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.
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Labour Crashes and ACT Surges
Two more polls that replicate the results of Taxpayers’ Union-Curia could spell the end of Hipkins’ leadership.
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This Is a Naked Inconsistency
What the reaction to another Sydney Sweeney advertisement reveals about consistency, power, and political double standards.
Quick Hit: Ten Point Eight Million. And The Veto.
Greens still sell KiwiMart at $10.8m a store with the library costing locked. Same week Seymour brings the aisle veto and National leaves ComCom out. Soft communism with a locked drawer. Campaign promise with coalition scissors.