No Right Turn

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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