Ian Wishart (born 1964) is a New Zealand journalist, author, an opponent to the hypothesis of anthropogenic climate change, and the editor of Investigate magazine.

Wishart is a conservative Christian who generally advocates "right-wing" values. Wishart was highly critical of the Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand, and Prime Minister Helen Clark in particular, for alleged Marxist policies. Wishart also criticised gay activists, and sex education advocates for making factually incorrect statements in support of their initiatives.^[1] More recently Ian Wishart has been critical of the teaching of evolution in schools and the theory of human induced climate change.

Wishart claims that his book Eve's Bite (2007) is "the most politically incorrect book ever published in New Zealand"^[2]. In the book, Wishart argues that New Zealand society is being "poisoned" and the Western world as a whole undermined "by seductive and destructive philosophies and social engineering that within the space of a generation have intellectually crippled the greatest civilisation the world has ever seen"^[3]. His more recent books include Absolute Power (2008)^[4], which details Helen Clark's years as Prime Minister and Air Con (2009), in which he alleges that man-made climate change is not significant against the scale of natural forcings, and that climate change is being used primarily as a revenue-generating exercise by the climate-industrial complex. ^[5] Both Absolute Power and Air Con were #1 bestselling titles on the NZ Booksellers List^[6].

Wishart went to Onslow College, and studied journalism at Wellington Polytechnic, graduating in 1982. He has worked for Radio Windy, Radio Hauraki, Radio Pacific, TV3 and Television New Zealand. He started a book publishing company, Howling At The Moon, in 1995.^[7]

He has married twice with two children from his first marriage and several from his second. He and his second wife, Heidi, are Anglicans. ^[7]

• The Paradise Conspiracy (1995) ISBN 0473033976
• Ian Wishart’s vintage winebox guide. (1996) ISBN 0958356807
• Lawyers, Guns & Money (1997)
• An Irish Legacy (1998)
• The Paradise Conspiracy II (1999) ISBN 095820540X
• Ben & Olivia : what really happened? (1999) ISBN 0958205442
• The god factor (1999) ISBN 0958205426
• Beating Big Brother: how people power turned off the TV tax! (2000) ISBN 0958205485
• Daylight robbery : the rise and fall of the "people’s bank" (2001) ISBN 0958205469
• Eve's Bite (2007) ISBN 9780958240116
• The Divinity Code (2007) ISBN 9870958240123
• Absolute Power: The Helen Clark Years (2008)
• Air Con (2009) ISBN 9780958240147

• Investigate Magazine Homepage for Wishart's monthly publication
• TBR.cc, "Investigate magazine's breaking news forum" A topical blog administered by Wishart
• thebriefingroom.com Archive of articles from Investigate