No Right Turn

Normally when a select committee hears submissions on a bill, they post them online on the Parliamentary website to inform the public. Excep...

As we all know by now, George Zimmerman has been acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin . There's been a massive outpouring of disgust ov...

Who is the US arming in Syria? President Assad rubs his hands at news of rebel split By taking sides within sides, Rifkind risks a repeat o...

Luxembourg's Service de Renseignement de l'Etat has been running amok , bugging politicians, amassing files on over 300,000 people ...

One of the functions of the Human Rights Commission is to monitor human rights and report to the Prime Minister on any legislation which ma...

Earlier in the year we learned that Israel had disappeared an Australian citizen and detained him in total secrecy until he killed himself ....

The latest NSA leak: Microsoft is spying for the NSA : Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users'...

One of the big trends in public services in the last twenty years has been "contracting out" - handing over core services to outsi...

Once upon a time I supported the Emissions Trading Scheme because the theory was good. If you cap overall emissions, and allow emitters to ...

The UK is deep in recession. There has been a record drop in wages , and household living standards have dropped by almost 2% in the last qu...

Last week I argued that Parliamentary Services' spying on Andrea Vance and Peter Dunne was a breach of Parliamentary Privilege . It se...

So, after the insanity of Tuesday nights media-created "coup", David Shearer is now reduced to begging the media for a fair go . ...

While skimming the member's bills this morning I came across an interesting one: Colin King's Age of Majority (Attainment at 18 Year...

Last year, the government announced that doing Transmission Gully using a Public-Private partnership would cost $300 million more than if th...

Transparency International's Global Corruption Barometer has some bad news for New Zealand: 3% of us paid a bribe for public services in...

Labour and NZ First hardening their stance against John Key's spy bill : While Prime Minister John Key is still scrambling to get enoug...

After being delayed by urgency last week, today is a Member's day - and one that promises a few fireworks. After the committee stage of ...

The Greens are celebrating because the Speaker has granted their request for a "conscience vote" on the enabling legislation for J...

Last month we learned that Britain's GCHQ was tapping fibre-optic cables into and out of the UK and recording all international phone an...

Parliament's press gallery have made it clear to the speaker that they will not tolerate surveillance of their journalism : Representat...