No Right Turn

Irredeemably Liberal

Wednesday, June 04, 2025

Retreating into his far-right bubble

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When Rimmer proposed his weirdo libertarian Regulatory Standards Bill, the public reaction was clear and unequivocal. 88% of the 23,000 subm...
Tuesday, June 03, 2025

Naked corruption and cronyism

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It was foreign monarch's fake birthday over the weekend, which meant an honours list, which turned out to be a demonstration of everythi...
Friday, May 30, 2025

Climate Change: Maybe we can take the win after all?

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Last month, He Pou a Rangi shockingly recommended increasing the supply of carbon credits auctioned under the Emissions Trading Scheme . The...
Thursday, May 29, 2025

Getting what they paid for

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So, having stolen $13 billion from New Zealand women by shitcanning pay equity negotiations, the National government is again attacking wom...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Climate Change: Denying our obligations

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In 2016, the then-National government signed the Paris Agreement , committing Aotearoa to a 30 (later 50) percent reduction in emissions by ...
Monday, May 26, 2025

A people's select committee

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Two weeks ago, National rammed the Equal Pay Amendment Bill through Parliament, nuking all current pay-equity claims and stealing $13 billio...
Friday, May 23, 2025

Aotearoa should not have places named after slavers

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What do Picton, Ashburtn, Stokes Valley, and Ellice St in wellington have in common? They're all named after slave-owners . This is ab...

National's "investment boost"

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I've been thinking a bit about National's "investment boost", the centrepiece of its dogshit budget. Its pitched by the go...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Drawn

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A ballot for three member's bills was held this morning, and the following bills were drawn: Local Government (Port Companies Accounta...

$13 billion

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That's how much Nicola Willis thinks she stole from New Zealand women by repealing pay equity : A tax incentive for businesses, boosts ...

National grovels to Trump

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Its budget day, and the government has been whining about how it has no money and so can't afford anything. Meanwhile, they've just ...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Member's Day

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Today is a Member's Day. Unusually, its not starting with bills; instead there will be two debates, the first on ACT MP Joseph Mooney...

Parliamentary privilege is a threat to all of us

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People are rightly outraged about psycho fascist Parmjeet Parmar "inquiring" about using the privileges committee to arbitrarily i...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

A desperate delay

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So, that was a bit of a damp squib. Everyone having geared up for an epic filibuster battle which would upset the government's legislati...

Reported back

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The Justice Committee has reported back on the Crimes (Countering Foreign Interference) Amendment Bill . The bill as introduced was a tyran...

Which side are you on, Labour?

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Today will see an unprecedented moment in Parliament. A racist government whose leader opposes the "Maorification" of New Zealand ...
Monday, May 19, 2025

Chipping away at National's gang-patch ban

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National's racist gang-patch was clearly intended to humiliate gangs and allow them to be punished for being seen in public, and police ...

Climate Change: Now what?

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When National came to power in 2023, one of its first acts was to repeal all useful climate change policy . When they finally released their...
Friday, May 16, 2025

Maybe Little should actually win the election first?

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So, Andrew Little thinks the Wellington City Council should cancel its plans for the Golden Mile, because there's an election in five mo...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Brownlee stands up for democracy

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Yesterday, parliament's white privilege committee recommended that three Te Pāti Māori MPs be suspended for up to three weeks for oppos...
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