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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, […]

Gaslighters of the world unite

Written By: mickysavage - 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.

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.

Only a dropkick would want to make voting harder

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 1:31 pm, July 25th, 2025 - 42 comments

National has announced electoral law changes that will disenfranchise some voters who tend to vote left. And David Seymour has described them as being dropkicks.

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.

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.

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.

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 […]

The trouble with using AI bots

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:05 am, June 5th, 2025 - 16 comments

After David Seymour’s claim that 99.5% of submissions against his Regulatory Standards Bill were generated by AI bots it is relevant to review the time that he was implicated in the purchase of Russian sex bots to bolster his Instagram following.

Waitangi Tribunal wants halt to Regulatory Standards Bill introduction

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 1:45 pm, May 18th, 2025 - 6 comments

The Waitangi Tribunal’s interim judgment on the Regulatory Standards Bill strongly suggests the Government has been playing games with it.

Get ready for the Regulatory Standards Bill

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:47 am, May 11th, 2025 - 24 comments

Following on from the undermining under urgency of the current Pay Equity scheme the Government intends to introduce the Regulatory Standards Bill which if passed would have a significant adverse effect on collective rights and environmental action.

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.

The National MP and the religious sect

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:40 pm, April 20th, 2025 - 19 comments

National MP Hamish Campbell has been the subject of a media pile up recently for being a member of the Two by Two Christian Sect. But the treatment appears at this stage to be an overreaction.

Aotearoa take a bow

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:14 am, April 5th, 2025 - 27 comments

The Justice Select Committee has returned Act’s odious Treaty Principles Bill to Parliament. And in its report it has noted that the overwhelming majority of submitters opposed the bill.

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.