Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 3:14 pm, January 29th, 2019 - 48 comments
Does the West Coast Regional Council actually exist? Te Reo Putake’s submission on the Zero Carbon Bill says the science is unproven.
Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 9:55 am, May 31st, 2016 - 6 comments
After a significant security leak National will be forced to ban itself from future budget lockups.
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:09 am, April 30th, 2016 - 46 comments
Or waterways are starting to stink as much as our murky tax havens.
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:12 am, March 8th, 2016 - 46 comments
Is this the least competent NZ government ever?
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:37 am, November 23rd, 2015 - 13 comments
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 10:12 am, September 8th, 2015 - 106 comments
NZ’s first book banning in over 20 years. Another own goal from “Family First”.
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 10:51 am, June 25th, 2015 - 36 comments
Key: “The removal of the $1,000 kick-start contribution will not make a blind bit of difference to the number of people who join KiwiSaver.” Wrong. Completely and utterly wrong.
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 12:30 pm, March 31st, 2015 - 22 comments
I/S at No Right Turn on the way that National is manipulating official environmental reporting to try and conceal the damage…
Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 11:01 am, March 30th, 2015 - 33 comments
Hey, all you folk angry with Aussie cricket team sledging – how do you put up with John Key PM?
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:15 am, November 21st, 2014 - 106 comments
Yesterday a report from the NZ Super Fund (the Cullen fund) provided further evidence of National’s economic “genius”. We could have used the $4.8 billion that they just chucked away.
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:35 am, November 14th, 2014 - 45 comments
On Monday Bill English reckoned that pressures in the property market were “easing”. Yesterday’s headline “Spring house price surge in October”…
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:32 am, October 18th, 2014 - 75 comments
There’s no point in state houses. Not according to the Nats anyway. Unbelievable.
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:06 am, October 8th, 2014 - 36 comments
Good news citizens! The National government has revealed unto us today the cause of poverty and inequality.
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 3:06 pm, July 17th, 2013 - 19 comments
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:08 am, May 30th, 2013 - 194 comments
Update: Race Relations Commissioner Susan Devoy to hold a press conference at 1pm.
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:17 am, April 16th, 2013 - 44 comments
The Nats have spent $48.7 Million of our money “preparing” Mighty River Power for sale, and they couldn’t even get the very basics right.
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 1:54 pm, March 19th, 2013 - 35 comments
Profit-driven private sector cowboys are damaging the reputation of our education system. Naturally, National wants to make matters worse by subsidising foreign owners of profit-driven charter schools. Brilliant.
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:18 am, March 19th, 2013 - 7 comments
I/S at No Right Turn on the insanity of scrapping the home insulation programme.
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 10:12 pm, September 13th, 2012 - 38 comments
Brownlee and Parata announced school closures and explained the rationale. Now they’ve backed down and they’re trying to blame a Ministry mistake. This was the quickest U-turn in the history of politics. Update: And this morning it seems that closures and mergers are back on again – does anyone know what is going on?
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:22 am, August 3rd, 2012 - 215 comments
The right hand of National’s education policy doesn’t know what the far-right hand is up to…
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:32 am, March 16th, 2012 - 34 comments
The predicted problems created by a “national standards” system are coming home to roost already.
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 12:20 pm, September 16th, 2011 - 16 comments
When it comes to making any kind of effort to saving the planet from catastrophic climate change I guess being even a “fast follower” was just a little too ambitious for the Key government.
The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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