read·14 words

Hastie: Too Little, Too Late?

The legacy media go all-in to save the Liberals and fend off One Nation.

Feb 25·1 min read·19 words

All Aboard the Trans Titanic

It's time to end this cruel fantasy.

Feb 25·1 min read·12 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/033

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Feb 25·1 min read·14 words

Weather Reports More Important than Angel Families

Media ignore White House event honouring the innocent slain.

Feb 25·1 min read·16 words

A Way Forward

Don is reluctant to “kill what we have built up over the last few years” and has suggested that we continue the blog under the title of Brash & Mitchell.

Feb 25·1 min read·33 words

Will the Epstein Files End the Monarchy?

What are they trying to distract us from?

Feb 25·1 min read·15 words

The Sacred Grove, a Fallen Tree and a $560,000 Question

Auckland ratepayers are now more than half a million dollars in, residents are six figures out of pocket, and there is still no clear public explanation of how success will be measured – or when spend…

Feb 25·1 min read·49 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Feb 25·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Crosswell said he had been rough sleeping on and off for close to 30 years and had spent much of that time in Auckland’s city centre, including several years on K Rd.

Feb 25·1 min read·36 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… cantor (noun) - 1: a choir leader : precentor 2: a synagogue official who sings or chants liturgical music and leads the congregation in prayer Source : Merriam-Webster Etym…

Feb 25·1 min read·92 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God, unto our fathers:

Feb 25·1 min read·25 words

Coalition clash over Hauraki Gulf fishing rules

“We’re not a communist country that goes around summarily cancelling property rights.”

Feb 25·1 min read·19 words

Medical Council draft tells doctors to advance Māori equity, dismantle ‘power imbalances’

Doctors are “professionally responsible for taking meaningful action to advance health equity for Māori”.

Feb 25·1 min read·26 words

Luxon joins ‘Coalition of the Willing’ on Ukraine war anniversary

$8 million in support.

Feb 25·1 min read·14 words

Suspected cyber breach forces MediMap offline nationwide

“Unauthorised activity.”

Feb 25·1 min read·9 words

Iran hits back at NZ travel bans, accuses government of double standards

“Politically motivated.”

Feb 25·1 min read·14 words

Government moves to abolish standalone environment ministry

Its responsibilities would be transferred into a new “mega ministry”.

Feb 25·1 min read·17 words

$3.2m verdict after viral racism claims unravel

A sleepover gone wrong.

Feb 25·1 min read·11 words

Night Cap

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Feb 25·1 min read·66 words

Wednesday Weapons

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Feb 25·1 min read·66 words

Winston Peters Claps Back At Pro-Labour Unions

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Feb 25·1 min read·23 words

Extraordinary RNZ Poll That Says We Are Over The Treaty Of Waitangi

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Feb 25·1 min read·76 words

Peters' Language Bill OUTRAGES Swarbrick: Why Greens Co-Leader Is Wrong

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Feb 25·1 min read·74 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Feb 25·1 min read·34 words

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Feb 25·1 min read·22 words

This Is a Threat to Taiwan

Trump should be willing to re-think this counter-productive and highly dangerous approach to dealing with avowed enemies of the United States.

Feb 25·1 min read·27 words

Labor Are Clearly Panicking About One Nation

The attacks get more desperate.

Feb 25·1 min read·12 words

One Nation Are over the Target

And the establishment are firing all their guns.

Feb 25·1 min read·14 words

A Disease in Search of a Diagnosis

If Long Covid is real, then it needs clear definition, objective markers and exclusion of confounders. Otherwise, it will be no more than a medical fashion that flourished in the spotlight before diss…

Feb 25·1 min read·46 words

Mamdani Prepares To ‘Soak the Middle Class’

The city’s voters are about to get exactly what they asked for – middle class pain brought on by the false promise of a socialist utopia.

Feb 25·1 min read·33 words

Who Armed the Cartels?

Most likely, successive US Democrat administrations.

Feb 25·1 min read·10 words

Covid-19 Lessons Learned Report Any Day Now

For many featured in The Tribute, this report represents a final hope for official acknowledgement and the restoration of patient rights under the NZ Bill of Rights.

Feb 24·1 min read·34 words

The Trials of Tyrannoterf-Rex

The bare bones of a wicked war on a wahine and her words.

Feb 24·1 min read·17 words

This Witch-Hunt Serves the Guilty Only

Andrew is low-hanging fruit thrown to the low-IQ mob.

Feb 24·1 min read·15 words

Labour’s State of the Nation: Softer, Smaller, Safer

I went to the Labour Party State of the Nation.

Feb 24·1 min read·18 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Feb 24·1 min read·43 words

What New Zealand Could Lose

NZ Post has announced plans to phase out frontline posties entirely, following the same trajectory Denmark has now completed. Letters may technically still exist, but only at exorbitant courier-style …

Feb 24·1 min read·48 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/032

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Feb 24·1 min read·14 words

The Future of the Māori Seats

This is an issue National can no longer ignore. It needs to get off the fence and explicitly state whether or not it will support a referendum on the Māori seats.

Feb 24·1 min read·37 words

Letter from the North

The truth? Finally comes out or the excrement hits the fan.

Feb 24·1 min read·15 words

Luxon Does Find Merit in Treaty Principles

PM echoing Seymour’s views flies under the radar.

Feb 24·1 min read·15 words

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Feb 24·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

On Monday, Hipkins promised a different Labour should they be elected in November, but he was offering up no new policy for now.

Feb 24·1 min read·27 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… astrolabe (noun) - : a compact instrument used to observe and calculate the position of celestial bodies before the invention of the sextant Source : Merriam-Webster Etymolo…

Feb 24·1 min read·94 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:

Feb 24·1 min read·45 words

Night Cap

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Feb 24·1 min read·66 words

Taste Tuesday

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Feb 24·1 min read·66 words

Sean Plunket Reacts To David Wilson Urging Parliament Off X

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Feb 24·1 min read·26 words

Geoff Upson On His Crusade Against Speed Cameras

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Feb 24·1 min read·72 words

The Attempt To Indoctrinate NZ Army Personnel With One Culture & Religion

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Feb 24·1 min read·76 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Feb 24·1 min read·34 words

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Feb 24·1 min read·22 words

The Spirit of Lysenko Dominates

Though Covid injections have resulted in the deaths of millions, we will never know how many. Deaths due to Lysenkoism are uncertain, too, but in both, millions of lives were sacrificed by suppression…

Feb 24·1 min read·46 words

Billionaire Steven Spielberg Fleeing High-Tax California

Bad investment?

Feb 24·1 min read·8 words

The Road to Hell Goes via BT

After spending Christmas sick, alone and offline, Jane Hewland says her saga with British Telecom shows what happens when humans defer to systems and AI – where scripts rule and a 10-minute fix takes …

Feb 24·1 min read·43 words

A Path to Public Sector Efficiency

Bottom-up budgeting.

Feb 24·1 min read·8 words

When Theory Becomes Actual Targeting

Settler-colonialism as contemporary antisemitism.

Feb 23·1 min read·9 words

The Excuse Doesn’t Survive a Simple Test

If there’s a broader reason for quitting the platform, fine, say it. But don’t sell the public a justification that falls over the moment someone tests it.

Feb 23·1 min read·34 words

‘Trauma’ Can Not Excuse This

A critical look at the Auckland teacher grooming case of Tamlyn May – and a practical guide for parents to spot grooming and protect their children.

Feb 23·1 min read·31 words

Texas attorney general backs doctor in ivermectin fight

A political vendetta?

Feb 23·1 min read·11 words

Move-on orders target rising homelessness, not just disorder

Breaching an order could result in a fine of up to $2,000 or three months’ imprisonment.

Feb 23·1 min read·24 words

Labour’s State of the Nation speech set to be policy light

David Seymour called it “featherweight.”

Feb 23·1 min read·16 words

Moa Point meltdown shines spotlight on Veolia

Veolia had “failed to carry out basic asset management, including regular maintenance.”

Feb 23·1 min read·19 words

Fatal dog attacks spark calls for tougher breeding and enforcement laws

“Why hasn’t somebody done anything about it?”

Feb 23·1 min read·18 words

Wellington’s ‘mysterious blogger’ and the vote that never happened

The identity of “Peter Bassett” remains unclear.

Feb 23·1 min read·16 words

Survey finds widespread self-censorship at Northwestern and Michigan

Overall, more than 88 per cent of students said they had “pretended to hold more progressive views than [they] personally endorse in order to be accepted socially or academically.”

Feb 23·1 min read·37 words

All Rainbows and Sunshine

The 2026 Auckland Rainbow Parade: a report.

Feb 23·1 min read·11 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/031

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Feb 23·1 min read·14 words

The ABC Are Perfect – Just Ask Them!

The taxpayer-funded ‘Lanyard Class’ really do think they’re a law unto themselves.

Feb 23·1 min read·20 words

Stuff’s Operating Model Is Cheap and Lazy

It seems hard to believe that, with its resources, Stuff can’t present the readers of its papers with a more compelling editorial product. I’m therefore forced to the conclusion that the company is ru…

Feb 23·1 min read·49 words

Labor Show Their True Colours on ISIS Brides

They care more about jihadi children than they do about the safety of your children.

Feb 23·1 min read·23 words

It Is All About Control

The motivations to stop using X – be it media or now the Clerk of New Zealand’s parliament – are couched in moral terms by opponents, but it’s all really about control, curation, and censorship.

Feb 23·1 min read·40 words

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Feb 23·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

The man killed was identified by investigators as 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin, according to a person familiar with the matter speaking anonymously to AP.

Feb 23·1 min read·28 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… elicit (verb) - 1: to get (information, a response, etc.) from someone 2: to bring out (something latent or potential) Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Say them fast—or …

Feb 23·1 min read·88 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.

Feb 23·1 min read·27 words

Night Cap

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Feb 23·1 min read·66 words

Manly Monday

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Feb 23·1 min read·66 words

“Fantasy Gun Laws?” Borsak and Banasiak Expose ‘Belt-Fed Shotgun’ Claims in NSW Parliament

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Feb 23·1 min read·29 words

Recognition Of English As An Official Language Well Overdue

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Feb 23·1 min read·73 words

Winston Peters 20%? Why NZ First Is Surging In 2026

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Feb 23·1 min read·74 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Feb 23·1 min read·34 words

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Feb 23·1 min read·22 words

Comedy Corner

Welcome to Politically Incorrect Comedy corner: the one place on The Good Oil where you are allowed to read and share naughty and offensive jokes that make us all laugh even though we are not supposed…

Feb 23·1 min read·55 words

The Origins of Myanmar’s Coup Culture

The “Burmese Way to Socialism” may have failed as an economic experiment, but as a statist mechanism for perpetual military dictatorship, it has proven to be a devastating success.

Feb 23·1 min read·35 words

This Was What Submission Looks Like

“Tolerance has been transformed into cowardice.”

Feb 23·1 min read·12 words

This ‘Temporary’ Bill Still Costs

This is what I’d call the government spending spiral – a self-reinforcing doom loop where each dollar spent justifies even more spending. PepsiCo alone spent $2.8 million last year lobbying to keep th…

Feb 23·1 min read·46 words

The Greatest Financial Scam in History?

We can’t recapture the $16 trillion wasted on a false crisis. Sunk costs are, alas, sunk. The one sliver of good news is that it appears the climate change neuroses have finally started to subside.

Feb 23·1 min read·41 words

They Can Be Kept Out for Good – Legally

There’s nothing stopping the government banning ‘ISIS brides’ – except the will to do it.

Feb 23·1 min read·24 words

Legacy Media Keeps Covering Up

Can we stop pretending there is no correlation between transgenderism and dangerous mental instability?

Feb 22·1 min read·19 words

A Ban To Stop the Pillaging

NZ First implements ban to stop the “rape of the rockpools”.

Feb 22·1 min read·17 words

Unhinged Attack Is Not a Good Defence

Vic Labor try to shoot the anti-corruption messenger.

Feb 22·1 min read·15 words

Fake Accounts Being Used To Acquire Data

“Sally Jade Jones”, “Caoimhin B Morcant” and “Charles Gray” are fake Facebook accounts being used by a far-left activist to acquire data on thousands of political opponents.

Feb 22·1 min read·34 words

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Feb 22·1 min read·43 words

Damned if We Do... Or Don’t

Some men have learned. They have done the work of unlearning the old rules: man up, harden up, don’t be soft. But some men are still learning. Not because they don’t feel deeply, but because they were…

Feb 22·1 min read·57 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/030

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Feb 22·1 min read·14 words

This Could Be a Trap

The law makes it clear: parliament could abolish the Māori seats tomorrow with a simple majority – no referendum needed, no special entrenchment – yet a politically convenient referendum is being offe…

Feb 22·1 min read·38 words

This Is Just Bull

You’re much better off visualising how you’re going to get there.  But then that would mean actual work. 

Feb 22·1 min read·22 words

Sewage, Scrutiny and the Politics of Accountability

Tamatha Paul is responsible for the positions she advocated, the amendments she moved, and the prioritisation she helped secure. That is the level at which accountability properly sits. And insisting …

Feb 22·1 min read·48 words

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Feb 22·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

When an officer issues a move-on order, they’ll warn the person that it is an offence to breach the order – unless the person has a reasonable excuse for being there. If they continue to display the s…

Feb 22·1 min read·58 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… solecism (noun) - 1: an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence, also : a minor blunder in speech 2: something deviating from the proper, normal, or accepted order 3:…

Feb 22·1 min read·88 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?

Feb 22·1 min read·37 words

Night Cap

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Feb 22·1 min read·66 words

Standup Sunday

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Feb 22·1 min read·66 words

F1 vs NASCAR Vs Drifter | Ultimate Off-Road Challenge

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Feb 22·1 min read·25 words

‘Green dream’ in ruins: Abandoned solar farm leaves locals up in arms

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Feb 22·1 min read·76 words

Labour’s Big-Twat McAnulty Kicked Out The House

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Feb 22·1 min read·71 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Feb 22·1 min read·34 words

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Feb 22·1 min read·22 words

Diving into Obscurity: Bran Mak Morn and Solomon Kane

The lesser-known but influential characters from the creator of Conan the Barbarian.

Feb 21·1 min read·21 words

Tim Storrier Calls Out the Luvvies

The arts establishment is anti-Semitic, root and branch.

Feb 21·1 min read·14 words

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Feb 21·1 min read·23 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… nectar (noun) - 1a: the drink of the Greek and Roman gods b: something delicious to drink c: a beverage of fruit juice and pulp 2: a sweet liquid that is secreted by the necta…

Feb 21·1 min read·97 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.

Feb 21·1 min read·23 words

Night Cap

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Feb 21·1 min read·66 words

Science Saturday

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Feb 21·1 min read·66 words

David Seymour Says The Nats Are Ducking The Māori Seats Issues

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Feb 21·1 min read·27 words

'Echo Chambers': Free Speech Union Slams Massey University Curriculum

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Feb 21·1 min read·73 words

National Under Fire For Auckland Harbour Bridge Toll

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Feb 21·1 min read·72 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Feb 21·1 min read·34 words

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Feb 21·1 min read·22 words

Just That Peaceful Moderate Mob Again

More Islamic extremism arrests in Sydney.

Feb 21·1 min read·12 words

SA Laughs Last and Loudest

After 30 years, revenge is well and truly served.

Feb 21·1 min read·14 words

How Waterloo Became a Tourist Trap

Within months of the great battle, a macabre tourist trade sprang up.

Feb 20·1 min read·18 words

Tudor Close – Murder Not Included

The Cluedo board was apparently based on a real house.

Feb 20·1 min read·16 words

What Auckland Did Differently

Best of MountainsideFM.

Feb 20·1 min read·7 words

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Feb 20·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

By nightfall, after nearly 12 hours in custody, he was released under caution with more questions to come. The magnitude of his fall from grace seemed etched on his face.

Feb 20·1 min read·34 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… festinate (verb, adjective) - verb : hasten adjective : hasty Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Festinate is one among many in the category of words whose early recorded…

Feb 20·1 min read·90 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

 Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?

Feb 20·1 min read·33 words

Night Cap

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Feb 20·1 min read·66 words

Friday Fur

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Feb 20·1 min read·66 words

The Real Drive to Survive! Liam Lawson Gives an Honest Look Inside Formula 1 in 2026…

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Feb 20·1 min read·32 words

Debbie Ngarewa Packer’s Latest Hate Filled Diatribe Will Incite Future Tragedy

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Feb 20·1 min read·75 words

Winston Peters Smacks A Large Well-Fed Plump Debbie

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Feb 20·1 min read·72 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Feb 20·1 min read·34 words

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Feb 20·1 min read·22 words

Make Japan Strong Again

Sanae Takaichi’s plan to transform her country’s military.

Feb 20·1 min read·12 words

Clutch Their Pearls All They Like, but Where Is She Wrong?

“You will be told you can’t complain because you’re Islamophobic.”

Feb 20·1 min read·21 words

Rescission Major Win for Science and the Rule of Law

President Donald Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin should be applauded for actually following the science and respecting the rule of law – things that have been too often ignored when it comes to…

Feb 20·1 min read·45 words

The Labour Government’s Vote Machine

At its core, this is not about Muslims at all. It is about how a governing party chooses to organise society. Does it treat citizens as individuals under a shared civic contract, or as demographic blo…

Feb 20·1 min read·48 words

E-Karen Thinks She Is Above the Law

A sinister insight into the illegal machinations of the Long March left.

Feb 20·1 min read·19 words

Leaving Politics Out of Weather Planning

But then immediately begin politicking.

Feb 19·1 min read·11 words

The Killing of Informed Consent

Since consent was obtained for a product without SV40 sequences, the injection of a product with such sequences potentially constitutes an unauthorized physical trespass, regardless of the biological …

Feb 19·1 min read·34 words

Car Ban Makes Young Maltese Cross

The tiny island country has plenty of cars, but not much public transport.

Feb 19·1 min read·19 words

mRNA Flu Jabs Are Coming, Maybe

When your doctor advises you to take a routine flu vaccine for 2026, they will likely not be mentioning the mRNA word. Ask them what exactly is involved and do your own research.

Feb 19·1 min read·39 words

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Feb 19·1 min read·43 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/029

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Feb 19·1 min read·14 words

How Long Can Starmer Last?

Near universally hated and scandal-prone… yet, there he is.

Feb 19·1 min read·14 words

NZ Still Failing To Protect Children

Review of the last five years.

Feb 19·1 min read·12 words

When Our History Becomes Theology

We are not required to hate our own country to understand its past. And we are certainly not obliged to pretend that history ends in grievance rather than citizenship under a common law.

Feb 19·1 min read·38 words

A New Law, but Old Mistakes

We do not want to spend another three decades discovering we have simply replaced one dysfunctional planning system with another.

Feb 19·1 min read·26 words

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Feb 19·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

The first five-time Olympic medallist in the colourful, unpredictable sport of snowboarding comes from a colourful, unexpected place: New Zealand. The honour belongs to Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, a 24-year…

Feb 19·1 min read·34 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… surd (adjective, noun) - adjective 1: lacking sense : irrational 2: voiceless — used of speech sounds noun 1a: an irrational root (such as √3) b: irrational number 2: a surd …

Feb 19·1 min read·91 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

Feb 19·1 min read·27 words

Night Cap

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Feb 19·1 min read·66 words

Tiny Home Thursday

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Feb 19·1 min read·67 words

Winston Peters Revives Māori Seats Referendum: Why It'll Work This Time

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Feb 19·1 min read·27 words

Michael Laws Says The NZ Diversity Awards Are A Scam

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Feb 19·1 min read·74 words

Matt Ball On Tamatha Paul's Ridiculous New Tenancy Bill

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Feb 19·1 min read·73 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Feb 19·1 min read·34 words

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Feb 19·1 min read·22 words

What in the World Is Going on in Our Public Schools?

There seems to be plenty of class time to discuss gender, the politically correct pronouns and social justice issues. But that isn’t why we send our kids to school. We want them to learn basic skills …

Feb 19·1 min read·63 words

We Choose the Dogs, Thanks

At least dogs don’t bomb pop concerts or drive cars into crowded Christmas markets.

Feb 19·1 min read·19 words

Nationwide flood risk map could reshape property market as managed retreat remains on table

“A comprehensive and consistent view of the flood risks across the country.”

Feb 19·1 min read·26 words

Australian children given puberty blockers without adequate documentation, report finds

“Some children as young as 12 were commenced on puberty blockers, with others on testosterone, without adequate documentation of assessments or monitoring.

Feb 19·1 min read·32 words

Teaching Council ‘fell well short’ as $1.7m went to CEO-linked firm

“Serious and repeated failures...”

Feb 19·1 min read·15 words

OCR on hold at 2.25% but the direction of travel appears to be shifting

“The next move looks more likely to be up than down.”

Feb 19·1 min read·25 words

2,500 chase one entry-level job, and most aren’t from New Zealand

“Far exceeded our expectations.”

Feb 19·1 min read·15 words

$9 harbour toll ‘hypothetical’ as funding gap looms for $20b crossing

“Ludicrous proposals.”

Feb 19·1 min read·13 words

Garner slams Ngarewa-Packer post, accuses media of ‘massive cowardice’

“If you cannot separate historical grievance from basic human decency, you’re not fit to hold office in a modern democracy.”

Feb 19·1 min read·29 words

Doctor found guilty of misconduct over ivermectin prescribing

“Failed to acknowledge or reflect generally accepted medical knowledge on the prevention and treatment” of COVID..."

Feb 19·1 min read·24 words

Indulgence Only Encourages Spoiled Brats

Grace Tame has worn out her Victim Card.

Feb 19·1 min read·13 words

Ellison and the Somalia Pipeline

When he said, ‘this is the lifeblood of the country,’ he wasn’t talking about America.

Feb 19·1 min read·20 words

Russia Is No Superpower? Then What Does That Make Europe?

Russia is not merely de-militarizing Ukraine. Russia is de-militarizing NATO itself. These are not Ukrainian losses. These are NATO losses. And NATO is losing in humiliating fashion.

Feb 19·1 min read·37 words

Ready to Stand up to the Big Boys

One Nation is preparing itself for government.

Feb 19·1 min read·15 words

The Beginning of the Modern Industrial World

An interesting video and well worth a watch to remind ourselves of what coal has delivered to the world.

Feb 18·1 min read·26 words

Part Star, Part Supporting Actor

Robert Duvall lit up 1970s American cinema – and kept going.

Feb 18·1 min read·16 words

Another Case for Jailing the Judges

Female judge calls African rapist ‘wonderful’.

Feb 18·1 min read·12 words

A Look at Dr Thomsen’s ‘Study’

New Zealand academic standards plunge new depths.

Feb 18·1 min read·13 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/028

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Feb 18·1 min read·14 words

New Zealand Post Is Treating Us Like a Third World Country

Perhaps replacing this firm’s current CEO may be an advantage if unsatisfactory decisions are being made.

Feb 18·1 min read·27 words

AI Copycats Are Stripping Reports for Clicks

Beware of digital parasites.

Feb 18·1 min read·11 words

Global Shift to the Right

Here in New Zealand, it’s ACT and NZ First who are set to benefit.

Feb 18·1 min read·19 words

The Education System Is Failing To Improve

If the trends above occurred under Labour, the political right would be castigating them. It is easy to point the finger at the last Labour government, but National have been the main party of governm…

Feb 18·1 min read·49 words

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Feb 18·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

His accounts have been criticised in international media as ‘AI blackface’ and ‘digital fiction’.

Feb 18·1 min read·18 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… garniture (noun) - 1: embellishment, trimming 2: a set of decorative objects (such as vases, urns, or clocks) Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : In Middle French, garnitur…

Feb 18·1 min read·91 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.

Feb 18·1 min read·33 words

Night Cap

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Feb 18·1 min read·66 words

Wednesday Weapons

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Feb 18·1 min read·66 words

Nicola Willis On The Government Inquiry Into Reserve Bank During Covid

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Feb 18·1 min read·27 words

Graeme Edgeler On The Abolishment Of The Maori Seats

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Feb 18·1 min read·73 words

Gilda Kirkpatrick With An Update On The Conflict In Iran

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Feb 18·1 min read·74 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Feb 18·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Feb 18·1 min read·22 words

It Is Now Morlocks vs Eloi

How HG Wells accidentally predicted the West’s growing submission in the face of radical Islam.

Feb 18·1 min read·21 words

Unexpected Boost for One Nation in By-Election

Unlikely to win, but even a strong showing will be a big boost.

Feb 18·1 min read·20 words

Libs Fail Their First Big Test

Already backflipping on immigration policy.

Feb 18·1 min read·11 words

28 Homes Rebuilt in a Year

Los Angeles doesn’t lack urgency – it lacks functional markets. With 13,000 homes destroyed and just 28 rebuilt, the state’s insurance restrictions and building mandates are turning a natural disaster…

Feb 18·1 min read·39 words

Media Freedom… if We Can Keep It!

‘Free speech for me but not for thee’ – using government force to shut down unwanted voices – will result in free speech for no one. And once it is gone, it will not be easy to get back.

Feb 18·1 min read·46 words

South Australia’s New Election Laws – Not Fair

All parties will be relying on their success in this election for survival, since most of their funding will depend on the votes they get.

Feb 17·1 min read·33 words

We’re Here, We’re Queer, Get Used to It

The final twist in the tail of this Big Gay Out chaotic schemozzle: It is organised by the Burnett Foundation, previously the New Zealand AIDS Foundation, so they are funded by the taxpayer.

Feb 17·1 min read·41 words

Who’s Responsible?

Cartoon of the Day by BoomSlang

Feb 17·1 min read·8 words

It’s Not Just About Sex

This article explains how Jeffrey Epstein’s role in a global financial and intelligence system connects to New Zealand, Five Eyes, UN agendas and our rising cost of living.

Feb 17·1 min read·33 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Feb 17·1 min read·43 words

Pauline Tells It like It Is Again

And, boy, are the usual suspects mad.

Feb 17·1 min read·14 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/027

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Feb 17·1 min read·14 words

This Case Should Concern Everyone

Free speech, privacy and intimidation.

Feb 17·1 min read·10 words

Trying to Do the Maths, Here...

New twists and puzzles in Gus Lamont disappearance.

Feb 17·1 min read·14 words

Why Māori Seats Won’t Be Abolished

National’s obfuscation means the status quo.

Feb 17·1 min read·12 words

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Feb 17·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Duvall’s wife Luciana released a statement, writing, “Bob passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by love and comfort.”

Feb 17·1 min read·22 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… choreography (noun) - 1: the art of symbolically representing dancing 2a: the composition and arrangement of dances especially for ballet b: a composition created by this art …

Feb 17·1 min read·88 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

Feb 17·1 min read·29 words

Night Cap

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Feb 17·1 min read·66 words

Taste Tuesday

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Feb 17·1 min read·66 words

GUN LICENCES EXPLODE: The recent attacks on shooters may have backfired – big time!

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Feb 17·1 min read·30 words

Fisher & Paykel DishDrawer & Factory Closures: From NZ Icon to Chinese Ownership

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Feb 17·1 min read·77 words

SEX, MONEY, POLITICS: Why Does Epstein Matter In New Zealand?

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Feb 17·1 min read·74 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Feb 17·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Feb 17·1 min read·22 words

How Harvard Created the Unabomber

The three-year experiment they sealed in a vault.

Feb 17·1 min read·13 words

EV-Free Super Bowl Ads Tell You Everything

After years of promotion, EVs failed to justify their place on the biggest stage in advertising. The message wasn’t delivered by a commercial. It was delivered by the absence of one. The free market r…

Feb 17·1 min read·43 words

This Is the Logical End Point

Within this sex-triumphant climate can we really pretend to shock concerning Epstein, his brutal cronies, the rape gangs and their state-affiliated allies?

Feb 17·1 min read·28 words

The Superhighway to Serfdom

Is this how the real robot apocalypse begins? A Centerlink clanker issuing grants to NDIS “Learing” Centres in my name, forever? Naturally, the government is handing over billions of our cash to somet…

Feb 17·1 min read·45 words

A New Threat to Memory and Moral Clarity

From Holocaust denial to distortion.

Feb 16·1 min read·13 words

What is a ‘woman suspect’?

If a detail changes how the story is understood, say it clearly in the headline.

Feb 16·1 min read·20 words

Are They Re‑Writing Our Human Rights Law?

SchoolDocs is used by approximately 80–85 per cent of schools in New Zealand. We found them referencing 'gender identity' in a misleading way.

Feb 16·1 min read·30 words

Has Feminism Gone Too Far?

And, hate speech laws, police brutality, medical freedom.

Feb 16·1 min read·13 words

The Short History of Nearly Everything 2

Bill Bryson’s motivation for writing The Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0 was simply that so much had changed in scientific fields in 20 years that he needed to do an update.

Feb 16·1 min read·39 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/026

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Feb 16·1 min read·14 words

What Is Life Without a Deal?

For too long the West and their economies, particularly in relation to defence, have fallen into something of a malaise. It has taken Trump with his threatening, bombastic, aggressive, direct and urge…

Feb 16·1 min read·48 words

The Case of the Silent Auditor

Police pursue a man who silently filmed a public event.

Feb 16·1 min read·16 words

If 3% of My DNA Is Scandinavian, Am I Norwegian?

Claims that Māori as a group are underprivileged/improperly treated must be statistically inaccurate. This follows because the statistics that underpin these claims encompass results from all of those…

Feb 16·1 min read·49 words

Marco Rubio’s Love Letter to Europe – Why It Matters for Us

Diametrically opposed? US Secretary of State Rubio talks peace at Munich Security conference while Judith Collins doubles down on NZ's support for the Ukraine war.

Feb 16·1 min read·37 words

The Good Oil Podcast – Episode 24 – Seeby Woodhouse

In Episode 24 of The Good Oil Podcast, Cam sits down with New Zealand internet pioneer Seeby Woodhouse.

Feb 16·1 min read·28 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Feb 16·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Will Appelbe has upset a rural Canterbury town after he blinded their prized salmon statue. The Greenpeace freshwater activist covered the salmon’s eyes with double sided tape and paper and left a poi…

Feb 16·1 min read·43 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… chorography (noun) - 1: the art of describing or mapping a region or district 2: a description or map of a region, also : the physical conformation and features of such a regi…

Feb 16·1 min read·88 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

Feb 16·1 min read·19 words

Night Cap

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Feb 16·1 min read·66 words

Manly Monday

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Feb 16·1 min read·66 words

The Rhodesian Bush War

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Feb 16·1 min read·20 words

Crossing the country by drone - Following Hadrian's Wall

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Feb 16·1 min read·73 words

The French Foreign Legion Vs. Illegal Gold Mining Gangs

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Feb 16·1 min read·73 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Feb 16·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Feb 16·1 min read·22 words

Comedy Corner

Welcome to Politically Incorrect Comedy corner: the one place on The Good Oil where you are allowed to read and share naughty and offensive jokes that make us all laugh even though we are not supposed…

Feb 16·1 min read·55 words

The Critical Importance of Space

Recent years have seen the establishment in the US and other countries of government agencies aspiring to regulate the commercial space industry and space transportation.

Feb 16·1 min read·30 words

The Literally Fantastic Life of Christopher Lee

His strange compulsion to tell porkies about the war.

Feb 16·1 min read·16 words

Forging and Vaulting Ahead for Critical Minerals

Vance and Rubio have sought to enlist global cooperation in building an international coalition to wean the rest of the world from Chinese hegemony in the critical minerals and rare earths space.

Feb 16·1 min read·39 words

Explosive Munich Address Goes Viral

Rubio to Europe: stop apologizing and start defending.

Feb 16·1 min read·13 words

The Life of Cleopatra’s Daughter

Forgotten by history, she lived short but successful life.

Feb 16·1 min read·14 words

What the State of the Nation Report Doesn’t Tell Us

It’s time for policy makers to recognize that strong, stable families are not just a private good but a public necessity. 

Feb 15·1 min read·31 words

This Is a Litany of Excuses

In the face of this report, the best response the government could make is to defund the Salvation Army for being part of the problem.

Feb 15·1 min read·31 words

Milei Takes on the Unions

Latin America’s great reformer faces his next big test.

Feb 15·1 min read·14 words

TPM’s Politics of Grievance Delivers Nothing

Te Pāti Māori has delivered protests that changed nothing, attendance that insults voters, and expenses that enrich its own leadership. That is not representation. It is the ultimate grift.

Feb 15·1 min read·35 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Feb 15·1 min read·43 words

Why the Right Love Amelia

A sinister leftist re-education campaign backfires spectacularly.

Feb 15·1 min read·12 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/025

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Feb 15·1 min read·14 words

The Rot: Taxpayers Are Paying for This

Oranga Tamariki and Ministry for the Environment have race-based leave entitlements.

Feb 15·1 min read·18 words

No Dogs Allowed ’Cos Islam

Stop trying to force your religion down other people’s throat.

Feb 15·1 min read·15 words

There Is Just Waste Everywhere

Defund da sewerage. The albatross around New Zealand’s neck.

Feb 15·1 min read·14 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Feb 15·1 min read·23 words

Charity of the Day

Why are we bringing more in, then?

Feb 15·1 min read·11 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… notch (noun, verb) - noun 1a: a V-shaped indentation b: a slit made to serve as a record c: a rounded indentation cut into the pages of a book on the edge opposite the spine 2…

Feb 15·1 min read·107 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.

Feb 15·1 min read·20 words

Night Cap

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Feb 15·1 min read·66 words

Standup Sunday

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Feb 15·1 min read·66 words

Leaning Tower of Pisa | The Incredible Physics behind its Lean

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Feb 15·1 min read·27 words

Christopher Luxon’s Power Levy: This Is Tax In Disguise!

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Feb 15·1 min read·73 words

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Feb 15·1 min read·72 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Feb 15·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Feb 15·1 min read·22 words

Baldness breakthrough or media hype?

“Gamechanger.”

Feb 15·1 min read·6 words

Does migration increase corruption, or is that the wrong question?

"Isn’t there a risk that you are importing corruption attitudes with that migrant influx?” That comment came after Julie Haggie,

Feb 15·1 min read·30 words

Are vaccine injury claims rare, or undercounted? The ACC data debate

More than 20,500 serious adverse event reports filed with Medsafe by November 2024.

Feb 15·1 min read·24 words

Rockpool harvest banned for two years north of Auckland

“Exploiting and collapsing ecosystems”. 

Feb 15·1 min read·13 words

School lunches scheme cuts complaints 88% and tracks $130m annual savings

“People need to know what things are. That’s why we’re using an English name that everyone understands.”

Feb 15·1 min read·28 words

Investor visa overhaul pulls in $3.39b, dwarfing previous $70m under old settings

“I am delighted that our new visa settings are helping to open up possibility and opportunity for investment.”

Feb 15·1 min read·30 words

Are cows really wrecking the climate?

Methane breaks down in roughly 12 years back into CO₂.

Feb 15·1 min read·16 words

NZ First to push Māori seats referendum as coalition lines sharpen

“The last straw.”

Feb 15·1 min read·14 words

On the Road Scroll on the Market

Kerouac’s famous manuscript to go under the hammer.

Feb 14·1 min read·15 words

The Truth About Troy

Or, as much as we know of it.

Feb 14·1 min read·12 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Feb 14·1 min read·23 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… vicereine (noun) - 1: the wife of a viceroy 2: a woman who is a viceroy Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : French, from vice- + reine queen, from Old French, from Latin re…

Feb 14·1 min read·97 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Ye are blessed of the Lord which made heaven and earth.

Feb 14·1 min read·17 words

Night Cap

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Feb 14·1 min read·66 words

Science Saturday

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Feb 14·1 min read·66 words

A Case For Ending Maori Parliamentary Seats Via A Binding Referendum

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Feb 14·1 min read·27 words

Has Any Of The Preferential Racism In The Public Sector Changed?

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Feb 14·1 min read·75 words

Minister Karen Chhour Admits Changing Race-Based Leave 'Will Be Tough'

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Feb 14·1 min read·74 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Feb 14·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Feb 14·1 min read·22 words

Does She Live Two Lives?

Innocent immigrant bakery worker or CCP spy?

Feb 14·1 min read·12 words

The Left Establishment Are Panicking

Won’t somebody please think of the children?

Feb 14·1 min read·12 words

Get the Mind-Bleach Ready, Believe Me

Satanic Sydney paedos and dog-bothering dead drag-queen paedos… what a world.

Feb 13·1 min read·17 words

Islamic Terror Is Still The Main Game

Don’t be distracted by the exception that only proves the rule.

Feb 13·1 min read·18 words

National: The Colour of Beige

Best of MountainsideFM.

Feb 13·1 min read·8 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Feb 13·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

The Auckland University lecturer finds it “appalling” that his name appears in the US government’s latest dump of files related to the deceased paedophile.

Feb 13·1 min read·28 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… proclivity (noun) - : an inclination or predisposition toward something, especially : a strong inherent inclination toward something objectionable Source : Merriam-Webster H…

Feb 13·1 min read·87 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

Feb 13·1 min read·21 words

Night Cap

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Feb 13·1 min read·66 words

Friday Fur

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Feb 13·1 min read·66 words

Karen Chhour RESPONDS To Oranga Tamariki Race-Based Leave

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Feb 13·1 min read·24 words

The Oranga Tamariki-PSA Contract That Gives Māori Special Treatment

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Feb 13·1 min read·73 words

Māori Politics Is Fractured And At War: Waitangi 2026 Analysis

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Feb 13·1 min read·74 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Feb 13·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Feb 13·1 min read·22 words

The NHS and Cousin Marriage

It’s precisely because cousin marriage is less common now that the problems it causes have become more conspicuous in Britain or other places among those accustomed to perpetuating the practice.

Feb 13·1 min read·35 words

Just like a TV Show

…with a tiny, but telling, difference.

Feb 13·1 min read·11 words

Our Favorite Inspired Idiots

Here’s a wrap-up of some of the most absurd stories in case you missed them.

Feb 13·1 min read·19 words

HOPE Not Hate

Political organiser and former Labour councillor pleads guilty to child sexual offences.

Feb 13·1 min read·15 words

The Erasure of Jewish Memory

When the Holocaust is stripped of its Jewish meaning, it does not produce universal solidarity – it produces a moral vacuum in which antisemitism can once again speak the language of virtue.

Feb 12·1 min read·37 words

A Documentary: My Covid Story

A lived account of lockdowns, mandates and the human cost in New Zealand.

Feb 12·1 min read·18 words

Victoria Is the Crime Capital Of Australia

Of course quangos go in to bat for the crims.

Feb 12·1 min read·17 words

The Abuse and the Cover Up

Because children are not the priority. The institution is. And that, more than anything else, is why the public no longer believes the church when it says ‘never again’.

Feb 12·1 min read·35 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Feb 12·1 min read·43 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/024

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Feb 12·1 min read·14 words

It’s Finally On, If Anyone Cares

But will it make any difference?

Feb 12·1 min read·12 words

This Auckland School’s Move Punishes Females

The inclusion delusion.

Feb 12·1 min read·9 words

Vic Labor Is a ‘Crime Syndicate’

An astonishing $15 billion funneled to criminal gangs.

Feb 12·1 min read·14 words

This Is Not What Is on the Dinner Plate

This narrative normalises failure and lowers expectations. It tells people their circumstances are not really changeable without sweeping political transformation. That is not empowerment. It is treat…

Feb 12·1 min read·43 words

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Feb 12·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Tuai (63) was found guilty by a jury last year of two charges of slavery, two counts of rape and a string of other sexual assaults.

Feb 12·1 min read·30 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… penury (noun) - 1: a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money), especially : severe poverty 2: extreme and often stingy frugality Source : Merriam-Webster Et…

Feb 12·1 min read·90 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

Feb 12·1 min read·29 words

Night Cap

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Feb 12·1 min read·66 words

Tiny Home Thursday

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Feb 12·1 min read·67 words

Shane Jones On Waitangi And Fractured Māori Politics

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Feb 12·1 min read·24 words

Andy Foster On WCC Decisions Linked To Sewage Problems

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Feb 12·1 min read·73 words

Hugh Devereux-Mack On The Arms Bill Submissions

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Feb 12·1 min read·71 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Feb 12·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Feb 12·1 min read·22 words

The Reason for Death Rituals

In just a few days, many Christians will be celebrating Ash Wednesday, and we will hear the words “Meménto, homo, quia pulvis es, et in púlverem revertéris”.

Feb 12·1 min read·32 words

Why Is a Dual Citizen Still Sitting in Parliament?

One Nation demands action on Afghan senator.

Feb 12·1 min read·16 words

Government launches inquiry into Reserve Bank’s COVID-era money printing

“Indirect impacts included decades-high inflation..."

Feb 12·1 min read·14 words

As Wellington takes a firmer line abroad, questions grow about capacity at home

Foreign policy and domestic security posture collided this week.

Feb 12·1 min read·22 words

Coroner rules 25 year old Garden-Bachop death ‘natural causes’, sparking call for transparency

No evidence of drugs, alcohol, or suspicious circumstances.

Feb 12·1 min read·21 words

Households to fund LNG terminal as the government withholds cost details

“It’s a tax. This one may of course bring a benefit at the same time.”

Feb 12·1 min read·26 words

Du Plessis-Allan – Peters may ‘have a point’

“It’s starting to sound like Winston Peters was right about that India Free Trade Agreement."

Feb 12·1 min read·23 words

US govt refuses to review Moderna’s ‘inadequate’ mRNA flu shot application

“Refuse-to-file.”

Feb 12·1 min read·12 words

Minister seeks answers over race-based cultural leave at Oranga Tamariki

“At worst, all staff should then get cultural leave or ideally no one should.” 

Feb 12·1 min read·24 words

Auckland joins global backlash as speed cameras attacked

Five speed cameras have been destroyed or damaged across Auckland.

Feb 12·1 min read·18 words

The Great Gen X Layoff

The Forgotten Generation struggles to prepare as retirement approaches.

Feb 12·1 min read·14 words

America Is United on Only One Issue

This isn’t going away. It’s going to get worse. We haven’t even scratched the surface of the rot. And you can’t rebuild trust until you cut all of it out.

Feb 12·1 min read·37 words

Pallywankers Cop What They Deserve

And the left politicians go slithering for cover.

Feb 12·1 min read·13 words

Rugby, Risk and Finding the Truth

High‑impact rugby, young men in their prime and families left with more questions than answers.

Feb 11·1 min read·21 words

Here To Change This Rotten Government

Given his propensity to shoot from the lip, Willie is well practised in retractions and back tracks.

Feb 11·1 min read·23 words

Majority of Americans Still Want Illegals Gone

Don’t believe the lyin’ legacy media.

Feb 11·1 min read·13 words

New Zealand’s New Reality

This is the new reality. We had better understand it soon.

Feb 11·1 min read·15 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/023

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Feb 11·1 min read·14 words

Takaichi’s Emphatic Win Will Be Heard Across the Pacific

Mandate for bold reform agenda, including huge constitutional reform.

Feb 11·1 min read·18 words

This Is a Disgrace

Response to Massey University’s Professor Mohan Dutta.

Feb 11·1 min read·11 words

Britain’s Army Is a Jigsaw Piece, Not a Global Force

Today, due to government mismanagement and long-term strategic choices, the British Army is only a shadow of its former self: a force far removed from the versatile, hard-bitten-hard-fighting army tha…

Feb 11·1 min read·46 words

Free Jimmy Lai

A good man is going to die in a Hong Kong prison for believing in freedom and democracy. His name is Jimmy Lai.

Feb 11·1 min read·26 words

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Feb 11·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

A panel of three senior military officers, acting as a jury would in a civilian court, delivered their unanimous verdict of “not guilty” on Wednesday morning.

Feb 11·1 min read·30 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… friable (adjective) - : easily crumbled or pulverized Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Friable entered into English in the mid-1500s, and was borrowed either from Middle…

Feb 11·1 min read·88 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Sing unto the Lord; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.

Feb 11·1 min read·23 words

Night Cap

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Feb 11·1 min read·66 words

Wednesday Weapons

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Feb 11·1 min read·66 words

Jordan Williams On New LNG Energy Tax Announced By Government

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Feb 11·1 min read·26 words

Wellington City Council Choosing Cycleways Over Sewage Treatment Plan

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Feb 11·1 min read·73 words

Pollster David Farrar On Latest Public Opinion Poll

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Feb 11·1 min read·72 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Feb 11·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Feb 11·1 min read·22 words

The Mechanics of State Power and How To Opt Out

Build the world you want to live in, one transaction, one conversation, one community at a time. That is the only revolution worth having. That is the only one that actually works.

Feb 11·1 min read·42 words

The Twin Trojan Horses in the Gates

The left-elite and Multiculturalism paved the road to Bondi and beyond.

Feb 11·1 min read·18 words

Grace Tame Has Dishonoured Australia

She must be stripped of her award.

Feb 11·1 min read·12 words

The Pentagon Cuts Ties With Harvard

Yet another unforeseen cost of the prestigious school’s woke ideology.

Feb 11·1 min read·16 words

Government Orders Deletion of UK’s Court Archive

There are concerns that the government is fleeing from transparency over failings in the justice system amid a string of murders and sex attacks by asylum seekers.

Feb 11·1 min read·34 words

Hamas Lets the Truth Slip

At least 50,000 dead fighters.

Feb 11·1 min read·10 words

They Knew Where He Was

The question is what the world will finally demand of those who turn cemeteries into concealment, children into soldiers, humanitarian aid into weapons – and death itself into strategy.

Feb 10·1 min read·34 words

Canterbury Police Rack up $883,175 Helicopter Bill

The spokesperson said police relied on commercial helicopters in situations where aerial support was needed and police aircraft were unavailable or unsuitable and said each deployment was assessed on …

Feb 10·1 min read·38 words

They’re Still Hiding the Truth About the ‘Queen of Scots’

Media do everything they can to hide the facts about the attack.

Feb 10·1 min read·22 words

This Seems To Be a National Illness

If the billions that Australia devoted to bans and buybacks had instead been used to understand and treat mental health, including phobias, perhaps we would have something other countries would be int…

Feb 10·1 min read·40 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Feb 10·1 min read·43 words

Where Are the Tea Towels Chlöe?

The dismantling of the Iranian regime will immediately end the war on terror, because the main supplier of that terror will not exist. This, more than anything else, is the key that will unlock the do…

Feb 10·1 min read·47 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/022

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Feb 10·1 min read·14 words

Wellington Citizens Are in It

Sewage, after all, is brutally egalitarian: it does not care about your values, your slogans, or your intentions. It simply goes where neglect sends it – and Wellington is swimming in it, some say, de…

Feb 10·1 min read·40 words

Letter from the North

How much longer can Sir Keir Starmer last? UK governance is under threat.

Feb 10·1 min read·17 words

Waitangi Day 2026

The coalition, in spite of claiming they are committed to equal rights and opposed to race-based law, is not doing nearly enough to protect New Zealand from the threat of tribal rule.

Feb 10·1 min read·35 words

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Feb 10·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

“She has been sentenced to six years in prison for ‘gathering and collusion’ and one and a half years for propaganda and two-year travel ban,” lawyer Mostafa Nili said on social media.

Feb 10·1 min read·36 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… pettifogger (noun) - 1: a lawyer whose methods are petty, underhanded, or disreputable : shyster 2: one given to quibbling over trifles Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : …

Feb 10·1 min read·88 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.

Feb 10·1 min read·16 words

Night Cap

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Feb 10·1 min read·66 words

Taste Tuesday

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Feb 10·1 min read·66 words

Shane Jones On TPM In-Fighting At Waitangi & Declined Mining Proposal

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Feb 10·1 min read·27 words

Latest Political Update With Chris Trotter

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Feb 10·1 min read·70 words

Sean Plunket Reacts To Chris Luxon Calling Donald Trump A Racist

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Feb 10·1 min read·75 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Feb 10·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Feb 10·1 min read·22 words

The Myth and the American Manifesto

We did not find America: we willed it into being and the fates lacked the nerve to say no.

Feb 10·1 min read·25 words

It Was Never About ‘Peace’

It’s only ever been about hating Jews: stop pretending otherwise.

Feb 10·1 min read·15 words

What He Says, but Opposite

There are some people who are reliably wrong about just about everything.

Feb 10·1 min read·17 words

When ICE Isn’t Allowed To Do Its Job

The underground pipeline into America is a vicious machine leaving stacks of bodies in its wake.

Feb 10·1 min read·24 words

Suspected Biolab Found in Rental

Reports of cleaners falling “deadly ill”.

Feb 10·1 min read·11 words

Free To Speak, Free To Believe, Free To Work

We need to reclaim our freedoms: free to speak, free to believe, and free to work.

Feb 10·1 min read·25 words

We Must Reform Our Health Service

We are rubber stamping low-quality drug trials held overseas without adequate testing for serious side effects and long term outcomes.

Feb 9·1 min read·26 words

NZOFP Slams ACC

Covid jab injury payouts reach new record.

Feb 9·1 min read·10 words

A Mirror Can Only Reflect What Is Standing in Front of It

Politicians mirror our preferences. Even non-participation, such as apathy or failing to vote, allows extreme adherents to dictate outcomes. This is the hard truth of representative government: change…

Feb 9·1 min read·50 words

Sex-Based Rights on Trial

Current New Zealand cases.

Feb 9·1 min read·8 words

This Is Starmer’s Profumo Moment

A leadership that reacts, deflects and denies instead of confronting reality. If this crisis continues on its present course, Starmer will not survive it. 

Feb 9·1 min read·29 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/021

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Feb 9·1 min read·14 words

The RMA

As election year is upon us, we must all demand real reform of both the RMA and Local Government.

Feb 9·1 min read·21 words

Bias at the New Zealand Herald

All of this analysis led me to the question: Maybe the pro-government, anti-climate catastrophe people just don’t write letters? But if my own experience is anything to go by, that’s not true.

Feb 9·1 min read·38 words

The Treaty or Te Tiriti? It Matters…

In election year it is time to wake up lazy political aspirants. Quiz them. Do they know what they are signing up to if they talk about “Te Tiriti”?

Feb 9·1 min read·36 words

The Good Oil Podcast – Episode 23 – Hugh Devereux-Mack

In Episode 23 of The Good Oil Podcast, Cam sits down with Hugh Devereux-Mack, public spokesperson for the Council of Licensed Firearm Owners.

Feb 9·1 min read·33 words

AI-generated fake news pages misleading thousands of New Zealanders

“It’s clearly an emerging problem, and it’s getting worse and worse.”

Feb 9·1 min read·20 words

Waitangi Day, Hōne Heke and the original tax revolt

Hōne Heke “even flew the American flag as a symbol of his anti-tax, anti-colonial protest.”

Feb 9·1 min read·24 words

‘Neck and neck’ – Poll shows stalemate as Greens rise, NZ First slips, and cost pressures bite

Stalemate.

Feb 9·1 min read·18 words

Tamatha Paul’s vote, Julie Anne Genter’s culture, and Wellington’s sewage mess

"The consequences are now floating in Cook Strait.”

Feb 9·1 min read·19 words

Judge’s Northern Club clash with Winston Peters sparks overreach concerns

A “rolling fracas”.

Feb 9·1 min read·13 words

Missing FBI interview notes put NZ Epstein property manager back in focus

“People of interest.”

Feb 9·1 min read·15 words

LNG plan signals tacit admission power system cannot cope

“Get rid of the dry risk.”

Feb 9·1 min read·15 words

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Feb 9·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

The comments came as Brown again renewed calls for a bed levy tax, despite the government’s opposition to the move.

Feb 9·1 min read·24 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… levity (noun) - 1: excessive or unseemly frivolity 2: lack of steadiness : changeableness Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Levity originally was thought to be a physical…

Feb 9·1 min read·87 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words lik…

Feb 9·1 min read·52 words

Night Cap

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Feb 9·1 min read·66 words

Manly Monday

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Feb 9·1 min read·66 words

Iran (So Far Away) - Official Music Video

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Feb 9·1 min read·24 words

Return to The Princely Burial: The Sword in the Stones?

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Feb 9·1 min read·74 words

Shane Jones: It pains me yet again to have to point out the foolishness of the Māori Party

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Feb 9·1 min read·82 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Feb 9·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Feb 9·1 min read·22 words

Comedy Corner

Welcome to Politically Incorrect Comedy corner: the one place on The Good Oil where you are allowed to read and share naughty and offensive jokes that make us all laugh even though we are not supposed…

Feb 9·1 min read·55 words

The EV Car Crash

The thought of all the other motorists on the street competing to get to that lamppost first every night and the aggro which will undoubtedly follow is frightening.

Feb 9·1 min read·32 words

Can We Trust This Royal Commission?

Let’s hope the anti-Israel rotten fruit has fallen far from the tree.

Feb 9·1 min read·18 words

[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day

Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.

Feb 9·1 min read·21 words

Trump’s Move Out of Machiavelli

Sending in Tom Homan is a play straight out of The Prince.

Feb 9·1 min read·17 words

Committee To Investigate Omar’s Husband

Chair Comer cites “serious public concerns.”

Feb 9·1 min read·11 words

Have Europe’s Open Doors Validated This?

The betrayal of innocence as 13-yr-old Christian girl abducted, raped and forced into Islamic marriage.

Feb 9·1 min read·21 words

Victoria Is More Bent than Ever

Is this the most corrupt state in Australia?

Feb 9·1 min read·14 words

The CDC Is Still Misleading People

Despite approving a major policy shift, the CDC continues to distribute vaccine information it knows is no longer accurate – denying people informed consent.

Feb 8·1 min read·30 words

Why Central Banks Commonly Ease up on Inflation Too Soon

These lop-sided public and political pressures commonly cause central banks to ease off on inflation too early. Jarring policy reversals are then needed.

Feb 8·1 min read·33 words

Why Japan’s Election Matters to Us

Takaichi wants Japan to be able to stand up to China.

Feb 8·1 min read·17 words

The Year of In-Fighting on the Left

Labour and Te Pāti Māori competed in the drama stakes airing their dirty laundry.

Feb 8·1 min read·21 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Feb 8·1 min read·43 words

Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/020

10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You

Feb 8·1 min read·14 words

‘I Got My Friend’s Driver’s Licence’

Aussie social media ban creates new black market.

Feb 8·1 min read·14 words

The Theatre That Is Politics

‘No place in cabinet’. There’s the wriggle room explicated. Still allows Hipkins to have the Māori Party join him in a coalition.

Feb 8·1 min read·27 words

Waitangi Day – A Day of Pride

Waitangi Day will never bring unity. New Zealand Day just might.

Feb 8·1 min read·18 words

Worthy Law Commission President in Waiting

Criticisms of Collins’ appointment as Law Commission president are selective and hypocritical. The Law Commission needs to be put back on track and King’s Counsel Collins is the right person to do tha…

Feb 8·1 min read·39 words

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Feb 8·1 min read·23 words

Scold of the Day

Andrea – we stopped listening – a long time ago.

Feb 8·1 min read·14 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… sylvan (noun, adjective) - noun : one that frequents groves or woods adjective 1a: living or located in the woods or forest b: of, relating to, or characteristic of the woods…

Feb 8·1 min read·96 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:

Feb 8·1 min read·25 words

Night Cap

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Feb 8·1 min read·66 words

Standup Sunday

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Feb 8·1 min read·66 words

I Turned The World's Rarest Honey Into Alcohol (Mānuka Honey)

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Feb 8·1 min read·26 words

Building a 23-Foot USS Nimitz with 32 Planes and Working Catapult

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Feb 8·1 min read·75 words

Sky News host explodes: ‘I’ve had enough’ of apologies, hypocrisy and being afraid to speak

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Feb 8·1 min read·79 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Feb 8·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Feb 8·1 min read·22 words

A Generation Taking Their Skills with Them

We’ll miss the Silent Generation and the world they made.

Feb 7·1 min read·17 words

How Did Labor’s Social Media Ban Go?

About as well as you’d have expected.

Feb 7·1 min read·14 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Feb 7·1 min read·23 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… digress (verb) - : to speak or write about something that is different from the main subject of attention or course of argument Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : The verb…

Feb 7·1 min read·96 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.

Feb 7·1 min read·25 words

Night Cap

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Feb 7·1 min read·66 words

Science Saturday

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Feb 7·1 min read·66 words

Toyota Land-Cruiser Durability Test #1

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Feb 7·1 min read·21 words

'DEEP humiliation for the Prime Minister’ | Nigel Farage’s verdict over Mandelson scandal

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Feb 7·1 min read·77 words

National In Trouble? Inflation And Unemployment Rise As Election Looms

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Feb 7·1 min read·74 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Feb 7·1 min read·34 words

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Feb 7·1 min read·22 words

Is This It for Starmer’s Leadership?

It’s not his mate’s crime – it’s the cover-up.

Feb 7·1 min read·15 words

One Nation Touts Grand Coalition

The Liberals would be fools not to listen.

Feb 7·1 min read·13 words

Japan Claims Deep Sea Mining Success

Another blow to China’s economy.

Feb 6·1 min read·11 words

Costa Rica’s Turn to Go Right

Crime is the big issue in Latin American politics.

Feb 6·1 min read·15 words

Universities Should Be Put Down Like a Mad Dog

Best of MountainsideFM.

Feb 6·1 min read·12 words

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Feb 6·1 min read·23 words

Face of the Day

Influential members of the Comancheros deported as “501s” to New Zealand radically changed the local criminal underworld through their connections to global drug traffickers. Taumoefolau tried to do t…

Feb 6·1 min read·36 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… Parthian (adjective) - 1: of, relating to, or characteristic of ancient Parthia or its people 2: relating to, being, or having the effect of a shot fired while in real or feig…

Feb 6·1 min read·91 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord God called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.

Feb 6·1 min read·36 words

Night Cap

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Feb 6·1 min read·66 words

Friday Fur

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Feb 6·1 min read·66 words

Is National Really Anti-Māori? The Facts Say No!

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Feb 6·1 min read·24 words

David Farrar Talks About NZ Merging With Australia, Politics & More

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Feb 6·1 min read·75 words

Michael Laws Has A Simple Answer To Our Treaty Woes - Dump The Treaty

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Feb 6·1 min read·78 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Feb 6·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Feb 6·1 min read·22 words

The Forgotten Master Who Made C S Lewis

He died in 1905. Lewis called him the closest writer to the Spirit of Christ. The church buried him anyway.

Feb 6·1 min read·28 words

Call to Hold Psychiatrist to Account

Why was the Bondi Junction killer walking the streets?

Feb 6·1 min read·15 words

‘Unless something drastic happens’: Ngāpuhi’s chair signals Te Pāti Māori on track to lose Te Tai Tokerau seat

Te Pāti Māori “misread the room”.

Feb 6·1 min read·24 words

70m litres of raw sewage pouring into Wellington waters daily since ‘catastrophic’ plant failure

“Unacceptable.”

Feb 6·1 min read·15 words

Crypto selling off as investors flee risk

“Digital gold.”

Feb 6·1 min read·9 words

Uninsurable means unsellable: how homeowners are being trapped

“If you had half a brain, why would you move here and buy a depreciating asset?... It’s lose-lose.”

Feb 6·1 min read·26 words

Christchurch terrorist claims he was tortured into pleading guilty

“I only entered a guilty plea under duress through torture.”

Feb 6·1 min read·19 words

Unemployment hits decade high as hiring resumes and workforce grows

To be counted as “unemployed,” a person must be actively looking for work.

Feb 6·1 min read·23 words

‘Better for Māori than Labour’: Duncan Garner praises coalition government record

“But nobody wants to talk about it.”

Feb 6·1 min read·18 words

One Nation Points Out the Obvious

‘Spot the Westerner’: cue leftist screeching.

Feb 6·1 min read·12 words

Why Are They Not Purchasing US Jets and Missiles?

American allies are turning away from American military suppliers.

Feb 6·1 min read·18 words

Could Record Migration Levels Be a Factor?

Ireland’s sexual offence rate is 43 per cent above the EU average.

Feb 6·1 min read·19 words

Your American Holiday Is Safer than Ever

Yet again, the chattering ninnies of the left are at odds with reality.

Feb 6·1 min read·20 words

Back-To-School Invoices Hit Like a Second Mortgage

Satire/Parody: Pavlova Post blends real headlines with made-up jokes – not factual reporting.

Feb 5·1 min read·20 words

The Research Decoding the Rubbery Clots

The scientific papers are available on the preprint server and at www.nzdsos.com for review.

Feb 5·1 min read·20 words

Takaichi on Course for Majority Win

Japan swings behind first female PM.

Feb 5·1 min read·12 words

Born Alive and Left To Die

Baby Samuel’s story serves as a reminder that the fight for the unborn, for vulnerable babies and for life is much more than an abstract political debate.

Feb 5·1 min read·33 words

The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll

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Feb 5·1 min read·43 words

What Is the New World Order?

We need a return to patriotism and a country-first agenda and it is fairly obvious that that agenda will only come from parties on the right.

Feb 5·1 min read·32 words

Who Is To Blame for the State of Some School Entrants?

No, the benefit itself isn’t causal. It’s the lifestyle the benefit enables that does the damage. When will a future government recognise and act on this reality?

Feb 5·1 min read·38 words

On the Cession of Sovereignty, the Record Is Clear

History should discipline politics, not be reshaped by it. On sovereignty, the record is clear – but politically inconvenient for some.

Feb 5·1 min read·30 words

Courts Interfering in Our Parliament’s Intent

Judicial review must not become a means by which judges effectively update decades-old statutes to reflect their own contemporary policy preferences.

Feb 5·1 min read·27 words

Caption Competition

Have a go at the Good Oil’s caption competition.

Feb 5·1 min read·11 words

Good Oil General Debate

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Feb 5·1 min read·23 words

Moron of the Day

McNulty responded calling Mike B a nonce in a comment that has since been deleted.

Feb 5·1 min read·19 words

The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is… innocuous (adjective) - 1: not likely to bother or offend : inoffensive 2: causing no injury or damage : harmless Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Innocuous is rooted in…

Feb 5·1 min read·96 words

The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse

Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.

Feb 5·1 min read·45 words

Night Cap

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Feb 5·1 min read·66 words

Tiny Home Thursday

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Feb 5·1 min read·67 words

BABY TALK [How to deal with A.W.F.U.L. women]

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Feb 5·1 min read·24 words

Car Headlights Seem To Be Brighter

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Feb 5·1 min read·70 words

Prof Paul Moon - The ‘Littlewood Treaty’ Has No Political Legitimacy

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Feb 5·1 min read·75 words

The Good Oil Daily Roundup

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Feb 5·1 min read·34 words

Good Oil Backchat

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Feb 5·1 min read·22 words

Nipah and the New Public Health Order

We must always believe that we face an imminent threat so that those who would benefit from saving us are allowed to do so. 

Feb 5·1 min read·31 words

This Is What Australia Has Come To

Police admit they cannot protect Jews from the ‘pro-Palestine’ mob.

Feb 5·1 min read·17 words

Rates Hike to Hit Aussie Homeowners

Government denials won’t wash.

Feb 5·1 min read·10 words

Does America Still Have the Tools?

America has an incredibly dynamic economy, deep capital pools, and some of the most abundant resources on our planet. And yet, whenever someone tries to make a difference (whether the President, Elon …

Feb 5·1 min read·48 words

Is Rep Ilhan Omar for Real? Inquiring Minds Want To Know

Layers of investigations by the FBI, DOJ, and Congress seek the truth.

Feb 5·1 min read·23 words

Media Caught Out Shilling for Hamas Again

Media favourite ‘doctor’ is also a Hamas colonel.

Feb 5·1 min read·15 words

DEI and Social Procurement in Victoria

When procurement frameworks penalise local production, distort competition, and incentivise offshoring, the long-term cost is borne by Victorian manufacturers, workers, and communities.

Feb 4·1 min read·28 words