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Simeon Brown plays with Kiwi lives

Written By: - Date published: 5:55 pm, September 5th, 2025 - 2 comments

Perhaps the biggest news from a jam packed news week is how, under National’s Health Ministers Shane Reti & Simeon Brown, Health NZ illegally hid staffing data for over a year to conceal their systemic understaffing of our public health.

Guest Post – Planning By Firing Squad

Written By: - Date published: 4:26 pm, September 2nd, 2025 - 11 comments

The Planning by Firing Squad approach is characterised by being very rushed, lacking in detail, an almost total lack of public consultation, non-existent local knowledge and consistently paying little heed to environmental effects. It is a classic Wellington Ivory Tower approach.

Adrian Orr Cover Up – A Quid Pro Quo?

Written By: - Date published: 12:45 pm, September 1st, 2025 - 7 comments

Part 2 of the Adrian Orr / Neil Quigley cover up scandal. Nicola Willis knew and did not divulge the truth until the Ombudsman forced their hand last week.

Metiria Turei was right but did we learn the lesson?

Written By: - Date published: 11:38 am, September 1st, 2025 - 44 comments

In 2017 the Greens shifted the Overton Window on a compassionate response to poverty, but where are we now?

Jones accuses Luxon of hiding

Written By: - Date published: 7:51 pm, August 31st, 2025 - 43 comments

Shane Jones has publicly attacked Prime Minister Christopher Luxon by accusing him of hiding. The chances of a snap election have just shot up.

Adrian Orr Pushed Out By Neil Quigley – Then The Cover Up Started With Nicola Willis

Written By: - Date published: 9:21 am, August 30th, 2025 - 24 comments

Quigley, the RBNZ Board, and Willis. all appeared to take part in this explosive cover up about why Adrian Orr left the RBNZ in March 2025

It Is Not Enough Only to Change the Government

Written By: - Date published: 6:41 pm, August 27th, 2025 - 19 comments

Everyone on the left can agree that we must change the government. Elliot Crossan argues that if Labour wins in 2026 and refuses to transform the system generating extreme inequality, NZ society will continue to fragment. Change the government. This is currently the unanimous goal of trade union leaders, left-wing politicians and progressive NGOs. At rallies, […]

Van Velden pressures ERA to reduce worker compensation payments

Written By: - Date published: 9:52 am, August 23rd, 2025 - 16 comments

Brooke Van Velden has announced the appointment of four new members to the Employment Relations Authority and has expressed the wish that compensation payments to workers will be reduced.

No mandate for this

Written By: - Date published: 8:55 am, August 21st, 2025 - 22 comments

Partial strike law penalties used on nurses trying to keep themselves safe is emblematic of the wider libertarian playbook within the NZ government

Nicola Willis: National gave “tens of dollars” to Kiwis

Written By: - Date published: 4:26 pm, August 20th, 2025 - 5 comments

Willis attacks Carmel Sepulonia as Ingrid Hipkiss assists.

National Government will have increased gross debt by over $100b – Who benefits ?

Written By: - Date published: 4:02 pm, August 19th, 2025 - 19 comments

The debt bogeyman has been unleashed in NZ, which we will examine – but even on face value, National Party debt is 25% more than Labour’s full debt contribution over 6 years – with no global pandemic

The $671 million dollar woman

Written By: - Date published: 10:18 am, August 18th, 2025 - 23 comments

The Government is trying to spin that cancellation of the ferry contract will cost the country $144 million when the actual figure is at least $671 million.

The Curious Case of Central Otago

Written By: - Date published: 8:48 am, August 18th, 2025 - 31 comments

How can a region be so pretty, so rich, but so poor? 

How was National able to take down construction so quickly?

Written By: - Date published: 7:51 pm, August 15th, 2025 - 67 comments

Industry experts say Chris Bishop and his party are to blame, but Bishop denies it, saying construction industry leaders are just “wrong”

Ani O’Brien’s weird take on homelessness

Written By: - Date published: 11:14 am, August 12th, 2025 - 28 comments

Ani O’Brien thinks that claims by Chloe Swarbrick that the Government is intentionally increasing homelessness are engaging in hyperbole and are not true. But who is the person engaging in hyperbole?

Good, Democratic, Easy-To-Support Energy Policies

Written By: - Date published: 8:43 am, August 11th, 2025 - 16 comments

How to make fundamental changes to the country’s energy systems to ensure that future supply is sustainable and democratically controlled/

NZ sleepwalking towards bastardised hybrid health model

Written By: - Date published: 1:49 pm, August 6th, 2025 - 7 comments

Half-baked attempts to fix New Zealand’s failing health system has resulted in Aotearoa drifting into a hybrid public-private model that threatens to combine the worst of both worlds. Isn’t it time to seriously review the working model

Power Companies Collude to Require New Zealand Coal-Fired Electricity

Written By: - Date published: 8:33 am, August 6th, 2025 - 20 comments

The country’s four main power companies have signed an agreement to stockpile coal and to extend the life of the coal-fired Huntly power station.

Was it Luxon’s idea to cancel pay equity claims under urgency?

Written By: - Date published: 10:43 am, August 2nd, 2025 - 5 comments

A recent dump of papers relating to the cancellation of the Pay Equity scheme suggest that Christopher Luxon was the primary driver behind the decision to do this under urgency.

Old fast track, new fast track

Written By: - Date published: 9:35 am, August 2nd, 2025 - 49 comments

What are Labour’s intentions towards protecting communities and the environment?

Can we trust Shane Jones?

Written By: - Date published: 10:12 am, July 31st, 2025 - 31 comments

Using a really shoddy parliamentary procedure Shane Jones has introduced an amendment to a bill that will potentially reduce oil industry liability for clean up costs.

Corbyn still draws a crowd – what’s new?

Written By: - Date published: 6:15 pm, July 30th, 2025 - 17 comments

Zarah Sultana for one – she’s a star. Gaza for another – anti-zionism/semitism won’t work this time. 500,000 signed up in a week for a new party is impressive.

Queenstown as an exemplar of the limits to growth

Written By: - Date published: 1:24 pm, July 30th, 2025 - 19 comments

We are Queenstown.

Fisher and Paykel

Written By: - Date published: 12:07 pm, July 29th, 2025 - 26 comments

Chris Hipkins came up with a zinger yesterday calling Christopher Luxon and Nicolas Willis “Fisher and Paykel” because of the incredible amount of spin they produce.

So the Government has increased homelessness

Written By: - Date published: 11:20 am, July 24th, 2025 - 11 comments

For some time now National has been crowing about how they have solved the emergency housing problem in Aotearoa. But a recent report suggests that their policies have cause a surge in the number of homeless kiwis.

The Time For The Left To Act Is Now

Written By: - Date published: 8:57 am, July 23rd, 2025 - 50 comments

None of National’s policies are working. But the time of Labour’s policy vacuum needs to be over. It’s time to make their mark and take Luxon front on and win.

Do you want to protect NZ’s sensitive land and assets?

Written By: - Date published: 1:15 pm, July 21st, 2025 - 9 comments

You have 2 days more to submit on ACT’s Overseas Investment Act changes

What is the point of taxation?

Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, July 21st, 2025 - 43 comments

Chloe Swarbrick and the Greens are changing the narrative on what tax is for.

National raided $6,000,000,000 infrastructure & flood fund

Written By: - Date published: 7:47 pm, July 20th, 2025 - 25 comments

Tasman, Top of the South Island patiently waits after National raided $6 billion infrastructure fund

The left should unite on tax, fast

Written By: - Date published: 9:41 am, July 20th, 2025 - 39 comments

… before the election starts to get real.

Do humans have to respect the limits to growth?

Written By: - Date published: 1:23 pm, July 19th, 2025 - 11 comments

we don’t have to, but we probably should.