Stagnate Unemployment rate burns youth – why does this Government hate Auckland so much?
The Government is celebrating a 0.1% dip in unemployment while youth joblessness and city unemployment continue climbing. That’s not recovery. That’s drift.

The Government is celebrating a 0.1% dip in unemployment while youth joblessness and city unemployment continue climbing. That’s not recovery. That’s drift.

More Kiwis are out of work, wages are falling behind inflation and entire communities are being hit by closures. And Labour says National has no answer.

Aucklanders were told public transport was the future. Now many are staring at a half-finished rail project, endless congestion and another delayed promise.

$230 for a school ball? Parents are pushing back, and asking when school events became luxury experiences.

Shane Jones has turned criticism of a free trade deal into a race-baiting circus — and now Auckland is seeing anti-Indian backlash.

Shane Jones throws red meat to the worst instincts — but the real danger is slipping through unnoticed. An India trade deal pushed by corporate interests, signed before the public ever sees the fine print.

From the heart of Auckland, the message was blunt: If New Zealand won’t speak out, what exactly does it stand for?

Auckland is told to grow — then blocked when it tries. Another housing cut, another reminder of who really holds the power.

Join the April 11 anti-war protest in New Zealand opposing US and Israeli military action against Iran. Stand for peace.

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