Written By: - Date published: 10:43 am, August 2nd, 2025 - 5 comments
A recent dump of papers relating to the cancellation of the Pay Equity scheme suggest that Christopher Luxon was the primary driver behind the decision to do this under urgency.
Written By: - Date published: 10:12 am, July 31st, 2025 - 31 comments
Using a really shoddy parliamentary procedure Shane Jones has introduced an amendment to a bill that will potentially reduce oil industry liability for clean up costs.
Written By: - Date published: 12:07 pm, July 29th, 2025 - 26 comments
Chris Hipkins came up with a zinger yesterday calling Christopher Luxon and Nicolas Willis “Fisher and Paykel” because of the incredible amount of spin they produce.
Written By: - Date published: 12:06 pm, July 28th, 2025 - 29 comments
Judith Collins has issued a Bill of Rights report which concludes that National’s proposed changes to the enrollment electoral laws breach the Bill of Rights Act.
Written By: - Date published: 10:16 am, July 28th, 2025 - 62 comments
Winston Peters is proposing to engage in a Nigel Farage Reform style circus relying on racial division to get him over the line at the next election.
Written By: - Date published: 1:31 pm, July 25th, 2025 - 42 comments
National has announced electoral law changes that will disenfranchise some voters who tend to vote left. And David Seymour has described them as being dropkicks.
Written By: - Date published: 11:20 am, July 24th, 2025 - 11 comments
For some time now National has been crowing about how they have solved the emergency housing problem in Aotearoa. But a recent report suggests that their policies have cause a surge in the number of homeless kiwis.
Written By: - Date published: 10:22 am, July 22nd, 2025 - 9 comments
The Commerce Commission has dismissed Federated Farmers’ claim that banks offering lower interest rates to clients who meet greenhouse gas emission targets are engaging in cartel type behavior.
Written By: - Date published: 12:25 pm, July 16th, 2025 - 23 comments
* according to Seymour when it comes to International and Domestic condemnation of his Regulatory Standards Bill.
Written By: - Date published: 7:50 am, July 15th, 2025 - 16 comments
Christopher Luxon has engaged in a classic example of bumper sticker politics by blaming Labour for excessive power prices, not the structure of the power sector. And he has completely ignored the imperitave action that climate change demands the country takes.
Written By: - Date published: 9:20 am, July 9th, 2025 - 9 comments
After months and months of speculation as to its content there was a bombshell announcement yesterday by the United States Justice Department. There is no Epstein list of wealthy men who preyed on vulnerable young women.
Written By: - Date published: 2:50 pm, July 6th, 2025 - 64 comments
Reality Check Radio has on the eve of the Royal Commission of Inquiry’s hearings into the Government’s Covid response released a petition suggesting that Jacinda Ardern and others have been put on trial.
Written By: - Date published: 1:00 pm, June 29th, 2025 - 56 comments
Hopefully what we witnessed in Parliament this week will return a trend to the politics of kindness that Jacinda Ardern practised. And one holding respect for Te Ao Māori at its core.
Written By: - Date published: 9:56 am, June 25th, 2025 - 25 comments
David Seymour has been criticised for breaching the Cabinet Manual when posting Parliamentary Service funded social media attack ads against academic opponents to the Regulatory Standards Bill.
Written By: - Date published: 3:07 pm, June 20th, 2025 - 15 comments
Ruth Richardson remains totally convinced that her “mother of all budgets” was appropriate and claims that it was responsible for slaying inflation and promoting a high-growth high-wage high-employment economy.
Written By: - Date published: 9:14 am, June 12th, 2025 - 79 comments
Shortly after the release of Jacinda Ardern’s autobiography comes news of the release of a new biography for which the funding of and motivation for are not clear.
Written By: - Date published: 11:07 am, June 8th, 2025 - 4 comments
With National aligned Desley Simpson ruling herself out of the Mayoralty race and pledging support for Wayne Brown Auckland’s mayoral contest looks like it will be a two way battle between Brown and Kerrin Leoni.
Written By: - Date published: 9:05 am, June 5th, 2025 - 16 comments
After David Seymour’s claim that 99.5% of submissions against his Regulatory Standards Bill were generated by AI bots it is relevant to review the time that he was implicated in the purchase of Russian sex bots to bolster his Instagram following.
Written By: - Date published: 3:01 pm, June 4th, 2025 - 11 comments
Brooke Van Velden has announced changes to Workplace safety laws that will see prosecutions of Employers decrease but prosecutions of workers start.
Written By: - Date published: 8:26 am, June 1st, 2025 - 13 comments
Chris Bishop has chosen to say loudly and publicly “what a load of crap” during a song celebrating Te Reo Maori performed during the Aotearoa Music Awards ceremony.
Written By: - Date published: 9:55 am, May 30th, 2025 - 7 comments
In the United States Republicans have been compared to Apex Predators and Democrats to a deer in headlights. Which animal does Labour resemble and which animal should it aspire to resemble?
Written By: - Date published: 8:19 am, May 28th, 2025 - 8 comments
In very bad news for the Government former National MP Marilyn Waring has announced that she will be doing something the Government did not do, organise hearings to consider the Government’s sabotaging of Pay Equity.
Written By: - Date published: 7:05 am, May 27th, 2025 - 25 comments
A comparison of Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Budget and Nicola Willis’s recent budget disclose remarkable similarities.
Written By: - Date published: 9:35 am, May 21st, 2025 - 15 comments
Faced with the threat of an impassioned filibuster against the Priviliges Committee extreme recommendations the Government yesterday abruptly stopped debate on the committee report by voting to adjourn the debate.
Written By: - Date published: 3:39 pm, May 19th, 2025 - 21 comments
The Privileges Committee recommendation for suspension of three Maori Party MPs for performing a haka in Parliament has been described as appearing to be partisan, indefensible and open to attacks of racism. Parliament’s response tomorrow will show how political the issue has become.
Written By: - Date published: 1:45 pm, May 18th, 2025 - 6 comments
The Waitangi Tribunal’s interim judgment on the Regulatory Standards Bill strongly suggests the Government has been playing games with it.
Written By: - Date published: 9:58 am, May 16th, 2025 - 40 comments
The Government’s desire to heavily punish Maori Party MPs for their haka in Parliament in opposition to the Treaty Principles Bill may have a dramatic effect on Budget Week.
Written By: - Date published: 8:38 am, May 16th, 2025 - 51 comments
National has launched an all out attack on Labour for accusing it of cutting women’s pay, even though this is precisely what it has done.
Written By: - Date published: 10:22 am, May 13th, 2025 - 70 comments
Future historians may consider Nicola Willis to be the country’s worst Finance Minister, even worse than Rob Muldoon and Ruth Richardson.
Written By: - Date published: 10:47 am, May 11th, 2025 - 24 comments
Following on from the undermining under urgency of the current Pay Equity scheme the Government intends to introduce the Regulatory Standards Bill which if passed would have a significant adverse effect on collective rights and environmental action.
Written By: - Date published: 10:13 am, May 10th, 2025 - 58 comments
When the history of the sixth National Government is written I am confident that the events of this week when the Pay Equity system was smashed up will be described as the the beginning of the end.
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