Skip to content

Good Oil General Debate

Please read our rules before you start commenting on The Good Oil to avoid a temporary or permanent ban.

Good morning, welcome to our daily General Debate.

Our evening General debate is called Backchat and will start at 6 pm.

On General debate, you are encouraged as a commenter to share your own stories, discuss other news, bring NEW news, catch up with friends or make new friends with other commenters.

To participate you’ll need to sign up for a Disqus account which is free, quick, and easy. All you need is an email address to register a username that suits you.

On posts that are not articles such as this one, you do not have to stay ‘on topic’ but you do still need to follow our commenting rules.

Please read our rules before you start commenting on The Good Oil to avoid a temporary or permanent ban.

To check if your ban might have been caused by Disqus, or to ask for a banning decision to be reviewed, email the voluntary helpdesk @ goodoil.news with your Disqus username in the subject line. Please be respectful and do not make demands.

Latest

Holding State Agencies to Account

Holding State Agencies to Account

The promise that the abuse will not happen again is fatally undermined by the many reports detailing ongoing abuse of children in Oranga Tamariki’s care and recent findings that its systems are worse than ever.

Members Public
The Greatest Trump Troll

The Greatest Trump Troll

Not only is a government advisory body headed by Elon Musk likely to result in record volumes of leftist tears, it may well prove to be the most radical reform by any president since Ronald Reagan.

Members Public
Why Does Luxon Hate the Bill?

Why Does Luxon Hate the Bill?

I’m keen to go hard on this. If National don’t get how important this is to us they will keep trampling over us. Do you think it’s time to stop playing nice? I’m willing to call it what it is: weak leadership, cowardice and really, really dumb.

Members Public