TDB Contributions drive for Election ’26 coverage
Election 2026 is becoming a political knife fight over who gets heard, who gets blamed and who gets protected. Independent media has never mattered more.
Election 2026 is becoming a political knife fight over who gets heard, who gets blamed and who gets protected. Independent media has never mattered more.
The State is taking money from beneficiaries and handing it to debt collectors while taxpayers fund emergency support to keep those same people afloat.

From the placards to the rhetoric, NZ’s fuel tax protests are beginning to look like the Parliament lawn movement with a petrol twist.

After disability carers won in the Supreme Court, the Government’s response is to rewrite the law and strip protections away again.

NZ’s economy is dominated by monopolies and duopolies. If BNZ should return to public ownership, maybe that argument applies elsewhere too.

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.

The Government is accused of quietly stripping Treaty protections from legislation after New Zealanders overwhelmingly rejected the Treaty Principles Bill.

National claims the NCEA replacement will lift standards, but critics see something far darker… An education system rebuilt around competition, conformity and private interests.

New Zealand panics about immigration while making it economically impossible for working people to have kids. Erica Stanford’s comments touched a nerve because nobody wants to admit the system is broken.

KiwiBank was created to protect New Zealand’s economic independence. Selling it off now would hand even more power to Australian banks already extracting massive profits from Kiwi households.