In 2023, special votes meant National lost 2 seats and could not govern with ACT alone. The Green Party and Te Pati Māori gained after special votes were counted (special votes include from people who ...

The radicals on the right are radical because they don’t want to see crime … The radicals on the left are the problem – and they are vicious and horrible and politically savvy. They want men in ...

Watching NZME Newstalk ZB is like watching Fox News to my mind. Earlier in the year, Fox hosted then “DOGE” (Department of Government Efficiency) head Elon Musk where he spouted the “benefits” of his ...

Perhaps the biggest news from a jam packed news week is how, under National’s Health Ministers Shane Reti & Simeon Brown, Health NZ illegally hid staffing data for over a year to conceal their ...

Some suggestion that Rayner's misdemeanour of ignoring legal advice to consult a tax expert was weaponised by the Labour right to damage her. Which raises the possibility that they may have even ...

The problem was always going to be that the Israeli Defence Force has better PR. Here’s what I saw play out on twitter and with a bit of a foray into MSM (Guardian etc). Activists including Greta ...

Classic Key clanger By: Demeter - 3:43 pm, March 18th, 2010 - 6 comments In this article, in which a Kaikoura Whale Watch spokesman states the bloody obvious (that if New Zealand turns pro-whaling his ...

The devastating news from Europe and the Middle East and the refusal of John Key to even contemplate increasing our refugee quota made me wonder, how much do we spend on resettling refugees and how ...

There is a suppression in place on parts of the Phillips case/shooting. We don't know what it covers because (stupidly) the courts do not inform us on what is covered. So everything is suppressed here ...

A track record of deception and pro tobacco industry policies is becoming evident in the Coalition. Casey Costello is at it again, this time quietly halving excise tax for some tobacco products. This ...

Winston Peters Has Sold Our Country Out For Peanuts Yes, even putting aside its utter ineffectiveness as an “economic policy”, and allowance for managed funds as an “investment”, it’s also an ...

Outrage is easy. Outrage feels righteous. But outrage without discipline destroys the very people it claims to save. New Zealand has tried revolutions before: Rogernomics, Ruthanasia. And forty years ...