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Thursday, April 30, 2026

Terrible instincts

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The Herald has a story today about emails released by Winston Peters under the OIA, showing that prime minister Christopher Luxon wanted to...

Drawn

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A ballot for four member's bills was held today, and the following bills were drawn: Better Regional Boundaries Bill (Tim Costley) C...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Member's Day

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Today is a member's day. First up is the third reading of the Carter Trust Amendment Bill , a boring private bill to tidy up the lingeri...
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Climate Change: He Pou a Rangi's FAFO warning

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Since winning power in 2023, the present National regime has Fucked Around on climate change policy. They're repealed a swathe of measur...

Orcs want to pillage Te Wāhipounamu

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Te Wāhipounamu is a UNESCO World Heritage Site , a taonga of Aotearoa's conservation estate. So naturally, the orcs in the Beehive want...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Schools belong in the OIA

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For the past decade, successive governments have been chipping away at the Official Information Act, exempting agencies and passing secrecy ...

Climate Change: Madness

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Over the last few days Wellington has been hammered by torrential rain and floods, and one person is still missing dead. So naturally its t...
Monday, April 20, 2026

Climate Change: The new normal

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I'm sitting here in Palmerston North (where it is raining), watching the reports of the rain and flooding from Wellington . Water floodi...

More racism from National

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When National voted down its own Treaty Principles Bill last year , they claimed it was because they understood that "seek[ing] to impo...
Thursday, April 16, 2026

Climate Change: The latest inventory

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Ministry for the Environment has released New Zealand's Greenhouse Gas Inventory 1990–2024 , which has updated emissions figures. The ba...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Strengthening proactive release

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Newsroom has an opinion piece by Marcus Ganley, on the problems of proactive release of official information . The government releases vast...
Monday, April 13, 2026

A victory for democracy in Hungary

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Hungarians went to the polls yesterday in parliamentary elections, and responded with a resounding "Ruszkik Haza!" , telling Puti...
Thursday, April 09, 2026

Crown solicitors deserve scrutiny

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Graeme Edgeler had an interesting piece the other day advocating for crown solicitors to be subject to the Official Information Act . Unique...
Wednesday, April 08, 2026

A hegemony-ending war?

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Well, that was a day, wasn't it? After threatening that "a whole civilisation will die tonight" if he didn't get what he ...
Tuesday, April 07, 2026

Justice for Afghanistan?

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Ben Roberts-Smith is a war criminal. While serving in the Australian SAS in Afghanistan, he murdered four unarmed Afghan civilians and comm...
Thursday, April 02, 2026

Parliament is now a hate-platform

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A ballot for two member's bills was held today, and the following bills were drawn: Public Finance (Prohibition on Providing Public F...
Wednesday, April 01, 2026

Member's Day

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Today is a Member's Day. First up is the committee stage of the Carter Trust Amendment Bill , which is the usual cleaning up the mess af...
Monday, March 30, 2026

Good riddance?

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It sounds like the regime is having second thoughts about its stupid plan for an LNG terminal : The Government’s plan to build a liquefied ...

Using austerity to attack democracy

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A couple of weeks ago, when the Financial Times reported that the UK regime was planning to attack their Freedom of Information Act because...
Friday, March 27, 2026

Maybe the regime isn't united on tyranny?

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When the regime introduced four tyrannical bills last week, I joked that the reason for the theme was that it was one of the few things the ...
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