Budget 2026 Debt Monsters Are a Right-Wing Scam
The Right cuts revenue, creates the hole, then screams about debt monsters. Martyn says Budget 2026 is austerity theatre designed to protect private wealth.

The Right cuts revenue, creates the hole, then screams about debt monsters. Martyn says Budget 2026 is austerity theatre designed to protect private wealth.

Barbara Edmonds on the pre-Budget wreckage. Hone Harawira on Māori politics. Hooton, Verity Johnson and Qiulae Wong on a Government drowning in scandal. Live politics, no anaesthetic.

Do hate speech laws protect the vulnerable, or hand the state a weapon against free speech? This Keith Locke Memorial Debate will be worth watching.

Election 2026 may be decided not by ideology — but by age. Is New Zealand slowly becoming “Old Zealand”? In…