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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.
Written By: - Date published: 1:38 pm, March 17th, 2026 - 10 comments
Driven by ideology, this Government has worsened the country’s prospects to reduce oil dependance by axing policies that would have cut greenhouse-gas emissions.
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 pm, March 16th, 2026 - 25 comments
“There are 23,000 home support workers on low wages who look after our most vulnerable people – the elderly, disabled and injured – every single day who need help urgently, right now. They deserve better than being left to foot the bill” – Fleur Fitzsimons, PSA
Written By: - Date published: 11:52 am, March 14th, 2026 - 43 comments
Jacinda Ardern led the country through some of the most taxing international crises imaginable. How would she deal with the potential oil shock caused by the Iranian war and how does this compare to Christopher Luxon’s response?
Written By: - Date published: 2:59 pm, March 13th, 2026 - 14 comments
We are now in the opening days of what may be the decisive war to determine either the survival of the Iranian state or the expulsion of the US from the Arab lands.
Written By: - Date published: 1:05 am, March 13th, 2026 - 47 comments
“Every emergency plan principle that I’m aware of says you communicate early, honestly and with a plan.” – Nathan Surendran
Written By: - Date published: 11:31 am, March 11th, 2026 - 90 comments
In the short and medium term, what should this government do as a plan?
Written By: - Date published: 11:44 am, March 5th, 2026 - 39 comments
Trump’s attack on Iran, in cahoots with, or in support of, his regional proxy, Israel, is illegal, but also unconscionable in moral and political terms. It is a resurgence of the post-war experience, in which the development of the rules-based international order was qualified by the arbitrary actions of “big players” in Iran, Suez, Cuba […]
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: 10:00 am, February 23rd, 2026 - 20 comments
Fining beggers will only increase their problems and moving them on will not solve the problem only spread it around.
Written By: - Date published: 12:03 pm, February 20th, 2026 - 13 comments
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
Written By: - Date published: 9:12 am, February 14th, 2026 - 79 comments
If you dismantle welfare, you push many New Zealanders into desperate poverty.
Written By: - Date published: 2:02 pm, February 12th, 2026 - 34 comments
The Government has responded to a perceived urgency caused by dry years to the country’s power supply by proposing something that is counter intuitive. Instead of rolling out solar it wants to burn imported Liquified Natural Gas. And use enabling legislation to avoid any overview of the proposal.
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: 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: 12:37 pm, February 4th, 2026 - 9 comments
When the coalition is treating the economy as a game, are they having fun?
Written By: - Date published: 4:11 pm, January 30th, 2026 - 27 comments
There is no evidence of immediate improvement in our economy, or of this government improving it.
Written By: - Date published: 2:03 pm, January 29th, 2026 - 9 comments
A year after the Government slashed a third of Health IT jobs the Auckland hospital system has suffered a massive IT outage.
Written By: - Date published: 3:55 pm, January 21st, 2026 - Comments Off on Atlas NZ Inc: we are (the) good guys
When holding out an olive branch to the Left in your Right hand, you should also show the other hand.
Written By: - Date published: 3:01 pm, January 15th, 2026 - 4 comments
The merger of many functions of the central public sector concerned with cities, the environment, housing and urban development, and transport, was announced in the week before Christmas and is now underway. There’s plenty of good on the face of it.
Written By: - Date published: 11:25 am, January 9th, 2026 - 10 comments
The real affordability crisis lies in the systematic extraction of income from households.
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: 9:39 am, December 31st, 2025 - 3 comments
Chris Bishop is thought by some to be the politician of the year, mainly for drafting a couple of bills plaigarised from the work of David Parker and untested promises to build hugely expensive roads of National significance. But they are ignoring the most extraordinary performance by an opposition leader in recent decades.
Written By: - Date published: 7:54 am, December 24th, 2025 - 22 comments
“National preferred doing a quick, low-quality deal over doing the hard work necessary to get a fair deal that delivers for both New Zealanders and Indians.”
Written By: - Date published: 12:03 pm, December 23rd, 2025 - 11 comments
Advantage gets out the crystal ball and postilated what may happen next year.
Written By: - Date published: 9:50 am, December 20th, 2025 - 13 comments
The plan ignores standard traffic planning practice, takes no account of predicted sea level rise and will be obsolete before the last stone is turned.
Written By: - Date published: 2:06 pm, December 19th, 2025 - 18 comments
the US administration stresses that countries like Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Japan will need to militarise as never before in peacetime to keep China in its place.
Written By: - Date published: 12:29 pm, December 16th, 2025 - 17 comments
PLUS: Brooke Van Velden overturns historic Supreme Court Uber ruling, after Uber lost their appeal unanimously last month
Written By: - Date published: 8:27 pm, December 12th, 2025 - 25 comments
“The days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over.” White House National Security Strategy, 2025
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