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National Government will have increased gross debt by over $100b – Who benefits ?

Written By: - Date published: 4:02 pm, August 19th, 2025 - 21 comments

The debt bogeyman has been unleashed in NZ, which we will examine – but even on face value, National Party debt is 25% more than Labour’s full debt contribution over 6 years – with no global pandemic

“Dirty Politics” Rachel Glucina Is Behind Nicola Willis PM Rumours

Written By: - Date published: 3:32 pm, August 19th, 2025 - 13 comments

Stuff and The Post was eager to repeat rumours of a PM Nicola Willis. Who was behind it?

How was National able to take down construction so quickly?

Written By: - Date published: 7:51 pm, August 15th, 2025 - 67 comments

Industry experts say Chris Bishop and his party are to blame, but Bishop denies it, saying construction industry leaders are just “wrong”

Should Labour attend a set-up?

Written By: - Date published: 10:57 pm, August 13th, 2025 - 158 comments

The Government is accusing Labour of all sorts of bad things for not attending the second week of the Covid-19 inquiry.

National Party wants to sell / exchange up to 67% of NZ’s conservation lands

Written By: - Date published: 3:50 pm, August 8th, 2025 - 42 comments

National say they will “unleash growth”. That may be by selling / exchanging 5 million hectares of conservation land, much of it with “high ecological value” – representing 2/3 of the entire estate.

Goldsmith’s Voter Suppression Affects 15-20% of Voters

Written By: - Date published: 7:31 pm, July 25th, 2025 - 21 comments

The voters registered about 13 days leading up to and including election day surpasses total ACT and NZ First votes by 140,000

NZ Government is Captured

Written By: - Date published: 12:01 pm, July 24th, 2025 - 11 comments

Winston Peters’ recent “sausage” insults distract From Regulatory Capture in our government. Opinion/analysis by Mountain Tui

Why is National so desperate for Labour to release policy?

Written By: - Date published: 7:09 pm, July 21st, 2025 - 23 comments

National Party Ministers have been goading Labour to share policies for a while now. Why?

Do you want to protect NZ’s sensitive land and assets?

Written By: - Date published: 1:15 pm, July 21st, 2025 - 9 comments

You have 2 days more to submit on ACT’s Overseas Investment Act changes

National raided $6,000,000,000 infrastructure & flood fund

Written By: - Date published: 7:47 pm, July 20th, 2025 - 25 comments

Tasman, Top of the South Island patiently waits after National raided $6 billion infrastructure fund

GCSB & NZSIS warn ACT Bill risks NZ’s National Security

Written By: - Date published: 11:59 am, July 17th, 2025 - 5 comments

Judith Collins was briefed in March 2025 that David Seymour and Bryce Wilkinson’s proposal is incompatible with safeguarding the country from espionage, sabotage and terrorism.

You Can’t Kill A Rainbow

Written By: - Date published: 11:51 am, July 17th, 2025 - 19 comments

The incongruence of transgender fear

Almost $20 million budget cut to RNZ is met with … near silence from Kiwis

Written By: - Date published: 8:06 pm, July 3rd, 2025 - 68 comments

Why public interest journalism matters

Cecilia Robinson’s Tend Health Win

Written By: - Date published: 1:10 pm, June 12th, 2025 - 37 comments

For-profit healthcare continues its acceleration under National as second largest private healthcare provider in Australia shuts down

Homelessness up by 58% in Auckland

Written By: - Date published: 5:35 pm, June 7th, 2025 - 8 comments

$250mn in emergency housing “savings” a year under National, while government increases corrections budget to ~$2b a year, and will surpass NZ’s ”moral and fiscal prison failure prison rate” by 2026

Seeing Is Believing

Written By: - Date published: 2:05 pm, May 30th, 2025 - 9 comments

A video post, starring Christopher Luxon, Chris Hipkins, Nicola Willis and Winston Peters. Featuring Debbie Ngarewa-Packer as star prosecutor.

Nicola Willis’s Debt Higher Than All 6 Years of Ardern Government

Written By: - Date published: 12:31 pm, May 28th, 2025 - 18 comments

Current & planned debt will surpass Labour’s full term debt in less years. Willis also admitted Budget 2024 had a higher deficit than all of Grant Robertson’s bar Covid.

It’s Time — To Fight.

Written By: - Date published: 8:03 am, May 8th, 2025 - 18 comments

Pay Equity Amendment Bill passes through all stages under urgency late last night, destroying decades of progress and putting men and women alike back.

NZD Freefalls & NZ First Linked To Green Party Attack Ads

Written By: - Date published: 10:57 am, April 8th, 2025 - 3 comments

Headlines: NZD free falls, misleading Green Party attack ads linked to NZ First, making NZDF lethal, and American billionaires regret support for Trump

Trump’s Secret Sauce Hits NZ

Written By: - Date published: 7:50 pm, April 6th, 2025 - 11 comments

What is Trump’s secret sauce? And what parallels and lessons can we draw in Aotearoa New Zealand, before it’s too late?

What Tamatha Paul Really Said

Written By: - Date published: 2:22 pm, March 28th, 2025 - 22 comments

Tamatha Paul’s comments on policing have been criticised by Luxon as “insane” but a closer look at what she really said shows how much her comments have been taken out of context.
Meanwhile, National’s law and order track record is only deteriorating.

Yeah, Nah, National Don’t Deserve A Second Term

Written By: - Date published: 3:34 pm, March 27th, 2025 - 23 comments

A response to right wing commentator Matthew Hooton.

Deloitte’s Health NZ Review Falls Short

Written By: - Date published: 7:56 pm, March 10th, 2025 - 8 comments

Shane Reti and Simeon Brown

This week Simeon Brown used a Deloitte report to criticise Health NZ and accelerate his privatisation message. But, writes Mountain Tui, the Deloitte report appears to reveal a lot more from what it omitted, than what it covered.

Luxon’s Untenable Grasp

Written By: - Date published: 4:24 pm, March 7th, 2025 - 11 comments

Last year I predicted Luxon would be replaced within the term. But by linking his credibility to Seymour’s preservative laden, scalding, burning and burnt school lunch program this week, Luxon has accelerated his political demise.

Canadian billionaire linked to right wing websites buys a near 10% of NZME shares

Written By: - Date published: 1:45 pm, March 3rd, 2025 - 14 comments

James “Jim” Grenon spends almost $10 million to buy a ~10% stake in the publisher of NZ Herald and owner of Newstalk ZB.

3 Things To Know About This Government – 8 Things We Should All Do Now

Written By: - Date published: 11:47 am, March 3rd, 2025 - 10 comments

This is an excerpt from a longer article: What Can We Do Again?

Come Rich Foreigners – New Zealand Is For Sale

Written By: - Date published: 1:08 pm, February 24th, 2025 - 4 comments

Long signaled, all right wing parties are opening the doors for wealthy foreigners to easily acquire our significant assets and lands.

New school lunches waste appears to exceed 70% as David Seymour’s incompetence and PR reliance rises to the fore

Written By: - Date published: 12:31 pm, February 24th, 2025 - 13 comments

The Associate Education Minister has defended the new school lunch program even as the government says it is not collecting any official feedback. Meanwhile no word from National’s Education Minister Erica Stanford.

Kieran McAnulty is underrated: How Chris Bishop Got Away with Blowing Up Kāinga Ora & State Housing Momentum

Written By: - Date published: 9:39 am, February 11th, 2025 - 13 comments

Kieran McAnulty’s points are fair and important – so why is media ignoring most of them? Also – Labour delivered 14,000 homes in government – so why is Chris Bishop blowing that trajectory up?

Dear Mum and Dad

Written By: - Date published: 5:05 pm, February 4th, 2025 - 5 comments

I had a great week at school!

Tim Jago is part of a bigger ACT Party issue

Written By: - Date published: 11:51 am, February 2nd, 2025 - 95 comments

The former ACT Party President’s name suppression ceased 2 years after Jago was charged, allowing ACT to bypass critical scrutiny during the 2023 election