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: 12:15 pm, November 2nd, 2025 - 90 comments
Ryan Bridges fawns over Tend’s Telehealth corporate model which is subsidised by taxpayers, rewards private equity investors, and costs about $80 per consult
Written By: - Date published: 10:06 am, October 30th, 2025 - 140 comments
The usual voices have publicly attacked Labour’s proposed Capital Gains Tax using arguments that do not stack up.
Written By: - Date published: 12:25 pm, October 27th, 2025 - 12 comments
Christopher Luxon successfully contesting his Auckland Council Rates bill will reinforce a strong impression that he is more concerned with personal wealth than the collective good.
Written By: - Date published: 12:54 pm, October 16th, 2025 - 5 comments
Violent crime, sexual assaults and retail crime soar under National Party
Written By: - Date published: 1:03 pm, October 8th, 2025 - 41 comments
National crashing into the 20s in the latest Couria Poll must have increased dramatically the prospects of Christopher Luxon being deposed as Prime Minister.
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: 8:00 am, September 28th, 2025 - 24 comments
Christopher Luxon is sticking to his lines that the proposed changes to the Electoral Law will speed up the result even though this will disenfranchise an estimated 55,000 kiwis and even though the Chief Electoral Officer has said that if properly resourced the changes will make no difference.
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: 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: 12:20 pm, September 4th, 2025 - 25 comments
Yesterday Christopher Luxon broke an embargo, claimed credit for an announcement that was made in 2021 and gave cover to an American corporate backtracking on an earlier promise to construct new data centres.
Written By: - Date published: 8:36 am, September 3rd, 2025 - 27 comments
Remember Act’s Regulatory Standards Bill which would establish principles of responsible regulation and increase transparency? It appears that not all policy will be subject to these requirements. Especially if they affect rich foreigners buying local mansions.
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: 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: 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: 3:32 pm, August 19th, 2025 - 13 comments
Stuff and The Post was eager to repeat rumours of a PM Nicola Willis. Who was behind it?
Written By: - Date published: 8:33 am, August 6th, 2025 - 20 comments
The country’s four main power companies have signed an agreement to stockpile coal and to extend the life of the coal-fired Huntly power station.
Written By: - Date published: 10:43 am, August 2nd, 2025 - 5 comments
A recent dump of papers relating to the cancellation of the Pay Equity scheme suggest that Christopher Luxon was the primary driver behind the decision to do this under urgency.
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: 10:22 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: 12:25 pm, July 16th, 2025 - 23 comments
* according to Seymour when it comes to International and Domestic condemnation of his Regulatory Standards Bill.
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.
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