Written By: - Date published: 9:19 am, February 8th, 2026 - 18 comments
Environmental groups have cheered the draft Panel’s decision refusing to allow Taranaki’s continental shelf from being smashed up to extract rare earth minerals. But how will the Government respond?
Written By: - Date published: 1:09 pm, February 2nd, 2026 - 9 comments
National has allowed Shane Jones to effectively veto the country signing up to a road map away from the use of fossil fuels supported by much of the world that was consistent with current policy settings.
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: 11:16 am, January 20th, 2026 - 17 comments
Christopher Luxon’s latest State of the Nation speech suggests that over summer he has been spending more on his Spotify summer list than he should have.
Written By: - Date published: 10:22 am, January 2nd, 2026 - 8 comments
What will election year 2026 bring to Aotearoa?
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: 11:36 am, December 21st, 2025 - 9 comments
National’s Ministerial Retail Advisory Group leader Sunny Kaushall has hit the headlines for huge catering costs inluding paying $9 for bottles of coke worth $5.50. But the deeper story should be why his activity, which is clearly political in nature, being funded by a fund set aside for victims.
Written By: - Date published: 2:02 pm, December 11th, 2025 - 7 comments
The Government is legislating to halve methane emission reduction targets and remove the requirement for the ETS to accord with Paris Accord obligations. And intends to pass these changes under urgency despite there being no requirement to do so.
Written By: - Date published: 2:21 pm, December 8th, 2025 - 13 comments
That’s the headline of the pamphlet in the letterbox. But from their own measures is that true?
Written By: - Date published: 12:12 pm, December 7th, 2025 - 27 comments
This may be a one term National Government. But electoral law reform, the state of Labour’s coalition partners, a possible economic upturn and a change in National’s leader threaten this.
Written By: - Date published: 8:41 pm, December 5th, 2025 - 8 comments
Count them and weep.
Written By: - Date published: 11:50 am, December 4th, 2025 - 12 comments
It appears to be more and more inevitable that National will welch on the country’s Paris Accord obligations.
Written By: - Date published: 12:25 pm, November 26th, 2025 - 31 comments
Christopher Luxon’s stint as Prime Minister is under serious threat. And despite his clear assertions to the contrary the rumour mill suggests that Chris Bishop is lining up for a tilt for the top job.
Written By: - Date published: 8:56 am, November 19th, 2025 - 14 comments
The Government has reversed the clean car standard and by doing this has ensured that the country’s car fleet will be less efficient and produce more greenhouse gasses.
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.
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