No Right Turn

Last week, in a desperate attempt to get some "tough on crime" and "we hate children" headlines before the election, th...

In 2021, NZ Steel, one of Aotearoa's worst climate polluters, applied to renew its resource consent. They'd deliberately applied ear...

Golriz Ghahraman's Electoral (Strengthening Democracy) Amendment Bill will probably face its first reading today. And three months afte...

Aotearoa has an inequality problem. The top 1% own 20% of the wealth , and nearly half our total wealth is owned by the top 5% (and as that ...

Two thousand people marched in Christchurch over the weekend to protest against a local water bottling plant threatening their water supply...

For a while I've been posting about Ministerial weekly briefings , encouraging people to OIA them as a resource for finding out what the...

A ballot for a Members bill was held today and the following bill was drawn: Minimum Wage (Contractor Remuneration) Amendment Bill (David ...

Labour's David Parker participated in a public "vote chat" at Otago University. Naturally, I took the opportunity to ask him...

In Parliament tonight, during the debate over the (hopefully uncontentious) Electoral (Administration) Amendment Bill , Labour's elector...

I've spent some time reading the State Services Commissioner's investigation into the engagement of Clare Curran by the Ministry for...

Yesterday we learned that, contrary to reports last week, the Ministry for the Environment did not put the contract won by Labour Party acti...

For well over a century now, New Zealand has been blessed with a professional, politically neutral public service, which faithfully serves t...

When the Greens confronted the government about their shameful position at the Vienna climate change talks, Climate Change Minister David P...

The Greens confronted the government about their shameful position at the Vienna climate change talks in Parliament yesterday, asking wheth...

What are the variables in New Zealand's climate change policy? There's a candid assessment from the Minister in the Local Governmen...

The Companies Office has completed their investigation of the allegations against David Parker, and the Crown Solicitor has concluded that t...

One of the things that has been overlooked in the departure of David parker is what it means for his portfolios - and particularly (because ...