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8PM LIVE TONIGHT: The Bradbury Group with Chris Hipkins, Mike Smith + Political Panel: Matthew Hooton, John Tamihere and Matthew Tukaki
A Marxist, the Leader of the Labour Party, an Environmental Activist, a Māori broadcaster, the President of the Māori Party and the new Editor of The Post 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 Leader of the Labour Party, Chris Hipkins The geopolitics…
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China testing missile into South Pacific is naked provocation
New Zealand warned by China of missile test in South Pacific, Winston Peters expresses concern Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters…
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How many Michelin Star stories can our mainstream media manufacture and fawn over?
Look. I appreciate that there are many food wankers in NZ, how else could Jessie Mulligan have a job at…
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How confused was Luxon over bombing Iran and his ongoing confusion with NZ First and Labour
Wow. Read Luxon’s talking points and how he managed to mangle them into that train-wreck interview… Revealed: The talking points…
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CTF | Deconstructing Headlines | Featured | Martyn Bradbury | Media Watch | Most Recent Blogs | Setting The Agenda
8PM LIVE TONIGHT: The Bradbury Group with Chris Hipkins, Mike Smith + Political Panel: Matthew Hooton, John Tamihere and Matthew Tukaki
A Marxist, the Leader of the Labour Party, an Environmental Activist, a Māori broadcaster, the President of the Māori Party and the new Editor of The Post all walk into a bar. The barman looks up and says, ‘What do…
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BEN MORGAN: Pacific Update – Discussing geo-political and military activity in the Pacific
Sino-Japanese tension and Japan’s rise as a military power This week, China issued a warning to Japanese Coast Guard vessels…
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So the Orcs Have Given In and Conservation Lands Are Safe?
Yesterday Minister of ‘Conservation’ Tama Potaka announced that he will be: ‘removing a controversial clause in a proposed law that…
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The Government of Orcs Want to Sell Our Precious Conservation Lands
I’m sure you are well aware of the bill going through the parliament process that will allow the government to…
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How confused was Luxon over bombing Iran and his ongoing confusion with NZ First and Labour
Wow. Read Luxon’s talking points and how he managed to mangle them into that train-wreck interview… Revealed: The talking points Christopher Luxon failed to nail on Iran The prime minister’s policy office was provided with a full page of talking points ahead of a press conference seen by some as…
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Ummmm, does Matthew Horncastle understand what the Commerce Commission or Electoral Commision does?
Property developer Matthew Horncastle referred to police over political billboards A Christchurch property developer says he has been referred to police over political message on one of his digital billboards. Matthew Horncastle, a property developer and co-founder of Williams Corporation, said the message appeared on an unrented billboard on Moorhouse…
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Simeon Brown has underfunded public health and has blood on his hands
Minister told Stuff a month ago that new Waikato Hospital beds were on track. Now he says they’re not Minister of Health Simeon Brown has confirmed that a modular ward planned for Waikato Hospital, which would free up beds in the emergency department and promote faster urgent care, has been…
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Free Market Spirits, Positive Economic Soothsayers and what NZ Political Right will say when El Niño hits
I have argued for some time that we don’t have economic journalists, we have Free Market Cheerleaders, that the Free Market Spirit’s demand a never ending positivity from Economic commentators. If one negative word is uttered, Capitalism loses its boner and the orgy of trading comes to a screaming halt….
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National/NZF/ACT Government vs Labour/Green/TPM/TOP Government
There are two main possibilities this election. A National/NZF/ACT Government or a Labour/Green/TPM/TOP Government. Sure, there could be National/TOP/NZF/ACT Government but TOP would get nothing from National, NZF and ACT and I think it is highly unlikely that Greens + Labour will = 51% If TOP get over the threshold…
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And then NZF Gumboot Fascism came for ALL the migrants: Why Winston is a Temu Nigel Farage
And then NZFirsts Gumboot Fascism came for ALL the migrants… NZ First to campaign on ending voting rights for permanent residents New Zealand First would seek to change the law so that only New Zealand citizens can vote in general and local elections if returned to government, leader Winston Peters…
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Trump’s 250 Birthday speech more like a drunk uncle at a wedding
I watched Trump’s 250 Birthday Speech because like with any Trump event, you’re not sure if he’ll get through it…
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Brash vs Hooton – how the wealthy use defamation law to gag free speech
Matthew Hooton asks Court of Appeal to strike out Don Brash defamation case Matthew Hooton acknowledges he went too far…
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Trump’s $1b Crypto corruption vs NZ being asked, ‘what have you done for America’
Trump is too stupid to be a Nazi, but he’s greedy enough to be a Gangster… ‘Everybody’s profiting’: Trump defends…
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Trump’s Board of Peace simply a means to annex Gaza
Jesus wept… Trump’s Board of Peace plans to grant itself sweeping immunity, documents show The UN-sanctioned Board of Peace announced…
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MSD cruelty reminds us what Weaponized Wellington Karens can justify
Wow, she’s just following orders … MSD boss defends linking staff performance with cutting emergency housing The Ministry of Social Development…
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CTF | Deconstructing Headlines | Featured | Martyn Bradbury | Media Watch | Most Recent Blogs | Setting The Agenda
8PM LIVE TONIGHT: The Bradbury Group with Chris Hipkins, Mike Smith + Political Panel: Matthew Hooton, John Tamihere and Matthew Tukaki
A Marxist, the Leader of the Labour Party, an Environmental Activist, a Māori broadcaster, the President of the Māori Party and the new Editor of The Post all walk into a bar. The barman looks up and says, ‘What do…
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WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: The next political generation of Māori leaders
This election will be very close, but there is a next political generation of Māori leaders who are poised to make enormous impacts in the next Government if National, ACT and NZF lose. Green Candidate for Waiariki – Tania Waikato: Tania is a remarkable candidate…
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MEDIAWATCH: alt-Right Canadian culture war billionaire Jim Grenon busted on defamation costs
Billionaire Jim Grenon must pay costs to TVNZ after funding ‘wholly unsuccessful defamation case’ Billionaire Jim Grenon has been ordered to pay costs to TVNZ after he was revealed as funding a “wholly unsuccessful” defamation case against the state broadcaster…
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The Keith Locke Memorial Debate – ‘Hate speech laws threaten Free Speech’
TICKETS ARE ALL SOLD OUT! The debate will be live streamed here at 7pm. Moot: That ‘Hate speech laws threaten Free Speech’ ‘Our debate could not be more topical, in the light of controversy about the recent anti-immigrant remarks of…
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The Bradbury Group with Chloe Swarbrick, Gerry Brownlee + Political Panel: Simon Wilson & Matthew Hooton
A Marxist, the co-Leader of the Greens, the Speaker of the House, a militant cyclist Listener Columnist and the new Editor of the Post all walk into a bar. The barman looks up and says, ‘What do you think this…
TDB: Left News
- Casey Costello's tobacco tax comments concerns experts, minister says no reduction
- Commissioner calls on politicians to avoid hateful speech
- China's missile test in South Pacific 'incredibly unwelcome', PM Luxon says
- Not all eligible families receiving promised fuel relief payment
- More than half of Māori voters now on Māori electoral roll
- This ‘centrist’ party is rising in NZ polls. Will it prove power broker?
- Missile test in South Pacific 'routine' and 'consistent with international law', China insists
- 'Still room' to expand pharmacists' healthcare services, Labour leader says
- China missile test in South Pacific 'extremely unwelcome behaviour', Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour says
- Tuesday's Early Bird: Scoops, Deep-Dives; My Picks n' Mixes, Front Pages & Cartoons
- Is an election really bad for the economy?
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The Govt's housing cuts come home to roost
- Monday's Early Bird: Scoops, Deep-Dives; My Picks n' Mixes, Front Pages & Cartoons
- Saturday's Early Bird: Top News, Scoops, Picks n' Mixes, Front Pages & Cartoons
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The Weekly Hoon: Homelessness, Foreign Policy, the Reality of Everything & the gutting of safety reforms
- Join us at 5pm for this week's Hoon
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Half a million New Zealanders living in poverty
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What a rewrite of NZ's political & economic DNA might look like
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Hipkins' pitch is empty & performative, for now
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Where growth isn't paying for growth
- 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
PODCAST: A View from Afar
TDB: Top NZ Political Podcasts
- EDITOR-IN-CHIEF with Duncan Garner Audience: 30,667
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- THE BRADBURY GROUP with Martyn Bradbury Audience: 4,600
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Liberal Agenda
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Second Annual Keith Locke Memorial Debate Focuses On The Free Speech Debate
Moot: That ‘Hate speech laws threaten Free Speech’ Place Law School 9 Eden Cres Central Auckland Date Thursday 2 July…
Daily Gallery
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Open Mic TUESDAY 7th JULY 2026 + Political Caption Competition
FACT OF THE DAY: Roughly 71% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water. POLITICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government…
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Open Mic MONDAY 6th JULY 2026 + Political Caption Competition
FACT OF THE DAY: Earth’s core is estimated to be as hot as the surface of the Sun POLITICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Health Minister ‘purges’ regulatory health practitioner authorities for carrying out their statutory function
Dr Dylan Mordaunt is a vocationally registered specialist in medical administration, paediatrics and clinical genetics. In recent months he has…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Health target politics versus clinical prioritisation
It isn’t often that smaller provincial newspapers break revealing health stories. They struggle with fewer resources to call upon and…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – When opportunity knocks for the Opportunity Party?
Opportunity Knocks’ is a British television and radio talent show that first began in 1949. It provided a platform to…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Two different tales of avoidable hospital bed-blocking
Through necessity bed-blocking is a term that of is increasingly being used by those working in Aotearoa New Zealand’s public…
The Bradbury Group
Chris Hipkins on China, Trump and New Zealand’s changing political landscape
Leader of the Opposition Chris Hipkins joins Martyn Bradbury to discuss China’s missile test in the Pacific, New Zealand’s independent foreign policy, NZ First’s latest policies and the state of the economy. Plus, environmental activist Mike Smith examines the Government’s environmental record before a political panel featuring Matthew Hooton, John Tamihere and Matthew Tukaki debates the week’s biggest political stories.
Raw News
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Greens’ policy announcement a win for fresh water and oceans, but Labour must follow – Greenpeace
Greenpeace Aotearoa is welcoming the announcement from the Green Party that, if elected, they will phase out synthetic nitrogen fertiliser, reduce the size of the dairy herd and lower the legal limit for nitrate contamination. However, Greenpeace Freshwater Campaigner Will…
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People and nature first in Greens’ rivers and oceans policy
The Green Party is calling foul on the Luxon Government’s dismantling of environmental protection, announcing a policy programme to deliver clean drinking water, swimmable rivers and beaches, and healthy oceans for all New Zealanders. “This is about protecting our taiao. The Green…
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Kahu Carter Officially Launches Christchurch Central Campaign, Pledging Fearless Advocacy For Ōtautahi
Kahu Carter officially launched her campaign to win Christchurch Central on Sunday afternoon at the heart of the electorate, the Arts Centre. Joined by local elected members, community advocates and the Green Party Co-Leaders, Kahu spoke to supporters and members…
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Alliance Joins The Dots On Systemic Issues And Alleged Human Rights Abuses At Wakari
The Alliance Party has expressed its strong concern at alleged grave misconduct found by inspectors in March at the inpatient unit of Wakari Hospital in Dunedin, with the closure of Ward 10A reported on Friday by Chief Ombudsman John Allen….
