No Right Turn

Irredeemably Liberal

Tuesday, June 09, 2026

Deeply unethical

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Yesterday, the Labour party announced its party list , parachuting senior police officer Superintendent Rakesh Naidoo in at 13th place to sh...
Monday, June 08, 2026

Time to end MPs' property rorts

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Last week we had the unseemly sight of Social Development Minister Louise Upston cutting housing for the needy, while being paid $1,000 a mo...
Thursday, June 04, 2026

Parliament fails to defend transparency

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The Economic Development, Science and Innovation Committee has reported back on the Commerce (Promoting Competition and Other Matters) Amen...

Using austerity to attack democracy II

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Back in March, Newsroom 's Sam Sachdeva reported that the regime was planning to use high costs as an excuse to limit access to the Offi...
Tuesday, June 02, 2026

A crime

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Last week, we learned that climate polluters had been writing our climate laws , and trying to hide the evidence by handing over their deman...
Friday, May 29, 2026

Sabotage and spite

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What is the purpose of the state? What is our government for ? If you ask the average New Zealander, you'll likely get some variation o...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Taking the piss

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National is busy cutting social housing, which has resulted in increased scrutiny of politicians' housing entitlements. First, there...
Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Naked corruption

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That's the only way to describe today's exposure by RNZ that over $1 million in political donations is linked to fast-track applica...
Monday, May 25, 2026

Climate Change: A weak policy

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Back in 2023, Aotearoa had a serious climate policy. Non-agricultural emissions were covered by the ETS, and despite some initial hiccups, t...

This is why we need criminal penalties in the OIA

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Last night TVNZ revealed an outrageous act of corruption by the Luxon regime. Earlier in the month, Luxon had promised a law to prevent poll...
Thursday, May 21, 2026

A vicious, corrupt and insane policy from a vicious, corrupt and insane regime

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Albert Einstein reportedly said that insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. And that's basica...

Drawn

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A ballot for six member's bills was held today, and the following bills were drawn: Local Government (Management of Local Authorities...
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Member's Day: Parliament is a house of hate

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Today is a Member's Day, and one which is going to see Parliament turned into a hate-platform. Because NZ First has delayed the second r...
Monday, May 18, 2026

"Full and final" goes both ways

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Last week National introduced its plans to privatise the conservation estate and allow miners free reign to dig up our taonga places. One of...
Thursday, May 14, 2026

Another anti-protest law

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National has introduced its new anti-homeless law to Parliament , and it will receive a first reading next week (which puts them up against ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2026

The regime is out of time

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The regime introduced its appalling Conservation Amendment Bill , which allows widescale privatisation of the conservation estate, last week...

Luxon dogwhistles racism

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Prime Minister Chris Luxon gave a pre-budget speech to the Auckland business community today, in which he promised even more austerity . But...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Climate Change: Putting polluters above the law

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That's the only way to describe the regime's plans to outlaw civil climate suits against polluting companies : The government annou...
Wednesday, May 06, 2026

More culture-war bullshit

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That's the only way to describe the regime's announcement today that new citizens will be forced to pass a test on the "respons...

41,000 unemployed under National

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The March labour market statistics are out, showing unemployment has dropped slightly, to 5.3%. But there are still 163,000 people unemploy...
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