On May 21st, 2026 National’s Chris Bishop did his best to lose the 2026 general election and his Hutt South electorate. That was the day Bishop announced that state and community house tenants would have to wear rent increases of $30 a week or $1,500…
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I look forward to the mental gymnastics involved trying to explain how a Union nominally established to protect free speech should attack someone espressing his view on a proposed law change. The background is that NZ First is engaging in this idiotic attempt to state…
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National has yet again chosen to march onto one of the third rails of New Zealand politics, the ending of our anti nuclear status. The policy has been popular since its inception. It is arguable if national pride peaked more after we won the first…
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One of the things that I deteste most about the US administration is its insistence that we all prepare for war. After decades of relative peace caused in part by the realisation that if a global nuclear war started we would all be stuffed the…
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Big Hairy News and the Council of Trade Unions on youtube livestream at 5.30pm. Budget Day simulcast of NZCTU event led codesign response Te Tahua a te iwi whānui kua tārehu | The Peoples’ Budget Lock-Up 2026 The Peoples’ Budget Lock-Up 2026 brings together unions,…
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So the identity of the junior staff member who met with Fonterra and Z Energy and received paper versions of submissions urging the Government to retrospectively breach Mike Smith's right on behalf of all of us to sue the country's biggest polluters for the damage…
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I recently wrote this angry post about how the Government was planning to retrospectively stop a private citizen from testing in court if big greenhouse gas emitters owed him a duty of care and should pay him and his whanau damages for breaching that duty…
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Paul Goldsmith, aka Paora Goldsmith, performs an important function for the Government. He is the Minister of Justice. He does not have a legal background. He has an MA in history and worked for a while for the Waitangi Tribunal. He then changed and complained…
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