No Right Turn

Irredeemably Liberal

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

A zombie regime

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So, here we are: in accordance with constitutional convention. Luxon has announced the election date as 7 November . Meaning that his regime...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Coalition of cronyism

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Another day, another naked crony appointment from the regime. This time its gun minister and former gun lobbyist Nicole McKee appointing fel...
Friday, January 09, 2026

Under-protecting privacy

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If you've been following the news, you will have seen the enormous Manage My Health shitshow , which has seen the medical records of 127...
Wednesday, January 07, 2026

The enemy of the world

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Over the weekend the United States mounted an unprovoked attack on Venezuela, killing a hundred people, and kidnapping its president. Since ...

Under-resourcing transparency

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The Ministry of Health is in my experience one of the worst performing government agencies when it comes to handling OIA requests. They unla...
Friday, December 19, 2025

Climate Change: Losing the battle but winning the war

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Aotearoa declared a climate emergency in 2020 . Despite this, the government granted petroleum exploration permits to two companies in 2021 ...
Thursday, December 18, 2025

Unlawful appointments

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Last year, the regime sabotaged the Human Rights Commission by appointing a pair of terfs and hatemongers as chief human rights commissione...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

A victory for Māori in Nelson

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Way back in 1839, the New Zealand Company bought the area that is now Nelson from local iwi and hapu. As part of the deal, they promised tha...

Enjoined!

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Last month, out of the blue, the regime banned the use of puberty blockers in trans healthcare , over-riding the medical decisions of doctor...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

National has fucked the economy

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National's core promise as a government is to be "better economic managers" (meaning: bald men in blue suits). And they made s...
Friday, December 12, 2025

End this outrageous prosecution

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When the IPCA report into the Jevon McSkimming saga was released, we were all outraged to learn the depths of the police's depravity and...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Climate Change: The "market-led transition"

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A key feature of the previous government's climate policy was the idea of a "just transition". Aotearoa would decarbonise, but...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Parliament shuts out the people

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Yesterday there was a small protest in Parliament . The protest was caused by months of inaction by the New Zealand state to Israel's on...
Tuesday, December 09, 2025

Climate Change: A regime of arsonists

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The House is in urgency today to ram through the regime's bill to weaken our methane targets and decouple ETS settings from our internat...
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...
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