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If Labour wins government in 2026, many things won’t be recoverable. This is true of the world as of New Zealand, but as Chris Hipkins regularly reminds us including today on RNZ, what was possible in 2017 will not be possible in 2026 and beyond.…
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Repost from the Mountain Tui Substack People say that Nicola Willis threw away $671 000 000 (671 million dollars) when she haphazardly cancelled our i-Rex ferries project. Against MFAT advice, she did it by SMS text to South Korean officials half an hour before the…
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There are a series of must read climate related articles recently by Newsroom’s Marc Daalder and RNZ’s Kirsty Johnston. Daalder has been following the Coalition’s policies closely; last week revealing that National and ACT have dismantled environmental / climate protections, and from a raft of…
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"The days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over." White House National Security Strategy, 2025 The greatest shift in US foreign policy since World War II, a “sea change”, a manifesto for a radically different America, “a disturbing…
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The Government has introduced the Climate Change Response (2050 Target and Other Matters) Amendment Bill. The bill is short but will have significant consequences if passed. It will put into legal effect the Government's decision to half methane emission reduction targets. It will require the Minister…
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Opinion/Analysis: Last night, I watched incredulously as former Newstalk ZB Political Editor Jason Walls provided the filing on Chris Bishop’s “once in a lifetime” RMA reform for 1News. I thought it was a lightweight report from start to finish, sounding more like a government press…
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Privatisation and Plunder: Neoliberalism – causes, costs and alternatives New Zealand Fabian Society, Steele Roberts publishers, 2025, $30 Privatisation and plunder is a powerful analytic distillation of the economic paradigm that has ben used to govern Aotearoa for the past forty years for the benefit…
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That's the headline of the pamphlet in the letterbox. But from their own measures is that true? In November 2026, we can tick the box that gives our own answer. Is this National-led government changing New Zealand for the better? Like the previous government, the…
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The prospect is tantalising. This may be the first one term National Government in my lifetime. Usually they hang around, do some populist stuff to keep their support up, give farmers free reign and attack Unions and workers rights. This has been their modus operandii…
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Three-year-cycle thinking conditions much of New Zealand’s political life. Our eyes are generally down on the short-term – how to win next time. Poll-driven thinking exacerbates this focus. Arguably, for Labour, it reinforces MMP’s tendency towards the constrained and defensive. To espouse a radical idea…
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In this earlier post I listed 54 policy changes or decisions made by this Government that are cumulatively wrecking the country's attempts to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. I thought that I would make this an occasional post to list these changes and to remind…
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Did you know? 95% oppose the government’s anti-democratic, anti-environment Fast-Track bill 90% opposed the Treaty Principles Bill earlier in the year, and, Almost 100% of submitters opposed the Regulatory Standards Bill (RSB) Despite this, the Coalition Government, led by the hapless Christopher Luxon, persists in…
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It appears to be more and more inevitable that National will welch on the country's Paris Accord obligations. The obligation is essentially simple. New Zealand has promised to reduce its net greenhouse emissions by 51-55% of 2005 levels by 2035. To achieve this, we need…
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The recent decision by PNCC to remove Rangitāne o Manawatū representatives from the Culture, Arts, and Community Committee, and to remove the independent member from the Finance and Audit Committee, is not an administrative tidying-up exercise. It is a political statement. It is part of a…
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