No Right Turn

Fishing is a criminal industry , with fishers routinely violating quotas, under-reporting bycatch, and engaging in fraud to profit from pill...

The June labour market statistics are out, showing unemployment has risen to 5.2%. There are now 158,000 unemployed - 36,000 more than when...

That was the Waitangi Tribunal's assessment of the National regime's plans to gut the Marine and Coastal Area Act and steal the for...

In her section 7 report declaring the government's voter suppression bill to be inconsistent with the Bill of Rights Act , Attorney-Ge...

When the government passes legislation trampling on civil liberties it loves to insert - and crow about - "safeguards" which will ...

What do you call an election where the regime stops up to half a million people from voting , because they're more likely on historical ...

Today is a Member's Day. First up is the third reading of the Auckland Harbour Board and Takapuna Borough Council Empowering Act Amendme...

Another week, and so another day of weather warnings, power cuts, slips, and likely flooding . Meanwhile, the government is steadfastly refu...

The central refrain of this regime has been "we can't afford it". They're constantly pleading poverty over public services...

How misogynistic is this dogshit regime? Since 2020 the Public Service Act has included explicit legal commitments to pay equity and divers...

When National came to power in 2023, one of its first acts was to repeal all useful climate change policy . And now this is having its inevi...

Last night the International Court of Justice provided its advisory opinion on Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change . Its very...

That's the only way to describe the regime's new Electoral Amendment Bill . The big change is ending same-day enrolment , which enab...

Butter has become a flashpoint in the cost-of-living crisis, with the price of the baking staple doubling in the last 14 months , and people...

Earlier in the month, the British government proscribed Palestine Action , a peaceful protest group, as a terrorist entity, over their effec...

Forty years ago, during the UK miner's strike , Margaret Thatcher sent 8000 police to attack striking miners during the so-called Battle...

During the debate over ACT's hated Regulatory Standards Bill, many professional submitters (such as the law Society) have pointed at the...

Last week the regime released its approach to climate adaptation: basically "you're on your own" . The government won't us...

A ballot for a single member's bill was held today, and the following bill was drawn: Residential Tenancies (Registration of Boarding...

Back in April an OIA request exposed the absurd cost of ACT's charter schools - five times more per student than the government spends o...