Government’s Fossil Gas Fairytale Exposed – Russel Norman
The Government spent two years insisting more fossil gas would save us. Now it is underwriting loans to help businesses escape gas dependence. Russel Norman says the fairytale has collapsed.

The Government spent two years insisting more fossil gas would save us. Now it is underwriting loans to help businesses escape gas dependence. Russel Norman says the fairytale has collapsed.

John Campbell asks why big polluters appear to be getting the law rewritten in their favour, and Luxon responds with a warning. That alone tells you how rotten this looks.

Mike Smith won the right to take major emitters to court. Now Luxon’s Government is changing the law before the evidence can be heard.

The Labour Party leak is not really about a dumb insult. It is about a party asking to govern while failing to secure its own training room.

New Zealand is not broken by accident. Tadhg Stopford argues we built an economy that rewards extraction, debt and inflated land values over real production.

The world’s top court has confirmed the right to strike is fundamental. The NZCTU says New Zealand’s Government has run out of excuses for stalling.

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.

The Mongrel Mob meth rehabilitation programme worked. But in New Zealand, looking tough on gangs matters more than reducing addiction.

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.

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.