Smith v Fonterra: Big Polluters Dodged Democracy
Private emails, hidden lobbying and big polluters trying to dodge Smith v Fonterra. This is what corporate influence looks like.
New Zealand Politics
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Election 2026 Enrolment Countdown on TDB
TDB’s Election 2026 countdown is not an Electoral Commission ad. It is an independent media project to help readers enrol, vote and fight billionaire narratives.
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Jacinda Ardern Documentary Wins Emmy Award
Clarke Gayford’s intimate Jacinda Ardern documentary has won an Emmy. Somewhere, the right-wing outrage machine is making the most beautiful noise.
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Super El Niño Could Splinter Politics as Climate Crisis Bites
The rich will raise walls and buy more air conditioning. Everyone else gets heat, hunger, displacement and a political system protecting the polluters.
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Stuart Nash Joins NZ First After Cabinet and Women Scandals
Stuart Nash leaked Cabinet details to donors, disgraced himself talking about women, and has now found a new political home with NZ First. Of course he has.
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How Do You Define A Woman? Not Like This!
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.
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Why the hating on Mongrel Mob drug rehabilitation programme best sums up the gleeful ignorance of NZ
The Mongrel Mob meth rehabilitation programme worked. But in New Zealand, looking tough on gangs matters more than reducing addiction.
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If you hate the Woke Left, why y’all such simps for Corporations?
The strangest thing about NZ’s culture war Right is how fiercely they defend the wealthy elites exploiting them.
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WAATEA NEWS COLUMN – Elite Class behind Treaty amputation in legislation
The Treaty rewrite agenda is too sweeping, too coordinated and too well-funded to simply be dismissed as populist politics.
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ACT Citizenship Test: If ACT Were Honest
ACT wants migrants tested on Kiwi values. Fine. Let’s test ACT’s values first: privatisation, punishment, property rights and crocodile tears.
