The Government is once again selling public service cuts as “efficiency” while New Zealand faces economic instability, climate disasters and collapsing infrastructure. The real debate isn’t bureaucracy, it’s whether the State still has the capacity to function.
With petrol and diesel prices surging, Labour says National’s planned fuel excise increase would pile even more pressure onto families and businesses already stretched to breaking point.
The money is pouring into National, ACT and NZ First, and critics say it reveals exactly who this Government is really working for.
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.
For decades New Zealand relied on migrant workers to prop up the economy, while trapping many in a temporary visa system with little long-term security.
ACT wants a NZ version of ICE. But is this policy, or a desperate bid to outflank Winston on immigration?
After years of talks going nowhere, Tiwai workers are taking action, and putting Rio Tinto’s massive profits under the spotlight.
Forget the culture wars, May Day is a reminder that class struggle is still the fight that matters most.
New Zealand’s 40-year neoliberal experiment has hollowed out the State, inflated housing bubbles and left us dangerously exposed to climate and economic collapse.