No Right Turn

Back in 2016, the then-National government did a dodgy deal in which NZ Post - a state-owned enterprise - sold 45% of Kiwibank to the Supera...

A decade ago, the police were abusing their power to coerce DNA samples from young Māori . Today, they're abusing their power to coerce ...

For the past fifty years, right-wing parties, backed by NeoLiberal think-tanks, have aggressively pushed for tax cuts for the rich. The supp...

RNZ reported yesterday that several of the billionaire backers of Moneyboat have been unable to enter Aotearoa to watch their lawyers fight,...

OMV is quitting the Great South Basin and surrendering its permit : Austrian oil giant OMV, which had a permit to explore the Great South B...

The government has finally accepted the inevitable and purchased Ihumātao from Fletcher Building , apparently with the aim of eventual retur...

The government will raise the minimum wage to $20 an hour from 1 April . Good. Not only will this help people on the bottom by giving them a...

The government has proactively released its Briefings to Incoming Ministers (BIMs), so like every other politics geek in Aotearoa, I've...

Nelson has been Keeping Rates Low, and now the bill has come due : Underfunding of running costs for Nelson-Tasman's sewerage system is...

Over the weekend, countries which are serious about climate change got together virtually at the international Climate Ambition Summit 2020 ...

Farmers are whining that new freshwater rules designed to stop them shitting in rivers or polluting the water table with nitrogen will mean ...

There have been a number of stories recently about how New Zealand is not doing its bit on climate change, that despite all our talk and tar...

There's an appalling report from the Independent Police Conduct Authority out today, about an Unjustified entry and use of force during ...

Last year, the Thames-Coromandel District Council refused to sign the Local Government Leaders' Climate Change Declaration , with Mayor ...

So, the report of the inquiry into the Christchurch massacre has finally been released, and (of course) exonerated the spies and the police ...

Farmers feel New Zealand has turned its back on them , Stuff , 13 September 2019: A young Wairarapa farmer's voice starts to crack when...

Last month, the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security reported back on the appalling case of the SIS looking the other way on chil...

Stuff has a piece on the spiralling cost of film subsidies, which have grown to more than 5% of the government's new operating allowanc...

Back in 2010, the then-National government overthrew the elected government of Canterbury to impose a dictatorship . Now, Labour is going to...

The Danish government has put an official end-date on fossil fuel extraction : Denmark’s government on Thursday agreed with a majority in p...