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: 10:02 pm, October 14th, 2025 - 88 comments
Brian Easton says we cannot attain a sustainable Scandinavian-type quality of life while keeping the existing tax system in place
Written By: - Date published: 11:05 am, October 7th, 2025 - 57 comments
Martyn Bradbury’s attacks on Winston Peters and an attack on his home has allowed Winston to claim victimhood status and hog the media spotlight.
Written By: - Date published: 2:22 pm, October 4th, 2025 - 8 comments
Anti vax organisation Voices for Freedom has published a glossy well presented booklet suggesting how local body campaigns should be run. And it looks like a number of right wing campaigns are borrowing heavily from the information in the booklet.
Written By: - Date published: 11:07 am, October 1st, 2025 - 4 comments
The British multinational meeting was first reported by ODT. Plus: Physician Associates spell more danger for the health of our health system
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: 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: 11:02 am, September 23rd, 2025 - 37 comments
Christchurch joins Nelson ED to sound the alarm as Code Red rages across NZ departments
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: 10:11 am, September 21st, 2025 - 100 comments
National MP for Southland Joseph Mooney has been trying to capitalise off the US culture, and using free speech to attack academic free speech
Written By: - Date published: 8:41 am, September 9th, 2025 - 59 comments
It’s been alleged that Taxpayers Union is involved in “bullying and intimidation” of local council candidates around the country.
Written By: - Date published: 5:55 pm, September 5th, 2025 - 6 comments
Perhaps the biggest news from a jam packed news week is how, under National’s Health Ministers Shane Reti & Simeon Brown, Health NZ illegally hid staffing data for over a year to conceal their systemic understaffing of our public health.
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: 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: 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: 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: 12:12 pm, August 30th, 2025 - 12 comments
Kaipara District Council has circulated throughout the country a Franks Ogilvie opinion suggesting that local government obligations to Māori are limited. But even a cursory review of the opinion suggests that it is flawed and should not be used to minimise respect for Māori.
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: 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: 11:14 am, August 12th, 2025 - 28 comments
Ani O’Brien thinks that claims by Chloe Swarbrick that the Government is intentionally increasing homelessness are engaging in hyperbole and are not true. But who is the person engaging in hyperbole?
Written By: - Date published: 3:50 pm, August 8th, 2025 - 42 comments
National say they will “unleash growth”. That may be by selling / exchanging 5 million hectares of conservation land, much of it with “high ecological value” – representing 2/3 of the entire estate.
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: 1:49 pm, August 6th, 2025 - 7 comments
Half-baked attempts to fix New Zealand’s failing health system has resulted in Aotearoa drifting into a hybrid public-private model that threatens to combine the worst of both worlds. Isn’t it time to seriously review the working model
Written By: - Date published: 9:12 am, August 4th, 2025 - 17 comments
Another day, another stupid consequence of NACTFirst’s mongrel government policies. North Shore hospital has dedicated a ward for patients who would normally be discharged but have nowhere to go. RNZ, North Shore Hospital has an entire ward of people stuck in hospital with no medical reason to be there. The 20-bed ward was created in […]
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: 12:06 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.
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