No Right Turn

Yesterday the government announced that it would be spending $284 million on subsidising a privately-owned convention centre in Christchurch...

While all the old farts are clutching their pearls at the thought that a young person might ever be angry at the government and express that...

Fijian dictator Voreqe Bainimarama will be visiting New Zealand this weekend to campaign at expatriate voters. But he won't be getting a...

Fiji's dictatorship is spying on opposition election candidates : An aspiring independent election candidate in Fiji, Roshika Deo, says...

Another day, another corrupt Australian MP : A state MP who has stood aside from the parliamentary Liberal Party during a corruption inquir...

The Sensible Sentencing Trust's Garth McVicar is standing for the Conservative Party . I guess they're a natural fit for a vicious b...

Yesterday, Andrew Geddis had an interesting article about the Canadian police's "Mr Big" tactic (which involves establish a ...

The Greens announced their transport policy today: a massive re-prioritization from roads to public transport : The Green Party's polic...

Back in 2005, the government rewrote the law governing charities, producing the Charities Act 2005. One of the changes in the law was a crac...

Its election time, our triennial chance to force our "representatives" to front up to us so we can question them and tell them wha...

The latest Household Labour Force Survey was released today, showing a drop in unemployment. But while its an improvement, there are still ...

(By @phirate ) Contrast this with paper voting: I get to do it in private, my ballot doesn't BSOD, hackers don't change my vote ...

The latest NSA leak: the NSA and GCHQ spy for Israel : The surveillance-sharing relationship with Israel has expanded to include the NSA’s ...

The Guardian has an in-depth interview today with Dr Peter Young, a psychiatrist who until recently was responsible for treating refugees i...

Its election year, so naturally the government is launching a crackdown on that favourite law and order ogre, gangs . More police funding, m...

Isis brings its war to Lebanon - and it could be a key part of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s masterplan

So, having publicly opposed the Fijian coup, the New Zealand government will be allowing Fijian dictator Voreqe Bainimarama to visit this we...

Today the government released its statutorily required annual report on the ETS , showing that polluters reported emitting 97,131,843.1 tonn...

Another day, another massive overseas land sale of dubious benefit to New Zealand . Meanwhile, we've also learned that "our" g...

First World War Centenary: My father threw away his poppy in disgust