Written By: - Date published: 6:06 am, October 27th, 2025 - 17 comments
On this Labour Day, a massive shout out to all the workers in Southland, Otago and other areas affected by the storms last week. Paid and volunteer, obvious and those in the background doing support for the frontline workers.
Written By: - Date published: 11:10 am, September 17th, 2025 - 95 comments
Some of the kids aren’t alright. What if Charlie Kirk’s murder wasn’t from the left or the right, but something else entirely?
Written By: - Date published: 11:38 am, September 1st, 2025 - 44 comments
In 2017 the Greens shifted the Overton Window on a compassionate response to poverty, but where are we now?
Written By: - Date published: 9:12 am, August 4th, 2025 - 17 comments
Another day, another stupid consequence of NACTFirst’s mongrel government policies. North Shore hospital has dedicated a ward for patients who would normally be discharged but have nowhere to go. RNZ, North Shore Hospital has an entire ward of people stuck in hospital with no medical reason to be there. The 20-bed ward was created in […]
Written By: - Date published: 9:35 am, August 2nd, 2025 - 49 comments
What are Labour’s intentions towards protecting communities and the environment?
Written By: - Date published: 1:24 pm, July 30th, 2025 - 19 comments
We are Queenstown.
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, July 21st, 2025 - 43 comments
Chloe Swarbrick and the Greens are changing the narrative on what tax is for.
Written By: - Date published: 1:23 pm, July 19th, 2025 - 11 comments
we don’t have to, but we probably should.
Written By: - Date published: 10:26 am, July 14th, 2025 - 57 comments
Nelson Tasman region is still in a civil emergency and our climate denying Prime Minister is signalling an end to future flood bail outs.
Written By: - Date published: 12:10 pm, June 10th, 2025 - 49 comments
If the Madleen activism was largely symbolic, did it work?
Written By: - Date published: 12:20 pm, June 7th, 2025 - 16 comments
Two overly emotional, sociopathic, super egos having a cock fight on social media, or a man using his power to speak edifying and crystal clear truth.
Written By: - Date published: 9:26 am, June 6th, 2025 - 54 comments
This is about what’s good and what works and why.
Written By: - Date published: 10:44 am, June 2nd, 2025 - 26 comments
As the world re-entangles and pushes our interdependence to the foreground, we need a new thesis on freedom.
Written By: - Date published: 8:07 am, May 20th, 2025 - 48 comments
In a climate crisis world we should be treating farming as a national strategic asset.How would a wealth transfer tax affect that?
Written By: - Date published: 2:43 pm, May 19th, 2025 - 3 comments
Ardern at her finest.
Written By: - Date published: 9:54 am, May 15th, 2025 - 49 comments
An economy for the people, by the people.
Written By: - Date published: 11:19 am, May 10th, 2025 - 50 comments
Given the complexities and conflict over privacy, can MPs be trusted to design a good law?
Written By: - Date published: 8:54 am, April 29th, 2025 - 59 comments
Smart move by Whanau and great for the green and the left.
Written By: - Date published: 6:04 am, April 20th, 2025 - 47 comments
The US people take to the streets again.
Written By: - Date published: 9:15 am, April 4th, 2025 - 14 comments
Phil Goff doubles down on criticism of Trump’s lies.
Written By: - Date published: 9:33 am, March 11th, 2025 - 29 comments
“well, I don’t know about a dictator, I said a third world strong man. He’s running for President, so no matter what he won’t be a dictator unless our republic completely crumbles, which I don’t anticipate it will.”
Written By: - Date published: 12:45 pm, February 27th, 2025 - 2 comments
The Green Party co-leaders gave their annual State of the Planet speech yesterday.
Written By: - Date published: 9:57 am, February 5th, 2025 - 49 comments
The Musk takeover
Written By: - Date published: 9:22 am, November 29th, 2024 - 23 comments
what did the Australians just do?
Written By: - Date published: 6:10 am, November 28th, 2024 - 60 comments
The collapse of SolarZero is a massive red flag.
Written By: - Date published: 1:12 pm, October 10th, 2024 - 59 comments
Catastrophe and meaningful response.
Written By: - Date published: 10:55 am, August 8th, 2024 - 68 comments
This is more hope than I have felt about humans in a long time
Written By: - Date published: 11:19 am, August 7th, 2024 - 18 comments
“Don’t give me culture, I’m not hearing you Rob. I can buzz around like a Beehive boy, but I’d like to see you do my job”
Written By: - Date published: 11:19 am, July 16th, 2024 - 5 comments
how’s it going five years on?
Written By: - Date published: 8:33 am, May 30th, 2024 - 18 comments
Protests by Māori and Tangata Tiriti against government policy are underway on the day of the National government’s first budget. Carkoi and Hikoi are taking place in many locations across the country.
Written By: - Date published: 6:10 am, May 25th, 2024 - 10 comments
“But the truth is that real gains only ever come out of a mobilised civil society and achieving a mobilised civil society is exactly what we have to do.”
– Russel Norman
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