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Cecilia Robinson’s Tend Health Win

Written By: - Date published: 1:10 pm, June 12th, 2025 - 29 comments

For-profit healthcare continues its acceleration under National as second largest private healthcare provider in Australia shuts down

The other Jacinda Book

Written By: - Date published: 9:14 am, June 12th, 2025 - 61 comments

Shortly after the release of Jacinda Ardern’s autobiography comes news of the release of a new biography for which the funding of and motivation for are not clear.

The Auckland Mayoralty

Written By: - Date published: 11:07 am, June 8th, 2025 - 4 comments

With National aligned Desley Simpson ruling herself out of the Mayoralty race and pledging support for Wayne Brown Auckland’s mayoral contest looks like it will be a two way battle between Brown and Kerrin Leoni.

Trump and Musk: One Big Beautiful Break-up

Written By: - Date published: 8:57 pm, June 7th, 2025 - 5 comments

The world’s richest man has fallen out with the President he helped elect. Elliot Crossan asks: does this mark the beginning of the end for Trump 2.0? And might we hope for the same fate to befall the NZ Coalition Govt? January 2025. The richest man in the world walks into the White House as […]

Homelessness up by 58% in Auckland

Written By: - Date published: 5:35 pm, June 7th, 2025 - 8 comments

$250mn in emergency housing “savings” a year under National, while government increases corrections budget to ~$2b a year, and will surpass NZ’s ”moral and fiscal prison failure prison rate” by 2026

Meta Ardern

Written By: - Date published: 9:26 am, June 6th, 2025 - 54 comments

This is about what’s good and what works and why.

The trouble with using AI bots

Written By: - Date published: 9:05 am, June 5th, 2025 - 16 comments

After David Seymour’s claim that 99.5% of submissions against his Regulatory Standards Bill were generated by AI bots it is relevant to review the time that he was implicated in the purchase of Russian sex bots to bolster his Instagram following.

Louisa Wall – Project 2025 Is Silencing Māori Dissent — and It Didn’t Even Start Here

Written By: - Date published: 3:11 pm, June 4th, 2025 - 3 comments

The attempt to punish Te Pāti Māori MPs for a haka protest is not just an internal matter—it reflects a broader, global effort to suppress dissent, erase cultural expression, and centralise power under the guise of order.

Work will not be so safe

Written By: - Date published: 3:01 pm, June 4th, 2025 - 11 comments

Brooke Van Velden has announced changes to Workplace safety laws that will see prosecutions of Employers decrease but prosecutions of workers start.

Writing in the time of Genocide

Written By: - Date published: 11:09 am, June 2nd, 2025 - 29 comments

I want to share a writer’s journey – of living and writing through the Genocide.  Because my country provides support to Israel and the US, I feel compelled to support Palestine by doing the one thing I know best: writing.  

The existential moment we are in

Written By: - Date published: 10:44 am, June 2nd, 2025 - 26 comments

As the world re-entangles and pushes our interdependence to the foreground, we need a new thesis on freedom.

Shut up you dickhead

Written By: - Date published: 8:26 am, June 1st, 2025 - 13 comments

Chris Bishop has chosen to say loudly and publicly “what a load of crap” during a song celebrating Te Reo Maori performed during the Aotearoa Music Awards ceremony.

Seeing Is Believing

Written By: - Date published: 2:05 pm, May 30th, 2025 - 9 comments

A video post, starring Christopher Luxon, Chris Hipkins, Nicola Willis and Winston Peters. Featuring Debbie Ngarewa-Packer as star prosecutor.

Which animal does Labour resemble?

Written By: - Date published: 9:55 am, May 30th, 2025 - 7 comments

In the United States Republicans have been compared to Apex Predators and Democrats to a deer in headlights. Which animal does Labour resemble and which animal should it aspire to resemble?

Nicola Willis’s Debt Higher Than All 6 Years of Ardern Government

Written By: - Date published: 12:31 pm, May 28th, 2025 - 18 comments

Current & planned debt will surpass Labour’s full term debt in less years. Willis also admitted Budget 2024 had a higher deficit than all of Grant Robertson’s bar Covid.

The Peoples’ Select Committee on Pay Equity

Written By: - Date published: 8:19 am, May 28th, 2025 - 8 comments

In very bad news for the Government former National MP Marilyn Waring has announced that she will be doing something the Government did not do, organise hearings to consider the Government’s sabotaging of Pay Equity.

The weird similarities between the Trump and the Willis budgets

Written By: - Date published: 7:05 am, May 27th, 2025 - 25 comments

A comparison of Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Budget and Nicola Willis’s recent budget disclose remarkable similarities.

Willis’ Roundup Budget will not grow new shoots of the economy

Written By: - Date published: 12:55 pm, May 24th, 2025 - 11 comments

Nicola Willis’ Budget is bad for growth and a Big throwback unfit for NZ.

Our growing stress is everywhere

Written By: - Date published: 9:38 am, May 24th, 2025 - 22 comments

We don’t know where this country is going and it’s getting worse. 

Liam Hehir needs to relearn his civics

Written By: - Date published: 7:30 am, May 22nd, 2025 - 17 comments

Generally I like reading Liam Hehir over at the The Blue Review. He is usually interesting despite his position. However he asserted that “Parliament Must Rule Itself”. Of course parliament must control itself. But rule itself – no! Voters do that. Parliamentary rules are mainly there to keep a low profile to voters looking at their poor performance. Right now that is inside the privileges committee.

The Government blinks

Written By: - Date published: 9:35 am, May 21st, 2025 - 15 comments

Faced with the threat of an impassioned filibuster against the Priviliges Committee extreme recommendations the Government yesterday abruptly stopped debate on the committee report by voting to adjourn the debate.

What would the Greens’ inheritance/gift tax mean for farming?

Written By: - Date published: 8:07 am, May 20th, 2025 - 48 comments

In a climate crisis world we should be treating farming as a national strategic asset.How would a wealth transfer tax affect that?

Privileges Committee recommendations are partisan, indefensible and racist

Written By: - Date published: 3:39 pm, May 19th, 2025 - 21 comments

The Privileges Committee recommendation for suspension of three Maori Party MPs for performing a haka in Parliament has been described as appearing to be partisan, indefensible and open to attacks of racism. Parliament’s response tomorrow will show how political the issue has become.

Jacinda Ardern’s speech to Yale graduates: leading with empathy is a strength

Written By: - Date published: 2:43 pm, May 19th, 2025 - 3 comments

Ardern at her finest.

Waitangi Tribunal wants halt to Regulatory Standards Bill introduction

Written By: - Date published: 1:45 pm, May 18th, 2025 - 6 comments

The Waitangi Tribunal’s interim judgment on the Regulatory Standards Bill strongly suggests the Government has been playing games with it.

Te Pati Maori and the Privileges Committee

Written By: - Date published: 9:58 am, May 16th, 2025 - 40 comments

The Government’s desire to heavily punish Maori Party MPs for their haka in Parliament in opposition to the Treaty Principles Bill may have a dramatic effect on Budget Week.

The Empire strikes back

Written By: - Date published: 8:38 am, May 16th, 2025 - 51 comments

National has launched an all out attack on Labour for accusing it of cutting women’s pay, even though this is precisely what it has done.

The Green Budget

Written By: - Date published: 9:54 am, May 15th, 2025 - 49 comments

An economy for the people, by the people.

Louisa Wall – This Is Not Feminism – It’s Fiscal Evasion Dressed in Lipstick

Written By: - Date published: 8:59 am, May 15th, 2025 - 24 comments

Louisa Wall eviscerates Government claims about pay equity.

The worst Finance Minister ever?

Written By: - Date published: 10:22 am, May 13th, 2025 - 70 comments

Future historians may consider Nicola Willis to be the country’s worst Finance Minister, even worse than Rob Muldoon and Ruth Richardson.

Get ready for the Regulatory Standards Bill

Written By: - Date published: 10:47 am, May 11th, 2025 - 24 comments

Following on from the undermining under urgency of the current Pay Equity scheme the Government intends to introduce the Regulatory Standards Bill which if passed would have a significant adverse effect on collective rights and environmental action.