No Right Turn

That's the only way to describe the regime's plans to outlaw civil climate suits against polluting companies : The government annou...

That's the only way to describe the regime's announcement today that new citizens will be forced to pass a test on the "respons...

The March labour market statistics are out, showing unemployment has dropped slightly, to 5.3%. But there are still 163,000 people unemploy...

At the 2023 election, National promised "localism", the devolution of power from central to local government. How's that worki...

Last year, the corrupt National regime lowered our methane reduction target, while ruling out pricing agricultural emissions for as long as ...

The cover story of today's Substandard is the forced release of Palmerston North Mayor Grant Smith's credit card expenses . The act...

The Herald has a story today about emails released by Winston Peters under the OIA, showing that prime minister Christopher Luxon wanted to...

A ballot for four member's bills was held today, and the following bills were drawn: Better Regional Boundaries Bill (Tim Costley) C...

Today is a member's day. First up is the third reading of the Carter Trust Amendment Bill , a boring private bill to tidy up the lingeri...

Since winning power in 2023, the present National regime has Fucked Around on climate change policy. They're repealed a swathe of measur...

Te Wāhipounamu is a UNESCO World Heritage Site , a taonga of Aotearoa's conservation estate. So naturally, the orcs in the Beehive want...

For the past decade, successive governments have been chipping away at the Official Information Act, exempting agencies and passing secrecy ...

Over the last few days Wellington has been hammered by torrential rain and floods, and one person is still missing dead. So naturally its t...

I'm sitting here in Palmerston North (where it is raining), watching the reports of the rain and flooding from Wellington . Water floodi...

When National voted down its own Treaty Principles Bill last year , they claimed it was because they understood that "seek[ing] to impo...

Ministry for the Environment has released New Zealand's Greenhouse Gas Inventory 1990–2024 , which has updated emissions figures. The ba...

Newsroom has an opinion piece by Marcus Ganley, on the problems of proactive release of official information . The government releases vast...

Hungarians went to the polls yesterday in parliamentary elections, and responded with a resounding "Ruszkik Haza!" , telling Puti...

Graeme Edgeler had an interesting piece the other day advocating for crown solicitors to be subject to the Official Information Act . Unique...

Well, that was a day, wasn't it? After threatening that "a whole civilisation will die tonight" if he didn't get what he ...