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Irredeemably Liberal

Thursday, February 26, 2026

Our outdated anti-corruption laws

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Last year a group of VTNZ staff were fired after being caught taking bribes to falsify driving test results . This isn't the first time ...
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Papers, please

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At the moment the Trump regime in America is running a pogrom against non-white Americans, with ICE invading cities, disappearing people off...
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

A flagrant abuse of power

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When the regime rammed through its law gutting pay equity and stealing $13 billion from the women of Aotearoa , it didn't bother with a ...
Monday, February 23, 2026

An attack on democracy as well as the homeless?

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Over the weekend the regime announced its long-expected policy of "move on" orders for homeless people . Having massively increase...
Friday, February 20, 2026

Submit!

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The Environment Committee has called for submissions on the Environment (Disestablishment of Ministry for the Environment) Amendment Bill ....
Thursday, February 19, 2026

A victory for the environment

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Trans-Tasman Resources has withdrawn its fast-track application to pillage the Taranaki seabed . Good riddance. As the fast-track panel poin...

Brownlee is a partisan, misogynistic hypocrite

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Yesterday parliament saw one of its worst incidents of racism, as Winston Peters questioned the right of Teanau Tuiono to ask questions beca...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Good riddance

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The regime has finally decided not to push for a referendum on a four-year term this election . Good. But the bill isn't dead, and appar...

Member's Day

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Today is a Member's Day - the first of the year. First up is a the Ōtautahi Community Housing Trust (Trust Variation) Bill , a private b...
Monday, February 16, 2026

100% pure vandalism

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Aotearoa is in the middle of a giant environmental disaster, caused by climate change. So naturally, the regime thinks this is the perfect d...

An empty suit

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Another weekend, another climate change disaster in Aotearoa. Flooding, people without power, roads blocked, people dead. And the Prime Mini...
Thursday, February 12, 2026

Rot at the top

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"Our" Parliament is full of rich people, with inherent conflicts of interest around wealth, gifts, and property ownership. In an e...

Pure Muldoonism

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Back in the early 1980's, Robert Muldoon was thinking big . He wanted a giant dam on the Clutha River , which would flood half a town. B...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

The cost of National

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Transparency International released its annual Corruption Perceptions Index yesterday, showing that Aotearoa had dropped two places to four...
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Utter madness

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That's the only way to describe the regime's announcement yesterday that it plans to go all-in on climate destruction and build an L...
Monday, February 09, 2026

Two defeats for the regime

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There's been good news over the weekend, with two significant defeats for the regime's programme of environmental destruction. First...
Wednesday, February 04, 2026

Climate Change: The sin of cheapness

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Tairāwhiti has a problem. Thanks to decades of forestry strip-mining the land, every major storm washes down sediment and slash from the hil...

43,000 unemployed under National

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The December labour market statistics are out, showing unemployment has risen again to 5.4%. There are now 165,000 unemployed - 43,000 mor...
Tuesday, February 03, 2026

The same old problem

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Another day, another IPCA report finding unlawful use of force by the police . This time, its a police officer who saw a woman give him a th...
Monday, February 02, 2026

How do we change OIA culture?

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Former district court judge David Harvey has a column in the Herald today lamenting the state of the Official Information Act . Like others...
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