No Right Turn

Irredeemably Liberal

Friday, December 12, 2025

End this outrageous prosecution

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When the IPCA report into the Jevon McSkimming saga was released, we were all outraged to learn the depths of the police's depravity and...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Climate Change: The "market-led transition"

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A key feature of the previous government's climate policy was the idea of a "just transition". Aotearoa would decarbonise, but...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Parliament shuts out the people

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Yesterday there was a small protest in Parliament . The protest was caused by months of inaction by the New Zealand state to Israel's on...
Tuesday, December 09, 2025

Climate Change: A regime of arsonists

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The House is in urgency today to ram through the regime's bill to weaken our methane targets and decouple ETS settings from our internat...
Friday, December 05, 2025

A rubberstamp for Shane Jones' bulldozer

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Last month, the Environment Committee caused outrage by allowing only ten days for public submissions on the Fast-track Approvals Amendment ...
Thursday, December 04, 2025

Climate Change: National rejects ambition

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Late last year He Pou a Rangi Climate Commission reviewed our climate change targets, including whether to start including a share of shippi...
Wednesday, December 03, 2025

Climate Change: A year of failed auctions

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The final ETS auction of the year was held today, resulting in another failure . No-one bid, no units were sold, and so the year's entir...
Tuesday, December 02, 2025

Climate Change: National reneges on Paris

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In October 2016 the then-National government under John Key ratified the Paris Agreement, signing up to progressively reduce our greenhouse ...
Monday, December 01, 2025

You don't win elections by telling voters to expect less

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Aotearoa is broken. The economy is fucked. The dogshit vandal regime is smashing our democracy, our public services, and our society, while ...
Friday, November 28, 2025

More unaffordable food

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Remember when Luxon promised a "laser focus on the cost of living"? Mince - the most basic meat you can get - has now become unaff...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Climate Change: Failure and fraud

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RNZ yesterday had a piece about the regime's consultation on amendments to the Second Emissions Reduction Plan 2026-30, which closed ye...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

An utter shambles II

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Two weeks ago, the regime rammed through its deeply unpopular Regulatory Standards Act , imposing a radical Libertarian ideological straitja...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

The Commerce Commission's weak case for secrecy

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Back in September, the regime announced plans to give new powers to the Commerce Commission . But the announcement also included this: We h...

Overturning local democracy

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A month ago we had local body elections in this country. As part of that, we elected new members to each of the country's eleven regiona...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Climate Change: No ambition

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Last December, He Pou a Rangi Climate Commission looked at our current emissions targets, and recognised that we could do more. Existing tec...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

An utter shambles

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Last week, the regime rammed through its deeply unpopular Regulatory Standards Act , imposing a radical Libertarian ideological straitjacket...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Leave the kids alone

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Like many others, I am outraged by the regime's decision today to ban the use of puberty-blockers for trans (but not cis) children . And...

There is a magic money-tree after all

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Remember when Bill English called prisons "a moral and fiscal failure" ? It was an example of his cautious conservativism, a recog...
Monday, November 17, 2025

National cares about nothing but roads

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National has announced its latest bullshit roading plan: $4 billion to shove more cars into central Wellington : The New Zealand Transport ...
Friday, November 14, 2025

Ratfucking our democracy

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One of the major themes of this regime has been its contempt for democracy and the parliamentary process. The statistics on this were laid b...
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