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How Do You Define A Woman? Not Like This!
After years demanding Labour define a woman, NZ First’s answer appears to be: a woman is a biological female and a female is a biological female.
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Why the hating on Mongrel Mob drug rehabilitation programme best sums up the gleeful ignorance of NZ
The Mongrel Mob meth rehabilitation programme worked. But in New Zealand, looking tough on gangs matters more than reducing addiction.
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How Zohran Mamdani Is Winning And What Labour Must Learn
While centrists manage decline, Zohran Mamdani is rolling out public supermarkets, confronting monopoly power and giving working people something Labour forgot how to offer: hope.
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Ben Morgan’s Pacific Update – Discussing geopolitical and military activity in the Pacific
A new US-led Pacific “kill web” linking Japan, South Korea and the Philippines signals how rapidly the Indo-Pacific is militarising.
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How Do You Define A Woman? Not Like This!
After years demanding Labour define a woman, NZ First’s answer appears to be: a woman is a biological female and a female is a biological female.
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Ben Morgan’s Pacific Update – Discussing geopolitical and military activity in the Pacific
A new US-led Pacific “kill web” linking Japan, South Korea and the Philippines signals how rapidly the Indo-Pacific is militarising.
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Can Labour centrism win the election? No. But why?
The problem with centrism is not moderation. It is that voters eventually stop believing you stand for anything at all.
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Stanford’s Magic Trick: Treaty of Waitangi in Education, gone
The argument was that Treaty obligations would move to the Crown. Critics say the latest education reforms prove they were simply removed.
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Radio NZ pimp for Deep State
The best thing about RNZ is its close connection with the Deep State via its Wellington Public Service cronyism. Whenever the Deep State needs uncritical coverage they give RNZ a call and hey presto… Former SAS soldier says international far-right groups growing in New Zealand A security expert is warning…
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Privatisation of Auckland roads coming suckers
In the last election, I asked National Party candidate after National Party candidate about their roading policy because I am a policy geek who reads stuff. What had dawned on me was that National seemed to be attempting to privatise the roads and I kept trying to point attention at…
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The horror of what Israel did to the flotilla protestors demands accountability
Look at what the Israelis did to our citizens… Attacking a peace flotilla in International Waters is bad enough. Beating this protestors is bad enough. Having their far right Zionist Extremist Minister turn up and mock the protestors is bad enough. Israel committing war crimes so extreme that they technically…
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Just another Prick in the Brawl – You can’t have your Cuba until you’ve finished your Iran!
Rubio doubtful of diplomacy with Cuba as Trump raises new threat of military action President Donald Trump and America’s top diplomat on Thursday again raised the specter of U.S. military intervention in Cuba, a renewed threat that takes on greater weight a day after the administration announced criminal charges against…
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Democrats autopsy is an emergency amputation
Takeaways from the DNC autopsy Ever since the 2024 election, Democrats have been searching for answers as to what went so wrong to possibly have re-installed Donald Trump as president. And for much of that time, there’s been anticipation about an “autopsy” from the Democratic National Committee that drilled down…
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Israeli Minister taunting Western Prisoners IS the real Israel now
Far-right Israeli minister condemned for taunting handcuffed Gaza flotilla activists There has been international condemnation of Israel’s treatment of pro-Palestinian activists who were on board a Gaza-bound aid flotilla intercepted by Israeli naval forces. The US, the UK, France, Italy and Canada were among the countries which expressed outrage after…
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If you hate the Woke Left, why y’all such simps for Corporations?
The strangest thing about NZ’s culture war Right is how fiercely they defend the wealthy elites exploiting them.
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Jobs that National believes AI robots will take over
National’s vision of AI-powered public services sounds less like innovation and more like automating neglect.
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How Hone Harawira winning TTT could save Te Pāti Māori & the Left
Te Pāti Māori’s internal turmoil may have only one political circuit-breaker left. Hone Harawira returning to Te Tai Tokerau.
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How Sunfields sums up everything wrong with political corruption in NZ
Flood-prone land, weak infrastructure and fast-track powers have turned Sunfield into a lightning rod for anger over developer politics.
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Homes turned into rules – After criminalising the homeless they created, National now comes for state tenants
The Government is increasing rents, tightening housing support and criminalising homelessness while ministers claim thousands in housing allowances themselves.
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Te Kaupapa – Waatea’s Weekend Political Podcast hosted by Matthew Tukaki with Willow-Jean Prime MP 🎙 Huhana Lyndon MP 🎙 Arena Williams MP + Bomber
This week on Te Kaupapa with Matthew Tukaki 🔥 💥 When the Finance Minister said State House tenants had “won lotto” — what exactly did she mean? 💥 Who can win the North? Joining Matthew this week: 🎙 Willow-Jean Prime…
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MEDIAWATCH: NZ Corporate media and legacy broadcasting pat themselves on the back with hollow awards
This year’s legacy media awards were the usual self congratulations for relevancy as the Institution of Fourth Estate Journalism is drowned out by social media hate clicks. One side of the Media duopoly congratulates the other side of the Media…
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WAATEA NEWS COLUMN – Elite Class behind Treaty amputation in legislation
The Treaty rewrite agenda is too sweeping, too coordinated and too well-funded to simply be dismissed as populist politics.
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Te Kaupapa Tackles TPM Chaos & Prison Crisis
Te Kaupapa dives into Te Pāti Māori tensions, Hone Harawira speculation, prison politics and the Maiki Sherman controversy.
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MEDIAWATCH: Skepticism of corporate mainstream media is healthy, believing everything you read on social media isn’t
Corporate media lost public trust years ago, but replacing journalism with algorithm-fuelled conspiracy culture is poisoning democracy itself.
TDB: Left News
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- NZ First wants Special Economic Zone at Marsden Point
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The Weekly Hoon: Govt housing & job cuts; Iran vs Trump; Competition & banking
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- Govt to cut 8,700 more civil service jobs
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Total Mobility funding cuts being finalised
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The Weekly Hoon: Trump in China & posting late at night; Luxon on migration & more climate laws rewritten
- Chris Hedges: America’s Suicide Pact
- Zohran Mamdani Is Right to Condemn West Bank Land Sales
- The Unraveling of Nehru’s Vision for India
- The Democratic Candidate Closely Tied to Crypto and Big Tech
- An ICE Surveillance Vendor Is Misleading the Public
- Palestine Action Barrister Wins Appeal in UK Contempt Case
- Taking a Good, Long Look Into Elon Musk and “Muskism”
- Big Tech’s Cross-Border Abuses Demand an International Response
- Disney Is Encouraging and Exploiting the Rise of “Kidults”
- Want the hard numbers? Here’s the budget at a glance
- What made my jaw drop and eyes pop this budget? The ‘Mad Max’ scenario
- What secret budget items are ‘not for publication’?
- E-bikes and strawberries: The weirdest things we spotted in the budget
- Labor has a spending addiction. But at least it’s shaking off some timidity
- Finally, some changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax. They may not be enough to shift the dial on housing
- This budget, Labor grapples with the politics of pain in a world gone populist
- PATRICK LAWRENCE: Epic Desperation
- Israel Accuses The New York Times Of Antisemitic Journalism, And Other Notes
- Labor’s gambling plan snuck out on budget day, ANU gets framed, and Julie goes jogging
- Tim Wilson will ‘never, ever, ever’ be treasurer
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Liberal Agenda
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The Liberal Agenda – AI, Big Tech and Journalism JMAD Conference
From deepfakes to surveillance capitalism, a major journalism conference asks what happens when AI and Big Tech reshape the media itself.
Daily Gallery
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Political Caption Competition
Trump’s red lines
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In Occupied Palestine – 22 April 2026
In Occupied Palestine Zionism in practice Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land Sanction Israel Gaza‘s growing death, injury and sickness 08:00, 22 April 2026 until 08:00, 23 May 2026 In Gaza during the past 24 hours…
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GUEST BLOG: Talk Liberation – AI Everything: Chatbots To Be Your Friend, Your Doctor and Your Judge – What Could Go Wrong?
We’re delivering you the hottest internet news that affects all of us. Scroll down to read our full reporting below…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – When a falsified Taxpayers’ Union ‘golden handshake’ is neither ‘golden’ nor a ‘handshake’
The Taxpayers’ Union has perfected the art of manufacturing fury around public sector payouts, but strip away the slogans and many of these so-called ‘golden handshakes’ turn out to be contractual obligations dressed up as scandal.
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Hidden waiting list exposed; unmet health need unreported
Thousands of sick New Zealanders are being quietly rejected before even reaching official hospital waiting lists, hiding the true scale of unmet healthcare need.
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Inhumanity of US economic sanctions against Cuba – infant mortality and starvation; time to end New Zealand’s silence
Ian Powell says escalating US sanctions against Cuba are driving a humanitarian crisis marked by rising infant mortality, blackouts and deepening poverty.
The Bradbury Group
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer on the 2026 Election, Winston Peters Interview & NZ Political Panel
Māori Party co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer on the 2026 election. Moana Maniapoto on her explosive Winston Peters interview and the Maiki Sherman sacking. Our panel — Matthew Hooton, Tau Henare & Dita De Boni — on Trump’s trade war, NZ First’s poll surge, and press freedom.
Raw News
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Fonterra & Z Energy Lobbying Concealed By Prime Minister’s Office – Environmental Law Initiative
On behalf of Mike Smith and the Environmental Law Initiative (ELI): Since the announcement by Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith that the Climate Change Response Act will be amended to prevent tort-based climate litigation, new information about lobbying by Fonterra and…
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New Zealand workers’ right to strike backed by world’s top court – NZCTU
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi welcomes yesterday’s advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) confirming that the right to strike is protected under International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 87 on Freedom of Association…
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Reverse Robin Hood rides to Government Budget rescue again – NZCTU
The Government’s announcement that it will increase housing costs for some of the poorest families in the country is a sign that the Budget is making all the wrong decisions, says Sandra Grey, President of the New Zealand Council of…
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New Bill strips employment rights for family carers – NZCTU
The introduction of the Disability Support Services Bill is another instance of this Government seeking to undercut the Courts’ decisions and revoke access to justice for working people, says New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi President Sandra…
