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Fox in a henhouse

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:33 am, March 6th, 2025 - 9 comments

Simeon Brown has appointed John Carnegie to the EECA even though Carnegie has some decidedly anti energy conservation ideas.

Looks like rail enabled ferries may be back

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:00 pm, March 1st, 2025 - 36 comments

You have to hand it to Winston and New Zealand First. On the issue of rail enabled ferries they have performed outstanding work. That good that what looked like a foregone conclusion, the dismantling of the Cook Strait Rail Link, may not happen after all.

Some more thoughts about National’s vigilante justice policy

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:44 am, February 28th, 2025 - 16 comments

National’s forary into supporting vigilante justice raises some thorny legal issues it appears National has not thught about.

Vigilante justice is apparently our birth right

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:26 am, February 26th, 2025 - 147 comments

Amongst the most dangerous, extreme and downright stupid policies the Government has come up with is the decision to be announced today to allow citizen’s arrests of shoplifters

Come Rich Foreigners – New Zealand Is For Sale

Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 1:08 pm, February 24th, 2025 - 4 comments

Long signaled, all right wing parties are opening the doors for wealthy foreigners to easily acquire our significant assets and lands.

Bayly goneburger

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:01 pm, February 24th, 2025 - 23 comments

In breaking news Andrew Bayley has resigned as a minister after entering into an animated discussion with a staff member and “placing a hand on their upper arm”.

When will Luxon be rolled?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:32 am, February 23rd, 2025 - 32 comments

Christopher Luxon’s time as Prime Minister appear to be numbered.

State of the Nation – dire

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:23 am, February 12th, 2025 - 18 comments

Remember National’s promise to get us back on track? Salvation Army’s latest state of the nation report suggests that for ordinary people things are getting much worse.

Kieran McAnulty is underrated: How Chris Bishop Got Away with Blowing Up Kāinga Ora & State Housing Momentum

Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 9:39 am, February 11th, 2025 - 13 comments

Kieran McAnulty’s points are fair and important – so why is media ignoring most of them? Also – Labour delivered 14,000 homes in government – so why is Chris Bishop blowing that trajectory up?

Bring us your wealthy and your privileged …

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:05 am, February 11th, 2025 - 11 comments

National wants more wealthy people to come to New Zealand to increase investment fund levels. But what if we created the situation so that locals could increase investment through Kiwisaver contributions?

David Farrar’s Curia Market Research Woes

Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 12:01 pm, February 1st, 2025 - 16 comments

What happened to the Curia Market Research suspension? David Farrar responded after RANZ hired an independent sub-committee to investigate complaints about polling integrity

Selling NZ off to the highest foreign bidder. Is it still NZ First?

Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 10:00 pm, January 23rd, 2025 - 17 comments

For a year, Luxon and Seymour have been prepping the Overseas Investment Act to sell NZ off to wealthy foreigners. But who is running the show? Libertarian interests of course. And Winston Peters might find the money good enough to fold.

The difference between Christopher Luxon and Donald Trump *

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:15 pm, January 22nd, 2025 - 23 comments

* is not as great as you think.

Luxon’s panicked reshuffle

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 1:12 pm, January 20th, 2025 - 61 comments

Christopher Luxon has conducted a major Cabinet Reshuffle with the stand out feature the demotion of Shane Reti and the transfer of Health from Reti to Simeon Brown.

Reviewing the Cook Strait Ferry fiasco

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 1:07 pm, January 16th, 2025 - 35 comments

A review of the history of the Ferries issue suggests that this could be coalition ending and career ending.

The absurdity of National’s Gang Patch ban

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:19 pm, December 29th, 2024 - 61 comments

It did not take long for the first example of the absurdity of the Government’s gang patch ban to appear.

Government sabotages its Emissions Reduction Plan

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:10 am, December 23rd, 2024 - 7 comments

Under its latest Emissions Reduction Plan the Government is placing major reliance on processing of orgnic waste and landfill gas capture. But it has quietly recently cut funding for the Waste Minimisation Fund by $177 million over 4 years.

Is Luxon on a roll?

Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 10:12 pm, December 18th, 2024 - 24 comments

Or about to be rolled? Word has it that Chris Bishop is waiting in the wings, as Luxon’s favourability rating drops below Hipkins.

Unacceptable

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:28 am, December 7th, 2024 - 29 comments

It appears that the Government’s intent to politicise youth offending by making an elite few dress up in army uniforms and march around in an effort to solve a lifetime of neglect is not working out so well.

National’s dodgy health announcements

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 4:09 pm, November 27th, 2024 - 18 comments

National yesterday made great fanfare about an extra $30 million being spent on doctors and nurses. But news today of 1,500 health job cuts in the pipeline clearly shows how the extra funds are to be sourced.

END GAME

Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 7:03 pm, November 24th, 2024 - 30 comments

What is the game plan for the Coalition government? What characteristics can we observe and what is the “end game?”

Blowout in costs of Roads of National Significance

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:06 am, November 17th, 2024 - 33 comments

There has been a major blowout in the cost of the Roads of National Significance with the cost being potentially $10 billion more than National claimed during last year’s campaign.

This Government’s day of shame

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:33 am, November 14th, 2024 - 63 comments

David Seymour thinks that opponents to his bill cannot explain what it is they are opposed to but ignores the clear advice of 40 Kings Counsel who have written to the Government telling it that the bill is itself a breach of the treaty.

Government bars Journalist for asking tough questions

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:39 pm, November 11th, 2024 - 28 comments

The Government has prevented journalist Aaron Smale from attending the Crown apology to victims of abuse in state care because his questions are too tough.

Nicola Willis Deflects As National Splurge On Roads

Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 8:33 am, November 10th, 2024 - 10 comments

Nicola Willis deflects a question on why National are spending billions on roads without a business case – after cancelling the 2026 i-Rex – which had a strong business case and required $1.4bn more to complete seismic upgraded ports and next generation ferries.

The Treaty of Waitangi Principles Bill gets slammed

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:42 pm, November 8th, 2024 - 14 comments

The Treaty of Waitangi Principles Bill has now been released and it appears that the provisions take away more rights from Māori than originally proposed.

What’s up with Matt Doocey, Mike King & the $24mn of taxpayers money?

Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 1:55 pm, November 1st, 2024 - 15 comments

Mike King calls alcohol a solution to mental health anguish. But evidence shows alcohol is linked to a 94% increase in suicide and has links to family violence. So what is happening with King and the $24m this government handed him in a highly “irregular” contract process?