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Atlas Network Race Baiters, ZB Hate Trolls, Property Pimps and the Trucking Mafia all given Kings ‘honours’
This years King’s Honours is more corrupt than ever before. Not only has ZB Hate Troll Barry Soper been given a Gong, which is weird when you consider the wholesale attack on the Free press driven by this hateful right wing government… …then we have Atlas Network Race Baiter Elizabeth Rata whose advise to Erica Stanford is to eradicate indigenous…
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Wayne Brown is a loathsome arrogant grumpy prick propertied boomer – buuuuuuuuuuuut
I’m rolling my eyes so hard they are staring into the back of my skull… ‘Wellington created a monster’: What…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Gleichschaltung and the far right momentum: lessons for New Zealand
Gleichschaltung is an interesting German word meaning synchronisation or coordination. In the context of German history it was used to…
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Elizabeth Rata Has Been Made A Dame – Is this a joke?
How many times do Erica Stanford and the government have to make a mockery of the education system before people…
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Elizabeth Rata Has Been Made A Dame – Is this a joke?
How many times do Erica Stanford and the government have to make a mockery of the education system before people open their eyes? Sadly the answer appears to be that the majority of people never open their eyes, going through…
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Something Smells at the Teaching Council of Aotearoa
Three elected teacher representatives resign early. Erica Stanford moves towards a fully appointed Teaching Council. And the same ugly question keeps surfacing: who is really in charge?
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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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The Right starve the State of revenue and then manufacture Debt Monsters to frighten you away from demanding more
The project for the Right is to starve the State of revenue and then manufacture Debt Monsters to frighten you away from demanding more from our Government! The Governments OWN BUDGET is saying that child poverty will INCREASE from 11% to 14% BECAUSE of the policy decisions they are making….
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TDBs rolling countdown for enrolment this election
Comrades. You may have noticed at the top of the Daily Blog we have put in a count down to when you can enrol in this years election. It is NOT an advert from the Electoral Commission (they don’t have the imagination or the courage to advertise with The Daily…
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The farce of pretending the Sovereignty of Parliament was a justification to capitulate to big polluters
The argument that has emerged as the justification that the Government had to step in and shut down any legal action against the 7 biggest polluters in NZ is the ‘Sovereignty of Parliament’… Lobbying controversy centred on PM Christopher Luxon’s office stinks to high heaven – Audrey Young Everyone is…
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Why are you allowing Shane Jones to give oil polluters free spills?
Look. I get it. Trans are bad. Vaccines are bad. Māori are bad. Treaty is bad. Climate change is a socialist hoax. Blah blah blah. But here’s what I don”t get about you NZ First, National and ACT voters. Why are you such simps for corporations??? Like, sure – hate…
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Is Trump going to start a disastrous war in Cuba to distract us from the disastrous war In Iran which was supposed to distract us from the disastrous Epstein Files?
Ummmmmm. It’s week 13 if Trump’s 3 day war with Iran that he has already won 17 times, but the question now Is Trump going to start a disastrous war in Cuba to distract us from the disastrous war In Iran which was supposed to distract us from the disastrous…
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The Bradbury Group 1 year birthday vs the NZ Initiative vs secret 7 Big Polluter influence
There were two reason The Working Group had its funding cut and shut down. The first was my refusal to stop criticising Israel for committing war crimes that are so extreme that they technically breach Genocide thresholds. The second was my refusal to stop focusing on the intersection of right…
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What Budget 26 really says about how hard right this Government really is
Every day on Open Mic we post a daily political quote, a daily fact and a political haiku: Ledger lines…
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What the Topp Twins meant for Aotearoa New Zealand and why you should sob with grief
There are moments of real joy, beauty and love in NZ. Georgina Beyer was one such moment. She was elected…
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Budget 26 Winners, Losers and Predictions
The Government has taken $780million out of the pockets of the poorest Kiwi so right wing vanity projects can occur…
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Pope Leo stands for ‘Organic’ God vs AI God in market turf war
Shots fired… Pope Leo Uses First Major Papal Text to Warn About Dangers of AI Pope Leo XIV has issued…
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Congratulations to Clarke and Jacinda for winning an Emmy
Jacinda Ardern documentary wins Emmy Award An HBO documentary about former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, has been named…
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MEDIAWATCH: Owner of NZME – Alt-Right Canadian Billionaire Jim Grenon doesn’t want you knowing he’s bankrolling anti-Māori bigotry grifters
Just consider what we are seeing here… Judge rejects billionaire Jim Grenon’s bid to stop media reporting Billionaire Jim Grenon failed to stop media reporting on his ongoing involvement in a “wholly unsuccessful” defamation case he funded against TVNZ, as…
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MEDIAWATCH: I’m a lefty and I was never a fan of Paul Thompson or Maiki Sherman + why Impey will be good for RNZ
Media Insider: RNZ shake-up: New board chair, directors revealed; Who’s in line to be CEO?; PR boss: ‘All the big ad agencies are morphing into PR stunt agencies’ One of New Zealand’s most renowned business and media leaders has been…
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WAATEA NEWS COLUMN – The Puritan Budget
The Government has shrugged its shoulders and has decided ‘you’re on your own NZ’. This Budget is death by $780million cuts, that’s the amount of money the Government are taking from State Tenants, Students and Beneficiaries to cook the books….
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#Clip: My Final Word: The Bradbury Group Turns One — Cancelled, Defunded & Bigger Than Ever
This is The Bradbury Group’s one-year birthday — and Martyn Bradbury has a few things to say about how we got here. 🎙️ Martyn’s final word — one year on The Bradbury Group was born after funding was pulled from…
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#Clip: Barbara Edmonds DESTROYS National’s Budget Narrative
Labour Finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds joins The Bradbury Group to analyse the Government’s latest Budget, rising unemployment, housing pressures, public service cuts, and what Labour plans to offer voters ahead of Election 2026. In this wide-ranging 1-on-1 in 10 interview,…
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The Weekly Hoon: Budget 2026, a climate scandal, Saudi Arabia & Iran & disinformation flooding NZ's political debates
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A sugar-free Budget that relies on rosy forecasts
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RBNZ almost hikes & eyes three hikes before election
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Live with Bernard Hickey
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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.
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TUESDAY 2nd JUNE 2026 Open Mic
TUESDAY 2nd JUNE 2026 FACT OF THE DAY: Kangaroos have three vaginas. POLITICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light…
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Gleichschaltung and the far right momentum: lessons for New Zealand
Gleichschaltung is an interesting German word meaning synchronisation or coordination. In the context of German history it was used to…
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GUEST BLOG: Tadhg Stopford – New Zealand Did Not Accidentally Become a Fragile Country
New Zealand increasingly feels like a wealthy country that cannot quite afford itself. People feel it everywhere: housing costs, strained…
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GUEST BLOG : Dave Bainbridge-Zafar – The Cash-for-Consents Illusion: Why Central Government is the Real Problem in Housing
How you assume other people make decisions often reveals far more about your own personal motivations than it does about…
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Rural General Practice Funding Cuts Put Patients at Risk
Katikati patients could lose local hours, weekend clinics and urgent care if a blunt funding model decides their rural community is suddenly urban.
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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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Budget Of Disinvestment Is Mean And Irresponsible Says Community Constellation – Hui E Community Aotearoa
“Budget 2026 shows a Government turning its back on its duty of care to iwi, community groups, and whānau facing hardship, child poverty, and rising social-housing rents”, says Patrick Gemmell, co-CEO of Hui E! speaking on behalf of the Community…
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Budget 2026 Keeps Care In Crisis While Finding Billions For Defence – E Tu
E tū, Aotearoa’s largest private sector union, says Budget 2026 keeps the care and support system in crisis and offers nothing to fix the wages and conditions driving workers out of the sector. The Budget banks a $400 million health…
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Budget 2026 Doesn’t Move The Dial On Child Poverty Rates – Child Poverty Action Group
For yet another year, Treasury’s child poverty forecasting shows no movement toward hitting the 2028 goal of halving child poverty in accordance with the Child Poverty Reduction Act 2018. Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) says taken as a whole, Budget…
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Government clears the way to automate decisions about people’s survival – Greens
The Green Party is condemning the Government’s move to hand decisions on benefits over to automated systems, warning it will leave more people in hardship without the support they are legally entitled to. “Handing decisions about people’s ability to survive…
