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: 10:18 am, August 18th, 2025 - 23 comments
The Government is trying to spin that cancellation of the ferry contract will cost the country $144 million when the actual figure is at least $671 million.
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: 3:39 pm, August 12th, 2025 - 31 comments
“This is a catastrophic situation and here we are in New Zealand somehow arguing some fine point about whether we should recognise. We need to be adding our voice to the need for this catastrophe to stop.”
Written By: - Date published: 11:48 am, August 7th, 2025 - 28 comments
NCEA wasn’t perfect, but it offered students a chance to grow and succeed in different ways. It recognised that learning isn’t linear or one-size-fits-all. It gave students a chance to find their place – not just in the job market, but in the world. Which brings me to the current Minister of Education, Erica Stanford… Are we confusing confidence with competence?
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: 10:12 am, July 31st, 2025 - 31 comments
Using a really shoddy parliamentary procedure Shane Jones has introduced an amendment to a bill that will potentially reduce oil industry liability for clean up costs.
Written By: - Date published: 6:15 pm, July 30th, 2025 - 17 comments
Zarah Sultana for one – she’s a star. Gaza for another – anti-zionism/semitism won’t work this time. 500,000 signed up in a week for a new party is impressive.
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
Written By: - Date published: 1:31 pm, July 25th, 2025 - 42 comments
National has announced electoral law changes that will disenfranchise some voters who tend to vote left. And David Seymour has described them as being dropkicks.
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: 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: 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: 6:05 am, July 21st, 2025 - 43 comments
Chloe Swarbrick and the Greens are changing the narrative on what tax is for.
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: 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: 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.
Written By: - Date published: 9:20 am, July 9th, 2025 - 9 comments
After months and months of speculation as to its content there was a bombshell announcement yesterday by the United States Justice Department. There is no Epstein list of wealthy men who preyed on vulnerable young women.
Written By: - Date published: 2:50 pm, July 6th, 2025 - 64 comments
Reality Check Radio has on the eve of the Royal Commission of Inquiry’s hearings into the Government’s Covid response released a petition suggesting that Jacinda Ardern and others have been put on trial.
Written By: - Date published: 8:06 pm, July 3rd, 2025 - 68 comments
Why public interest journalism matters
Written By: - Date published: 1:00 pm, June 29th, 2025 - 56 comments
Hopefully what we witnessed in Parliament this week will return a trend to the politics of kindness that Jacinda Ardern practised. And one holding respect for Te Ao Māori at its core.
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: 4:45 pm, June 25th, 2025 - 22 comments
Winston Peters’ Ministerial statement in Parliament yesterday was a disgrace. Echoing other FiveEyes leaders such as Keir Starmer, unable to distinguish evil from good, he accused those who can of “moral posturing.”
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