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Duncan Garner: A question for PM Christopher Luxon, what are you trying to hide?

Govts don’t hide what they’re proud of; they hide what they know won’t pass the sniff test

Official reaction to Palestine-Israel activism threatens NZ’s social cohesion

Increasing polarisation and personalisation has a chilling effect on free expression.

Duncan Garner: My open letter to Chloe Swarbrick

Trying to drag cannabis regulation back into the spotlight is wrong at a time like this.

Law & Society: Shadows of secrecy still fall across our justice system

A growing patchwork of restrictions quietly draws shutters across windows of open justice.

Andrew Hastie was frontrunner to lead Australia’s Liberal Party, so why has he headed to the back benches?

Did he merely throw a dummy-spit or is there a deeper intent behind his resignation?

Unidentified drones in European skies stoke “hybrid war” fears

No matter where the drones come from they’re making Europe’s citizens nervous.

Duncan Garner: Timid and weak govt is handing the election to ‘do nothing and say nothing’ Labour

Let’s not sugarcoat National's plight: it’s in trouble

Charlotte Grimshaw on the author spared from a lobotomy and prescribed a writer’s life

A Janet Frame Memorial Lecture provokes thoughts on human states of mind.