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Election 2026: I Feel Your Pain
Australians have been shafted plenty, at the last few elections.
Rules tighten, but Ministers can still claim $52,000 a year to live in their own mortgage-free homes
Ministers will still be able to receive up to $1,000 a week for living in Wellington homes they own outright, despite tighter accommodation rules taking effect on November 8.
Election snapshot: cheaper fares, higher care wages and tax-free KiwiSaver
The Greens are promising cheaper public transport, Labour higher pay for care workers, and ACT KiwiSaver tax relief and a ban on compulsory spiritual requirements in resource consents.
Te Pāti Māori’s one-person list backs plan to boost left bloc through overhang seats
Te Pāti Māori has announced a one-person party list, reinforcing its strategy of seeking Māori electorate wins while directing supporters’ party votes to Labour or the Greens.
Climate activists take NZ policy fight to Brussels through trade deal
Climate campaigners are using New Zealand’s EU free trade agreement to challenge the Government’s energy and farming policies, raising the prospect of consequences for exporters if a serious treaty breach is established.
Election 2026: I Feel Your Pain
Australians have been shafted plenty, at the last few elections.
If You Interview Chlöe
The Greens can opt for materialism or irrationalism, but they can’t forever attempt to accommodate both.
The PREFU and Strategic Voting Message
Without an overhang, we are still facing a hung-parliament but, with the overhang, the centre-right has a pathway to hold on to power so perhaps the strategic voting message is getting through.
For Political Uncertainty Watch the Colours
Have you noticed the new Labour Party hoardings appearing around the country?
Who Actually Sits on the Right in NZ
My own ideal government does not believe the state should run the economy.
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.
Our Town Is Every Town
The machine cannot tolerate cogs that develop self-awareness. This is the very same machine that ran throughout the Covid years. Having built the technical infrastructure for the Great Barrington Declaration, I recognize the pattern of excommunication intimately.
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”.
Manly Monday
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David Seymour reacts to Chloe Swarbrick as Finance Minister
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Paul Henry: The left could bankrupt New Zealand
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Editors’ Picks
How High Did the Grooming Cover Up Go?
UK PM implicated in Muslim child-rape gang scandal.
Most of the Covid Tyrants Are Gone, What Next?
Ardern, Biden and Trudeau are now gone. But where to from here?
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.