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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.

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, […]

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.”

Corbyn still draws a crowd – what’s new?

Written By: - Date published: 6:15 pm, July 30th, 2025 - 17 comments

Zarah Sultana for one – she’s a star. Gaza for another – anti-zionism/semitism won’t work this time. 500,000 signed up in a week for a new party is impressive.

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

Written By: - 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

NZ Government is Captured

Written By: - Date published: 12:01 pm, July 24th, 2025 - 11 comments

Winston Peters’ recent “sausage” insults distract From Regulatory Capture in our government. Opinion/analysis by Mountain Tui

Everybody is wrong except David Seymour *

Written By: - 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.

China is not a threat to Regional Peace

Written By: - Date published: 10:03 am, July 15th, 2025 - 35 comments

The real threat to peace in our region does not stem from China, but from a “China threat” narrative—promoted by the United States to rally other nations behind its China containment agenda.

Corporate profit and Gaza

Written By: - Date published: 3:10 pm, July 11th, 2025 - 27 comments

UN Special rapporteur on Gaza Francesca Albanese’s latest report highlights the corporate role in enabling genocide in Gaza. Utterly predictably, she has been sanctioned by the United States.

The Rainbow Warrior 1985-2025.  Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific: the evacuation of Rongelap

Written By: - Date published: 4:30 pm, July 10th, 2025 - 1 comment

On its last voyage the Rainbow Warrior evacuated the entire population of Rongelap. Cancers, birth defects, and genetic damage had ripped through the population after US above-ground nuclear explosions.

What happened to the Epstein Client List?

Written By: - Date published: 9:20 am, July 9th, 2025 - 9 comments

After months and months of speculation as to its content there was a bombshell announcement yesterday by the United States Justice Department. There is no Epstein list of wealthy men who preyed on vulnerable young women.

The Rainbow Warrior 1985-2025.  Part 1: French State Terrorism and the end of innocence. 

Written By: - Date published: 9:05 am, July 6th, 2025 - 41 comments

Immediately after blowing up the Rainbow Warrior the French agents went on a ski holiday in the South Island to celebrate.  Such was the contempt they had for Kiwis and our police.  How wrong they were.

Why Asia-Pacific should back Iran

Written By: - Date published: 4:41 pm, June 30th, 2025 - 24 comments

Ceasefire will only be a pause in the long-running US-Israeli campaign for regime change in Iran. The good news for our region is that Iran’s resilience pushes back the looming risk of a US-led war on China.

Oceania: Journey to the Center and other Auckland events

Written By: - Date published: 11:17 am, June 27th, 2025 - Comments Off on Oceania: Journey to the Center and other Auckland events

A few things I will be heading to over the coming 5 days in Auckland. A documentary on climate change on pacific islands. Phil Goff on foreign affairs. And the Inaugural Keith Locke Memorial Debate. Moot is “China is a threat to regional peace”. I kind of got caught up in each of these for one reason or another…

Weasel Winston’s FiveEyes fudge

Written By: - Date published: 4:45 pm, June 25th, 2025 - 22 comments

Winston Peters’ Ministerial statement in Parliament yesterday was a disgrace. Echoing other FiveEyes leaders such as Keir Starmer, unable to distinguish evil from good, he accused those who can of “moral posturing.”

SNAP ACTION – Stop U.S. Aggression

Written By: - Date published: 3:30 pm, June 23rd, 2025 - 8 comments

Snap action outside Ministry of Defence tomorrow 24th 1230. All welcome

NZ should drop reliance on Trumps imperial republic.

Written By: - Date published: 1:35 pm, June 23rd, 2025 - 67 comments

The major problem with the political model of a Republic, from Greek and Roman times to the present, is that eventually they invariably deteriorate into an imperial mess and war mongering. for purely domestic personal and political reasons. Which is exactly what Donald Trump did yesterday.

Was the Cook Islands leak a FiveEyes operation?

Written By: - 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?”

The Thunberg dilemma

Written By: - Date published: 12:10 pm, June 10th, 2025 - 49 comments

If the Madleen activism was largely symbolic, did it work?

Trump and Musk: One Big Beautiful Break-up

Written By: - 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 […]

Trump vs Musk

Written By: - Date published: 12:20 pm, June 7th, 2025 - 16 comments

Two overly emotional, sociopathic, super egos having a cock fight on social media, or a man using his power to speak edifying and crystal clear truth.

Writing in the time of Genocide

Written By: - Date published: 11:09 am, June 2nd, 2025 - 29 comments

I want to share a writer’s journey – of living and writing through the Genocide.  Because my country provides support to Israel and the US, I feel compelled to support Palestine by doing the one thing I know best: writing.  

Migration: the spectre at the feast

Written By: - Date published: 10:48 am, May 28th, 2025 - 26 comments

The challenge posed by migration pressures is real and often underestimated. They are greater today than ever before in modern history.

RNZ’s report on its Israel/Gaza coverage is not credible

Written By: - Date published: 6:13 pm, May 18th, 2025 - 1 comment

Radio New Zealand’s decision to conduct a review of its Israel-Palestine coverage post-7 October 2023 is commendable.   We believe the presented report does not meet a credible standard in terms of breadth, methodology and analysis. 

We’ve Lost Australia

Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, May 12th, 2025 - 45 comments

New Zealand was once in a sustained Australasian partnership. Now, with New Zealand tracking further and further into policy extremes, Australia – and our children – are leaving New Zealand behind.

Vale David Parker MP

Written By: - Date published: 2:08 pm, May 8th, 2025 - 20 comments

David Parker’s Deputy Leader ‘s speech in 2014 at the Wellington Labour Party Conference was the best I ever heard from a Labour Leader. Vision matched values in intensity and scope. Parliament now loses one of its very best.

The Ukraine-United States Deal

Written By: - Date published: 11:55 am, May 4th, 2025 - 13 comments

In a bargain of the damned the United States and Ukraine have signed a peace agreement to share revenues from the future sale of Ukrainian minerals and rare earths.

Coalition definitively rejected in Aussie

Written By: - Date published: 10:36 am, May 4th, 2025 - 9 comments

The defining characteristic of the 2025 Federal election in Australia to me is that the Dutton model of vague way down in the future policies, and grumpy grievance now policies was soundly rejected. The voting of preferences is ongoing. But Labour has already up a sound majority in the lower house. It also looks like it will be in a much better position in the Senate – but not a majority.

Labor Wins In Australia

Written By: - Date published: 8:18 am, May 4th, 2025 - 39 comments

In yesterday’s election there was lot to cheer about. Labor won a landslide election. And Coalition leader Peter Dutton lost his seat.

The monkey still has the gun!

Written By: - Date published: 5:47 pm, May 2nd, 2025 - Comments Off on The monkey still has the gun!

When John Oliver isn’t ragging on New Zealand, he and his writers have a keen senses in explaining complex topics clearly. He did one long section a couple of weeks ago that took apart the Trumpian view on the economic value of tariffs. Worth watching.. But first about that monkey image

After ANZAC Day

Written By: - Date published: 9:15 am, April 29th, 2025 - 29 comments

ANZAC Day 2025 is just so dark in the face of a hot war in the Ukraine, and the real lack of commanding peacemakers left on this earth.