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Irredeemably Liberal

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Climate Change: Putting polluters above the law

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That's the only way to describe the regime's plans to outlaw civil climate suits against polluting companies : The government annou...
Wednesday, May 06, 2026

More culture-war bullshit

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That's the only way to describe the regime's announcement today that new citizens will be forced to pass a test on the "respons...

41,000 unemployed under National

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The March labour market statistics are out, showing unemployment has dropped slightly, to 5.3%. But there are still 163,000 people unemploy...
Tuesday, May 05, 2026

The opposite of localism

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At the 2023 election, National promised "localism", the devolution of power from central to local government. How's that worki...
Monday, May 04, 2026

Climate Change: Make farmers pay

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Last year, the corrupt National regime lowered our methane reduction target, while ruling out pricing agricultural emissions for as long as ...
Friday, May 01, 2026

Public expenses should be public as a matter of course

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The cover story of today's Substandard is the forced release of Palmerston North Mayor Grant Smith's credit card expenses . The act...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Terrible instincts

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The Herald has a story today about emails released by Winston Peters under the OIA, showing that prime minister Christopher Luxon wanted to...

Drawn

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A ballot for four member's bills was held today, and the following bills were drawn: Better Regional Boundaries Bill (Tim Costley) C...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Member's Day

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Today is a member's day. First up is the third reading of the Carter Trust Amendment Bill , a boring private bill to tidy up the lingeri...
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Climate Change: He Pou a Rangi's FAFO warning

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Since winning power in 2023, the present National regime has Fucked Around on climate change policy. They're repealed a swathe of measur...

Orcs want to pillage Te Wāhipounamu

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Te Wāhipounamu is a UNESCO World Heritage Site , a taonga of Aotearoa's conservation estate. So naturally, the orcs in the Beehive want...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Schools belong in the OIA

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For the past decade, successive governments have been chipping away at the Official Information Act, exempting agencies and passing secrecy ...

Climate Change: Madness

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Over the last few days Wellington has been hammered by torrential rain and floods, and one person is still missing dead. So naturally its t...
Monday, April 20, 2026

Climate Change: The new normal

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I'm sitting here in Palmerston North (where it is raining), watching the reports of the rain and flooding from Wellington . Water floodi...

More racism from National

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When National voted down its own Treaty Principles Bill last year , they claimed it was because they understood that "seek[ing] to impo...
Thursday, April 16, 2026

Climate Change: The latest inventory

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Ministry for the Environment has released New Zealand's Greenhouse Gas Inventory 1990–2024 , which has updated emissions figures. The ba...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Strengthening proactive release

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Newsroom has an opinion piece by Marcus Ganley, on the problems of proactive release of official information . The government releases vast...
Monday, April 13, 2026

A victory for democracy in Hungary

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Hungarians went to the polls yesterday in parliamentary elections, and responded with a resounding "Ruszkik Haza!" , telling Puti...
Thursday, April 09, 2026

Crown solicitors deserve scrutiny

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Graeme Edgeler had an interesting piece the other day advocating for crown solicitors to be subject to the Official Information Act . Unique...
Wednesday, April 08, 2026

A hegemony-ending war?

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Well, that was a day, wasn't it? After threatening that "a whole civilisation will die tonight" if he didn't get what he ...
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