Prime Minister Christopher Luxon should be fired over the imperilment of the New Zealand economy by his government’s laissez-faire response to the coming energy shock. The failure is compounded by a willingness to stand by Washington which will only help turn this into a long…
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National must be, or should be, ruing the day it decided to dismantle some of Labour's climate change policies. Not only is it a bad idea to sabotague attempts for Aotearoa to do our bit to address our emissions. I quite like living in a…
Greenpeace's submission on the government's draft Fuel Supply Resilience Plan. Gen Toop 26 August 2025Introduction Thank you for the opportunity to provide feedback on the Draft Fuel Supply Resilience Plan. Overall, Greenpeace submits that the draft plan will not achieve energy resilience or reduce New…
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PSA press release via Scoop, Monday, 16 March 2026, 3:40 pm The PSA is urging Finance Minister Nicola Willis to walk the talk and deliver support for a key group of hard working New Zealanders struggling with rising fuel costs from the Iran war -…
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The Iranian war will severely test Christopher Luxon's leadership capabilities and so far he has been very quiet. Apart from bungling New Zealand's response to the illegality of the US and Israel attacks on Iran Luxon has been missing. And this made me wonder. How…
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The US and Israel have for decades pursued the destruction of Iran as a sovereign state. We are now in the opening days of what may be the final, decisive war to determine either the survival of the Iranian state or the expulsion of the…
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I sat down last night to catch up on what is happening with global oil supply (something that would normally make my eyes glaze over). It reminded me of those early weeks of the pandemic when we first started hearing truly alarming stories out of…
NZ First and Shane Jones in particular have been making a song and dance about how the previous Labour Government was responsible for the closure of the Marsden Point Refinery. For instance in Parliament this week he said: I never said that the Labour Government…
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With more time to plan than the Labour government had with COVID, a responsible government should be planning the whole of New Zealand for 91 petrol at $4 a litre and potential supply constraints beyond existing supply on shore and within the EEZ. In the…
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Winston Peters has been in this scenario before. Back in 1998 the National Party moved to replace Jim Bolger with Jenny Shipley. The process was pretty brutal. Wikipedia records that "Shipley grew increasingly frustrated and disillusioned with the cautious pace of the National-led government under Jim…
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The US-Israeli killing of children must be stopped. Three more schools and a major hospital have been bombed in Iran and more in Lebanon by the US-Israeli military, all within the first week of launching their latest war. This is a pattern, not ‘collateral damage’.…
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Curia and TPU, which I’ve consistently said has reasonable public comparable, political polling data, despite its history, shows: Labour gaining 12 seats National lose 10 seats Greens lose 2 seats NZ First gaining 5 seats ACT lose 1 seat TPM lose 2 seats That makes…
It has been a hell of a week for Christopher Luxon. He has clearly been under immense pressure. His response to the US invasion of Iran has been inept. His position, that New Zealand did not support the invasion but would not go into the…
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Trump’s attack on Iran, in cahoots with, or in support of, his regional proxy, Israel, is illegal, but also unconscionable in moral and political terms. It is a resurgence of the post-war experience, in which the development of the rules-based international order was qualified by…
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Last week, in my article: “Hold the Line”, I pointed out a rumour being fanned by NZME’s Barry Soper, spouse of NZME Newstalk ZB host Heather Du Plessis-Allan. Soper claimed that a 1News crime report revealing that gang numbers now surpassed police numbers, with data…
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