No Right Turn

It seems WINZ was alerted to its IT muppetry last year : Beneficiary Advocacy Federation spokeswoman Kay Brereton said she alerted official...

So, it turns out that WINZ are a bunch of fucking muppets at computer security , allowing sensitive, private information to be accessed by a...

Over the past few years Britain has developed an increasingly intolerant attitude towards public expressions of dissent, arresting and even ...

Faced with National's utter disinterest in jobs and its refusal to allow Parliament to investigate the matter, Labour, the Greens and N...

A whistleblower has come forward to tell us what we already knew: that the UK's "investigation" into torture and war crimes by...

Mana Party MP Hone Harawira was arrested last night at a protest against state house privatisation. His crime? Blocking a driveway. The ...

The usual tactic when a Minister gets into trouble is to deny everything and blame the department. we saw it with Murray McCully over the g...

The government says that times are tough. As a result, public servants have been facing cuts, layoffs, and a pay freeze for the past three ...

Since the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, we have lived in a world of nation-states. One result of this is that we have a multitude of differ...

Who'd have thunk it? Facebook are tax cheats : Facebook was accused last night of "disingenuous and immoral" tax avoidance af...

Last night, Campbell Live had a blistering piece on "the New Zealand institutions that broke our trust" , exploring the backgroun...

What's the point of Section 7 of the Bill of Rights Act if politicians simply subvert it for their own political ends? Section 7 BORA ...

Text messages are hot news in the freedom of information community right now. Locally, Whanganui District Councillor Michael Laws' comm...

Half of Greek police force voted for Golden Dawn , Digital Journal , June 21 2012: Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party maintained seve...

When the European Union was founded, it was supposed to bring peace and democracy to Europe. Fifty years on, and it means teargas, stun gre...

Labour is accusing Education Minister Hekia Parata of a conflict of interest over a new Christchurch character school. why? Because it wil...

Today, October 10, is the world day against the death penalty . Out of 194 UN member states and observers, 96 still have the death penalt...

Here we go - as threatened during the election, National are planning a pay cut for young workers : The Government is introducing a new pa...

The last few weeks have seen hundreds of job lost around the country, with layoffs announced at Solid Energy , KiwiRail , Nuplex , New Zeala...

Between 1952 and 1956, the British waged a dirty colonial war in Kenya against the Mau-Mau . Opponents of the colonial regime were detained...