Experts: Power reforms wasteful, expensive
Associate Professor Earl Bardsley, Waikato University: taking Tekapo A and B power stations from Meridian and giving them to Genesis means Meridian must […]
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Against the atheist bus campaign
I’m sorry, but I just can’t see the point of this atheist bus campaign. New Zealand is one of the most secular countries […]
New Kiwi blog
Sean Makes Crafts. A new blog by Morning Report host Sean Plunket, who writes about his passion for crafts. As some of you […]
Easter trading defeated (again)
A victory for New Zealand’s 270,000 retail workers and their families last night, with Parliament voting 62-59 to reject National MP Todd McClay’s […]
Goff attacks govt on wages
Check out Phil Goff’s general debate speech yesterday on In The House, a handy new site paid for by the Office of the […]
What is Whanau Ora?
Family Commissioner Jan Pryor says she can’t give a definition of Whanau Ora, Tariana Turia’s pet programme that Pryor’s Commission will be helping […]
Driven to corruption
It turns out I understated the latest National ministers’ rort. Not only were the rules changed to allow ministers to have their taxpayer-funded self-drive […]
Key aids English’s latest rort
Ministers are given self-drive taxpayer-funded cars for official business in their electorates (in Wellington they have crown limos at their disposal for official […]
Silly stories
Helmetless Hone: Keen to continue the Hone Harawira saga, One News reported that complaints had been laid over Harawira not wearing a helmet […]
Caption contest
Exclusive: New evidence shows Lee lied about NZ on Air funding
Newly uncovered correspondence between Melissa Lee and NZ on Air shows that she and her leader, John Key, seriously misled the media, the […]
Govt tries to silence dissent
The Government, stung by criticism of its inept education policies, is trying to silence teachers. Their plan is to make teachers, principals, and […]
Goff: Scrap the 2025 Taskforce
We all know the 2025 Taskforce is a farce and a waste of taxpayers’ money. The Government has disowned it, the critics have […]
Hone back but Maori Party divisions laid bare
So Hone Harawira has been readmitted into the fold of the Maori Party. It’s hard to see how excluding him from Parliament until […]
Greens release Green New Deal pt 2
Anyone who thinks that our economic troubles are over because the economy grew 0.1% is delusional. And no-one seriously believes that we don’t […]
Need an exemption from the law? Just ask a corrupt Nat
Doug Schmuck owns and runs a boatyard in Opua in the Bay of Islands. The boatyard borders a public reserve. Schmuck wants to […]
Jon Stewart’s Glenn Beck parody
Caught this on The Nation. Brilliant. Jon Stewart has done it again, and this time he even brought out his acting chops. In […]
President punches kid in face
The Associated Press reports: Romania’s government has collapsed and its economy is in shambles but its presidential campaign has been dominated in recent […]
Public rage at govt policies and lies
On Nightline just now there was coverage of a meeting held by Nick Smith in St Heliers. Two interesting things: 1) there was […]
Nats’ backers tire of do-nothing Key
Reading Fran O’Sullivan is always interesting because she provides an insight into the thinking of the business elite who fund National, and who expect it […]
Goff’s speech
Phil Goff’s speech on ‘nationhood’ was always going to be seen as an attempt to pull a Brash, regardless of what it actually […]
Brash report tipped to be toxic
Jenni McManus reports in The Independent [offline]: The first report from the 2025 Taskforce is due on Monday and the word is its […]
Maori Party meltdown
How long can the Maori Party survive before it collapses under the weight of its own contradictions? The idea of a single party […]
Sharples and the Maori Party revolt
Via Newsroom [offline], Pita Sharples has confirmed reports of an internal revolt within the Maori Party over its support for National’s ETS. The […]
Armstrong on Calamity Nick
Wrapped in a bit of fluff, John Armstrong has some pretty damning things to say about Nick Smith today: He can be headstrong. […]
Employers ripping off job ops money
National has only come up with one employment policy to counter the recession. No, not the cycleway – ‘job ops‘. It works like […]
Key’s busy day
Ha! But seriously, I doubt that Key changes his own oil.
Shane Jones on National’s ETS
Not all ETSs are created equal
On his blog, Colin Espiner writes: “it’s also extremely ironic to hear Labour wringing its hands about the impact of the ETS when…HELLO…Labour […]
Harawira and Katene to cross the floor?
National wants to get its shambolic ETS through the House this week. It’s not quite clear what the hurry is; there’s no actual […]
Goff gets it right, as Key goes off the rails
Phil Goff has managed to defy the critics and make himself relevant. His speech on ACC and his criticisms of National’s backroom deals […]
Big brother is yarning to your boss
The Sunday Star Times reports that police have been passing private information about staff members onto Air New Zealand via the official information […]
Trade trumps human rights for Key
What a strange little editorial in the Herald today. It’s a typical spin piece that tries to frame John Key’s shoddy behaviour in not […]
How much astroturf can you buy for $500,000?
Tomorrow the Christian Right are holding a self-styled ‘March for Democracy’ that’s been bankrolled to the tune of $500,000 by Auckland property developer […]
Bludging farmers
The Fed Farmers have used Goff’s speech on monetary policy to have another whinge about beneficiaries, who they reckon are somehow to blame […]
F**k, an end to profanity?
A reader alerted us to this petition that was presented by National’s Paul Hutchison to Parliament on Tuesday: Petition of Nathan James Ngatai […]