Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, January 25th, 2026 - 6 comments
Ten months to go and there is no political party currently countering the sustained rise of New Zealand First.
Written By: - Date published: 12:18 pm, January 16th, 2026 - 17 comments
The attack on the NZ Reserve Bank is lock step with Trump.
Written By: - Date published: 3:01 pm, January 15th, 2026 - 4 comments
The merger of many functions of the central public sector concerned with cities, the environment, housing and urban development, and transport, was announced in the week before Christmas and is now underway. There’s plenty of good on the face of it.
Written By: - Date published: 7:48 am, January 10th, 2026 - 7 comments
Tim Shadbolt’s passing shows what it’s like when a bona fide radical activist gets into power for long enough to make a permanent difference.
Written By: - Date published: 12:03 pm, December 23rd, 2025 - 11 comments
Advantage gets out the crystal ball and postilated what may happen next year.
Written By: - Date published: 10:23 am, December 14th, 2025 - 13 comments
If Labour wins government in 2026, many things won’t be recoverable.
Written By: - Date published: 2:21 pm, December 8th, 2025 - 13 comments
That’s the headline of the pamphlet in the letterbox. But from their own measures is that true?
Written By: - Date published: 7:06 am, November 30th, 2025 - 19 comments
The government on Tuesday announced plans to replace regional councillors with boards made up of mayors and maybe some minister-appointed representatives. It’s a mess.
Written By: - Date published: 1:08 pm, November 29th, 2025 - 60 comments
Labour has recovered from the 26.9% vote share hiding it received in 2023, and is ready to run government again.
Written By: - Date published: 10:24 am, November 20th, 2025 - 151 comments
This weeks’ sabotage of a Polish rail line that enables freight to get to Ukraine is a big step in the undeclared war by Russia against European countries that support Ukraine.
Written By: - Date published: 9:42 am, November 17th, 2025 - 3 comments
The world’s largest economies are lowering or flatlining emissions at the same time as they are growing their economies.
Written By: - Date published: 10:52 am, November 15th, 2025 - 20 comments
This government is deliberately enabling private seabed mining in Taranaki to prevent New Zealand’s largest future renewable electricity supply.
Written By: - Date published: 2:44 pm, November 13th, 2025 - 26 comments
New Zealanders are losing confidence in the institutions that once held us together. Can this be changed?
Written By: - Date published: 8:54 am, October 31st, 2025 - 49 comments
The vast majority of Fonterra shareholders have agreed to sell all its consumer brands to Lactalis, and it’s an economic crime against New Zealand.
Written By: - Date published: 6:41 pm, October 20th, 2025 - 53 comments
Why is Labour proposing $200 million for a growth fund when New Zealand First got $3 billion?
Written By: - Date published: 2:17 pm, September 4th, 2025 - 43 comments
In 2026 New Zealand First in all likelihood will be back in power because Labour and National will need them to form government.
Written By: - Date published: 8:48 am, August 18th, 2025 - 31 comments
How can a region be so pretty, so rich, but so poor?
Written By: - Date published: 8:43 am, August 11th, 2025 - 16 comments
How to make fundamental changes to the country’s energy systems to ensure that future supply is sustainable and democratically controlled/
Written By: - Date published: 8:33 am, August 6th, 2025 - 20 comments
The country’s four main power companies have signed an agreement to stockpile coal and to extend the life of the coal-fired Huntly power station.
Written By: - Date published: 2:53 pm, July 27th, 2025 - 25 comments
If we are to renew the purpose of democracy after this current bunch of old people have had a crack at shrinking it, we need to turn this into something prospective voters can actually hope for: they can make change happen through the vote.
Written By: - Date published: 8:57 am, July 23rd, 2025 - 50 comments
None of National’s policies are working. But the time of Labour’s policy vacuum needs to be over. It’s time to make their mark and take Luxon front on and win.
Written By: - Date published: 9:41 am, July 20th, 2025 - 39 comments
… before the election starts to get real.
Written By: - Date published: 7:01 am, July 1st, 2025 - 25 comments
National is rolling out comprehensive water corporatisation, across New Zealand. For those who don’t live in Auckland, Wellington, or other centres with commercialised water services already, this is coming to you fast. “Water Done Well” is the policy of this government to require all communities to decide on forming commercial water delivery entities, to run […]
Written By: - Date published: 10:31 am, June 30th, 2025 - 26 comments
What if we broke New Zealand’s grocery misery with our own grocery store?
Written By: - Date published: 11:10 am, June 28th, 2025 - 75 comments
If Luxon and Willis go ahead with it as a policy platform for the 2026 election, and win, a raise in the age of entitlement for national superation will most likely be implemented.
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.
Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, May 12th, 2025 - 45 comments
New Zealand was once in a sustained Australasian partnership. Now, with New Zealand tracking further and further into policy extremes, Australia – and our children – are leaving New Zealand behind.
Written By: - Date published: 11:55 am, May 4th, 2025 - 13 comments
In a bargain of the damned the United States and Ukraine have signed a peace agreement to share revenues from the future sale of Ukrainian minerals and rare earths.
Written By: - Date published: 8:18 am, May 4th, 2025 - 39 comments
In yesterday’s election there was lot to cheer about. Labor won a landslide election. And Coalition leader Peter Dutton lost his seat.
Written By: - Date published: 9:15 am, April 29th, 2025 - 29 comments
ANZAC Day 2025 is just so dark in the face of a hot war in the Ukraine, and the real lack of commanding peacemakers left on this earth.
Written By: - Date published: 11:52 am, April 22nd, 2025 - 10 comments
“Let us not be afraid to say it: we want change, real change, structural change. The system has imposed the mentality of profit at any price, with no concern for social exclusion or the destruction of nature.”
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