MSD Accused of Helping Debt Collectors Target Beneficiaries
The State is taking money from beneficiaries and handing it to debt collectors while taxpayers fund emergency support to keep those same people afloat.
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.

Simon Court attacking the Greens while defending Israel may play well inside ACT’s culture war bubble, but for many New Zealanders the conversation is now shaped by Gaza, Mossad controversies and decades of unresolved occupation and violence.

The Taxpayers’ Union has perfected the art of manufacturing fury around public sector payouts, but strip away the slogans and many of these so-called ‘golden handshakes’ turn out to be contractual obligations dressed up as scandal.

The anti-vaccine movement’s obsession with Jacinda Ardern shows how COVID-era anger has hardened into a permanent grievance culture.
Critics say National’s latest “tough on crime” move is more emotional posturing that risks creating a harsher, more dangerous prison system.

After cutting housing and social support, the Government now wants police powers to move on and punish the homeless its own policies helped create.