In Gaza, the genocide continues. In the calendar month after the Gaza “ceasefire” on October 10, Israel reportedly killed 242 Palestinians, broke the terms of the ceasefire agreement 282 times, bombed ...

For gangs, the Misuse of Drugs Act (1975) has been one of the best recruiting tools they’ve ever had. Criminalisation of a raft of illicit drugs not only provide s them with a wildly lucrative black ...

To date, the official response has been to treat what happened with the Police as being highly atypical. Yes, the politicians say, bad stuff did happen and this has been duly noted and lamented – we ...

So asset sales are back on the agenda, and will be dependent only on the coalition government getting re-elected next year. Yikes. Right wing governments are forever selling off the assets created by ...

With election year just around the corner, it is only right and proper that the government should be being held to account on what it has failed to deliver. If the Luxon administration’s handling of ...

But first…the “shock and awe” tactics being deployed by the government against the teaching profession are extensive. They include ramming through rushed and ...

Like the Americans, maybe we should be re-naming our Ministry of Defence as the Ministry of War. The new frigates New Zealand is about to buy (to replace its ANZAC frigates) will have a vastly greater ...

Finally, Labour has released its capital gains tax policy. Labour’s CGT would levy a 28% tax on sales of commercial properties and investment housing, and the $850 million it is expected to raise will ...