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Paywalled Article Labour MP Willie Jackson wants you to believe he’s standing up for Dame Noeline Taurua. Calling Jennie Wyllie a “sacrificial lamb” and demanding Matt Whineray front to the media sounds righteous. It performs well for his base. But scratch beneath the performative outrage and you find the
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HIDDEN WEAPONRY
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The Whakairo of Lies
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Te Kōrero Tōtika
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Reckless
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Hidden Connections: Cui Bono & the Architecture of Settler Colonial Extraction
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This legislation, which passed its third reading on 16 December 2025, represents a calculated assault on democratic participation dressed in the language of efficiency. The Bill ends same-day voter enrolment, bans all sentenced prisoners from voting, increases anonymous donation thresholds, and restricts when Māori and marginalised communities can exercise
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Government’s Creative Accounting
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The Ring Reveals: A Laundering Scheme in Plain Sight
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Prologue: The Photograph We Keep There is a photograph that haunts progressive politics in Aotearoa. It shows Jacinda Ardern shaking hands with EU officials, beaming at the cameras. Historic Trade Deal Signed Mountain Tūī has written a love letter to this photograph. The essay celebrates Ardern and Shaw as “ultimately
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When Labour’s finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds declared on 16 December 2025 that “the Government have lost control of the economy,” she performed a masterclass in opposition politics’ most cynical art: the drive-by critique. When pressed repeatedly by journalists to name even one immediate action Labour would take to
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Paywalled Article When Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour called Chlöe Swarbrick a “demagogue” in his pre-Christmas interview with the NZ Herald, the irony was thick enough to choke on. Here was a man whose entire political project ticks every box in the textbook definition of demagoguery—anti-establishment rhetoric,