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Irredeemably Liberal

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

A "secret" that wasn't

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Back in 2018, Aotearoa was in the midst of the Operation Burnham inquiry. During this, it emerged that key evidence was subject to a US veto...

National says "fuck the BORA"

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That's the only way to describe their plans to reinstate the prisoner voting ban . In case anyone has forgotten, this is a law that was ...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Gas is dead

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The Herald had another announcement today about a new solar farm being officially opened - this time the 63MW Lauriston solar farm in Cante...

Shoving the future aside

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I woke this morning to the shock news that Tory Whanau was no longer contesting the Wellington mayoralty , having stepped aside to leave the...
Monday, April 28, 2025

"Protecting frontline services"

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When National embarked on slash and burn cuts to the public service, Prime Minister Chris Luxon was clear that he expected frontline servic...

Climate Change: National supports pollution subsidies

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When the Emissions Trading Scheme was originally introduced, way back in 2008, it included a generous transitional subsidy scheme, which saw...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Climate Change: Fucking the ETS again

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For a while, it looked like the government had unfucked the ETS, at least insofar as unit settings were concerned. They had to be forced int...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

The rotten, unaccountable crown

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Between 1950 and 1993 the New Zealand government tortured and abused up to 250,000 children in residential care facilities . They then proce...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Climate Change: Kicking the can down the road again

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Last week, the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment recommended that forestry be removed from the Emissions Trading Scheme . Its a...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Little's pitch

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So, having teased it last week, Andrew Little has announced he will run for mayor of Wellington. On RNZ , he's saying its all about serv...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Winston is inciting terrorism

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That's the conclusion of a report into security risks against Green MP Benjamin Doyle , in the wake of Winston Peters' waging a homo...
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Good fucking riddance

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National's racist and divisive Treaty Principles Bill was just voted down by the House, 112 to 11. Good fucking riddance. The bill was ...

Drawn

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A ballot for three Member's Bills was held today, and the following bills were drawn: Life Jackets for Children and Young Persons Bil...
Wednesday, April 09, 2025

Member's Day

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Today is a Member's Day, and its all first readings. First up is Laura McClure's Employment Relations (Termination of Employment by ...
Tuesday, April 08, 2025

The dishonest crown

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The High Court has just ruled that the government has been violating one of the oldest Treaty settlements, the Sealord deal : The High Cour...

Grooming us for identity theft

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Local body elections are in October, and so like a lot of people, I received the usual pre-election enrolment confirmation from the Orange M...
Monday, April 07, 2025

The return of dirty politics

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At the 2005 election campaign, the National Party colluded with a weirdo cult , the Exclusive Brethren, to run a secret hate campaign agains...
Friday, April 04, 2025

Parliament's secret "transparency" regime

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When the Parliament Bill Committee rejected calls for Parliamentary agencies to be subject to the Official Information Act last month, thei...

The ideology of grovelling to Trump

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Yesterday the Trump regime in America began a global trade war, imposing punitive tariffs in an effort to extort political and economic conc...

The people have spoken

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The Justice Committee has reported back on National's racist Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill, and recommended by majority tha...
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