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.
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The Bradbury Group Turns 1 Fighting Polluter Power
The Bradbury Group turns one because the old show was punished for saying the quiet parts out loud: Israel, think tanks, media power and big polluter influence.
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National Drops The Mask, Six Months Before Election 2026
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.
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – When a falsified Taxpayers’ Union ‘golden handshake’ is neither ‘golden’ nor a ‘handshake’
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.
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Does Jordan Williams and the Taxpayers’ Union going pidgin ghetto give everyone the ick?
The Taxpayers’ Union used to talk about waste. Now it’s talking culture war, and people are starting to notice.
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Why Taxpayers’ Union hate Māori so much
Same voices. Same outrage. Same targets. Why does every Taxpayers’ Union campaign seem to land on Māori?
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Wellington drowns in privatisation failure as Veolia’s sewage disaster exposes the lie of Three Waters hysteria
Wellington is not drowning in sewage by accident. This is the predictable outcome of decades of privatisation ideology, lowest-bid contracting,…
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Retraction and apology received from the Spinoff
The full retraction and apology by the Spinoff, relating to allegations that were totally false and defamatory, contained in an…
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National – Party 4 Sale?
Whilst details are hard to confirm by the very nature of these highly secretive deals – many made informally – the questions arising from these (and other) murky ‘arrangements’ is sufficient to underscore a recent downgrading of our Transparency International Corruption Perception Index;
