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Minister says FENZ withheld levy issue for a year
Internal Affairs Minister Brooke van Velden says Fire and Emergency New Zealand kept a serious levy issue from her for a year, despite external advice that she should be told.
Seymour says ACT has already blocked supermarket break-up and could do so again
David Seymour says ACT has prevented its coalition partners from breaking up Foodstuffs during this parliamentary term and could oppose the policy again in negotiations over the next government.
NZ First candidate challenges MAPAS assumptions in interview he says RNZ buried
Elliot Ikilei has published an interview he says RNZ did not use, showing a Pacific Waves interviewer repeatedly challenging his opposition to ethnicity-based medical admissions while largely treating the scheme’s benefits as established.
Luxon cites staffing cap when challenged over rising public-sector salary offers
Christopher Luxon pointed to a cap on public-service staffing when asked why advertised salaries in the public sector were reportedly rising faster than in other sectors, despite the Government’s cost-cutting programme.
Albo No-Mates Gets Shirtfronted by Lefty Journo
If he’s lost the ABC, he’s lost the last people who still pretended he was competent.
The Options Are Shrinking
What’s it going to be? A tilt towards extremism or a self-sacrificial Grand Coalition?
Dragging New Zealand Left
New Zealand First and National are not right-wing parties. Their willingness to engage in economic interventionism and steal each other’s policies places them both firmly left-of-centre.
Foodstuffs Did Not Appear by Accident
Foodstuffs didn’t wake up yesterday morning and discover that it had become one of New Zealand’s two major supermarket operators.
Māori Roadside Art Has Become a Cultural Graffiti
An individual piece of Māori roadside art may be perfectly attractive, interesting, or even impressive.
Has Te Pāti Māori Overplayed It’s Hand?
Te Pāti Māori has exposed a weakness in the MMP system by promoting a voting pattern that could lead to an overhang in any newly elected government.
Wet Gallery. Dry History.
Hager drops a mystery book Tuesday. Gallery sells destiny. The poll charts from 2002 to 2020 say noise. Agitprop in a journalist costume.
Quick Hit: Breach Of Trust. Then The SFO.
Van Velden has lost confidence in FENZ CE Kerry Gregory after a seriously significant file was withheld for a year. SFO sits on a historical levy matter FENZ says is proactive and not Gregory personally. Accountability needs the file. Breach of trust. Then the SFO.
Face of the Day
Ngarewa-Packer made the remark after Speaker Maureen Pugh told fellow Te Pāti Māori MP Oriini Kaipara to watch her language in response to her calling the government’s move-on orders “bull crap”.
This Is a Naked Inconsistency
What the reaction to another Sydney Sweeney advertisement reveals about consistency, power, and political double standards.
Taste Tuesday
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Ian Wishart: Climate Change Discourse On Nepal Glacier Melt
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Winston Peters: Supermarket Breakups, BNZ Buyback & Election 2026
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Continued Contempt of Parliament from Te Pāti Māori
If they don’t like the institution of parliament and its standing orders, then they can always go back to the mat.