No Right Turn

On Wednesday the Climate Change Commission released its 2023 Draft advice to inform the strategic direction of the Government’s second emiss...

The standard theory of government is that we have three branches, executive, judiciary, and legislature, which are independent. In Aotearoa,...

In February 2021, police shot Tangaru-Noere Turia in Auckland as he was leaving a house. And now the Independent Police Conduct Authority ha...

Back in 2020, IRD began a hugely controversial (among rich people) study of how much tax the rich are actually paying. And today it reported...

TVNZ has a major scoop - Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon donated over $10,000 to Kiri Allen's campaign in the 2020 election . Wei...

The US state of Washington has officially abolished the death penalty : Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee signed Senate Bill 5087 on Friday, which...

The Independent Police Conduct Authority released their report on the police response to the Parliament riot today, and its pretty much as ...

In 2021, NZ Steel, one of Aotearoa's worst climate polluters, applied to renew its resource consent. They'd deliberately applied ear...

In December 2021, a police arrest in Levin put a man in a coma . He died in hospital the next day . The Independent Police Conduct Authority...

Back in December, the Labour cabinet ignored the Climate Commission's official advice on ETS price settings , triggering a collapse in c...

Politicians are always telling us that we need to sacrifice and surrender legal and social rights or environmental protections in the name o...

Yesterday the government took an unexpected decision to retain existing covid protections - already so weak that basically all we have left...

Treasury and the Ministry for the Environment have produced a Climate Economic and Fiscal Assessment 2023 , with an estimate of the costs of...

A ballot for a single member's bill was held today, and the following bill was drawn: Crimes (Theft by Employer) Amendment Bill (Ibra...

Newsroom has a story today about the petition against the Climate Change Response (Late Payment Penalties and Industrial Allocation) Amend...

So, former US President Donald Trump has finally been charged , with 34 counts of "falsifying business records" over his efforts t...

Today is a Member's Day. First up is the third reading of Angie Warren-Clark's Crimes (Child Exploitation Offences) Amendment Bill ,...

In the wake of Stuart Nash's unlawful withholding of official information to hide his corrupt disclosure to donors, there have been mult...

In 2021 the government introduced the clean car discount, making dity ute buyers pay to subsidise cleaner cars. The policy has been wildly s...

In 2012 Green MP Holly Walker introduced the Lobbying Disclosure Bill . The bill would have regulated lobbyists, setting up a register and r...