No Right Turn

Irredeemably Liberal

Friday, December 05, 2025

A rubberstamp for Shane Jones' bulldozer

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Last month, the Environment Committee caused outrage by allowing only ten days for public submissions on the Fast-track Approvals Amendment ...
Thursday, December 04, 2025

Climate Change: National rejects ambition

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Late last year He Pou a Rangi Climate Commission reviewed our climate change targets, including whether to start including a share of shippi...
Wednesday, December 03, 2025

Climate Change: A year of failed auctions

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The final ETS auction of the year was held today, resulting in another failure . No-one bid, no units were sold, and so the year's entir...
Tuesday, December 02, 2025

Climate Change: National reneges on Paris

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In October 2016 the then-National government under John Key ratified the Paris Agreement, signing up to progressively reduce our greenhouse ...
Monday, December 01, 2025

You don't win elections by telling voters to expect less

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Aotearoa is broken. The economy is fucked. The dogshit vandal regime is smashing our democracy, our public services, and our society, while ...
Friday, November 28, 2025

More unaffordable food

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Remember when Luxon promised a "laser focus on the cost of living"? Mince - the most basic meat you can get - has now become unaff...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Climate Change: Failure and fraud

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RNZ yesterday had a piece about the regime's consultation on amendments to the Second Emissions Reduction Plan 2026-30, which closed ye...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

An utter shambles II

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Two weeks ago, the regime rammed through its deeply unpopular Regulatory Standards Act , imposing a radical Libertarian ideological straitja...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

The Commerce Commission's weak case for secrecy

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Back in September, the regime announced plans to give new powers to the Commerce Commission . But the announcement also included this: We h...

Overturning local democracy

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A month ago we had local body elections in this country. As part of that, we elected new members to each of the country's eleven regiona...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Climate Change: No ambition

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Last December, He Pou a Rangi Climate Commission looked at our current emissions targets, and recognised that we could do more. Existing tec...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

An utter shambles

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Last week, the regime rammed through its deeply unpopular Regulatory Standards Act , imposing a radical Libertarian ideological straitjacket...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Leave the kids alone

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Like many others, I am outraged by the regime's decision today to ban the use of puberty-blockers for trans (but not cis) children . And...

There is a magic money-tree after all

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Remember when Bill English called prisons "a moral and fiscal failure" ? It was an example of his cautious conservativism, a recog...
Monday, November 17, 2025

National cares about nothing but roads

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National has announced its latest bullshit roading plan: $4 billion to shove more cars into central Wellington : The New Zealand Transport ...
Friday, November 14, 2025

Ratfucking our democracy

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One of the major themes of this regime has been its contempt for democracy and the parliamentary process. The statistics on this were laid b...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

DPMC's secret guide on how to be a minister

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One of the common criticisms governments make of oppositions is that they're inexperienced, and have no idea how to be ministers or run ...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Nothing has changed II

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The IPCA report into the (non)-investigation into Jevon McSkimming found that it was undermined by senior members of the police executive w...

Nothing has changed

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In 2004 the government was forced to launch the Commission of Inquiry into Police Conduct after allegations of rape and sexual assault by h...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

A murderous policy

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When the police relaxed pursuit policy in 2023 , allowing them to go back to chasing people like mad dogs regardless of the supposed offence...
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