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So, New Zealand First Then?

Written By: advantage - 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.

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

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

NZ First’s legacy is now firmly NZ Last

Jones accuses Luxon of hiding

Written By: mickysavage - 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.

It Is Not Enough Only to Change the Government

Written By: Elliot Crossan - 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, […]

Foreign Buyers Ban Will Be Lifted Under Urgency

Written By: Mountain Tui - 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

Should Labour attend a set-up?

Written By: Mountain Tui - 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.

Imported culture wars

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:16 am, July 28th, 2025 - 62 comments

Winston Peters is proposing to engage in a Nigel Farage Reform style circus relying on racial division to get him over the line at the next election.

Goldsmith’s Voter Suppression Affects 15-20% of Voters

Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 7:31 pm, July 25th, 2025 - 21 comments

The voters registered about 13 days leading up to and including election day surpasses total ACT and NZ First votes by 140,000

The Time For The Left To Act Is Now

Written By: advantage - 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.

Hey Federated Farmers climate change is real

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:22 am, July 22nd, 2025 - 9 comments

The Commerce Commission has dismissed Federated Farmers’ claim that banks offering lower interest rates to clients who meet greenhouse gas emission targets are engaging in cartel type behavior.

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

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

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

GCSB & NZSIS warn ACT Bill risks NZ’s National Security

Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 11:59 am, July 17th, 2025 - 5 comments

Judith Collins was briefed in March 2025 that David Seymour and Bryce Wilkinson’s proposal is incompatible with safeguarding the country from espionage, sabotage and terrorism.

Trump and Musk: One Big Beautiful Break-up

Written By: Elliot Crossan - Date published: 8:57 pm, June 7th, 2025 - 5 comments

The world’s richest man has fallen out with the President he helped elect. Elliot Crossan asks: does this mark the beginning of the end for Trump 2.0? And might we hope for the same fate to befall the NZ Coalition Govt? January 2025. The richest man in the world walks into the White House as […]

Which animal does Labour resemble?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:55 am, May 30th, 2025 - 7 comments

In the United States Republicans have been compared to Apex Predators and Democrats to a deer in headlights. Which animal does Labour resemble and which animal should it aspire to resemble?

Culture wars and the Waitākere Ranges

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:57 am, April 29th, 2025 - 20 comments

Claims have been made that Auckland Council is giving away rights to the Waitākere Ranges to local iwi. But the claims suffer from that important characteristic of not actually being true.

And now, the end is near …

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:00 pm, April 14th, 2025 - 82 comments

It looks like the three way marriage made in hell is on the rocks.

NZD Freefalls & NZ First Linked To Green Party Attack Ads

Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 10:57 am, April 8th, 2025 - 3 comments

Headlines: NZD free falls, misleading Green Party attack ads linked to NZ First, making NZDF lethal, and American billionaires regret support for Trump

Winston’s war on wokeness

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:04 am, March 25th, 2025 - 41 comments

In what looked like an early election campaign launch Winston Peters has done his old man shaking his fist at the sky tirade against everything woke.

Is NZ as Stable as Luxon Claims?

Written By: Elliot Crossan - Date published: 8:14 pm, March 15th, 2025 - 13 comments

By pursuing cuts, selling off assets to multinationals, enabling ACT’s attacks on the Treaty and cutting back on climate commitments, Luxon is guaranteeing that NZ will not be stable for long, writes Elliot Crossan.

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.

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.

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.

The latest polls suggest a change in Government

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:39 pm, February 11th, 2025 - 15 comments

Two recent polls both predict a one term National Government.

Keep on Digging

Written By: Nick Rockel - Date published: 3:44 pm, January 30th, 2025 - 30 comments

The latest outbursts and brain farts from the great Kumara of the North…

Open to all today in Nick’s Kōrero – Shane Jones calls climate change ‘woke’ and says, ‘Send the Mexicans home’.

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.

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.

Latest opinion poll – Labour overtakes National

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 2:21 pm, January 17th, 2025 - 62 comments

That grinding noise you can hear from the Parliamentary precinct is the sound of National backbenchers sharpening their knives getting ready for a change of leadership. Because the latest Curia poll shows National has fallen behind Labour in the preferred party stakes.

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.

Costello hands out free vapes

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 5:43 pm, January 5th, 2025 - 11 comments

The Government has announced that it will be supplying vaping starter kits to stop smoking services. It is not known who will be the suppliers of these kits or on what terms.

Wage theft – now that is a real crime

Written By: lprent - Date published: 5:38 pm, December 30th, 2024 - 17 comments

In Australia, the Fair Work Act is enhanced to provide for jail time and large fines for individuals and companies who deliberately indulged in wage theft. It is a Federal act with investigative powers. Our members ‘Theft by Employers’ bill looks pathetic by comparison. But worth passing in its 3rd reading. It would be a “real tough on crime” act – not weak like Mark Mitchell’s tee-shirt snatch.