Luxon is flirting with anti-immigration politics while promising more austerity, even as public services hollow out and corporate subsidies continue.
Shane Jones wants $50,000 fines for publishing fishing boat footage while climate collapse accelerates and environmental protections are gutted. TDB says: see you in court.
Student debt, impossible rents and collapsing home ownership aren’t accidents, they’re the economic architecture of modern New Zealand, and young people are paying for it.
Young people can’t find work, can’t afford study and are leaving the country in record numbers, yet the Government is still cutting education support.
ACT wants migrants tested on Kiwi values. Fine. Let’s test ACT’s values first: privatisation, punishment, property rights and crocodile tears.
Moana Maniapoto didn’t let Winston Peters dance away in fog and fury. She held the line. And exposed how thin the old magic has become.
For decades, producers have banked the profits while ratepayers cleaned up the mess. Jamie Arbuckle’s Bill may finally force the cost back home.
New Zealand outsourced fuel security, hollowed out the state, and called it efficiency. Now the free market reality is arriving, and the poor will pay first.
Rich foreigners buying farms? Welcome in. Poor migrant workers overstaying visas? Bring in the political attack dogs. This isn’t policy, it’s hypocrisy.
The Government thought it could kneecap pay equity, rob low-paid women workers, fund tax cuts, and move on. The unions clearly have other ideas.