NZ Politics

Budget Day 'carkoi' protests delayed traffic on Auckland and Tauranga motorways ahead of a hikoi on Parliament....

The Reserve Bank says that from 1 July, banks will only be able to lend about 20 percent of their new lending to owner-occupier borrowers with a debt-to-income ratio of more than six. That means, if your household earns a combined $100,000, your loan will be limited to $600,000....

The important thing to keep in mind is that there is a significant proportion of the population that wants this and is going to vote for right wing parties in order to stop the "trans agenda"

I am sure this will be super effective and will not cost any money at all.

In Parliament last Wednesday, Te Tai Tokerau MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi said the government "will not waver in its mission to exterminate Māori"....

what a disappointment. I really expected better from Jack.

Jamie Arbuckle, the Marlborough councillor who became an MP, says he has settled into having two roles so comfortably he's going to keep both salaries after all....

Who is going to listen?

She sounds absolutely unhinged, going into someone's business just to pick a fight with them is straight up bullying behaviour.

Man, Wellington shop owners must dread seeing a green MP walk in the door at this point.

International testing indicated New Zealand had more bad readers among its 10-year-olds than other developed nations, but the picture improved for teenagers....

Lol. Q3 here sets out what he (edit: allegedly) said (anything said in the House is protected by Parliamentary privilege)...

I guess housing and urban development is not a priority after all.

Corrections has spent over $305,000 on slushy syrup and maintaining frozen ice machines in the past six years....

Wow, turns out being jerks to kids is really unpopular......better backpedal as fast as possible.

This government doing it's best to ruin the country and our reputation overseas. Having said that I have witnessed too many acts of corruption to every buy that we were somehow more honest than other countries.

Now is time to change Te Papa's Treaty of Waitangi display, the museum's co-leaders say....

Among the list of organisations that have been invited to apply are organisations associated with projects that would destroy a pristine mountaintop and rip up the seafloor.  ...

both the education and health systems are getting absolutely butchered by this government and this is definitely going to impact you and the people around you.

Who could have seen this coming!

$10 billion for one tunnel, or three times what the scrapped ferries were going to cost. And that's just the initial estimate....