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The Bradbury Group with pre-Budget Barbara Edmonds, Hone Harawira on Māori politics + Political Panel of Hooton, Verity Johnston and Quilae Wong
A Marxist, a finance spokesperson a Māori political legend, a leader of a political party and 2 newspaper columnists all walk into a bar. The barman looks up and says, ‘What do you think this is? The Bradbury Group?” 1-on-1 in 10 with Labour Party Spokesperson Barbara Edmonds The Labour Party Finance Spokesperson Barbara Edmonds on the pre-budget and how…
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Nashy gets NZ First pashy after bashy for slashy cashy and Sean Plunket’s woman definition smashy
THE NASHY IS BACK! Former Labour minister Stuart Nash switches to NZ First NZs second most compromised politician…
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When even Chris Bishop can see the human rights abuses of the new move on powers
Move-on orders law breach Bill of Rights in part – Chris Bishop Aspects of the Government’s move-on orders risk being…
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The madness of Trump and Israel’s ‘plan’ to illegally wage war with Iran – when you answer is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad???
Every time I think I can’t be surprised anymore with Trump’s illegal war on Iran, he manages to catch me…
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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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How come Seymour’s Red Tape Ministry Palace is so huge and expensive?
Ministry uncovers 267 different regulators, Seymour urges consolidation David Seymour has unveiled a report from his Ministry of Regulation showing there are 267 regulators across New Zealand, but offering no specific solution. The regulations minister says the analysis shows a “twisted spaghetti of regulators who don’t just cost money to…
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You have more chance of winning lotto than getting a state house or any help from this Government
Nicola Willis says State housing tenants have won Lotto. Funny, because most of them are still waiting for a safe roof and a Government that cares.
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Luxon protects big polluters from climate law
Surprise, surprise – a conspiracy by big polluters to protect them from climate law… ‘A co-ordinated campaign of secret lobbying’ – climate activist Iwi leader and climate activist Mike Smith is accusing the Government of a “co-ordinated campaign of secret lobbying, political interference and corporate influence at the highest levels…
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What the Labour Party leak says about the Labour Party
Oh Sweet Jesus… Leaked Labour audio reveals Barbara Edmonds’ ‘duck-faced horse’ jab The audio of an exercise by Labour candidates and supporters in the Wellington region on how to avoid answering difficult questions from the public has been widely leaked. It was an exercise designed to give them practice in…
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The end of the Late Show is either peak Trump fascism or just the beginning
Stephen Colbert made America feel sane under Trump. Now The Late Show is gone, and the silence feels less like cancellation than warning.
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Just so we are all clear, there is NO evidence that Luxon wasn’t horny for war
Luxon said Winston Peters mischaracterised him on Iran. Now his own office says the evidence doesn’t exist. That is not a footnote, it is the story.
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Corrections corruption exposure is probably thanks to new FBI base
Twenty arrests over prison corruption should worry New Zealand. This is what happens when 501 syndicates, meth money and cartel tactics hit a soft system.
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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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National Drops The Mask, Six Months Before Election 2026
National has stopped pretending to be centrist. Six months before Election 2026, the cruelty is out in the open and the target is anyone too exhausted to fight back.
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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…
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The Bradbury Group with pre-Budget Barbara Edmonds, Hone Harawira on Māori politics + Political Panel of Hooton, Verity Johnston and Quilae Wong
A Marxist, a finance spokesperson a Māori political legend, a leader of a political party and 2 newspaper columnists all walk into a bar. The barman looks up and says, ‘What do you think this is? The Bradbury Group?” 1-on-1…
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MEDIAWATCH: Luxon threatens John Campbell after JC rightfully highlights big polluters can write their own legislation
Luxon to Campbell: ‘I’d be careful saying that, John’ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has given RNZ host John Campbell a blunt warning following questions about the potential influence of corporate interests on Government policy. Stuff It is crystal clear from…
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Te Kaupapa: Matthew Tukaki on Housing, Māori Politics & The Battle For The North
Nicola Willis says State House tenants won lotto. Te Kaupapa asks what that really means, and who has the numbers to win the North.
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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.
TDB: Left News
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The Weekly Hoon: Govt housing & job cuts; Iran vs Trump; Competition & banking
- Dawn Chorus Live with Bernard Hickey
- Friday's Early Bird: Shifting cash from state house tenants to private landlords
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- Thursday's Dawn Chorus Live with Bernard Hickey
- Thursday's Early Bird: Northland RONS costs hidden
- Govt to cut 8,700 more civil service jobs
- Monday's Chorus: Would buying back BNZ work?
- 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
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- Tim Wilson will ‘never, ever, ever’ be treasurer
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Liberal Agenda
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The Liberal Agenda – Second annual Keith Locke Memorial Debate July 2nd – Hate Speech Laws threaten Free Speech
Do hate speech laws protect the vulnerable, or hand the state a weapon against free speech? This Keith Locke Memorial Debate will be worth watching.
Daily Gallery
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Political Caption Competition
New Israeli Tourism Ministry
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Political Caption Competition
Trump’s red lines
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GUEST BLOG: Tadhg Stopford – Let’s Fix New Zealand
New Zealand is entering another election being offered the same failed remedies for the very problems those remedies helped create….
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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.
The Bradbury Group
Pre-Budget reckoning — Barbara Edmonds & Hone Harawira join us on The Bradbury Group
Labour Finance Spokesperson Barbara Edmonds joins Martyn to take apart the pre-Budget economic agenda and ask whether free market ideology has become economic vandalism. Hone Harawira brings his unfiltered message for Māori politics ahead of the election. And the panel: Matthew Hooton, Verity Johnston and Quilae Wong, dig into the Big Polluter scandal, Luxon’s attack on John Campbell, and the question nobody in the Beehive wants to answer: how does criminalising the homeless and fighting culture wars, grow the NZ economy?
Raw News
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Kiwis deserve an explanation – Labour
Christopher Luxon should explain how meetings between private companies and his office came to light only through court action, and whether other such meetings have gone unrecorded. “Kiwis deserve to know why information from lobbyists to the Prime Minister’s Office…
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NZ democracy at risk of corporate corruption – Green Party backs urgent inquiry
Allegations that the Prime Minister’s office withheld information about backroom lobbying by major climate polluters – ahead of legislating to prevent court action against those same corporations – must be investigated, says the Green Party. “The facts are that major…
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Govt forced to admit its fossil gas story was always a fairytale – Russel Norman
The NZ Government has been forced today to reinstate a scheme to support businesses transitioning off fossil gas. “This is a major admission by the Government that the fairytale they have been telling the country, that there is more fossil…
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Move-On Orders Will Hurt Youth Homelessness Response
Move-on orders don’t end homelessness. They push vulnerable rangatahi further from help, safety and the support they desperately need.
