Written By: - Date published: 10:57 am, April 29th, 2025 - 12 comments
Claims have been made that Auckland Council is giving away rights to the Waitākere Ranges to local iwi. But the claims suffer from that important characteristic of not actually being true.
Written By: - Date published: 12:58 pm, April 27th, 2025 - 4 comments
It is time to reflect on what happened with the Atlas Network and the Treaty Principles Bill.
Written By: - Date published: 10:43 am, April 23rd, 2025 - 55 comments
The “Win the Wealth Tax” group offers a welcome return to Labour’s political and policy roots.
Written By: - Date published: 10:40 pm, April 20th, 2025 - 19 comments
National MP Hamish Campbell has been the subject of a media pile up recently for being a member of the Two by Two Christian Sect. But the treatment appears at this stage to be an overreaction.
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 pm, April 14th, 2025 - 82 comments
It looks like the three way marriage made in hell is on the rocks.
Written By: - Date published: 4:07 pm, April 8th, 2025 - 1 comment
The Sensible Sentencing Trust’s free publicity, and what defunding the policy means.
Written By: - Date published: 10:57 am, April 8th, 2025 - 3 comments
Headlines: NZD free falls, misleading Green Party attack ads linked to NZ First, making NZDF lethal, and American billionaires regret support for Trump
Written By: - Date published: 6:44 pm, April 7th, 2025 - 33 comments
Misleading the public never is good for politics.
Written By: - Date published: 8:14 am, April 5th, 2025 - 27 comments
The Justice Select Committee has returned Act’s odious Treaty Principles Bill to Parliament. And in its report it has noted that the overwhelming majority of submitters opposed the bill.
Written By: - Date published: 2:22 pm, March 28th, 2025 - 22 comments
Tamatha Paul’s comments on policing have been criticised by Luxon as “insane” but a closer look at what she really said shows how much her comments have been taken out of context.
Meanwhile, National’s law and order track record is only deteriorating.
Written By: - Date published: 3:34 pm, March 27th, 2025 - 23 comments
A response to right wing commentator Matthew Hooton.
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, March 27th, 2025 - 11 comments
The Representation Commission’s draft boundaries for the next election have been released. And despite right wing claims to the contrary at least in Auckland the boundaries appear to favour the left.
Written By: - Date published: 7:04 am, March 25th, 2025 - 41 comments
In what looked like an early election campaign launch Winston Peters has done his old man shaking his fist at the sky tirade against everything woke.
Written By: - Date published: 10:38 am, March 22nd, 2025 - 45 comments
It seems that the National Act Government is looking at what is happening in the US of A and thinking that the rolling out of fascist restrictions of freedom of speech is a good thing. And they are starting with health professionals.
Written By: - Date published: 12:20 pm, March 20th, 2025 - 20 comments
The first liquidator’s report on Libelle Group Limited suggests the company was hopelessly incapable of performing its role in providing the National-Act Government’s version of school lunches.
Written By: - Date published: 7:30 am, March 19th, 2025 - 14 comments
Over the last year, the Coalition has unleashed a series of cuts which have been devastating for the disabled community. These cuts are part of a class war — and it’s time to organise and fight back, writes Elliot Crossan.
Written By: - Date published: 8:14 pm, March 15th, 2025 - 13 comments
By pursuing cuts, selling off assets to multinationals, enabling ACT’s attacks on the Treaty and cutting back on climate commitments, Luxon is guaranteeing that NZ will not be stable for long, writes Elliot Crossan.
Written By: - Date published: 1:03 pm, March 14th, 2025 - 46 comments
Luxon’s team have delivered zero deals out of the multibillionaire conference on infrastructure. This is a fail.
Written By: - Date published: 5:36 pm, March 13th, 2025 - 12 comments
Science and tertiary education are being ignored in NZ, which is just dumb.
Written By: - Date published: 6:51 am, March 13th, 2025 - 35 comments
Nicola Willis is picking a fight with unions and environmental groups by proposing changes to Government procurement rules that would do away with environmentally beneficial policies and the requirement to pay the living wage.
Written By: - Date published: 5:19 pm, March 11th, 2025 - 13 comments
As the Coalition moves to partially privatise our healthcare system, and Seymour fatally undermines the free school lunch programme, it is time for us to take to the streets and fight back, writes Elliot Crossan.
Written By: - Date published: 2:23 pm, March 10th, 2025 - 25 comments
Simeon Brown’s gutting of funding for earlier bowel cancer screening of Maori and Pacifica will increase health disparity.
Written By: - Date published: 8:43 am, March 10th, 2025 - 101 comments
Chris Hipkins has released his priorities should he be Prime Minister. They do not include addressing climate change.
Written By: - Date published: 6:15 am, March 10th, 2025 - 57 comments
1News: The party leader told Q+A that Labour would be announcing its tax policy later this year, ahead of the 2026 election. He said too much investment was going into property rather than “productive businesses that create jobs”. “We’ve got to rejig the tax system so that the burden of taxation is more evenly spread,” […]
Written By: - Date published: 4:24 pm, March 7th, 2025 - 11 comments
Last year I predicted Luxon would be replaced within the term. But by linking his credibility to Seymour’s preservative laden, scalding, burning and burnt school lunch program this week, Luxon has accelerated his political demise.
Written By: - Date published: 10:33 am, March 6th, 2025 - 9 comments
Simeon Brown has appointed John Carnegie to the EECA even though Carnegie has some decidedly anti energy conservation ideas.
Written By: - Date published: 12:00 pm, March 1st, 2025 - 36 comments
You have to hand it to Winston and New Zealand First. On the issue of rail enabled ferries they have performed outstanding work. That good that what looked like a foregone conclusion, the dismantling of the Cook Strait Rail Link, may not happen after all.
Written By: - Date published: 8:44 am, February 28th, 2025 - 16 comments
National’s forary into supporting vigilante justice raises some thorny legal issues it appears National has not thught about.
Written By: - Date published: 12:45 pm, February 27th, 2025 - 2 comments
The Green Party co-leaders gave their annual State of the Planet speech yesterday.
Written By: - Date published: 9:26 am, February 26th, 2025 - 147 comments
Amongst the most dangerous, extreme and downright stupid policies the Government has come up with is the decision to be announced today to allow citizen’s arrests of shoplifters
Written By: - Date published: 4:03 pm, February 24th, 2025 - 1 comment
Last week, I pointed out that Internal Affairs under Act Minister Brooke van Velden, had managed to lose RSS communications from the Beehive to the world. It’d been offline for about three weeks at that point. That was just sloppy and incompetent for the DIA who amongst other things are responsible for overseeing government technology services.
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