No Right Turn

Back in 2020, the then-Labour government signed contracted for the construction and purchase of two new rail-enabled Cook Strait ferries , t...

When National introduced its bullshit "Treaty Principles Bill", the public reacted with outrage. Over 300,000 of us - more than 5%...

In December 2021, then-Climate Change Minister James Shaw finally ended Tiwai Point's excessive pollution subsidies , cutting their ...

Aotearoa has an infrastructure shortage. We need schools, hospitals, public housing. But National is dead set against borrowing to fund any ...

David Parker gave a big foreign policy speech this morning, reiterating the party's support for an independent (rather than boot-lickin...

Yesterday The Post had a long exit interview with outgoing Ombudsman Peter Boshier , in which he complains about delinquent agencies which ...

The Parliament Bill Committee has reported back on the Parliament Bill . As usual, they recommend no substantive changes, all decisions hav...

Yesterday outgoing Ombudsman Peter Boshier published a report, Reflections on the Official Information Act , on his way out the door. The re...

What is going on with the price of butter? , RNZ , 19 march 2025: If you have bought butter recently you might have noticed something - it ...

In what has become regular news, the quarterly ETS auction has failed, with nobody even bothering to bid . The immediate reason is that the ...

One of the eternal truths about Aotearoa's economy is that we are "capital poor": there's not enough money sloshing around...

Back in December, Lands Minister Chris Penk rejected proposals to recognise the proper names of Manawatū and Pito One . Both proposals were ...

A ballot for a single Member's Bill was held today, and the following bill was drawn: Resource Management (Prohibition on Extraction ...

In the US, the Trump regime is busy imposing tariffs on its neighbours and allies, then revoking them, then reimposing them, permanently poi...

The free school lunch program was one of Labour's few actual achievements in government. Decent food, made locally, providing local empl...

Today is a Member's Day. First up is the Auckland Harbour Board and Takapuna Borough Council Empowering Act Amendment Bill , a local bil...

Back in October 2022, Restore Passenger Rail hung banners across roads in Wellington to protest against the then-Labour government's wea...

There's horrible news from the US today, with the Trump regime disappearing Mahmoud Khalil , a former Columbia University student, for p...

Yesterday National announced plans to amend the Public Works Act to "speed up" land acquisition for public works. Which sounds bor...

The Justice Committee has called for submissions on the Term of Parliament (Enabling 4-year Term) Legislation Amendment Bill . Submissions ...