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Last month Nick Smith announced with great fanfare a target for 90% of New Zealand's rivers to be swimmable by 2040. Except it turned ou...

One of the problems of New Zealand's property boom is that wealthy property owners often find it easier to leave houses vacant rather th...

Bill English has come clean about his plans for superannuation, and announced that he wants to fight the election on making you worse off : ...

Last week the Ombudsman formally warned that people were being subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in our prisons . Correcti...

Six months out from the election, and Bill English is openly threatening people's retirement security : Prime Minister Bill English has...

One of the Trump regime's first acts in office was to reinstate the Regan-era "global gag rule" , forbidding the use of US aid...

Theresa May wants British people to feel 'pride' in the Balfour Declaration. What exactly is there to be proud of?

Corrupt Panamanian money-laundering enablers Mossack-Fonseca have quit New Zealand : The law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers scanda...

New Zealand's climate change inventory is due out in May, and is likely to show greenhouse gas emissions rising yet again due to our abs...

UK Labour plans to force the rich to make their taxes public : A Labour government would force all taxpayers who earn at least £1m a year t...

Yesterday the Ombudsman formally reported New Zealand for violating the Convention Against Torture over its cruel, inhuman and degrading res...

The Australian government has admitted that its spy agency, ASIO, has been targeting journalists : Australia’s attorney general, George Bra...

How much did the government's first OGP action plan do to advance open government in New Zealand? Sweet fuck-all , according to the OGP...

Why is our environment degrading? One of the reasons is that our compliance and enforcement of environmental law is a bit shit : Agencies t...

How bad are New Zealand's prisons? So bad that they're now getting formal warnings under OPCAT for cruel, inhuman and degrading trea...

National has a problem: persistent high unemployment . Their solution? Blaming their victims, of course : Prime Minister Bill English is bl...

For decades, greedy farmers have been sucking our aquifers dry and polluting them with toxic cowpiss. We're seeing the results this year...

Marine Le Pen has arrived in Lebanon to find out that the Christians she thought were her allies aren’t on her side at all

The latest sign of the housing crisis: National has blown its emergency housing budget : The Government has had a massive blowout in emerge...

The Intelligence and Security Committee has reported back on the New Zealand Intelligence and Security Bill . Its being touted as a victory...