No Right Turn

Over on Newsroom , Claire Timperley points out the not-so hidden subtext in the public lynching of Metiria Turei: class : Beneficiary fraud...

Today is a Member's Day, the last for the Parliamentary term. Sadly, though, we won't be seeing a vote on death with dignity today, ...

Labour has followed the Greens' lead and committed to making commercial water users pay their fair share : Water bottling companies and...

How hostile is the Trump regime to climate change? They've banned Department of Agriculture scientists from even mentioning it : Staff ...

14 NGOs have united to call on the government to pass a UK-style Climate Change Act, with legislated targets setting a downward path for emi...

Well, that was exciting, wasn't it? Two mediocre male Green MPs told the party "its Metiria or us", and were quickly and effic...

We have a housing crisis, caused primarily by a failure to build enough houses to cope with demand. Dogmatic economics tells us that the mar...

Its election season, so the government is proudly announcing how much money it has spent to encourage new forests : A total of 5183ha of ne...

Australia is reportedly planning to storm its Manus Island concentration camp to suppress protests there . Meanwhile, their refusal to provi...

National and Labour both announced transport policy over the weekend, with the usual lists of projects and spending. But while they had diff...

If you need any further evidence that spies are inherently a threat to democracy, just take a look at South Korea, where its chief spy agenc...

So, Jacinda Ardern has stuck the knife in by saying that she had told the Greens this morning that she would not have Metiria Turei in any L...

A couple of weeks ago, Metiria Turei confessed to not telling WINZ everything about her living arrangements when she was a poor solo mother ...

When you watch Dunkirk, remember that it’s a whitewashed version which ignores the bravery of black and Muslim soldiers

Yesterday, Auditor-General Martin Matthews resigned, apparently to avoid a formal motion to remove him from office. But the report which led...

Oh look - more Australian politicians have been found to have acted corruptly : Former NSW Labor ministers Eddie Obeid, Joe Tripodi and Ton...

Auditor-General Martin Matthews has resigned . Good riddance. Given his woeful performance as chief executive of the Ministry of Transport, ...

There's a bit in Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 where the empty investment properties of the ultra-rich are compared to giant...

Back in 2015, almost 9000 people signed a petition asking Parliament to investigate public attitudes towards assisted dying legislation. Wh...

That's the natural conclusion of their latest admissions about illegal spying on Kim Dotcom : The GCSB also told the High Court the ...