Written By: - Date published: 11:29 am, December 2nd, 2025 - 22 comments
David Seymour’s campaign to reduce the so called excessive spend on Labour’s school lunches have struck a rather awkward problem. At least for one school recently provided lunches were inedible which basically destroys the whole reason for having them.
Written By: - Date published: 1:43 pm, November 22nd, 2025 - 28 comments
For all people who believe and stand for freedom & democracy, know thy enemy, who has a name and a platform.
Written By: - Date published: 8:09 am, November 21st, 2025 - 35 comments
Winston Peters is misbehaving big time and shortly after saying assets sales is a tawdry silly argument he yesterday threatened to repeal the Regulatory Standards Act.
Written By: - Date published: 12:00 pm, November 12th, 2025 - 26 comments
Winston Peters has criticised National’s proposal to campaign at the next election on asset sales in a way that makes you wonder how National and NZ First can survive in coalition.
Written By: - Date published: 11:59 am, November 8th, 2025 - 18 comments
If you thought that your contempt for the current administration had peaked let me disappoint you. This week they have taken steps to undermine the Climate Change Commission and the ability of the public to influence future emission reduction plans.
Written By: - Date published: 10:17 am, October 31st, 2025 - 24 comments
Individual State Schools face the prospect of hostile takeover by groups that may wish to change dramatically the way that the school is run. And Kelston Boys High School is a test case for how the process may work.
Written By: - Date published: 10:41 am, October 13th, 2025 - 3 comments
“The Government of New Zild has made a new tourism ad and it’s surprisingly honest and informative!”
Written By: - Date published: 6:41 pm, August 27th, 2025 - 19 comments
Everyone on the left can agree that we must change the government. Elliot Crossan argues that if Labour wins in 2026 and refuses to transform the system generating extreme inequality, NZ society will continue to fragment. Change the government. This is currently the unanimous goal of trade union leaders, left-wing politicians and progressive NGOs. At rallies, […]
Written By: - Date published: 12:57 pm, August 26th, 2025 - 24 comments
David Seymour has complained that New Zealand has “some of the most anemic governing arrangements in the world constitutionally” without acknowledging that his Goverment could change this.
Written By: - Date published: 9:52 am, August 23rd, 2025 - 16 comments
Brooke Van Velden has announced the appointment of four new members to the Employment Relations Authority and has expressed the wish that compensation payments to workers will be reduced.
Written By: - Date published: 8:55 am, August 21st, 2025 - 22 comments
Partial strike law penalties used on nurses trying to keep themselves safe is emblematic of the wider libertarian playbook within the NZ government
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.
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
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
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
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.
Written By: - Date published: 9:56 am, June 25th, 2025 - 25 comments
David Seymour has been criticised for breaching the Cabinet Manual when posting Parliamentary Service funded social media attack ads against academic opponents to the Regulatory Standards Bill.
Written By: - Date published: 8:57 pm, June 7th, 2025 - 5 comments
The world’s richest man has fallen out with the President he helped elect. Elliot Crossan asks: does this mark the beginning of the end for Trump 2.0? And might we hope for the same fate to befall the NZ Coalition Govt? January 2025. The richest man in the world walks into the White House as […]
Written By: - Date published: 9:05 am, June 5th, 2025 - 16 comments
After David Seymour’s claim that 99.5% of submissions against his Regulatory Standards Bill were generated by AI bots it is relevant to review the time that he was implicated in the purchase of Russian sex bots to bolster his Instagram following.
Written By: - Date published: 3:01 pm, June 4th, 2025 - 11 comments
Brooke Van Velden has announced changes to Workplace safety laws that will see prosecutions of Employers decrease but prosecutions of workers start.
Written By: - Date published: 7:30 am, May 22nd, 2025 - 17 comments
Generally I like reading Liam Hehir over at the The Blue Review. He is usually interesting despite his position. However he asserted that “Parliament Must Rule Itself”. Of course parliament must control itself. But rule itself – no! Voters do that. Parliamentary rules are mainly there to keep a low profile to voters looking at their poor performance. Right now that is inside the privileges committee.
Written By: - Date published: 9:35 am, May 21st, 2025 - 15 comments
Faced with the threat of an impassioned filibuster against the Priviliges Committee extreme recommendations the Government yesterday abruptly stopped debate on the committee report by voting to adjourn the debate.
Written By: - Date published: 10:47 am, May 11th, 2025 - 24 comments
Following on from the undermining under urgency of the current Pay Equity scheme the Government intends to introduce the Regulatory Standards Bill which if passed would have a significant adverse effect on collective rights and environmental action.
Written By: - Date published: 10:13 am, May 10th, 2025 - 58 comments
When the history of the sixth National Government is written I am confident that the events of this week when the Pay Equity system was smashed up will be described as the the beginning of the end.
Written By: - Date published: 10:57 am, April 29th, 2025 - 20 comments
Claims have been made that Auckland Council is giving away rights to the Waitākere Ranges to local iwi. But the claims suffer from that important characteristic of not actually being true.
Written By: - Date published: 8:14 am, April 5th, 2025 - 27 comments
The Justice Select Committee has returned Act’s odious Treaty Principles Bill to Parliament. And in its report it has noted that the overwhelming majority of submitters opposed the bill.
Written By: - Date published: 10:38 am, March 22nd, 2025 - 45 comments
It seems that the National Act Government is looking at what is happening in the US of A and thinking that the rolling out of fascist restrictions of freedom of speech is a good thing. And they are starting with health professionals.
Written By: - Date published: 7:30 am, March 19th, 2025 - 14 comments
Over the last year, the Coalition has unleashed a series of cuts which have been devastating for the disabled community. These cuts are part of a class war — and it’s time to organise and fight back, writes Elliot Crossan.
Written By: - Date published: 8:14 pm, March 15th, 2025 - 13 comments
By pursuing cuts, selling off assets to multinationals, enabling ACT’s attacks on the Treaty and cutting back on climate commitments, Luxon is guaranteeing that NZ will not be stable for long, writes Elliot Crossan.
Written By: - Date published: 5:19 pm, March 11th, 2025 - 13 comments
As the Coalition moves to partially privatise our healthcare system, and Seymour fatally undermines the free school lunch programme, it is time for us to take to the streets and fight back, writes Elliot Crossan.
Written By: - Date published: 2:23 pm, March 10th, 2025 - 25 comments
Simeon Brown’s gutting of funding for earlier bowel cancer screening of Maori and Pacifica will increase health disparity.
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