15+ hour, 53+ min ago   (506+ words) The deflection by Louise Upston over the 30 000 Beneficiaries and Pensioners penalised by her rammed through changes is extraordinary. Let’s be VERY clear here. Louise Upston certainly IS to blame! Her recent attempts to distance herself from the result by blaming…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (529+ words) Well, well, well – what do we have here? Foreign Minister includes own adviser among five new diplomatic appointments The foreign minister has made five new diplomatic appointments – including his own ministerial adviser and former chief of staff Jon Johansson as…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (438+ words) This Zionist Apologist Government is siding with the Israeli war criminals once again by refusing to call out Israel for the Genocide in Gaza and the Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank! Chippy is 100% correct, this Government’s stance to side…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (330+ words) ‘Love to see better numbers’: Chris Hipkins on Labour’s 25.9% poll result Labour leader Chris Hipkins has refrained from branding a second consecutive poor result in a Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll as “rogue”, but concedes he’d “love to see better numbers”. This…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (500+ words) Kick Back, a Youth Development and Social Justice organization responding to Youth Homelessness, is calling on all political Party’s to come together to form a bipartisan accord to end rough sleeping by Christmas. Over the last few weeks media have…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1830+ words) What is it about parties on the centre-left in this country? Why are they allowing the centre-right to define tax policy? Why are they allowing the media to define tax policy? The so-called ‘Overton Window’ needs to be moved towards…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (831+ words) I genuinely can’t think of a sector of our workforce that’s going to matter more over the next 20 years than caregiving. And when you hit 60, you stop thinking about this as some abstract workforce or policy issue. You start thinking…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (374+ words) I went to the politics section of the RNZ site this morning and saw the summaries of two stories next to each other that seemed to me to pose the real question for this coming election – What kind of country…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (687+ words) The Alliance Party says Health New Zealand’s decision not to renew home and community support contracts with three Auckland non-profit providers shows what happens when essential care is put out to competitive tender. Alliance Party Health Spokesperson Ethan Gullery says…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (698+ words) Labour releases fiscal strategy, promises to slash debt Labour has released their fiscal strategy for the election, promising to get back to surplus by 2029/30, slash debt and set up an independent Parliamentary Budget Office, if elected. Leader Chris Hipkins said…...