No Right Turn

This morning, we learned that house prices have risen nearly 20% in the past year , locking more people out of the housing market and furthe...

Last year, Parliament passed the Zero Carbon Act, a framework which effectively outsourced climate change policy to an independent commissio...

Stuff today has a piece on The anatomy of an OIA fail , on their efforts to get immunisation rates by suburb. It is not a pretty story: ...

Yesterday, over fifty charitable and community groups released an open letter calling for the government to raise benefits before christmas ...

Shortly after being elected, Labour announced plans to implement the Electoral Commission's proposals to make electoral system less repr...

Another farmer is complaining about leaving crops to rot because they can't get cheap foreign workers to pick them . So why can't he...

Nothing from me today, as I'm off to Wellington for a weekend of larp. Normal bloggage will resume Monday or Tuesday.

Like everyone else, I spent yesterday glued to the internets, doomscrolling the disaster of the US election. As I write, the outcome is stil...

The labour market statistics have been released, and unemployment has spiked to 151,000 - 25,000 more than when the government took office ...

For decades, the government has elided its Treaty obligations over water by claiming that no-one owns it (except, in practice, farmers). But...

Jacinda Ardern has ruled out spending her carefully hoarded political capital on supporting a wealth tax, drug reform, or even real action o...

Back in June and July , RNZ broke the story that the SIS had collaborated with foreign intelligence agencies to burgle the embassies of fri...

So, the Greens went ahead and approved the deal with Labour . As I said earlier , I think its a mistake, which binds Green Ministers to impl...

The Green Party are currently voting on whether to accept the "cooperation agreement" Labour has offered them. So what's in it...

Preliminary referendum results are out , showing that cannabis legalisation was defeated, 46.1% to 53.1%. There's a gap of almost 170,00...

How bad is the housing crisis? This bad : For the first time over 20,000 households are on the Government’s waitlist for public housing. B...

Back in July, Professor Anne-Marie Brady warned Parliament about foreign interference in New Zealand elections. Now, her employer is attempt...

Back in September, we learned that the Labour Party was rorting its Parliamentary expenses to steal from the public again , renting office s...

Back in 2017, the UN General Assembly approved the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons , and New Zealand was one of the first count...

This time last year, Chile was in rebellion against its government . Protests against a train fare increase turned into protests against ine...