Written By: - Date published: 11:20 am, September 11th, 2026 - 15 comments
Under National the MSD thinks that food is not an essential need. And it pushed through under urgency a botched up law change which cut the benefits for tens of thousands of elderly kiwis.
Written By: - Date published: 11:14 am, September 11th, 2026 - 24 comments
AI techies are sound the alarm on where AI is going and how dangerous it will be. We can and should act now to prevent that.
Written By: - Date published: 11:29 am, September 8th, 2026 - 27 comments
Last weekend saw a continuation of right wing parties coming out with inane policy announcements that make a media splash without any hard questions being asked.
Written By: - Date published: 9:56 am, September 6th, 2026 - 4 comments
This week the Government reluctantly reversed its intent to allow homeless teenagers to be prosecuted if they did not move to somewhere less safe when required to move on by police.
Written By: - Date published: 4:25 pm, September 1st, 2026 - 22 comments
Christopher Luxon has asked Air New Zealand to explain what caused its recently announced significant loss. The answer appears to be a decision made by Air New Zealand while he was Chief Executive.
Written By: - Date published: 10:51 am, September 1st, 2026 - 18 comments
“Nurses who trained here should be able to work here. A good job. A future here at home. Better starts now.” – Chris Hipkins
Written By: - Date published: 8:46 am, August 30th, 2026 - 24 comments
After spending all term undermining the Country’s climate change response the Government now wants to improve the country’s ability to meet the Country’s Paris Accord obligations.
Written By: - Date published: 7:39 pm, August 22nd, 2026 - 69 comments
The Opportunities Party wishes to enrich Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Larry Ellison by giving them tax breaks to establish data centres in Aotearoa.
Written By: - Date published: 9:39 am, August 21st, 2026 - 16 comments
Very sad recent news from yesterday. Three homeless people in Aotearoa, the land of plenty, have recently frozen to death.
Written By: - Date published: 10:07 am, August 16th, 2026 - 15 comments
A late police response to an OIA request concerning Labour List candidate Rakesh Naidoo raises concerns that the Police are acting politically.
Written By: - Date published: 2:19 pm, August 7th, 2026 - 3 comments
Christopher Luxon completed a week from Hell by calling his coleaders Yahoo and Numpty and obliterating Media coverage of the announcement of the opening of Auckland’s City Rail Tunnel and of new industry designed school subjects.
Written By: - Date published: 4:06 pm, August 6th, 2026 - 8 comments
In the week that the Prime Minister offended small business, unemployment rose to 170,000 and over 6% in the North Island, and the Reserve Bank continues to raise interest rates, Labour showed, again, why the public knows they are better for small business than any other party.
Written By: - Date published: 10:40 am, August 4th, 2026 - 25 comments
As we enter the home strait for the 2026 election National strategists must be thinking “what the f*(k do we do from here”? Because Christopher Luxon’s complete indifference to the difficulties businesses are facing and his inability to control Winston Peters are harming National’s reelection prospects big time.
Written By: - Date published: 6:21 pm, August 1st, 2026 - 139 comments
The Opportunity Party has a hidden objective. They want to make huge cuts to the Public Service that even Act would look at and think “that is brave”. And they have been less than open about the cuts.
Written By: - Date published: 1:11 pm, July 31st, 2026 - 37 comments
New Zealand First is peddling nonsense law changes straight out of the Donald Trump playbook. And engaging in obnoxious racist behaviour. And Christopher Luxon does not have the ability to stop them or control them.
Written By: - Date published: 10:34 am, July 31st, 2026 - 46 comments
After the 2005 election, the Chinese Embassy sent Zhang Wei to ask me if Winston Peters would follow Labour government policy. I said I didn’t know, but would ask.
Written By: - Date published: 4:21 pm, July 29th, 2026 - 16 comments
The very worst crisis is the one from which you learn nothing. New Zealand has not had an economic stagnation and housing market price decline this bad since the 1970s.
Written By: - Date published: 6:17 pm, July 23rd, 2026 - 18 comments
Iranian Ambassador Reza Nazar Ahari provides some fascinating analysis into why the Western strategy on Iran has been so disastrously flawed.
Written By: - Date published: 9:33 am, July 23rd, 2026 - 29 comments
With the demise of Stuart Nash’s planned resumption of his political career the question has to be asked, did Stuart Nash leave NZ First or did NZ First leave Stuart Nash?
Written By: - Date published: 1:47 pm, July 22nd, 2026 - 10 comments
The Green Party’s Kiwipower policy has a lot of similarities to the policy that the Greens and Labour jointly launched in the 2014 election. It will again be major issue in this election.
Written By: - Date published: 8:33 am, July 21st, 2026 - 17 comments
The World Cup is over and the good guys won, geo-politically speaking. When China fired a test missile a few weeks ago, it was as if the sky had fallen in.
Written By: - Date published: 4:18 pm, July 18th, 2026 - 6 comments
Norman Kirk once said people do not ask for much: someone to love, somewhere to live, somewhere to work, and something to hope for.
Written By: - Date published: 10:15 am, July 18th, 2026 - 28 comments
Winston Peters has engaged in classic dead cat political behaviour by publicly announcing that one of the new Interisland ferries will be called “Cook” and diverting the debate from the cost to the name.
Written By: - Date published: 7:02 pm, July 14th, 2026 - 13 comments
Michael Laws and Paul Henry are planning a return to Parliament. Laws as a potential New Zealand First MP and Henry as an Act MP. Does Parliament really need more shock jocks?
Written By: - Date published: 12:46 pm, July 14th, 2026 - 6 comments
It is no longer a trivial thing that a person makes their fortune in the world and still chooses to invest and stay in the land of their childhood, New Zealand. For this, and many other good reasons, we can all be proud of Sam Neill.
Written By: - Date published: 8:21 am, July 10th, 2026 - 18 comments
Something to do on Matariki Day, celebrate Te Ao Aotearoa. RNZ has invited people to vote and comment on the list of the 100 best Kiwi songs and the top 50 will be played today.
Written By: - Date published: 10:18 am, July 6th, 2026 - 39 comments
The second Keith Locke memorial debate was held in Auckland on the 2nd. There is a live stream of the debate on youtube, linked here.
Written By: - Date published: 10:11 pm, July 5th, 2026 - 1 comment
On Thursday, Victoria Coleman handed over a petition at Parliament calling for the Disability Support Services Bill to be scrapped — 16,458 signatures got in five weeks while she cares full-time for her seven-year-old son Levi. Campaigning on top of that responsibility tells you whats at stake for thousands.
Written By: - Date published: 11:32 am, July 3rd, 2026 - 10 comments
In a land of milk and honey you would think that every kiwi would have plenty to eat and somewhere to live. But this week has shown the Government wants to refuse emergency to some poor people and feed young children inadequate school lunches.
Written By: - Date published: 9:17 am, July 3rd, 2026 - 115 comments
Denmark produces excellent beer, world class design, unmanageable open sandwiches and an object lesson in the operation of proportional representation. A particular interest in Denmark is triggered by the emergence of the Opportunity Party as a possible threshold party in the NZ system. It may, at a stretch, arrive at 5%, which, as commentators have […]
Written By: - Date published: 8:37 pm, June 29th, 2026 - 8 comments
7 days after petitioning parliament seeking proper funding for Total Mobility, the government instead cut the funds.
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