Written By: - Date published: 9:56 am, September 6th, 2026 - 4 comments
This week the Government reluctantly reversed its intent to allow homeless teenagers to be prosecuted if they did not move to somewhere less safe when required to move on by police.
Written By: - Date published: 4:25 pm, September 1st, 2026 - 22 comments
Christopher Luxon has asked Air New Zealand to explain what caused its recently announced significant loss. The answer appears to be a decision made by Air New Zealand while he was Chief Executive.
Written By: - Date published: 8:46 am, August 30th, 2026 - 24 comments
After spending all term undermining the Country’s climate change response the Government now wants to improve the country’s ability to meet the Country’s Paris Accord obligations.
Written By: - Date published: 7:39 pm, August 22nd, 2026 - 69 comments
The Opportunities Party wishes to enrich Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Larry Ellison by giving them tax breaks to establish data centres in Aotearoa.
Written By: - Date published: 9:39 am, August 21st, 2026 - 16 comments
Very sad recent news from yesterday. Three homeless people in Aotearoa, the land of plenty, have recently frozen to death.
Written By: - Date published: 7:50 pm, August 16th, 2026 - 9 comments
When voting this year vote Climate.
Written By: - Date published: 10:07 am, August 16th, 2026 - 15 comments
A late police response to an OIA request concerning Labour List candidate Rakesh Naidoo raises concerns that the Police are acting politically.
Written By: - Date published: 10:56 am, August 13th, 2026 - 48 comments
Christopher Luxon may have kept the National Party leadership yesterday but National’s chances in this year’s election just became much worse.
Written By: - Date published: 7:44 am, August 12th, 2026 - 77 comments
Christopher Luxon’s decision to call a National Caucus meeting this morning to vote on his leadership may result in him being forced to walk the plank.
Written By: - Date published: 2:19 pm, August 7th, 2026 - 3 comments
Christopher Luxon completed a week from Hell by calling his coleaders Yahoo and Numpty and obliterating Media coverage of the announcement of the opening of Auckland’s City Rail Tunnel and of new industry designed school subjects.
Written By: - Date published: 10:28 am, August 6th, 2026 - 26 comments
It has been disclosed that Christopher Luxon used an Air Force plane to fly him from a National Party fundraiser in Whanganui to his home in Auckland.
Written By: - Date published: 10:40 am, August 4th, 2026 - 25 comments
As we enter the home strait for the 2026 election National strategists must be thinking “what the f*(k do we do from here”? Because Christopher Luxon’s complete indifference to the difficulties businesses are facing and his inability to control Winston Peters are harming National’s reelection prospects big time.
Written By: - Date published: 6:21 pm, August 1st, 2026 - 139 comments
The Opportunity Party has a hidden objective. They want to make huge cuts to the Public Service that even Act would look at and think “that is brave”. And they have been less than open about the cuts.
Written By: - Date published: 1:11 pm, July 31st, 2026 - 37 comments
New Zealand First is peddling nonsense law changes straight out of the Donald Trump playbook. And engaging in obnoxious racist behaviour. And Christopher Luxon does not have the ability to stop them or control them.
Written By: - Date published: 9:33 am, July 23rd, 2026 - 29 comments
With the demise of Stuart Nash’s planned resumption of his political career the question has to be asked, did Stuart Nash leave NZ First or did NZ First leave Stuart Nash?
Written By: - Date published: 11:13 am, July 21st, 2026 - 8 comments
Shane Jones underscored Christopher Luxon’s weakness by telling him publicly that he needed to “take off your kneepads” when receiving a visit from foreign leaders without repercussion.
Written By: - Date published: 10:15 am, July 18th, 2026 - 28 comments
Winston Peters has engaged in classic dead cat political behaviour by publicly announcing that one of the new Interisland ferries will be called “Cook” and diverting the debate from the cost to the name.
Written By: - Date published: 7:02 pm, July 14th, 2026 - 13 comments
Michael Laws and Paul Henry are planning a return to Parliament. Laws as a potential New Zealand First MP and Henry as an Act MP. Does Parliament really need more shock jocks?
Written By: - Date published: 9:41 am, July 14th, 2026 - 64 comments
The latest RNZ Reid Research Poll suggests that the chances of Christopher Luxon needing a new job after the next election are increasing.
Written By: - Date published: 8:21 am, July 10th, 2026 - 18 comments
Something to do on Matariki Day, celebrate Te Ao Aotearoa. RNZ has invited people to vote and comment on the list of the 100 best Kiwi songs and the top 50 will be played today.
Written By: - Date published: 11:32 am, July 3rd, 2026 - 10 comments
In a land of milk and honey you would think that every kiwi would have plenty to eat and somewhere to live. But this week has shown the Government wants to refuse emergency to some poor people and feed young children inadequate school lunches.
Written By: - Date published: 12:27 pm, June 27th, 2026 - 6 comments
This week Tama Potaka announced the Government will backtrack on a proposal that would have allowed for the sale of up to 60% of the country’s conservation land. But Shane Jones then completely undermined the announcement by talking about using Conservation land for mining.
Written By: - Date published: 3:52 pm, June 24th, 2026 - 21 comments
National’s recent Kiwisaver announcement, expected to cost $110 million a year, only pays back some of the savings from its erlier Kiwisaver cuts expected to save $610 million a year, and appears to be signs ofincreasing panic.
Written By: - Date published: 11:50 am, June 21st, 2026 - 21 comments
Is AI the great savoiur for our civilisation? Or a fast track to environmental, social and economic devasation?
Written By: - Date published: 12:04 pm, June 17th, 2026 - 10 comments
In the United States and in New Zealand the current administrations wish to speed up the finalisation of election results by supressing the right to vote.
Written By: - Date published: 8:58 am, June 15th, 2026 - 16 comments
It is strange for a party in power finishing its first term to call a media event on a Sunday just so it can attack the opposition. But this is what happened yesterday.
Written By: - Date published: 10:55 am, June 14th, 2026 - 159 comments
The Opportunity Party which has a suite of progressive policies thinks that it can work with National, even though National’s priorities should be an anathema to it.
Written By: - Date published: 10:19 am, June 12th, 2026 - 12 comments
National, a party of supposed economic geniuses, will spend billions on an LNG terminal that is not needed, billions on roads of National significance whose business cases are appalling, and attack Labour for a policy that is cheap, will help ordinary people, reduce fuel dependancy and greenhouse gas emissions.
Written By: - Date published: 12:10 pm, June 10th, 2026 - 44 comments
Labour’s recently announced list contains a number of new impressive candidates and is clear evidence that the party is being rejuvinated.
Written By: - Date published: 11:54 am, June 4th, 2026 - 117 comments
When it is a right wing astroturfing front.
Written By: - Date published: 9:37 am, June 1st, 2026 - 30 comments
The timing of the recent suggestion by Chris Penk that New Zealand should review its nuclear free policy makes you wonder if the Trump Administration has applied pressure to do so.
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