No Right Turn

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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