No Right Turn

Last week, the government had a big wank about police raids in Ōpōtiki , crowing about "gangs" and "drugs" and "law...

Remember Casey Costello? The government's most ignorant Minister? First she was referred to the Chief Archivist after claiming that key...

The Waitangi Tribunal has been one of the most effective critics of the National government and its racist, anti-Māori agenda. So naturally,...

A few years ago, we looked to be on-track to a decarbonised future, with an international consortium led by BlueFloat Energy announcing plan...

Today the House is in an extended sitting, devoted to Member's Business as a catch-up for time stolen by the government in urgency. Firs...

We know that the current National government is basically a government of and for antivaxxers and cookers, the people who rioted at Parliame...

That's the only way to describe National's actions in appointing a crown observer to the Wellington City Council . Wellington didn...

This morning, in a desperate effort to distract attention from the suppurating sore of contempt that is Andrew Bayly , National announced th...

A "what the fuck" moment for National: Andrew Bayly went round calling a worker a "loser" on an official visit : The wo...

When the Education and Workforce Committee reported back on Camilla Belich's Crimes (Theft by Employer) Amendment Bill and recommended ...

The Herald is reporting on yet another reporting from the ATLAS-network-linked "New Zealand" Initiative, this one complaining of ...

Today is a Member's Day. First up is the third reading of Deborah Russell's Family Proceedings (Dissolution for Family Violence) Ame...

On Friday I blogged a news story about Paul Goldsmith's appointment of terf and genocide supporter Stephen Rainbow as Chief Human Rights...

Back in July, the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care delivered its report, detailing a horrific litany of abuse for which the go...

Back in August, National sabotaged human rights by appointing terf and genocide supporter Stephen Rainbow as Chief Human Rights Commission...

Today, October 10, is the world day against the death penalty . Out of 195 UN member states, 63 still permit routine capital punishment . ...

One of the risks of National's Muldoonist fast-track law is corruption. If Ministers can effectively approve projects by including them ...

Back in April, Teanau Tuiono's member's bill to undo a historic crime and restore citizenship to Samoans stripped of it by Muldoon ...

When National decided to shovel $24 million of public money to a charity run by a donor and chaired by the son of a National MP, on the ...

Here in Aotearoa, our right-wing, ATLAS-network-backed government is rolling back climate policy and plotting to raise emissions to allow th...