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The latest polls suggest a change in Government

Written By: - Date published: 8:39 pm, February 11th, 2025 - 3 comments

Two recent polls both predict a one term National Government.

Leadership D.O.A.

Written By: - Date published: 8:41 am, February 10th, 2025 - 31 comments

As we approach the half-time oranges for his government, I thought I’d give Mr Luxon some feedback and a few suggestions on how he might turn things around – if becoming a real leader interests him.

Why get upset with solar power?

Written By: - Date published: 9:12 am, February 9th, 2025 - 56 comments

You have to hand it to the right. They have succeeded in making ordinary people oppose the most beneficial projects imaginable. Like a group of residents in North Canterbury that is opposing construction of a solar farm.

Dear Mum and Dad

Written By: - Date published: 5:05 pm, February 4th, 2025 - 5 comments

I had a great week at school!

Tim Jago is part of a bigger ACT Party issue

Written By: - Date published: 11:51 am, February 2nd, 2025 - 95 comments

The former ACT Party President’s name suppression ceased 2 years after Jago was charged, allowing ACT to bypass critical scrutiny during the 2023 election

Better Late than Never?

Written By: - Date published: 6:13 pm, January 31st, 2025 - 10 comments

Davey Seymour’s Disgusting School Dinners, and the faster you go, the bigger the mess, but does Chris Bishop look bothered?

Selling NZ off to the highest foreign bidder. Is it still NZ First?

Written By: - Date published: 10:00 pm, January 23rd, 2025 - 17 comments

For a year, Luxon and Seymour have been prepping the Overseas Investment Act to sell NZ off to wealthy foreigners. But who is running the show? Libertarian interests of course. And Winston Peters might find the money good enough to fold.

In Defence of Golriz Ghahraman

Written By: - Date published: 2:11 pm, January 22nd, 2025 - 39 comments

Golriz Ghahraman didn’t shoplift “again” – but recent media reports made it sound like she did. This article looks back on her history and her treatment by NZ’s political and media class.

Luxon’s panicked reshuffle

Written By: - Date published: 1:12 pm, January 20th, 2025 - 61 comments

Christopher Luxon has conducted a major Cabinet Reshuffle with the stand out feature the demotion of Shane Reti and the transfer of Health from Reti to Simeon Brown.

Clearing the Decks: Government replaces half of the Waitangi Tribunal

Written By: - Date published: 10:07 pm, January 17th, 2025 - 33 comments

The government has replaced half of the Waitangi Tribunal, removing three of NZ’s most highly regarded experts in mātauranga Maori.

Latest opinion poll – Labour overtakes National

Written By: - Date published: 2:21 pm, January 17th, 2025 - 62 comments

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That grinding noise you can hear from the Parliamentary precinct is the sound of National backbenchers sharpening their knives getting ready for a change of leadership. Because the latest Curia poll shows National has fallen behind Labour in the preferred party stakes.

Reviewing the Cook Strait Ferry fiasco

Written By: - Date published: 1:07 pm, January 16th, 2025 - 35 comments

A review of the history of the Ferries issue suggests that this could be coalition ending and career ending.

Wage theft – now that is a real crime

Written By: - Date published: 5:38 pm, December 30th, 2024 - 17 comments

In Australia, the Fair Work Act is enhanced to provide for jail time and large fines for individuals and companies who deliberately indulged in wage theft. It is a Federal act with investigative powers. Our members ‘Theft by Employers’ bill looks pathetic by comparison. But worth passing in its 3rd reading. It would be a “real tough on crime” act – not weak like Mark Mitchell’s tee-shirt snatch.

This govt. legislation will change our country like never before – learn about it like your country depends on it – because it does

Written By: - Date published: 8:34 am, December 21st, 2024 - 12 comments

Just after Christmas, submissions on the Treaty Principles Bill will close. But a far more sinister Bill underlles it all… and Seymour is hoping you might not notice

The real purpose of the Ministry for Regulation

Written By: - Date published: 5:54 pm, December 14th, 2024 - 31 comments

ACT is finishing what Roger Douglas started 40 years ago.

Clusterfreak

Written By: - Date published: 9:57 am, December 12th, 2024 - 46 comments

Yesterday’s replacement ferry announcement by Nicola Willis suggests that very little progress has been made in securing replacement Cook Island ferries.

The unusual feature of Taxpayers Union’s latest Curia poll

Written By: - Date published: 10:03 am, December 11th, 2024 - 14 comments

Unlike two other recent polls the latest Taxpayer’s Union poll reports a surge to Act happening during the time the Treaty Principles Bill was introduced.

Atlas Network in New Zealand

Written By: - Date published: 8:57 am, December 11th, 2024 - 11 comments

The similarities between the Atlas Network modus operandi and our government’s policies appear strident and unsettling.

Unacceptable

Written By: - Date published: 10:28 am, December 7th, 2024 - 29 comments

It appears that the Government’s intent to politicise youth offending by making an elite few dress up in army uniforms and march around in an effort to solve a lifetime of neglect is not working out so well.

Luxon Takes A Beating

Written By: - Date published: 10:14 am, December 4th, 2024 - 20 comments

Five recent polls show that Kiwis are tired of the Coalition government, but will the trendline hold?

If Seymour succeeds what happens to Ngāpuhi’s Treaty claim?

Written By: - Date published: 1:49 pm, November 27th, 2024 - 3 comments

If David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill is passed it may complicate Ngapuhi’s outstanding claim.

A guide to making a submission on the Treaty Principles Bill

Written By: - Date published: 12:04 pm, November 23rd, 2024 - 10 comments

Want to make a submission opposing David Seymour’s dog whistle Treaty Principles Bill? Here’s how.

On the whining and treason of David Seymour

Written By: - Date published: 10:27 am, November 20th, 2024 - 51 comments

In recent days, David Seymour has been whining that no-one is seriously debating his stupid little bill to supposedly try to redefine what the Treaty means. But it is the constitutional arrangements of this country that this bill attacks. The bill is essentially treasonous. It also isn’t worth debating. Prepare against a dictatorship of the executive.

The great gaslighter

Written By: - Date published: 11:26 am, November 19th, 2024 - 44 comments

In the gaslight to end gaslights David Seymour is suggesting that anyone opposed to his Treaty Principles Bill is also opposed to fundamental human rights.

This Government’s day of shame

Written By: - Date published: 10:33 am, November 14th, 2024 - 63 comments

David Seymour thinks that opponents to his bill cannot explain what it is they are opposed to but ignores the clear advice of 40 Kings Counsel who have written to the Government telling it that the bill is itself a breach of the treaty.

The Government’s cynical manipulation of the Treaty Principles Bill

Written By: - Date published: 10:15 am, November 6th, 2024 - 20 comments

In a cynical manipulation of Parliamentary Processes the Government is changing the date of introduction of the Treaty Principles Bill. And the Waitangi Tribunal has said that the bill is a deliberate attempt to destroy the treaty relationship.

Act’s revenge on the Waitangi Tribunal

Written By: - Date published: 10:28 am, October 26th, 2024 - 16 comments

In what must be the most unsuitable appointment decision ever made Richard Prebble has been appointed to the Waitangi Tribunal.

David Seymour Chooses School Lunches Provider With Questionable Record: Listeria, Horse Meat & Poor Quality

Written By: - Date published: 9:44 am, October 25th, 2024 - 27 comments

David Seymour said the new school lunches are the best food he’s ever eaten – but how true is it? And what has he chosen for our tamariki in the school lunch program?

Is the Epsom seat goneburger?

Written By: - Date published: 7:22 am, October 25th, 2024 - 23 comments

The North Island needs to lose an electorate seat. It appears that Epsom is the most logical seat to go.

Government succumbs to Sensible Sentencing Trust pressure and makes Three Strikes Bill worse

Written By: - Date published: 10:45 am, October 22nd, 2024 - 10 comments

The Goverment has bowed to pressure from the Sensible Sentencing Trust and made the Three Strikes Bill even more unworkable.

Will This Be a One-Term Government?

Written By: - Date published: 12:21 pm, October 20th, 2024 - 24 comments

Elliot Crossan at System Change Aotearoa reviews the past year. Despite the tepid public support for this government’s problematic actions, he warns that ‘The Right Is United By Power — Don’t Underestimate Them’