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The Figjam Prime Minister

Written By: mickysavage - 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: mickysavage - 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.

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

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

Written By: Mountain Tui - 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: Mountain Tui - 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?

Power Companies Collude to Require New Zealand Coal-Fired Electricity

Written By: advantage - 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: mickysavage - 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.

Fisher and Paykel

Written By: mickysavage - 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.

Judith Collins believes proposed changes to enrollment laws breaches Bill of Rights

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:06 pm, July 28th, 2025 - 29 comments

Judith Collins has issued a Bill of Rights report which concludes that National’s proposed changes to the enrollment electoral laws breach the Bill of Rights Act.

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.

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

Written By: Mountain Tui - 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

Everybody is wrong except David Seymour *

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:25 pm, July 16th, 2025 - 23 comments

* according to Seymour when it comes to International and Domestic condemnation of his Regulatory Standards Bill.

Climate Change and Bumper Sticker Politics

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:50 am, July 15th, 2025 - 16 comments

Christopher Luxon has engaged in a classic example of bumper sticker politics by blaming Labour for excessive power prices, not the structure of the power sector. And he has completely ignored the imperitave action that climate change demands the country takes.

Almost $20 million budget cut to RNZ is met with … near silence from Kiwis

Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 8:06 pm, July 3rd, 2025 - 68 comments

Why public interest journalism matters

Conduct unbecoming

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:56 am, June 25th, 2025 - 25 comments

David Seymour has been criticised for breaching the Cabinet Manual when posting Parliamentary Service funded social media attack ads against academic opponents to the Regulatory Standards Bill.

Was the Cook Islands leak a FiveEyes operation?

Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 9:28 pm, June 19th, 2025 - 16 comments

The leak appeared in the Cook Islands media, not New Zealand’s. On the day before Christopher Luxon was due to meet Xi Jinping. One has to ask “cui bono?”

Cecilia Robinson’s Tend Health Win

Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 1:10 pm, June 12th, 2025 - 37 comments

For-profit healthcare continues its acceleration under National as second largest private healthcare provider in Australia shuts down

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 […]

Homelessness up by 58% in Auckland

Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 5:35 pm, June 7th, 2025 - 8 comments

$250mn in emergency housing “savings” a year under National, while government increases corrections budget to ~$2b a year, and will surpass NZ’s ”moral and fiscal prison failure prison rate” by 2026

Seeing Is Believing

Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 2:05 pm, May 30th, 2025 - 9 comments

A video post, starring Christopher Luxon, Chris Hipkins, Nicola Willis and Winston Peters. Featuring Debbie Ngarewa-Packer as star prosecutor.

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?

Lies damned lies and Pay Equity Repeal excuses

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:27 am, May 7th, 2025 - 27 comments

Christopher Luxon yesterday tried to claim that budgetary considerations were not the reason for repealing the Pay Equity Legislation even though David Seymour had said that the monetary savings from the bill would save the Budget.

Atlas and the Treaty Principles Bill

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:58 pm, April 27th, 2025 - 4 comments

It is time to reflect on what happened with the Atlas Network and the Treaty Principles Bill.

The Trump Shock: Why the US President Crashed the Global Economy

Written By: Elliot Crossan - Date published: 3:28 pm, April 11th, 2025 - 19 comments

There is a method to Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff madness. The chaos and confusion is deliberate; the aim is nothing less than the controlled disintegration of the world economy, writes Elliot Crossan. The eyes of the world are on Donald Trump once again. The world’s most successful attention-seeker has us all transfixed. It’s a story […]

Trump’s Secret Sauce Hits NZ

Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 7:50 pm, April 6th, 2025 - 11 comments

What is Trump’s secret sauce? And what parallels and lessons can we draw in Aotearoa New Zealand, before it’s too late?

When Government does not want to listen to the people

Written By: Incognito - Date published: 10:56 am, March 29th, 2025 - 27 comments

The Coalition is utterly disrespectful to the people.

What Tamatha Paul Really Said

Written By: Mountain Tui - Date published: 2:22 pm, March 28th, 2025 - 22 comments

Tamatha Paul’s comments on policing have been criticised by Luxon as “insane” but a closer look at what she really said shows how much her comments have been taken out of context.
Meanwhile, National’s law and order track record is only deteriorating.