No Right Turn

The election is just six weeks away, and the parties of the rich are frantically trying to scare us about tax. If a left-coalition forms aft...

Back in February, in an effort to keep gas prices (and gas retailer profits) high, National announced a mad plan for an LNG import terminal...

Last week the regime introduced three anti-Tiriti bills under urgency , then rammed them through their first reading in a rare Saturday afte...

When National introduced its landlord tax-break, Labour's Barbara Edmonds called it a waste of money which would blow the government...

The Standing Orders Committee has finally reported back on the Review of Standing Orders 2026 , proposing amendments to parliament's ru...

Back in June I posted about the regime's efforts to use "high costs" to limit the public's right to freedom of information...

Two weeks ago The Post 's Tom Hunt published a story about the select committee inquiry into FENZ, which apparently found that the FENZ ...

Just ten days ago the Greens promised to smash the supermarket duopoly , forcibly breaking up Foodstuffs and (foreign-owned) Woolworths and ...

Less than a year ago nearly-Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming was convicted of possession of child sexual abuse material . In the afterma...

Its 53 days until the election, and Parliament is in its last sitting block desperately trying to pass the last of the regime's agenda b...

National has abolished all effective climate change policy , and is gaslighting us on the impact of that on emissions targets . National...

Our CEO Prime Minister is very big on self-written KPIs, and has produced his usual quarterly bullshit report before the election. Given the...

While Labour is reflexively cowering and refusing to release any policy, the Greens released a cost of living policy we can all get behind: ...

Methanex is one of Aotearoa's biggest and least efficient polluters, burning 37% of our entire natural gas supply to produce a few hundr...

Today is a Member's Day, and probably (this time!) the last one of the parliamentary term. First up there is a pair of private bills: th...

In February 2024 the racist regime breached te Tiriti o Waitangi by disestablishing Te Aka Whai Ora , the Māori Health Authority. The agenc...

Aotearoa is ostensibly a democracy, and in a democracy there is a spectrum of methods you can use to register discontent, from writing lette...

Another day, another piece about the problems of Labour's "small target" strategy. Today its The Spinoff 's Joel MacManus,...

Ten weeks till the election, and Labour is in full pre-election cringe mode. They're so afraid of being seen to stand for something, let...

Today, the Privileges Committee found that MBIE chief executive Nic Blakeley and former Deputy Secretary of Immigration Alison McDonald del...