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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.

So, New Zealand First Then?

Written By: - Date published: 2:17 pm, September 4th, 2025 - 23 comments

In 2026 New Zealand First in all likelihood will be back in power because Labour and National will need them to form government.

The Figjam Prime Minister

Written By: - Date published: 12:20 pm, September 4th, 2025 - 21 comments

Yesterday Christopher Luxon broke an embargo, claimed credit for an announcement that was made in 2021 and gave cover to an American corporate backtracking on an earlier promise to construct new data centres.

Government to avoid proper scrutiny of plans to allow rich foreigners to buy mansions

Written By: - Date published: 8:36 am, September 3rd, 2025 - 23 comments

Remember Act’s Regulatory Standards Bill which would establish principles of responsible regulation and increase transparency? It appears that not all policy will be subject to these requirements. Especially if they affect rich foreigners buying local mansions.

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.

Foreign Buyers Ban Reversal A Sell Out By Winston Peters & His Party

Written By: - Date published: 8:59 pm, September 1st, 2025 - 22 comments

NZ First’s legacy is now firmly NZ Last

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.

Councils’ obligations to Māori

Written By: - Date published: 12:12 pm, August 30th, 2025 - 12 comments

Kaipara District Council has circulated throughout the country a Franks Ogilvie opinion suggesting that local government obligations to Māori are limited. But even a cursory review of the opinion suggests that it is flawed and should not be used to minimise respect for Māori.

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

Why Changing the Government Should Be Enough

Written By: - Date published: 11:27 am, August 28th, 2025 - 30 comments

Outrage is easy. Outrage feels righteous. But outrage without discipline destroys the very people it claims to save.

If we want transformation that endures, we must build it brick by brick. Or watch it burn, again.

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, […]

Gaslighters of the world unite

Written By: - Date published: 12:57 pm, August 26th, 2025 - 24 comments

David Seymour has complained that New Zealand has “some of the most anemic governing arrangements in the world constitutionally” without acknowledging that his Goverment could change this.

Foreign Buyers Ban Will Be Lifted Under Urgency

Written By: - Date published: 1:21 pm, August 25th, 2025 - 10 comments

PM Luxon has said he wants the repeal completed by the end of the year

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.

Fight Like You Mean It: Why Message Discipline Matters

Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, August 22nd, 2025 - 74 comments

Screaming on social media about how weak Chris Hipkins is as Labour leader may make us feel good. But It also won’t do much do push back against the Coalition of Cockups. So, what if instead of searching fruitlessly for ideological purity, we put our energy and effort into winning instead?

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

“Dirty Politics” Rachel Glucina Is Behind Nicola Willis PM Rumours

Written By: - Date published: 3:32 pm, August 19th, 2025 - 13 comments

Stuff and The Post was eager to repeat rumours of a PM Nicola Willis. Who was behind it?

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”

Should Labour attend a set-up?

Written By: - Date published: 10:57 pm, August 13th, 2025 - 158 comments

The Government is accusing Labour of all sorts of bad things for not attending the second week of the Covid-19 inquiry.

What does this Government have against Te Reo Māori?

Written By: - Date published: 12:09 pm, August 13th, 2025 - 14 comments

Erica Stanford’s removal of te reo words from reading books is the latest of a series of attacks on te reo Māori by this Government.

Helen Clark on Palestine

Written By: - Date published: 3:39 pm, August 12th, 2025 - 31 comments

“This is a catastrophic situation and here we are in New Zealand somehow arguing some fine point about whether we should recognise. We need to be adding our voice to the need for this catastrophe to stop.”

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/

Confusing Confidence with Competence: Erica Stanford and the Bulldozing of Education Reform

Written By: - Date published: 11:48 am, August 7th, 2025 - 28 comments

NCEA wasn’t perfect, but it offered students a chance to grow and succeed in different ways. It recognised that learning isn’t linear or one-size-fits-all. It gave students a chance to find their place – not just in the job market, but in the world. Which brings me to the current Minister of Education, Erica Stanford… Are we confusing confidence with competence?

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.