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Irredeemably Liberal

Thursday, August 28, 2025

A very New Zealand corruption

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There was an interesting opinion piece in the Herald yesterday by Robert MacCulloch, on "Chumocracy" and how it threatens our fu...

Chipping away at National's gang-patch ban II

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The regime passed its racist gang-patch ban a year ago, with great fanfare. and since then, the police have used it with great enthusiasm, i...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

A terrible idea

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RNZ reports this morning that the regime is conspiring to abolish the "demographic ministries" : The Public Service Commissioner...
Monday, August 25, 2025

A referendum on the regime

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The Justice Committee has reported back on ACT's Term of Parliament (Enabling 4-year Term) Legislation Amendment Bill , recommending th...
Friday, August 22, 2025

Open Government: Business-as-usual, as usual

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Aotearoa has been a member of the Open Government Partnership since 2013. And it has never taken its core mechanism of co-creation with civ...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Member's Day

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Today is a Member's Day. First up is a private bill, the Carter Trust Amendment Bill , aimed at tweaking the law enacting the provisions...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

National says "fuck you" on the right to repair

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The Economic Development, Science and Innovation Committee has reported back on Marama Davidson's Consumer Guarantees (Right to Repair)...
Monday, August 18, 2025

Foreshore and seabed 3.0?

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Back in 2003, in Ngati Apa v Attorney-General , the Supreme Court recognised that the settler government had not actually stolen all the bea...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

What do we do with a lawless Speaker?

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Yesterday, Speaker Gerry Brownlee purported to eject Chloe Swarbrick from the House for the rest of the week after she implicitly called re...
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Principles versus parliament

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Yesterday the regime announced that it wouldn't consider recognising Palestine as a state until next month - so basically, waiting unti...

Gagging the medical professions

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Aotearoa has had a public health system since the First Labour Government in the 1930s. And for as long as it has existed, medical professio...
Monday, August 11, 2025

Wag or be wagged

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The Greens held their AGM over the weekend, and in her speech, co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick claimed to be leading the opposition . Which seems ...
Friday, August 08, 2025

Dancing on Kapuni's grave

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Ballance Agri-Nutrients' Kapuni Urea plant is shutting down for four months due to a shortage of natural gas . Good. Its one of Aotearoa...
Thursday, August 07, 2025

RUCs vs excise taxes

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The government has problem: it gets people to pay for the roads in part through petrol excise tax. But cars are becoming more efficient, and...
Wednesday, August 06, 2025

Secrecy to protect criminals

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Fishing is a criminal industry , with fishers routinely violating quotas, under-reporting bycatch, and engaging in fraud to profit from pill...

36,000 unemployed under National

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The June labour market statistics are out, showing unemployment has risen to 5.2%. There are now 158,000 unemployed - 36,000 more than when...
Tuesday, August 05, 2025

"An illegitimate exercise of kāwanatanga"

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That was the Waitangi Tribunal's assessment of the National regime's plans to gut the Marine and Coastal Area Act and steal the for...
Monday, August 04, 2025

"Longstanding expectations"

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In her section 7 report declaring the government's voter suppression bill to be inconsistent with the Bill of Rights Act , Attorney-Ge...
Friday, August 01, 2025

"A review"

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When the government passes legislation trampling on civil liberties it loves to insert - and crow about - "safeguards" which will ...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Voter suppression is election rigging

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What do you call an election where the regime stops up to half a million people from voting , because they're more likely on historical ...
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