National Reopens NZ Nuclear-Free Policy Debate
New Zealand’s nuclear-free stance helped define us as an independent country. Chris Hipkins says National should stop hinting it is up for negotiation.
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Barry Soper’s King’s Birthday Honour Is a Media Farce
Barry Soper gets a King’s Birthday gong for journalism. Martyn sees something else: a warning label for what happens when bitterness devours a career.
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Jim Grenon Media Influence and the Batchelor Case
Jim Grenon tried to keep his role funding Julian Batchelor’s failed TVNZ defamation case out of the news. The judge said no. That matters.
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Budget 2026 Debt Monsters Are a Right-Wing Scam
The Right cuts revenue, creates the hole, then screams about debt monsters. Martyn says Budget 2026 is austerity theatre designed to protect private wealth.
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Budget 2026 and the Managed Decline of New Zealand
The Alliance Party says Budget 2026 is managed decline in spreadsheet form: cuts to public services, more militarisation and nothing for working people.
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Budget 2026 Guts Tertiary Education – Labour
More than $1 billion stripped from Fees Free. Student fees rising again. Shanan Halbert says Budget 2026 abandons the generation meant to build the future.
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Budget 2026 Leaves Pasifika Behind – Greens
Teanau Tuiono says Budget 2026 makes the Government’s priorities brutally clear: Pasifika wellbeing is cut while landlords, fossil fuels and military spending win.
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Southland Nitrate Contamination Needs Action Now
Southland does not need another three-year nitrate investigation while vulnerable drinking-water supplies sit at risk. Greenpeace says dairy pollution must be tackled now.
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Election 2026 Enrolment Countdown on TDB
TDB’s Election 2026 countdown is not an Electoral Commission ad. It is an independent media project to help readers enrol, vote and fight billionaire narratives.
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Mike Smith Climate Case Exposes Big Polluter Farce
They call it parliamentary sovereignty. Martyn calls it what it looks like: retrospective law to shield big polluters from a citizen using the courts.
