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It must be bad idea week at the Beehive. Yesterday, they were promoting vigilantism - a policy hated by everybody except the very worst peo...

For the past few years I've been waging war on secrecy clauses, submitting at select committee where clauses in legislation seem to over...

Back in January the government held a public consultation on its draft Regulatory Standards Bill . The bill is a piece of neoliberal bullshi...

Back in January, Samoan cabinet minister La’auli Leuatea Schmidt was charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice . When he refu...

Germans went to the polls today , in what looks to be their most important election since 1945. The good news is that they seem to have kept...

Climate Liberation Aotearoa will be holding a rally outside the Wellington District Court on Monday in support of climate defenders: If ...

In 2021, RefiningNZ, the owners of the Marsden Point oil refinery , took a hard look at its future, and decided that it didn't have one....

A ballot for three member's bills was held today, and the following bills were drawn: Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Sales on Anzac Day ...

On Tuesday, the "Independent" Police Conduct Authority issued an extraordinary report, proposing a complete rewrite of protest law...

In 2022, Brazilian voters kicked president Jair Bolsonaro out of office . He responded with an attempted coup . And now, he's being pros...

Today is the first Members Day of the year. First up is a local bill, the Auckland Council (Auckland Future Fund) Bill , which is pretty bor...

The "Independent" Police Conduct Authority issued a radical report today, a Review of the policing of public protests in New Zeala...

In 2005, Labour repealed the long-standing principle of birthright citizenship in Aotearoa. Why? As with everything else Labour does, it al...

On Thursday, infrastructure minister Chris Bishop was wanking in the House about the benefits of Public-Private-Partnerships (PPPs) . So how...

As expected, Donald Trump just threw Ukraine under the bus , demanding that it accept Russia's illegal theft of land, while ruling out a...

A ballot for a single member's bill was held today, and the following bill was drawn: Employment Relations (Collective Agreements in ...

In 2016, Aotearoa shockingly plunged to fourth place in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index. Nine years later, and ...

Last week, 1 News broke the news of a major diplomatic rift between New Zealand and the Cook Islands , over the latter's plans to sign ...

The proposed Waimate garbage incinerator is dead : The company behind a highly-controversial proposal to build a waste-to-energy plant in t...

The US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act has been a vital tool in combatting international corruption. It forbids US companies and citizens fro...