No Right Turn

National is busy cutting social housing, which has resulted in increased scrutiny of politicians' housing entitlements. First, there...

Albert Einstein reportedly said that insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. And that's basica...

Over the weekend the regime announced its long-expected policy of "move on" orders for homeless people . Having massively increase...

National came to power in part because it promised to reduce the cost of living of ordinary New Zealadners. But two years in, the reality is...

Aotearoa has an infrastructure shortage. We need schools, hospitals, public housing. But National is dead set against borrowing to fund any ...

When the National government came into office, it complained of a "war on landlords". It's response? Start a war on renters in...

In question time today, Housing Minister Chris Bishop, in response to questions about the Kāinga Ora waitlist, said that the government'...

Earlier in the month, a panel of "independent" experts in Wellington produced recommendations for the future of housing in the cit...

A ballot for five Member's Bills was held today, and the following bills were drawn: Parole (Mandatory Completion of Rehabilitative P...

We already know that national plans to boost smoking rates to collect more tobacco tax so they can give huge tax-cuts to mega-landlords . Bu...

Last month, the Greens introduced their clean power policy , promising loans and grants to upgrade homes to add solar panels and be energy e...

Last month, the Greens introduced their clean power policy , promising loans and grants to upgrade homes to add solar panels and be energy e...

At the 2020 election, Labour promised to regulate property managers . In February 2022, they said they were actually doing it . In November ...

Over the weekend the Greens released their clean power policy , promising a "clean power payment" of up to $6000, interest-free lo...

Last month the Greens released their tax policy, was was basicly eat the rich . Over the weekend they followed it up with their rental polic...

Last week Transport Minister Michael Wood was stood down after failing to properly declare a conflict of interest . He owned shares in Auckl...

Grant Robertson is currently reading his budget speech, to the usual applause from the performing seals on the backbench. More childcare sub...

Over on The Kaka , Bernard Hickey is calling the Loafers Lodge fire a symptom of our bipartisan, low-tax, low-debt, no-housing, fuck-the-po...

At the 2020 election, Labour promised to regulate property managers . Now, they're finally doing it : The Government’s announcement tha...

For the past few years Renters United has been calling for rent controls to stop gouging landlords. Now, that call has been taken up by the...