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BREAKING POLL SHOCK – Labour plunge + TOP over 5%
NO FUCKING WAY! LATEST ROY MORGAN! National – 30.5 Labour – 26.5 Greens – 12.5 ACT – 10 NZF – 11 TOP – 6 TPM – 2.5 LABOUR PLUNGES 7.5%!!!!!! It’s a mother fucking shocker on the mother fucking rocker. We screamed. And screamed. And screamed. Into the faces of the Labour Party machine telling them they must make…
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So the Big Pollutes actively circumvented democracy?!?
WTF? Fonterra legal case doc sent to private email of Luxon’s former staffer A document relating to the Smith v…
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Is Matthew Horncastle the worst thing to happen to Christchurch since the earthquake?
Property developer Matthew Horncastle fires up after complaint over political billboard Outspoken property developer Matthew Horncastle has taken aim at…
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Soooo, about cutting Peter Thiel’s NZ citizenship
Why tech billionaire and NZ citizen Peter Thiel is decamping to the end of the world Born in Germany and…
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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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TDB Poll of Polls
Based on 4 polls, latest: 12 May 2026
Sources
- Roy Morgan — 12/05/2026
- 1News Verian — 19/04/2026
- RNZ Reid — 23/03/2026
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Soooo, about cutting Peter Thiel’s NZ citizenship
Why tech billionaire and NZ citizen Peter Thiel is decamping to the end of the world Born in Germany and raised in the US, tech billionaire Peter Thiel received citizenship in New Zealand in 2011 and applied for a passport in Malta in 2022. Now he has a new favourite…
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After secretly wanting to join illegal Iran War, National are now trying to desecrate nuclear free
Labour will ‘never change’ New Zealand’s nuclear-free status, Hipkins says Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins says his party will “never change” New Zealand’s nuclear-free status. Let me see if I can get this completely fucking straight. After getting caught out secretly wanting to support Israel and Trump’s illegal war…
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Hegseth’s derogatory statement about NZ proves why we desperately need to lift military spending
Ex-Defence Minister Wayne Mapp pushes back on US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth’s ‘freeloading’ claim Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore over the weekend – a regional security summit for Indo-Pacific countries – United States Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth singled out New Zealand for “freeloading” off America’s military…
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I told you AI was already damaging beneficiaries
We told you this was already happening… Government uses Budget urgency to pass bill allowing the automation of welfare decisions The Government is paving the way for automated decision-making within the social security system. A bill, which has been making its way through Parliament on Friday, will allow the Ministry…
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Ummm – so the UN just blacklisted Israel for sexual torture – ’bout that
Cough. Sooooooo ’bout those allegations the the IDF are systematically using sexual assault on Palestinian Prisoners… UN blacklists Israel for ‘using sexual violence as a weapon’ Israel has been added to a United Nations watchlist of groups using sexual violence as a weapon of war, according to a leaked report…
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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…
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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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Barry Soper is the least worthy of a Kings Birthday Gong and makes a mockery of an elite circle jerk
Oh for the love of Christ… A baby, a book and now a badge of honour – broadcaster Barry Soper’s…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Bradbury Group with Marama Davidson post budget, Mike Smith on polluter cover up + Political Panel: John Tamihere, Matthew Hooton and Matthew Tukaki
A Marxist, the co-Leader of the Greens, a political commentator, an Environmental activist, the President of the Māori Party and a right wing newspaper columnist all walk into a bar. The barman looks up and says, ‘What do you think…
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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…
TDB: Left News
- Erica Stanford plans to increase pay for tradies working as unqualified teachers
- Insurance Council wants FENZ levy scrapped and replaced with disaster resilience funding
- Stats NZ's most valuable source of official data to get $58m makeover
- NZ Defence Force tests SpaceX's Starshield system
- Law change will see councils lose expert advice, Hastings mayor Wendy Schollum says
- Māori Climate Platform funding axed in Budget
- Pete Hegseth's 'freeloading' snipe: Should NZ be worried?
- Climate case briefing against major emitters sent to former Beehive staffer's private email
- Non-negotiable: Christopher Luxon says nuclear-free stance not changing
- Law change will stop councils appointing iwi representatives as full voting members
- Every expert said don't do 'move on' orders. The Govt did it anyway.
- Friday's Chorus Live with Bernard Hickey
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The Weekly Hoon: Budget 2026, a climate scandal, Saudi Arabia & Iran & disinformation flooding NZ's political debates
- Join us at 5pm for this week's Hoon
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A sugar-free Budget that relies on rosy forecasts
- Why the Govt's 'sensible, grown up' tight Budget strategy is failing the economy
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RBNZ almost hikes & eyes three hikes before election
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Live with Bernard Hickey
- The $1.4 billion hole in the Govt's revenues
- The fuel powering our captured political economy
- 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
- Q+A with Jack Tame Audience: 40,000
- Ryan Bridge Today Audience: xx,xxx
- MATA with Mihi Forbes Audience: 36,333
- LOCKED OUT with Craig Renney Audience: 4,400
- The Vinny Eastwood Show Audience: xx,xxx
- BHN – BIG HAIRY NEWS with Pat and Chewie Audience: 3,533
- THE BRADBURY GROUP with Martyn Bradbury Audience: 4,600
- PENNY MARIE NZ Audience: 4,000
- Cross Party Lines with Phil Goff & Christopher Finlayson Audience: 4,000
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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WEDNESDAY 3rd JUNE 2026 Open Mic
FACT OF THE DAY: Many shark species will become temporarily paralyzed if you turn them upside down. POLITICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I ascribe to Mark Twain’s theory that the last person who should be President is the one…
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In Occupied Palestine – 31 May 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, 31 May 2026 until 08:00, 01 June 2026 In Gaza, during the past 24 hours…
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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.
The Bradbury Group
Marama Davidson on the Budget, polluter cover-up exposed & will National surrender NZ’s nuclear-free status?
Green Party co-Leader Marama Davidson gives her post-budget verdict tonight on The Bradbury Group, as environmental activist Mike Smith reveals how NZ’s seven biggest polluters have been secretly advising the Government. Plus, the political panel — Matthew Hooton, Matthew Tukaki, Maria Slade and John Tamihere — weigh in on whether the Budget can rescue the economy, what Pete Hegseth’s contempt for NZ really signals, and whether the National Government is about to trade away our nuclear-free identity to keep Donald Trump onside.
Raw News
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Budget 2026: Did The Government Listen? – Hapai Te Hauora
Ahead of Budget 2026, Hāpai Te Hauora called for a budget that listens. A budget that responds to what communities have already been saying over the last year: that prevention matters, warm homes matter, safe sleep matters, and Māori-led solutions…
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Science Losing The Long Game – NZ Association of Scientists
“Budget 2026 pushes the science system into a quiet purgatory, with zero announcements from the Minister’s office since 1 April,” laments New Zealand Association of Scientists (NZAS) Co-President Troy Baisden. “The only real story for science is the long-running decline…
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Plunket Funding Coalition Promise Forgotten In Budget 26 – New Zealand Nurses Organisation
A coalition promise to “ensure Plunket is funded to do their job properly” was forgotten in Budget 26, NZNO says. Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa NZNO national delegate and Plunket nurse Hannah Cook says Budget 26 papers show the promise…
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Government caught misleading mothers – Labour
The Government owes New Zealand mothers an explanation after admitting it falsely claimed all women would immediately be entitled to three-day postnatal hospital stays. “The Government has spent days advertising a policy that simply doesn’t exist,” Ayesha Verrall said. “National…
