Posts on the economy, work, business, income, and labour
Written By: - Date published: 5:16 pm, June 6th, 2026 - 4 comments
FiveEyes issues warning re possible Chinese intelligence recruiting methods! Beware! China issues warning re already recruited anti-China MPs. Cue shock horror!
Written By: - Date published: 10:34 am, June 6th, 2026 - 10 comments
Electricity and Data Centres are a major problem and opportunity for New Zealand.
Written By: - Date published: 5:39 pm, May 28th, 2026 - No comments
The Peoples’ Budget Lock-Up 2026 brings together unions, iwi, students, community organisations, advocates, and workers to collectively respond to Budget 2026 and help shape a people-centred alternative.
At 9pm BHN will talk first with Chris Hipkins, then later with Ricardo Menendez.
Written By: - Date published: 11:31 am, May 24th, 2026 - 5 comments
Paul Goldsmith’s move on orders bill applies to young people aged 14 even though existing legislation provides police with all the powers they need to deal with homeless young people.
Written By: - Date published: 1:36 pm, May 22nd, 2026 - 6 comments
The coming oil shock is not just about oil. The future is baked in, and its not good. National’s backward-looking budget will make it much worse.
Written By: - Date published: 8:55 am, May 22nd, 2026 - 32 comments
There are still those who pine, from the readership of Jacinda Ardern’s biography, for a state that is perfectly kind, does everything with speed and authority, and brims with patrician wisdom for us all. Her 1.5 terms held many instances in which the state operated on the extremes of control to respond to massive crises.
Written By: - Date published: 8:19 am, May 22nd, 2026 - 32 comments
How cruel do you have to be to raise rents for some of our poorest citizens during a cost of living crisis?
Written By: - Date published: 3:13 pm, May 21st, 2026 - 7 comments
Palantir, founded by Alex Karp and New Zealand citizen Peter Thiel, is at the centre of an array of A.I. driven kill programmes for the US, Israeli and other militaries, including the NZDF.
Written By: - Date published: 9:01 am, May 18th, 2026 - 46 comments
Winston Peters is trying to appeal to the far left by calling for the renationalisation of the Bank of New Zealand.
Written By: - Date published: 2:42 pm, May 15th, 2026 - 4 comments
Some initial ideas about the integrated policy package Labour must consider if it is to meet contemporary challenges posed by emerging populism and the narrowing of the Labour vision over the past five decades
Written By: - Date published: 10:20 am, May 14th, 2026 - 33 comments
Why is Chris Bishop wanting to review the cost of the City Rail Link while at the same time is happy to proceed with roads of national signficance that are very expensive but provide limited financial return?
Written By: - Date published: 4:23 pm, May 7th, 2026 - 11 comments
That RNZ tricolon has always been infuriating fluff. In the real world, analysts warn we are heading for a cliff.
Written By: - Date published: 9:36 am, May 2nd, 2026 - 83 comments
Superannuation is the ultimate Don’t Go There of New Zealand politics. But unless this benefit becomes means tested rather than subsidises rich asset-hoarding old people, it is going to sink every other part of the government.
Written By: - Date published: 1:58 pm, May 1st, 2026 - 6 comments
When Ambassador Chen Mingming sent Zhang Wei in 2005 to ask me whether Winston Peters would follow government policy, I said I didn’t know but would ask. I did, and he did.
Written By: - Date published: 5:54 pm, April 21st, 2026 - 65 comments
The world is turned upside down and challenges progressive politics to change gear.
Written By: - Date published: 6:10 am, April 21st, 2026 - 28 comments
“The plan would electrify homes, transport and industry, ending New Zealand’s dependence on unpredictable global fossil fuel markets, cutting household power bills, and building real energy security at home.”
Written By: - Date published: 3:17 pm, April 18th, 2026 - 36 comments
My hunch is that Luxon stands down as Prime Minister, to be replaced by Mark Mitchell.
Written By: - Date published: 10:15 am, April 6th, 2026 - 48 comments
As this Government’s inaction over the oil crisis becomes more pronounced more and more people are noticing that Christopher Luxon is missing in action.
Written By: - Date published: 12:13 pm, April 2nd, 2026 - 31 comments
The Government’s complete reluctance to do anything about the approaching oil crisis is in stark contrast to the approach adopted by more progressive administrative governments overseas.
Written By: - Date published: 9:06 am, April 2nd, 2026 - 59 comments
reasons to feel hopeful but not complacent.
Written By: - Date published: 8:51 am, March 31st, 2026 - 27 comments
This is the kind of Just Transition story that turns us in the right direction.
Written By: - Date published: 10:48 am, March 30th, 2026 - 24 comments
Responses to the government’s National Fuel Plan.
Written By: - Date published: 12:41 am, March 29th, 2026 - 13 comments
In the tradition of Community Mutual Aid, Wise Response have published When the Trucks Stop: Mutual Aid Arrangements for a Fuel-Constrained New Zealand
Written By: - Date published: 12:36 pm, March 27th, 2026 - 23 comments
Nicola Willis and Shane Jones present the details in the current plan for the Hormz oill crisis.
Written By: - Date published: 1:43 pm, March 26th, 2026 - 7 comments
Stand with Pike representatives have submitted to the Government that its proposed changes to worker safety laws will make people less safe at work.
Written By: - Date published: 12:35 pm, March 26th, 2026 - 20 comments
Officials have been doing private, media excluded, webinars with selected businesses. That seems pretty dodgy while our diesel stocks look like they will run out in a few weeks. Rather than (maybe) tomorrow, the government should have been rationing the unproductive Remuera tractors weeks ago.
Written By: - Date published: 1:22 pm, March 25th, 2026 - 6 comments
This government has an appalling record of large scale business closures, which continue to damage the careers of thousands of New Zealand workers.
Written By: - Date published: 11:15 am, March 24th, 2026 - 23 comments
The Government will today announce its response to increasing pressure on household budgets cause by the oil crisis. And it seems inevitable that poor people who are not working will be excluded from its effect.
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: 6:50 pm, March 20th, 2026 - 30 comments
In absence of a concrete leadership plan from this government to address the impending oil supply crisis, this post is for us to simply note down what actions we are taking ourselves.
Written By: - Date published: 4:33 pm, March 19th, 2026 - 46 comments
The government has shifted position and is now directly talking about the need to plan and prepare for a potential crisis and doing so for the worst case scenario.
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