Written By: - Date published: 8:48 pm, November 16th, 2025 - 8 comments
Just over a year ago the Government passed a constitutional abomination of a law and is now trying to make it worse and do this quickly. What is going on?
Written By: - Date published: 10:52 am, November 15th, 2025 - 20 comments
This government is deliberately enabling private seabed mining in Taranaki to prevent New Zealand’s largest future renewable electricity supply.
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: 2:46 pm, November 7th, 2025 - 9 comments
The Government’s class prejudices are now on clear display. In the same week that news emerged that the Government is considering a ban on rough sleepers in major urban town centres further news emerged that it is subsidising Michelin to award Michelin stars to local restaurants.
Written By: - Date published: 2:47 pm, November 5th, 2025 - 19 comments
The Government’s all out assault on te Tiriti o Waitangi continues. And this time supposed liberal Erica Sanford is engaged in the latest assault.
Written By: - Date published: 9:40 am, October 25th, 2025 - 23 comments
National has announced it will be spending nearly three times as much on Roads of National Significance as it campaigned on and has justified dubious investment decisions by changing how benefits are calculated.
Written By: - Date published: 1:02 pm, October 18th, 2025 - 44 comments
While we should acknowledge Jim Bolger’s life of service to New Zealand we should also recognise the critical and continuing damage done to New Zealand by his government.
Written By: - Date published: 12:14 pm, October 13th, 2025 - 13 comments
In a move that further undermines the country’s response to the climate crisis the Government has halved the methane reduction goal and determined that farms will not pay a price for greenhouse gas emissions.
Written By: - Date published: 8:56 am, October 1st, 2025 - 29 comments
Christopher Luxon recently wrote to Chris Hipkins seeking a bipartisan approach to gas drilling but then immediately turned this into a farce by leaking the letter to the Herald.
Written By: - Date published: 9:42 am, September 23rd, 2025 - 7 comments
In the hope that it can address the Construction Industry crisis National has announced a partial reversal of cuts made to school building project made earlier in its term.
Written By: - Date published: 3:32 pm, September 19th, 2025 - 26 comments
National’s crashing of GDP growth figures makes a mockery of its claim earlier this year that the Government was relentlessly focussed on unleashing growth.
Written By: - Date published: 6:31 pm, September 14th, 2025 - 22 comments
Bates set up a family trust after the election, presumably to hide his rentals from disclosure.
Written By: - Date published: 9:58 am, September 11th, 2025 - 37 comments
A beehive leak has led Duncan Garner to form the firm conclusion that National is
f&*ked.
Written By: - Date published: 12:22 am, September 10th, 2025 - 14 comments
US voter suppression tactics are back in vogue and National’s Coalition is bringing them to Aotearoa New Zealand
Written By: - Date published: 4:26 pm, September 2nd, 2025 - 11 comments
The Planning by Firing Squad approach is characterised by being very rushed, lacking in detail, an almost total lack of public consultation, non-existent local knowledge and consistently paying little heed to environmental effects. It is a classic Wellington Ivory Tower approach.
Written By: - Date published: 12:09 pm, August 13th, 2025 - 14 comments
Erica Stanford’s removal of te reo words from reading books is the latest of a series of attacks on te reo Māori by this Government.
Written By: - Date published: 12:07 pm, July 29th, 2025 - 26 comments
Chris Hipkins came up with a zinger yesterday calling Christopher Luxon and Nicolas Willis “Fisher and Paykel” because of the incredible amount of spin they produce.
Written By: - Date published: 12:06 pm, July 28th, 2025 - 29 comments
Judith Collins has issued a Bill of Rights report which concludes that National’s proposed changes to the enrollment electoral laws breach the Bill of Rights Act.
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: 11:20 am, July 24th, 2025 - 11 comments
For some time now National has been crowing about how they have solved the emergency housing problem in Aotearoa. But a recent report suggests that their policies have cause a surge in the number of homeless kiwis.
Written By: - Date published: 8:57 am, July 23rd, 2025 - 50 comments
None of National’s policies are working. But the time of Labour’s policy vacuum needs to be over. It’s time to make their mark and take Luxon front on and win.
Written By: - Date published: 10:22 am, July 22nd, 2025 - 9 comments
The Commerce Commission has dismissed Federated Farmers’ claim that banks offering lower interest rates to clients who meet greenhouse gas emission targets are engaging in cartel type behavior.
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
Written By: - Date published: 7:50 am, July 15th, 2025 - 16 comments
Christopher Luxon has engaged in a classic example of bumper sticker politics by blaming Labour for excessive power prices, not the structure of the power sector. And he has completely ignored the imperitave action that climate change demands the country takes.
Written By: - Date published: 11:10 am, June 28th, 2025 - 75 comments
If Luxon and Willis go ahead with it as a policy platform for the 2026 election, and win, a raise in the age of entitlement for national superation will most likely be implemented.
Written By: - Date published: 3:07 pm, June 20th, 2025 - 15 comments
Ruth Richardson remains totally convinced that her “mother of all budgets” was appropriate and claims that it was responsible for slaying inflation and promoting a high-growth high-wage high-employment economy.
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
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
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: 8:26 am, June 1st, 2025 - 13 comments
Chris Bishop has chosen to say loudly and publicly “what a load of crap” during a song celebrating Te Reo Maori performed during the Aotearoa Music Awards ceremony.
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