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: 7:04 pm, September 29th, 2025 - 4 comments
The last time New Zealand put itself on the wrong side of history was when a New Zealand rugby team toured apartheid South Africa just after schoolchildren were gunned down on the streets of Soweto.
Written By: - Date published: 4:56 pm, September 29th, 2025 - 53 comments
Hipkins also declared his stance on Palestine recognition on the day, but it wasn’t widely reported.
Written By: - Date published: 11:59 am, September 27th, 2025 - 80 comments
After a few months of telling Kiwis a decision on Palestine was imminent, Peters finally shared NZ’s official position today. Other countries had done so months earlier.
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: 7:58 pm, September 6th, 2025 - 22 comments
With a very small turnout and half of the votes counted it appears that Orini Kaipara will win the Tamaki Makaurau by election.
Update: Peeni Henare has conceded.
Written By: - Date published: 2:17 pm, September 4th, 2025 - 43 comments
In 2026 New Zealand First in all likelihood will be back in power because Labour and National will need them to form government.
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: 8:59 pm, September 1st, 2025 - 22 comments
NZ First’s legacy is now firmly NZ Last
Written By: - Date published: 12:45 pm, September 1st, 2025 - 7 comments
Part 2 of the Adrian Orr / Neil Quigley cover up scandal. Nicola Willis knew and did not divulge the truth until the Ombudsman forced their hand last week.
Written By: - Date published: 11:38 am, September 1st, 2025 - 44 comments
In 2017 the Greens shifted the Overton Window on a compassionate response to poverty, but where are we now?
Written By: - Date published: 7:51 pm, August 31st, 2025 - 43 comments
Shane Jones has publicly attacked Prime Minister Christopher Luxon by accusing him of hiding. The chances of a snap election have just shot up.
Written By: - Date published: 11:27 am, August 28th, 2025 - 30 comments
Outrage is easy. Outrage feels righteous. But outrage without discipline destroys the very people it claims to save.
If we want transformation that endures, we must build it brick by brick. Or watch it burn, again.
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: 1:21 pm, August 25th, 2025 - 10 comments
PM Luxon has said he wants the repeal completed by the end of the year
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: 6:05 am, August 22nd, 2025 - 74 comments
Screaming on social media about how weak Chris Hipkins is as Labour leader may make us feel good. But It also won’t do much do push back against the Coalition of Cockups. So, what if instead of searching fruitlessly for ideological purity, we put our energy and effort into winning instead?
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: 4:02 pm, August 19th, 2025 - 21 comments
The debt bogeyman has been unleashed in NZ, which we will examine – but even on face value, National Party debt is 25% more than Labour’s full debt contribution over 6 years – with no global pandemic
Written By: - Date published: 7:51 pm, August 15th, 2025 - 67 comments
Industry experts say Chris Bishop and his party are to blame, but Bishop denies it, saying construction industry leaders are just “wrong”
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: 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: 10:16 am, July 28th, 2025 - 62 comments
Winston Peters is proposing to engage in a Nigel Farage Reform style circus relying on racial division to get him over the line at the next election.
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
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