No Right Turn

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

Another day, and more racism from the regime : The government's decision to axe schools' obligation to give effect to the Treaty of...

Back in April an OIA request exposed the absurd cost of ACT's charter schools - five times more per student than the government spends o...

The New Zealand state has traditionally taken an expansive role in our society, providing health, education, and welfare systems to enrich a...

So, having stolen $13 billion from New Zealand women by shitcanning pay equity negotiations, the National government is again attacking wom...

The free school lunch program was one of Labour's few actual achievements in government. Decent food, made locally, providing local empl...

When National announced the re-introduction of its corrupt charter schools back in May, Labour "leader" Chris Hipkins impressed no...

National's charter schools bill is curently before select committee . One of the more odious features of the bill is that it makes chart...

Back in 2022, in its Open Government Partnership National Action Plan, the government promised to strengthen scrutiny of Official Informatio...

The government just introduced its Education and Training Amendment Bill to the House. The name is deliberately obfuscatory, because what t...

Yesterday de facto Prime Minister David Seymour announced that his glove puppet government would be re-introducing charter schools , throwi...

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

Last week, Stuff asked Associate Education Minister Kelvin Davis about compulsory te reo Māori in primary schools. And as usual for Labour,...

Earlier in the month we learned about institutionalised transphobia at Bethlehem College . The school is an "integrated school", m...

The government has announced it will be replacing all coal boilers in schools by 2025 : All remaining coal boilers in New Zealand schools w...

Writing on Newsroom , Laura Walters makes a case for cancelling student debt : [A]t the moment, loan debt is hurting the economy, holding b...

For the past two years the government has been trying to decarbonise the education sector, funding schools to replace dirty old coal boilers...

Remember John Campbell's "Feed the kids" campaign? Free school lunches are one of the most effective education policy interven...

The Greens have ignored their own policies to funnel public money to a private school in Taranaki : The Green Party has been caught bending...

Today the government announced a new "support" package for students: more debt! With universities shut, and their part-time jobs ...