Written By: - Date published: 1:15 pm, April 30th, 2026 - 40 comments
Opinion – Jacinda Ardern was a great Prime Minister and her loss was actually ours.
Written By: - Date published: 10:38 am, April 21st, 2026 - 21 comments
Multiple leadership coups have been attempted on Luxon, but even as the PM flails on 17% approval, he and his loyalist Ministers say unruly MPs will be disciplined. Who are the latest?
Written By: - Date published: 1:24 pm, April 19th, 2026 - 33 comments
National Party Minister Chris Bishop claims that Luxon has the full support of all Caucus members in the latest development of the Luxon coup attempts
Written By: - Date published: 12:13 pm, April 17th, 2026 - 12 comments
Is this the final straw for Luxon? And what legacy has he left behind?
Written By: - Date published: 10:07 pm, March 27th, 2026 - 23 comments
Shane Jones appeals for understanding for the Coalition, but did he extend any to others?
Written By: - Date published: 6:41 pm, March 27th, 2026 - 24 comments
NZ First have been busy sowing disinformation. So why don’t they take responsibility for cancelling a decision to stock public diesel reserves and increase duration?
Written By: - Date published: 1:16 pm, March 25th, 2026 - 5 comments
National is fundraising and for $10,000 you can buy access to sit with the PM
Written By: - Date published: 1:29 pm, March 24th, 2026 - 30 comments
ACT Deputy Leader Brooke van Velden announced her resignation today. What did she achieve during her tenure? And how will history remember her?
Written By: - Date published: 7:49 pm, March 23rd, 2026 - 24 comments
Is NZ going to join the Iran war?
Written By: - Date published: 7:21 pm, March 22nd, 2026 - 3 comments
As fuel crisis continues, National continues to hesitate and “analyse”. Today Willis denied she was not taking it seriously but also said her first port of call was to increase the range of fuels available for import into the country
Written By: - Date published: 5:16 pm, March 22nd, 2026 - 9 comments
Today I learned, we owe a great debt to Grant Roberston and just wanted to say thanks
Written By: - Date published: 1:49 pm, March 6th, 2026 - 10 comments
Latest poll results show a gain of 10 seats by Labour but don’t forget the voter disenfranchisement laws and NZME’s Editorial Direction is still to come
Written By: - Date published: 7:56 pm, March 4th, 2026 - 5 comments
TVNZ Board members reached out to Paul Goldsmith on media stories, and later added stories to satisfy National Party Ministers
Written By: - Date published: 12:56 pm, February 27th, 2026 - 7 comments
Gang profits have doubled, international organised crime strengthening their hooks, NZ has lost experienced cops, retail crime is up and often being ignored, drug use is at full blown crisis, domestic violence at 8 year highs, and the violent crime numbers are off base
Written By: - Date published: 2:28 pm, February 26th, 2026 - 7 comments
Senior National Party Cabinet Minister tried to have police arrest homelessness in Auckland 18 years ago. This year he succeeded
Written By: - Date published: 2:23 pm, February 26th, 2026 - 7 comments
How misinformation was used to discredit Tamatha Paul to divert attention away from genuine issues around Moa Point’s sewage disaster
Written By: - Date published: 3:07 pm, February 10th, 2026 - 19 comments
National Party, laser focused on the cost of living, threw away ~$1 billion on ferries, introduced Paywave changes that will increase fees & are now levying a new tax on Kiwi families and businesses
Written By: - Date published: 2:56 pm, February 10th, 2026 - 5 comments
OPINION: I visited Facebook recently and noticed some fake accounts (you know the ones with AI pictures depicting Māori in an unfavourable light, along with NZ flags featured prominently, as if love for a country is about a piece of cloth), and there’s a distinct anti-Indian sentiment being cultivated on the platform
Written By: - Date published: 10:02 pm, February 8th, 2026 - 9 comments
The NZ government has shrouded US rare minerals discussions in secrecy, refusing to provide information to Kiwis even as the US confirms talks are in progress. The agreement may requires countries to commit to accelerated and extended mining
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, February 6th, 2026 - 7 comments
TTR were asked to apply for Fast-Track by Chris Bishop after trying and failing for a decade through NZ courts. Yesterday, it looked like they were rejected again
Written By: - Date published: 12:50 pm, February 4th, 2026 - 8 comments
Unemployment hits 5.4% in the December quarter, but that doesn’t include the 140,000 plus Kiwi citizens that have fled in the last 2 years
Written By: - Date published: 8:37 am, February 3rd, 2026 - 9 comments
NZ First is openly allegiant to commercial fishers, mining (fossil fuels) and tobacco companies, but is it really their fault?
Written By: - Date published: 7:57 am, January 30th, 2026 - 14 comments
2026 school lunches are just as bad, but they are also emblematic of Seymour’s spin and facade
Written By: - Date published: 8:14 am, January 28th, 2026 - 43 comments
Australia’s media covers the nefarious rise and links of Atlas Network in Australia and NZ.
Written By: - Date published: 6:55 am, January 26th, 2026 - 268 comments
How misinformation and lies created the environment for battle in the US and elsewhere
Written By: - Date published: 8:25 am, January 22nd, 2026 - 11 comments
Some NZ hospitals are going into critical status at least twice a day, turning away patients who are then as twice likely to die. Plus: National isn’t meeting its targets and election day announced.
Written By: - Date published: 9:36 am, January 12th, 2026 - 6 comments
Mountain Tūī Opinion and Analysis on New Zealand’s “C” word
Written By: - Date published: 12:43 pm, January 10th, 2026 - 17 comments
Brooke Van Velden, responsible for refusing a firefighters’ levy increase in 2024, piled on to firefighters who have been struggling for over a year to be heard – leading to catastrophic losses & risk
Written By: - Date published: 9:39 am, January 6th, 2026 - 12 comments
The company has been accused of using outdated encryption protocols, and has been slow to respond to community concerns. And importantly, has National put our other public health data at risk too?
Written By: - Date published: 11:44 am, January 1st, 2026 - 67 comments
Israel bans 37 NGOs from Gaza including the world renowned medical charity Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontière)
Written By: - Date published: 7:31 am, December 19th, 2025 - 3 comments
Masterton hospital has been deemed structurally unsafe with money awarded for its remediation after a long court case.
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