No Right Turn

Irredeemably Liberal

Wednesday, February 04, 2026

Climate Change: The sin of cheapness

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Tairāwhiti has a problem. Thanks to decades of forestry strip-mining the land, every major storm washes down sediment and slash from the hil...

43,000 unemployed under National

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The December labour market statistics are out, showing unemployment has risen again to 5.4%. There are now 165,000 unemployed - 43,000 mor...
Tuesday, February 03, 2026

The same old problem

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Another day, another IPCA report finding unlawful use of force by the police . This time, its a police officer who saw a woman give him a th...
Monday, February 02, 2026

How do we change OIA culture?

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Former district court judge David Harvey has a column in the Herald today lamenting the state of the Official Information Act . Like others...

Climate Change: Fossil government

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If we are to avoid even more dangerous levels of climate change, we need to get off fossil fuels. The process is already happening - just lo...
Friday, January 30, 2026

No deals with the US

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So, Shame Jones is officially trying to sell our country to Donald Trump, by negotiating a secret critical minerals deal behind everyone...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

ACT supports slavery

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Good news today, as a coalition of Labour and National MPs have teamed up to bypass the biscuit tin and force legislation against modern sla...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Naked cronyism

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Judith Collins, the toxic piece of shit responsible for National's campaign of dirty politics , is finally retiring. Yay! But we're ...
Monday, January 26, 2026

The Electoral Commission refuses to play along

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When National introduced its voter suppression law in a naked effort to rig the next election , they said it was all about saving time and ...
Friday, January 23, 2026

Climate Change: Murderers

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Aotearoa is currently in the tail end of our first climate disaster of the year, with flooding in Northland , Tairawhiti , and Coromandel , ...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

A zombie regime

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So, here we are: in accordance with constitutional convention. Luxon has announced the election date as 7 November . Meaning that his regime...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Coalition of cronyism

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Another day, another naked crony appointment from the regime. This time its gun minister and former gun lobbyist Nicole McKee appointing fel...
Friday, January 09, 2026

Under-protecting privacy

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If you've been following the news, you will have seen the enormous Manage My Health shitshow , which has seen the medical records of 127...
Wednesday, January 07, 2026

The enemy of the world

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Over the weekend the United States mounted an unprovoked attack on Venezuela, killing a hundred people, and kidnapping its president. Since ...

Under-resourcing transparency

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The Ministry of Health is in my experience one of the worst performing government agencies when it comes to handling OIA requests. They unla...
Friday, December 19, 2025

Climate Change: Losing the battle but winning the war

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Aotearoa declared a climate emergency in 2020 . Despite this, the government granted petroleum exploration permits to two companies in 2021 ...
Thursday, December 18, 2025

Unlawful appointments

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Last year, the regime sabotaged the Human Rights Commission by appointing a pair of terfs and hatemongers as chief human rights commissione...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

A victory for Māori in Nelson

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Way back in 1839, the New Zealand Company bought the area that is now Nelson from local iwi and hapu. As part of the deal, they promised tha...

Enjoined!

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Last month, out of the blue, the regime banned the use of puberty blockers in trans healthcare , over-riding the medical decisions of doctor...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

National has fucked the economy

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National's core promise as a government is to be "better economic managers" (meaning: bald men in blue suits). And they made s...
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