No Right Turn

How bad are things under the Luxon regime? We already knew that we had the worst wage growth in the world , with wages 6.4% below 2021 leve...

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

When running for election in 2023, National's key promise was simple: "we will lower the cost of living". They've repeated...

When the regime was elected, they claimed to have a laser focus on bringing down the cost of living . So how's that working out for them...

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...

Butter has become a flashpoint in the cost-of-living crisis, with the price of the baking staple doubling in the last 14 months , and people...

RNZ has a piece this morning on the latest NBR rich list, reporting that the ultra-rich are doing great (despite the government-induced re...

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

Back in 2018 the then-Labour government legislated formal targets to reduce child poverty with the Child Poverty Reduction Act - and took a...

Last week, Labour chickenshitted out on a wealth tax , with Prime Minister (for now) Chris Hipkins ruling it out as long as he holds office ...

Between 2016 and 2020, the Australian government inflicted nearly $2 billion of imaginary "debts" on welfare recipients, courtesy ...

Aotearoa has a poverty problem: far too many people with not enough. And we have a fairness problem, with research from IRD showing that the...

The Herald reports that WINZ debt has reached the staggering total of $2.4 billion , with the usual racism and sexism in who owes and how m...

Former Labour MP Iain Lees-Galloway has a piece in Stuff today pleading for continued government funding for foodbanks and food-rescue orga...

RNZ reports that WINZ is systematically racist and misogynist about debt , with Māori being forced deeper into debt, and women and Māori fo...

Remember the Welfare Expert Advisory Group? When it reported back in 2019, it found that the welfare system was "no longer fit for purp...

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

While it has made a lot of noise about inequality, Labour has resolutely avoided reversing the 1990 benefit cuts and improving living standa...

Yesterday, over fifty charitable and community groups released an open letter calling for the government to raise benefits before christmas ...

In utterly unsurprising news, research has shown that if you give one group of people twice as much money as another, they're better off...