Chis Hipkins says that Chloe Swarbrick will never be finance minister in a Labour-led government. Swarbrick says that's not Hipkins deci...
DIRTY WORK: SHINING A LIGHT ON THE MACHINERY OF CONSERVATIVE POLITICS
The strength of Dirty Work is that it pulls back the curtain to reveal those who prefer to operate in the shadows. And now they're sc...
UNDER LABOUR, LANDLORDS WILL STILL BE 'LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK'
Despite Finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds describing the policy as 'solely benefiting the wealthiest New Zealanders', Labour says...
ELECTION 2026: THE TWO MAIN PARTIES ARE LOCKED IN A RACE TO THE BOTTOM
Electorate support for the two major parties, National and Labour, continues to ebb away. Whatever the result of the general election, and w...
WHY THE ED SHEERAN FIASCO HAS STRUCK A HUGE NERVE
This is a reminder that collectively we can shift the needle and it feels so good. Big thanks to Macklemore. The ceiling can’t hold us. Fr...
AI AND END TIMES FASCISM
We have been warned by the very people building artificial intelligence (AI) that it could destroy humanity within a decade. In their new ...
ISRAEL: NEW ZEALAND IS ON THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY, THANKS TO WINSTON PETERS
The failure of the National-led Government and Foreign Minister Winston Peters to support a new set of sanctions against Israeli settlement...
KIIWIMART HAS EXPOSED THE INSECURITY OF A FAILED STATUS QUO
The Green Party's proposal for a publicly owned supermarket chain has predictably been met with hostility by the Government and its su...
KIIWIMART: TREATING FOOD AS A RIGHT, NOT A CORPORATE REVENUE STREAM
The Green Party is proposing to establish KiwiMart, a publicly owned supermarket chain providing affordable groceries. The problem is that...
LOUISE UPSTON'S WAR ON THE POOR
The Minister of S ocial Development Louise Upston wants to 'help' young people by denying them a benefi t. LOUISE UPSTON'S det...
POWER FROM BELOW
Green co-leader Chloe Swarbrick once spoke of building political power from below. But the Green Party she co-leads has chained itself to La...
THE ONLY OBSTACLE TO A WEALTH TAX IS POLITICAL COWARDICE
The time is now for a wealth tax, but none of our parliamentary parties are prepared to campaign for it. It is little more than the defence ...
THE DIGITAL COLOSSUS INVADES SOUTHLAND
'I actually think the fight against data centres is singlehandedly reviving the climate movement. What are they building? What are they ...
WHY ISN'T THE GREEN PARTY CAMPAIGNING FOR PUBLICLY-OWNED, LOW COST GROCERY STORES?
Rather than proposing to tinker with a failed system, why isn't the Green Party proposing the establishment of publicly-owned low cost g...
CHRISTOPHER LUXON IS JUST A SYMPTOM OF A MUCH DEEPER PROBLEM
New Zealand's problems lie deeper than Christopher Luxon's habit of producing politically embarrassing gaffes. THE DISCONTENT simm...
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