No Right Turn

This morning one of my bleeps took one for the team and asked to be convinced not to vote for Opportunity . Like me, they're a long-time...

The Lebanese parliament has voted to abolish the death penalty : Lebanon's parliament has voted to abolish the death penalty, a move th...

So, after a three hour emergency caucus meeting, Chris Luxon has emerged to claim that he has the National Party's full support and that...

Its 88 days until the election, and I had been planning to post about how the electoral landscape is becoming a little clearer. While the p...

Politicians defend their practice of taking huge bribes from the rich in the form of election "donations" by saying that its all o...

How do you have an emissions trading scheme when there are no permits to emit? That's a question Aotearoa is eventually going to have t...

The National party in Aotearoa has always hated democracy. In the late 70's and early 80's they retained power in the face of majo...

Today is a Member's day, though likely to be a boring one. First up there's the second readings of a couple of private bills: the Ōt...

The June labour market statistics are out, showing unemployment has risen again to 5.6%. There are now 171,000 unemployed, 49,000 more than...

Over the weekend The Post had a piece about Nazis finding a home in NZ First . The initial article exposed two "Remigration NZ" a...

Its 100 days to the election , so NZ First is going all-in on gutter racism to whip up its base of racist zombies. First, we had Winston Pet...

The Justice Committee has reported back on the bill Fonterra and Z Energy bought from National to grant them impunity for their ecocide . ...

That, apparently, the Free Speech "Union"'s definition of "freedom of speech" : The Free Speech Union ‒ which exist...

Over the weekend, National announced its latest election promise: increasing paid parental leave from 26 to 30 weeks . Which sounds good, ex...

A ballot for three member's bills was held today, and the following bills were drawn: Crimes (Offence of Failing to Report Child Harm...

National's first act in power was to repeal all effective climate change policy . How's that working out for them? Badly : New Zeal...

Today is a Member's day. First up is Tom Rutherford's Concealment of Location of Victim Remains Bill , a classic law and order / pe...

In 2020 an independent review suggested a repeal and replacement of the RMA system . The then-Labour government spent years doing the right ...

New Zealand First held its party conference over the weekend, and among all the weirdo cooker shit and outright racism , Winston dropped ano...

Yesterday the Greens announced a significant election policy: default union membership . New employees would automatically be enrolled in a ...