No Right Turn

The other day I blogged about the Samoan government's plans to review freedom of religion . Today, Radio New Zealand confirms that the ...

Just before the recess, National again abused urgency to bump the first scheduled Member's Day of the year . As a result, today is a Me...

Two weeks ago, Fijian politician Peceli Rinakama was abducted by soldiers in Suva. Publicity around the case forced the regime to admit af...

Over on Kiwiblog, DPF has a good idea for open government : That all papers and reports considered by Cabinet and/or a Cabinet Committee be...

For the past six months, the government has been threatening to dig up our national parks . They justify this by arguing that New Zealand h...

Back in December, Justice Minister Simon Power appointed a number of National party cronies , including former MP and arch-bigot Brian Nees...

Last week, Australia passed a law abolishing the death penalty . Which seems odd, given that no Australian state uses it, and the last exec...

On Friday, anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune arrived in Japan , and was arrested for illegally boarding a Japanese whaling ship. Since th...

Writing in the Herald , ARC chair Mike Lee details how little control the new Auckland council will have over Auckland Transport : The Au...

Today's worrying news: the Samoan government has established a Commission of Inquiry to review freedom of religion . As the RNZI articl...

Forest & Bird has leaked the government's plans for mining in national parks - and they're not pretty. The government plans to...

Try this reading list if you want to understand the Middle East

Colin Espiner , blogging about the government's plans to sell New Zealand residency (and by extension, voting rights ) to those willing...

Former National MP and Children's Commissioner Roger McClay appeared in court today on fraud charges over misuse of his parliamentary p...

That's the verdict of the Human Rights Commission on Hone Harawira's infamous "white motherfuckers" email . While the Hu...

Itawamba County Agricultural High School is a normal high school in Mississippi. Unfortunately, its board is run by bigots, who wanted to b...

Over on Frogblog, Green co-leader Russel Norman blogs about his trip to Lake Ellesmere , which he described as having the consistency of ...

Last week, Fijian politician Peceli Rinakama was abducted by soldiers in Suva. Today, after a week of silence, the regime has finally admi...

The Guardian highlights an OECD report [PDF] which shows that the UK has the worst social mobility among developed OECED members : Childr...

For the past couple of weeks the Auckland Governance Committee has been hearing submissions in Auckland on the latest phase of the governmen...