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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 Mike Smith’s tireless forensic examination of timelines that the biggest polluters in NZ simply wrote the Government’s response and they…
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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’…
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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…
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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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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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Privatisation of Auckland roads coming suckers
In the last election, I asked National Party candidate after National Party candidate about their roading policy because I am…
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The horror of what Israel did to the flotilla protestors demands accountability
Look at what the Israelis did to our citizens… Attacking a peace flotilla in International Waters is bad enough. Beating…
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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…
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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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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.
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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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The Weekly Hoon: Govt housing & job cuts; Iran vs Trump; Competition & banking
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Total Mobility funding cuts being finalised
- Chris Hedges: America’s Suicide Pact
- Zohran Mamdani Is Right to Condemn West Bank Land Sales
- The Unraveling of Nehru’s Vision for India
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- Taking a Good, Long Look Into Elon Musk and “Muskism”
- Big Tech’s Cross-Border Abuses Demand an International Response
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- 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
Trump’s red lines
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In Occupied Palestine – 22 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, 22 April 2026 until 08:00, 23 May 2026 In Gaza during the past 24 hours…
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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.
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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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Fonterra & Z Energy Lobbying Hidden From PMO OIA Release
Fonterra and Z Energy lobbied the Prime Minister’s Office over climate litigation. The public only found out through the courts. That should alarm everyone.
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New Zealand workers’ right to strike backed by world’s top court – NZCTU
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi welcomes yesterday’s advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) confirming that the right to strike is protected under International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 87 on Freedom of Association…
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Reverse Robin Hood rides to Government Budget rescue again – NZCTU
The Government’s announcement that it will increase housing costs for some of the poorest families in the country is a sign that the Budget is making all the wrong decisions, says Sandra Grey, President of the New Zealand Council of…
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New Bill strips employment rights for family carers – NZCTU
The introduction of the Disability Support Services Bill is another instance of this Government seeking to undercut the Courts’ decisions and revoke access to justice for working people, says New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi President Sandra…
