No Right Turn

National has introduced its new anti-homeless law to Parliament , and it will receive a first reading next week (which puts them up against ...

Back in 2016, then-Internal Affairs Minister Peter Dunne cancelled a New Zealand woman's passport, claiming she was a terrorist. The bas...

Over in Switzerland, the racist "People's Party" tried to have a Brexit-style referendum on ending freedom of movement with th...

That is the finding of the High Court on the first nine days of New Zealand's lockdown , when we were all "ordered" to stay i...

Last week, after Judith Collins announced that National would be cruel and vicious to kiwis caught overseas by the pandemic, and rob them at...

The bad news: Jacinda Ardern still wants to bill exiled kiwis for returning home. The good news: it would require a law change , which the G...

Over the weekend, National leader Judith Collins announced that her party would bill exiled kiwis $3,000 to return to their own country if...

This morning Winston Peters dropped a bombshell: the Ministry of Health had recommended closing the border to returning New Zealanders , eff...

I've joked before about how hosting international summits effectively turns part of your country into a police state for the duration. W...

The Independent Police Conduct Authority report on the police's use of a fake breath-testing checkpoint to collect the names and address...

Over the past decade we've seen a push by governments around the world to allow them to present "classified information" (AKA ...

When UKanians voted for Brexit, a lot of them did it so the UK could "control its own borders". None of them seemed to have antici...

Speaking of Nauru, our neighbours sank further into dictatorship yesterday when the Parliament passed legislation legitimising their unlawfu...

Radio New Zealand reports breathlessly that none of the SIS's supposed "Jihadi brides" has had their passport cancelled - mea...

Last year, National rammed through a new anti-terror law , giving the Minister of Internal Affairs new temporary powers to cancel passports ...

Since the beginning of its "war on terror", the US has run a secret "no-fly list" limiting the freedom of movement of Mu...

When the government proposed extending the duration of passport revocations in its recent urgent spy bill , several people raised the obviou...

Below is my submission on John Key's Countering Terrorist Fighters Legislation Bill . Hopefully some of you made your own as well. I o...

At the moment the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade committee is hearing submissions on John Key's Countering Terrorist Fighters Legisl...

I've just completed my submission on John Key's Countering Terrorist Fighters Legislation Bill . In the past I've posted my subm...