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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 the island’s former leader, Raúl Castro. Trump said previous U.S….
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Erica Stanford’s Education Power Grab Explained
What children learn, how teachers are judged and who controls the profession could soon sit directly under ministerial authority.
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IDF subcontracts sexual assault of Palestinian prisoners to dogs???
Testimony, leaked footage and human rights investigations are piling up around allegations of horrific abuse inside Israel’s Sde Teiman detention centre.
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TDB Poll of Polls
Based on 4 polls, latest: 12 May 2026
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- Roy Morgan — 12/05/2026
- 1News Verian — 19/04/2026
- RNZ Reid — 23/03/2026
- Talbot Mills — 12/03/2026
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If you hate the Woke Left, why y’all such simps for Corporations?
Here’s what I don’t understand about the feral NZ Right. We get that you Right Wing Hate Trolls hate da Trans, hate da Treaty and hate da beneficiaries. We get you want to hang Jacinda for putting nanobots in your vaccines and that due to your intense loneliness you blame…
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Jobs that National believes AI robots will take over
National reckons AI can replace social workers — because nothing comforts a struggling family like a chatbot saying ‘Have you tried not being poor?’ Nicola Willis thinks AI can handle mental health — because when you’re at your lowest, nothing hits quite like a machine asking you to rate your…
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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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This Government hates Auckland, Wellington, Trans, Disabled, Workers, Migrants, Renters and Environment while loving Corporations, Farmers, Mining, Banks and Big Polluters
As Auckland unemployment rises and Wellington braces for more cuts, critics say National is weaponising culture wars while protecting elite interests.
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Why trust Matua Shane Jones meeting Trump’s Mining Nazgul?
As Shane Jones courts international mining interests, critics warn donor influence and deregulation are reshaping New Zealand politics.
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Kicking the disabled, denigrating migrants and bashing beneficiaries to balance the budget isn’t a solution, it’s social vandalism
Critics warn the Government’s public sector cuts and welfare changes are punishing vulnerable New Zealanders to fund austerity politics.
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Debt wouldn’t be a problem if this Government taxed the rich!
Critics say New Zealand’s debt panic is driven by neoliberal myths designed to justify cuts while protecting wealthy interests and property speculation.
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Tamaki, Hutt South, Te Tai Tokerau, Tamaki Makaurau and Mt Albert – the five most important bellwether electorates this election
Five electorates could reveal the political direction of the entire country, from Auckland’s urban vote to the future of Te Pāti Māori.
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Economy is melting down and all Government has is anti-Trans, anti-Māori, anti-migrants and anti-public service toxic culture war garbage – at some stage you must get angry
As the economy weakens and public sector cuts deepen, critics say the Government is fuelling culture wars instead of confronting inequality and corporate power.
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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
Unredacted Cabinet papers revealed by Māori TV last week showed the hidden scope of the Government’s Treaty rewrite to such an extreme that the question has to be asked, who is actually benefiting from these anti-Treaty agendas and why. …
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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
- 'Future of work' on agenda as NZ govt digital leaders head to Microsoft US HQ
- Minister of Defence Chris Penk announces $1.6b investment for ageing maritime fleet and drones
- Government members' bills: Politics in the biscuit tin
- Parliamentary Service to strengthen security after threats to MPs
- Nicola Willis' plan to slash public sector takes Wellington Mayor Andrew Little by surprise
- Deputy PM says he did not know RNZ chief executive planned to resign
- Budget 2026: $35 million boost announced for ambulance services
- Pacific concerns about militarisation - and New Zealand's role in it
- 'No logic' to Pharmac's proposal to change access to type 2 diabetes diabetes drug - doctor
- Te reo Māori advocate Vincent Olsen-Reeder criticises govt branding changes
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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
- Join us at 5pm for this week's Hoon
- 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?
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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 a Dr and Chris Luxon is a willing patient
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In Occupied Palestine – 21 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, 21 April 2026 until 08:00, 22 May 2026 The total numbers of killed and wounded…
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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.
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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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Defence Boost Must Ensure Civilian Workers Get Pay Rise – PSA
The PSA is calling on NZDF and the Government to ensure that civilian workers who are the backbone of Defence get pay increases as a result of today’s pre-Budget announcement. Civilian personnel who are members of the PSA have been…
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New spend on war is lunacy – Peace Action Wellington
The Minister of Defence Chris Penk has announced a $1.58 billion investment in war including hundreds of millions for more work on the frigates. “The government is allocating another $215 million to the frigates – both of which were just…
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From Victimhood to Empowerment: Palestine Through the Eyes of Its Indigenous People – Palestine Forum of New Zealand
For decades, the Palestinian cause has largely been presented to the world as the story of a suffering people, a nation living under occupation, siege, displacement, and violence. While this reality cannot and should not be denied, reducing Palestinians solely…
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Government Cuts Even More Support – Labour
The Government is stripping back support for our most vulnerable in the middle of a cost of living crisis. “Families are already under pressure from soaring grocery, petrol and power bills. Instead of helping, this Government is pulling away support…
