Are we really a free country, and would we even notice if that freedom started to slip?

Andrew asks what freedom means in Aotearoa today. Freedom of speech, belief and conscience can feel like the water we swim in, so easy to take for granted that we forget the price already paid for them. What would it cost us to lose them, and are they still worth fighting for?

This is Episode 3 of Thoughts on Politics, a five-part series asking what’s broken in our country, whether we can fix it with politics, and who’s fit for the job as Election 2026 approaches.

Chapters
1:12 Do we have freedom in New Zealand?
3:12 Is freedom still worth fighting for?
5:07 Threats on the horizon
8:52 Why politics is messy
12:20 Freedom for those we disagree with
13:27 The cost of losing liberty
16:28 Free speech and the testing of ideas
18:57 If you could change one law
22:26 Christian freedom and the duty to vote

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