These groups have a taste for moral supremacy, and they won’t stop until they save you from yourself.

The people shaping our nation and representing us on the world stage should be people we can trust to uphold Kiwi values, not the interests of foreign governments. They should defend democracy here at home and wherever it is threatened abroad.

Rex lex is dangerous, lex rex, the rule of law is the antidote to the abuses of power in our institutions.

Despite what lazy parents, alarmist academics, and power-hungry politicians might say, we can protect children online without sacrificing freedom and privacy.

“We can protect children without sacrificing freedom or privacy. The answer isn’t more laws, it’s stronger families, better education, and targeted enforcement.”

New Zealand is worth protecting. Freedom and sovereignty are worth more than trade deals. Human rights are worth more than diplomatic convenience.

Who our MPs meet with is New Zealand’s business alone. Parliament is sovereign, and in a democracy, elected representatives must be free to act independently, something the Ambassador must respect.

Beyond the huge privacy and freedom risks, this kind of policy is lazy. It copies what’s being attempted overseas, slaps it onto our Kiwi system, and calls it progress. It’s about following trends, not fixing the real problem. 

We cannot raise digitally literate children by locking them out of the digital world.

Privacy breaches, politically motivated vandalism, proposed bans on words in Parliament, and yet more signs of foreign interference—it’s been a week.