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

Today is strike day . Teachers, nurses, doctors, and assorted other medical professionals and public servants are all on strike today. Its t...

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

When National embarked on slash and burn cuts to the public service, Prime Minister Chris Luxon was clear that he expected frontline servic...

So, having teased it last week, Andrew Little has announced he will run for mayor of Wellington. On RNZ , he's saying its all about serv...

When National cancelled the iRex ferry contract out of the blue in a desperate effort to make short-term savings to pay for their landlord t...

In 2005, Labour repealed the long-standing principle of birthright citizenship in Aotearoa. Why? As with everything else Labour does, it al...

Aotearoa's science sector is broken. For 35 years it has been run on a commercial, competitive model, while being systematically underfu...

At the 2023 election, National basically ran on a platform of being better economic managers. So how'd that turn out for us? In just on...

Since coming to power last year, National has viciously cut the public service, sacking nearly 10,000 public servants (to date). Those peop...

I had to do a morning of jury service this week, and was fortunate to not get selected for what sounded like an unpleasant and psychological...

Last month, the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care delivered its report, detailing a horrific litany of abuse for which the gove...

Primary, secondary and kindergarten teachers are all on strike today , demanding higher pay and an end to systematic understaffing. While th...

Yesterday the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists released a report on dental care in Aotearoa, highlighting its unaffordability and...

Labour is a status quo party. Like National, they're committed to low debt, low taxes, and absolutely no wealth taxes on rich people li...

Over in the UK, the radical Tory government is planning more benefit cuts to screw the poor . Meanwhile, there's also a timely reminder ...

(Cartoon by Jon Kudelka) There's a (paywalled) story on BusinessDesk about today's budget document drop - and in particular the cl...

WorkSafe is supposed to make sure that every Kiwi is safe at work. Except they can't any more, because they're not funded to do the ...

The Independent Police Conduct Authority is meant to investigate complaints against police and uncover illegal behaviour. But it is collapsi...